Malcolm Yelvington
Malcolm Yelvington ( born September 14, 1918 in Coverton, Tennessee, † February 21, 2001 in Memphis, Tennessee) was an American rockabilly and country singer in the 1950s.
- 2.1 Singles
- 2.2 albums
Life
Childhood and youth
Malcolm Yelvington grew up in Coverton, Tipton County, located near Memphis, on. At 14 he was already playing guitar and performed regularly with his band. He played by the songs of his time ascending idol Ernest Tubb. This he mixed with hillbilly music and blues elements. The military service escaped Yelvington because he was retired from gesundheitchen reasons.
Rockabilly at the Sun Records
1942 met Yelvington Reece Flemming and Respers Townsend, both of which had added plates before the war even at Victor Records. Together with Red Winn they met and decided to form a band. All four only played the guitar so that Reece Fleming had to learn piano and William Bird (fiddle ) and Arnold Sanders ( bass) who joined the group. Together they performed as The Tennesseans and played around Convington. Yelvington moved to Memphis in 1950, where his band got his own radio show, for the Reece Fleming the title song Just Rolling Around wrote. 1952 closed one with the Star Rhythm Boys together and took the name and e- guitarist Joe Mashburn. Together they played on weekends in bars and honky -tonks. Together with Mashburn thought Yelvington has long been of shots on plates. Through the mediation of Mashburn 1953 Yelvington met Sam Phillips, owner of Sun Records. Although Phillips was not thrilled with the group, he let her audition in his studio. Yelvington and his band wore before the first self-written piece Yakety Yak, which was, however, Phillips oriented country to. As Yelvington then played him a version of Stick McGhees Drinkin 'Wine Spo -Dee -O- Dee, Phillips was impressed and took the group under contract. Your first session was held in October 1954 were published by the Drinkin 'Wine Spo -Dee -O -Dee and Just Rolling Around as the first single. Unfortunately, was the first single of the young Elvis Presley out exactly one week before the plate Yelvingtons. While Presley's board has sold far better Yelvington had to move to radio station to promote his record can of radio station.
Frustrated went Yelvington in 1956 with his band at the Meteor Records. There he published his title Yakety Yak, but this was a failure. The record was released under the name Mac Sales and the Esquire Trio, as he was still with Sun Records. After returning to the Sun Records in the same year, he published the Rockabillynummer Rockin 'With My Baby.
Break and comeback
1958 moved Yelvington, who was now almost 40 years old, back and focused on his family. He was to be the father of five children over time. 1965 graduated Yelvington an appearance in the Slim Rhodes Show, worked on several albums with 1971 and took the unpublished song Disappointed on. In May 1974, a recording session took place in the former Sunkünstler Glo -Lite Studio held in Memphis, attended the next Yelvington Marcus Van Story, Charlie Feathers and Red Hadley. Yelvington took - with the support of other musicians - the piece GooBye Marie on, in return, he accompanied Red Hadley as a guitarist at Rockin 'With Red The images, however long remained unpublished. It was not until the mid-1980s he was rediscovered in the context of the rockabilly revival. He went back to public and reached, as opposed to his early career, a larger audience. Even in Europe, he made appearances. In 1996, he signed again with the Sun Records, where he had no success 52 years previously. In 1997, he released his first album.
Malcolm Yelvington died on 21 February 2001 at the age of 83 years in Memphis.
Discography
Singles
- Yakety Yak (alt. version )
- Have Myself a Ball
- Rock and Roll with My Baby
- Rockin 'with My Baby
- Goodbye Marie ( version 1)
- I've Got The Blues ( Way Down Blues )
- Mr. Blues ( Version 1 )
- My First and Last Love
- Trumpet (version 1)
- Trumpet (Version 2)
- A Gal Named Joe (alt. version )
- Goodbye Marie ( version 4)
- It's Me Baby ( alt. version )
- Mr. Blues ( Version 2)