ABOUT DING DONG

A diehard lover of authentic Rock’n’Roll music, Ding Dong (real name Alain Pourquier) was France’s leading Rock’n’Roll dee-jay in the early

Eighties when he produced an acclaimed series of 10” albums for Charly Records compiled from recordings made for Sam Phillips’

legendary Sun label. Ding Dong then launched into another series of 12” albums for Charly, following the same formula that had been so

successful in the 10” series.

For both series he made visits to the hallowed Sun vaults in Memphis, Tennessee, where he listened to countless tapes, working his way

through 1,228 outtake tape boxes and in the process selecting the best quality masters he could find. After listening to more than 11,000

tracks during February and March of 1983 and identifying a whole stack of unissued sides, he brought the master tapes back to England,

where he embarked upon an amazing one-man re-issue program. Not only did he master all the recordings, he designed the sleeve artwork

and wrote the sleeve notes. His excellent contacts amongst record collectors around the world enabled him to come up with a whole stack of

rare artists’ shots to use for the album artworks.

The resulting albums, both various artists compilations and solo major artists, have over the years acquired iconic status and are now much

sought after by fans of the ground-breaking Sun sound. Now lovingly restored, selected titles are being presented in their full original glory for

today’s vinyl buyers. They will be essential purchases not only for Ding Dong’s fans seeking replacements for their worn-out original copies,

but also for today’s younger buyers discovering this exciting music for the first time.

ABOUT THIS ALBUM

· Second only to Elvis Presley as the greatest star to emerge from Sun Records, Johnny Cash has become an true icon of

American music.

· One of the first country artists to regularly cross over into the mainstream pop charts, Johnny Cash established his own

unique minimalistic sound that was instantly recognisable. Backed by Luther Perkins on lead guitar and Marshall Grant on

bass, Cash’s sound was initially determined by the band’s technical limitations.

· Between 1955 and 1961 he gave the Sun label thirteen national hits that included Next In Line, Home Of The Blues, Oh!

Lonesome Me, Straight A’s In Love, Come In Stranger and Katy Too, all featured in this superb collection. Additionally he

scored twenty-four country hits, making him the most consistently successful Sun artist of all time.

· Although going on to record prolifically for Columbia, Mercury and American, his body of work cut for Sun Records of

Memphis, Tennessee are held by many of his fans to be his finest recordings.

· The sleeve artwork features a host of vintage photos of Johnny Cash in his prime.