Baby Doll [Buffalo Bop]

Overview

The cover art may be out of the movie of the title, but the sound is pure Wanda Jackson, and anyone who's kind of fond of Wanda is going to love "OK Doll, It's a Deal" by Joannie King -- she's a little throatier than the legendary Jackson, but she rocks. There are some familiar names here, too -- Patsy Cline ("Love Me Love Me Honey Do"), most obviously, and Dodie Stevens ("Pink Shoe Laces"), but the rest is rarer than hen's teeth. Fonda Wallace ought to have been a legend for the raucous "Lou Lou Knows," and Barbara Tennant's "Rock Baby Rock" is one of those bracing rock & roll anthems that just moves, honking saxes, sub-Jordanaires, chorus and all (dig her scream of ecstasy before the sax break). Joyce Poynter ("Chilli Dippin' Baby") is a hybrid country rocker, but Orella Myers has a lot more of a country twang in "Give a Little, Take a Little," and the song wouldn't have been out of place on a Grand Ole Opry program, but someone sure knew how to strum a hot guitar and coax some loud notes from an amplified axe. A few ballads ("I'll Never Love Again" by Betty Nickel, etc.) break up the mood, and not everything is up to the standard of the best rockers -- Penny Candy's "The Rockin' Lady") is predictably programmatic, although Virginia Lowe's "I'm in Love with Elvis" gets by on her soaring vocals; Myers' "Ask Lucille" is strictly backwoods; Dottie Mae's "Sugar Doll" isn't too much harder. But this is still a solid collection, if a bit more countrified (without a rockabilly beat to compensate) than most rock & roll fans necessarily want. On the other hand, "Go Get the Shotgun, Grand'Pa" by Ann Castle is a rural subject rendered in a solid rock & roll form, with a rhythm section that sounds like it was pulled from the nearest strip-joint band on a good night and a fiercely sexual performance from Castle. The real finds here are "Gonna Be Loved" by Linda & the Epics, which sounds like a sure bet for the A-Bones to cover if they ever hear it, with superb guitar and sax work, and "Money Honey" by Janece Morgan, who sounds like Gene Vincent reincarnated as a girl, with a band that deserved better than anonymity backing her up. ~ Bruce Eder

Product Details

Release Date:	06/26/2000
Label:	Buffalo Bop
UPC:	4001043550534
Rank:	175681

Tracks

1. OK Doll, It's a Deal  - Joannie King
2. Lou Lou Knows  - Fonda Wallace
3. Rock, Baby, Rock  - Barbara Tennant
4. Give a Little, Take a Little  - Orella Myers
5. I'll Never Love Again  - Betty Nickell
6. I've Been Thinking It Over  -  Three Notes
7. Teach Me How to Dance  - Pinky Miller
8. Sugar Doll  - Dottie Mae
9. Ask Lucille  - Orella Myers
10. Go Get the Shotgun Grand'Pa  - Ann Castle
11. The Rockin' Lady  - Penny Candy
12. I'm in Love with Elvis  - Virginia Lowe
13. Gonn'a Be Loved  -  Linda & the Epics
14. Love Me Love Me Honey Do  - Patsy Cline  - Charles L. Jiles  - W.S. Stevenson
15. Money Honey  - Janece Morgan  - Jesse Stone
16. Breakin' Your Heart for Fun  - Jackie Forrest
17. Peace on Mind  - Joyce Love
18. I'm Your Slave  - Jeannie Allen
19. Rock Doc  - Patti Casey
20. The Big Bounce  - Shirley Caddell
21. That's It  - Babette Bain  - S. Hall
22. Roller Coaster  - Janie Grant
23. Pink Shoelaces  - Dodie Stevens
24. Just Wait  - Dotty Frederick
25. Paper Boy  - Norma Lee
26. Where's the Law  - Dee Dee Gaudet  - B.J. Harrison
27. Who, Baby How  - Jane Turzy
28. Star Light, Star Bright  - Jackie Johnson
29. Rovin' Gal  - J.R. Baxter  - Susan McCrory
30. Chilli Dippin' Baby  - Joyce Poynter

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Joyce Love   Primary Artist
Dottie Mae   Primary Artist
Orella Myers   Primary Artist
Dodie Stevens   Primary Artist
Barbara Tennant   Primary Artist
Three Notes   Primary Artist
Fonda Wallace   Primary Artist
Dotty Frederick   Primary Artist
Jackie Forrest   Primary Artist
Ann Castle   Primary Artist
Pinky Miller   Primary Artist
Jane Turzy   Primary Artist
Virginia Lowe   Primary Artist
Susan McCrory   Primary Artist
Joannie King   Primary Artist
Janie Grant   Primary Artist
Patsy Cline   Primary Artist
Patti Casey   Primary Artist
Jackie Johnson   Primary Artist
Jeannie Allen   Primary Artist
Shirley Caddell   Primary Artist
Penny Candy   Primary Artist
Joyce Poynter   Primary Artist
Dee-Dee Gaudet   Primary Artist
Betty Nickell   Primary Artist
Janece Morgan   Primary Artist
Linda & the Epics   Primary Artist
Babette Bain   Primary Artist
Norma Lee   Primary Artist

Technical Credits

Jesse Stone   Composer
W.S. Stevenson   Composer
Jesse Randall Baxter   Composer
Charles L. Jiles   Composer
S. Hall   Composer
B.J. Harrison   Composer