17,000 Songs - R.I.P. Bob Moore, legendary Nashville "A-Team" first-call session bass player, also an arranger, producer. As "The Bob Moore Orchestra", he had a big hit in 1961, 'Mexico'. He died Wednesday /Sept 22nd, at age 88 ... WHO is Bob Moore? - he played on over 17,000 sessions; almost all of Patsy Cline's Decca recordings {late 1960 - early 1963} and many of Roy Orbison's recordings for the Monument label, for whom he was the Musical Director, working as musician, producer, arranger, and helping to found the label. ... ALSO ... He played the bass intro on Roger Miller's "King of the Road", and on hits by Brenda Lee, Loretta Lynn, Elvis, Conway Twitty, Kenny Rogers, Wanda Jackson, Marty Robbins , and countless others. He is R. Stevie Moore's father. // Additional discographical, biographical information was added by Lawrence Azrin. Also, check out the links.
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Bob Moore, legendary Nashville "A-Team" first-call session bass player, DIED Wednesday, Sept 22nd, at age 88. / Click on the Link above, to view the original album, which has a very colorful front cover
Bob Moore, legendary Nashville "A-Team" first-call session bass player, DIED Wednesday, Sept 22nd, at age 88. / Click on the Link above, to view the original single
The title on the original single is "Let's Think About LivinG" {"g" at the end}, but is listed with the apostrophe elsewhere - click on Link above, to view that single with a picture sleeve
PERSONNEL: Scotty Moore – acoustic guitar / Hank Garland – electric guitar
Harold Bradley – 6-string bass guitar / Bob Moore – bass / D. J. Fontana and Buddy Harman – drums / Floyd Cramer – organ / The Jordanaires – backing vocals // Click on Link above, to view the single with a picture sleeve
Rock critics Jimmy Guterman and Owen O'Donnell, in their 1991 book "The Worst Rock and Roll Records of All Time", listed 'Self-Portrait' as the third worst rock album ever, with only Lou Reed's 'Metal Machine Music' and Elvis Presley's between-song banter concert album 'Having Fun with Elvis on Stage' faring worse.
Bass – Bob Moore; Electric Guitar – Fred Carter / * - You can click on the Link above, to view the back cover of the album; on the inner label, ithe song title is spelled the usual way
... He and partner Lonnie Glosson established a harmonica mail order business which ended up being enormously successful; they sold millions of harmonicas and played a major role in turning the harmonica into a popular instrument. / Click on the Link above, to view the original single
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5:05
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Warner Mack [Billed as 'Warner Mack with the Anita Kerr Quartet']
The album was billed as 'Johnny Burnette And The Rock 'N Roll Trio'; the single was billed as 'Johnny Burnette'; they're also referred to as 'The Johnny Burnette Trio'. CONFUSING, huh? / Click on the Link above, to view the original album
Billed as 'Elvis Presley With The Jordanaires' / FUN STORY: The song was back in "The News" when the Postal Service issued a commemorative Elvis Presley postage stamp, on what would have been his 58th birthday (Jan 8th, 1993). Fans mailed envelopes with first-day issues of this stamp to undeliverable addresses, so that they would receive their letters back stamped with the words "RETURN to SENDER" :)) // Click on Link above, to view the single with a color picture sleeve
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6:52
Artist:
Elvis Presley [Billed as 'Elvis Presley With The Jordanaires']
Supposedly, Elvis only recorded this at the request of his manager, Tom Parker, because it was Parker's wife's favorite song / Click on Link above, to view the single with a color picture sleeve - also PLEASE, scroll down and read the Comments ..
Real Name: Jeanne Carolyn Stephenson / / Recorded July 26, 1968 at Columbia Studio A, Nashville. PERSONNEL included: Bob Moore - bass, Jerry Kennedy - Dobro, Weldon Myrick - steel
