Ricky Nelson-Legendary Masters (1971)


 

Artist: Ricky Nelson

Title: Legendary Masters

A1Be Bop Baby2:00A2If You Can't Rock Me1:55A3Stood Up1:57A4Tryin' To Get To You2:14A5My Babe2:30A6Milkcow Blues2:13B1Poor Little Fool2:29B2Waitin' In School2:00B3Believe What You Say2:04B4Shirley Lee1:57B5Down The Line2:30B6I Can't Help It2:16B7I'm In Love Again2:19C1It's Late1:57C2Old Enough To Love2:16C3Restless Kid1:56C4Just A Little Too Much2:10C5A Long Vacation2:07C6Lonesome Town2:15D1Travelin' Man2:20D2Teenage Idol2:27D3Young Emotions2:33D4Never Be Anyone Else But You2:12D5My One Desire2:14D6Hello Mary Lou2:17D7That's All2:01 

Label: Liberty

Format: 2LP

Cat: LWB 9960

Year of Release: 1971

Country and Year of Edition: US 1979

Sell Price: $2.99 G+/VG+  disc 1 vinyl looks weird unsure if affects play (it didn't)

Discogs Last Sold: 1/13/23 VG+/VG+ $5.00

Low:$1.00

Median: $2.97

Average: $3.44

High: $11.99

Current low price:  $2.50

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 15

Have/Want: 76/7

Where Sold:  Charleston, SC

Time it Took to sell: 8 years

Where and When  Worcester That's Entertainment mid 80's $5.99 sticker still on it

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A

Sad To See It Go: No

Ricky Nelson had the good fortune of having James Burton playing guitar on his records.  This made the television idol head and shoulders above the teenage competition.  He wasn't Elvis, who was?  He wasn't in the league of Chuck Berry, Little Richard or Jerry Lee Lewis, but who was?  He was scratching somewhere below the Everly Brothers and way way above the likes of Fabian and Ed Byrnes.  He was a life long talent while many fell into the oldies circuit he wrote about and had a hit after this compilation was first issued on United Artists.  My copy is an early 80's cheapo one pocket double rebranded on Liberty Records with a similar style label to the EMI-America grey labels of the early 80's.

The biggest hits aren't always my favorite but they have revelations.  Really listening to "Travelin' Man" he goes from a fraulein in Berlin to a China Doll in Hong Kong and Alaska and Hawaii for good measure.  He  doesn't go commie in 1961.  No Russia or mainland China to spice it up.   The flip is "Hello Mary Lou" which is just as well known.  "Poor Little Fool" is another.  My favorite of the big hits is "It's Late."  A call and response with himself and all the things he might come up against.

The stuff I didn't really know well are where this compilation gets interesting.  "Waitin' In School" tells me Jimmy Page was nicking stuff long before "Stairway To Heaven."  Check out "Friends."  "Restless Kid" sounds like Johnny Cash.  The opening salvo "Be Bop Baby" into "If You Can't Rock Me" into "Stood Up" is all great.

He complains about being a road warrior in "Teenage Idol"  and ultimately that is where he died.  12/30/85 between his last gig in Guntersville, AL in a plane crash on the way to Dallas.  His last song on stage was "Rave On!."

You don't need to know the symbolism of that one.

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