Sold Date: October 10, 2022
Start Date: March 10, 2022
Final Price: £120.00 (GBP)
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AN ORIGINAL US SUN PRESSING OF THIS BILLY "the kid" EMERSON 78 IN EXCELLENT CONDITION

LITTLE FINE HEALTHY THING   

b/w   SOMETHING FOR NOTHING

TWO GREAT SIDES

Slashing blues, infectious R&B, formulaic rock & roll, moving gospel -- keyboardist Billy "The Kid" Emerson played all those interrelated styles during a lengthy career that began in Florida and later transported him up to Memphis and Chicago.

Emerson had already learned his way around a piano when he entered the Navy in 1943. After the war, he began playing around Tarpon Springs, attending Florida A&M during the late '40s and early '50s. He picked up his nickname while playing a joint in St. Petersburg; the club owner dressed the band up in cowboy duds that begged comparison with a certain murderous outlaw.

A 1952-53 stint in the Air Force found Emerson stationed in Greenville, MS. That's where he met young bandleader Ike Turner, who whipped Emerson into shape as an entertainer while he sang with Turner's Kings of Rhythm. Turner also got Emerson through the door at Sun Records in 1954, playing guitar on the Kid's debut waxing "No Teasing Around."

Emerson's songwriting skills made him a valuable commodity around Sun -- but more as a source for other performers' material later on. His bluesy 1955 outing "When It Rains It Pours" elicited a cover from Elvis a few years later at RCA, while Emerson's "Red Hot" (a takeoff on an old cheerleaders chant from Emerson's school days) became a savage rockabilly anthem revived by Billy Lee Riley for Sun and Bob Luman on Imperial.

His last SUN release of "Fine Young Health Thing" b/w "Something for Nothing" - Two Great sides -amazingly failed to sell and prompted Emerson to jump record label to join Vee-Jay records. Consequently this is one of the harder Sun 78s to find and this copy is in Superb Condition.

DISC DETAILS: 

US  SUN 233  10" 78rpm   SHELLAC

CONDITION - EXCELLENT 

TWO SUPERB ROCKIN' SIDES 

on an original US SUN 78

THIS 78 COMES FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE LATE PETER FEAST  

A GREAT COLLECTIOR OF ROCK-A-BILLY, COUNTRY, RHYTHM & BLUES, AND ROCK & ROLL RECORDS

10" 78 RPM RECORDS NEED CAREFULLY PACKING, AND WE CLAIM TO HAVE THE BEST PACKAGING IN THE WORLD FOR DISPATCHING THEM!

THE GREG'S GREAT'S SYSTEM CONSISTS OF A SPECIALLY DESIGNED INNER BOX MADE OUT OF 1" THICK POLYSTYRENE, WHICH THEN GOES INSIDE A CORRUGATED STIFF OUTER CARDBOARD CARTON. THE BOXES CAN TAKE UP TO 21 RECORDS,

WE SEND OUT ON AVERAGE ABOUT 30 PARCELS A WEEK AND DISPATCH IS NORMALLY DONE ONCE A WEEK.