JERRY NAYLOR
Your 13 / Stop Your Crying
SKYLA 1118

WHITE LABEL PROMO

CONDITION: strong VG+

SOME MARKS ON THE LABEL (SEE PIX)

Will come in a generic sleeve

I gotta mention the song your 13 would never make it on the radio today. Jerry who
had to be around 30 is singing a love song to a 13 year old. Only Jerry Lee got away
with that.

WIKIPEDIA
Early life and career

Early life and career

 

Jerry Naylor Jackson was born in Chalk Mountain,

Texas to a great depression farming family. His mother played piano

in their local church and encouraged Jerry's love of music. Jerry

 listened to the greats of Country music such as Hank Williams, Sr.,

 Lefty Frizzell, Bob Wills (with whom he shared his birthday) and

 Slim Whitman, and Whitman's steel guitar player, Hoot Raines,

led the 9-year old Naylor to purchase and learn to play a steel guitar

 with money he earned picking cotton. By 12-years old, Jerry was

playing that steel guitar at local honky tonks in and around Carlsbad

 and San Angelo, Texas, with his brother-in-law, Tommy Briggs'

Hillbilly band which also featured Sherman Hamblin on fiddle and

 Earnest Smith lead guitar and vocals.

 

 

In 1953, at the age of 14, Jerry Naylor began working at a new radio

 station in San Angelo, Texas called KPEP. Veteran broadcaster,

 Joe Treadway, who with his wife Matilda (Tillie) would become

Jerry's foster parents when Naylor's mother died in 1955, hired

 Naylor and taught him to be a disc jockey, radio commercial

salesman and radio maintenance engineer. Joe Treadway encouraged

 Naylor to continue his performing, but on the insistence of Jerry's

 mother, gave him the opportunity to be the lead singer of the band.

KPEP was co-owned by Joe Treadway and Dave Stone (Pinkstone)

who also owned the, now legendary, KDAV radio station in Lubbock,

Texas where Buddy Holly was also an on-air performer with Bob

Montgomery, "Buddy & Bob".

 

These two West Texas radio stations were the first full-time country

 music radio stations in America and promoted live touring shows

throughout West Texas with stars from the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville,

Tennessee, and the Louisiana Hayride in Shreveport, Louisiana.

 

Joe Treadway and his close friend, Tillman Franks, Talent Coordinator

 for the Louisiana Hayride, managed Naylor's young singing career and

booked Jerry and his band on these touring shows. It was here at KPEP

that Naylor first heard rockabilly music, at its very beginning. After hearing

and playing Elvis Presley's "That's Alright Mama" Sun Records recording,

Naylor helped to form and became the lead singer of the rockabilly band

The Cavaliers.

 

Career with The Crickets

 

In 1960, Jerry Naylor became the lead singer for the Crickets. This was after the

 tragic death of Buddy Holly, and Jerry Ivan Allison, co-founder of the Crickets

with Buddy Holly, offered Naylor the lead singer position with the Crickets

because they had just signed a new recording contract with Liberty Records,

Hollywood, California.[citation needed] Jerry recorded as lead singer with the

 Crickets for five years at Liberty Records, globally known as "The Crickets,

 The Liberty Years" for the multiple global hits the group had during this time.

It all started with "Don't Ever Change," a Carol King/ Gerry Goffin written song,

which shot to the number 5 position on the UK national charts and many other

countries of the world. "Don't Ever Change" by Jerry Naylor and The Post Buddy

Holly Crickets highly influenced the Beatles career, by their own admission, and

the very first song the new Beatles group performed live on BBC, in 1963, was

the Jerry Naylor and The Crickets' hit, "Don't Ever Change." The Post Buddy Holly

Crickets had five additional international hit singles and the "Bobby Vee Meets the

Crickets Album" was the biggest success globally, ranking tied with Buddy Holly

 Crickets albums at number 2 for all Crickets global sales. Jerry Naylor and The

Crickets also had a number One hit EP recording on EMI/Liberty Records in 1963,

 featuring two additional hits, "My Little Girl" and "Teardrops Fall Like Rain,"

which were also featured in the Columbia Motion Pictures Movie, "Just For Fun."

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Grading

NM (Near Mint): Record and cover appear virtually unmarked.

VG++: Looks & plays just under near mint, may have just a very few visual marks 

VG+ :  Used but not abused. Will likely have some relatively slight audible imperfections.

VG : Many only surface lines or may have a minor scratch .Some background sound but still enjoyable.

VG-: significant background sound from various defects but music always quite audible above it.