High-octane psycho rockabilly from 1958: Jerry Lott (A.K.A. "The Phantom"): "Love Me"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

http://youtu.be/mqyPINiCijw

Jerry Lott a.k.a. The Phantom was born near Mobile, Alabama in 1938 and moved to Leaksville, Mississippi during infancy. He played country music until 1956 when Elvis Presley turned his head around. "Love me", recorded in Mobile in the summer of 1958, is one of those rare, lusty explosions which crackle with more energy than the national grid.

"I'd worked three months on the other side of the record", he told Derek Glenister. "Somebody said, 'what you gonna put on the flip-side' I hadn't even thought about it. Someone suggested I wrote something like Elvis 'cause he was just a little on the wane and everybody was beginning to turn against rock 'n' roll. They said, 'See if you spark rock 'n' roll a little bit'... so that's when I put all the fire and fury I could utter into it. I was satisfied with the first take, but everybody said, 'let's try it one more time'. I didn't yell on the first take, but I yelled on the second, and blew one of the controls off the wall."

http://www.rockabilly.nl/artists/phantom.htm

:toast:

[7wo7rees]

1. Thanks for turning me on.

I'm sure you've probably heard Reverend Horton Heat.
But for folks that haven't:
http://youtu.be/3nu6XznDP3s

:headbang:

[abq e streeter]

2. Awesome-thanks for posting...thought it sounded familiar...(The Cramps)

Now I know where and who it came from...:thumbsup:

[Iggo]

3. Oh shit!

That's the real fuckin deal right there!

YEEEEEAAAAAHHHH!