Buddy Knox - Devil Woman '2021

Tracks list

Tracklist:

01. Devil Woman
02. Don’t Make Me Cry
03. Hula Love
04. My Babys Gone
05. Party Doll
06. Rock Your Little Baby To Sleep
07. Cmon Baby
08. Somebody Touched Me
09. Swingin Daddy
10. Whenever Im Lonely
11. I Aint Sharin Sharon
12. I Think Im Gonna Kill Myself
13. Taste of the Blues
14. Teasable, Pleasable You
15. Thats Why I Cry
16. To Be With You
17. I Got You
18. Long Lonely Night
19. Storm Clouds
20. All By Myself
21. Ling Ting Tong
22. Lovey Dovey
23. The Kisses (Theyre All Mine)
24. Three Eyed Man
25. Chi-Hua-Hua
26. Dear Abby
27. Now Theres Only Me
28. Open Your Lovin Arms
29. Shes Gone
30. Three Way Love Affair


 Read Full BiographyFollowing a local gig, the Rhythm Orchids met Sun Records
star Roy Orbison, who recommended they travel to Clovis, New Mexico to record
with producer Norman Petty (better known for his subsequent work that other
famous Texan rock & roller, the aforementioned Buddy Holly). Mills opted to
return to school, so the remaining trio recruited drummer Dave Alldred to play
on two Petty-produced tracks: Party Doll -- written by Knox at the age of 12 --
and Im Stickin With You, the latter featuring Bowen on lead vocals. After
handing Petty their $60.00 studio fee, the Rhythm Orchids returned to West Texas
with acetates in hand; Blue Moon Records owner Chester Oliver soon pressed 500
copies, and when the initial run sold out -- thanks in large part to heavy
airplay from Amarillo radio personality Dean Kelly -- the band founded its own
label, Triple D, to issue 2500 more. Laniers sister, a fashion model living in
New York City, then passed a copy to music publisher Phil Kahl, and with partner
Morris Levy, Kahl licensed the single for national release via the newly formed
Roulette label. Roulette split the original Petty session into two separate
releases, with Bowens new Everlovin backing Im Stickin With You on Roulette
(4001) and My Babys Gone appended to Party Doll (Roulette 4002); while the
former reached the Top 20, selling in excess of a million copies, Party Doll
proved far more successful, remaining on the best-seller list for 23 weeks and
topping radio play lists coast-to-coast following a memorable rendition on
televisions Ed Sullivan Show.

From that point forward, Knox and Bowen pursued simultaneous solo careers for
Roulette, although both continued employing the Rhythm Orchids as their backing
unit. The follow-up to Party Doll, Rock Your Little Baby to Sleep -- credited to
Lieutenant Buddy Knox, a nod to the singers then-ongoing six-month stint in the
U.S. Army Tank Corps -- cracked the Top 30 in mid-1957 and again sold a million
copies, as did its follow-up, Hula Love. Knoxs vocal style on these seminal
efforts was clean and natural, the bands rockabilly sound more a jaunty,
skittering update of traditional country than a white derivation of R&B, à la
Holly -- in fact, by the end of 1957 Knox was arguably the bigger star of the
two, headlining DJ Alan Freeds national package tours and even appearing in the
feature film Jamboree. He closed out the year with the rave-ups Devil Woman and
Swingin Daddy, followed in mid-1958 by a cover of Ruth Browns Somebody Touched
Me that reached number 22 on the pop charts. The subsequent Thats Why I Cry went
nowhere, however, and with 1959s I Think Im Going to Kill Myself -- a song
banned on many radio stations -- Knox & the Rhythm Orchids scored their final
Hot 100 entry.

After two additional singles for Roulette -- Taste of the Blues and 1960s Long
Lonely Nights -- Knox left the label following a dispute about royalty payments,
and he signed as a solo act with Liberty, where producer Snuff Garrett softened
his approach considerably. His Liberty debut Lovey Dovey reached number 25 in
1961, but Garretts teen idol-inspired production did not serve Knox well, and
successive efforts like Ling-Ting-Tong (his final pop chart entry, at number
65), Three-Eyed Man, Dear Abby and All Time Loser muted the dynamic presence of
his earliest, finest music. Knox cut nine singles for Liberty in all before
teaming with longtime A&R exec and promoter Ray Ruff to form the Ruff label,
issuing just one single for the company, 1964s Jo Ann, before signing on with
Reprise for a pair of little-heard efforts, 1965s Livin in a House Full of Love
and the following years Love Has Many Ways. With a move to United Artists, Knox
teamed with house producer Bob Montgomery to become a full-fledged country
artist -- when Gypsy Man hit the Nashville charts in 1968, it proved his final
chart hit. Knox ultimately moved to Vancouver, opening a nightclub called the
Purple Steer and maintaining a relentless tour schedule throughout the 1970s and
1980s; on February 5, 1999, the longtime smoker was told he had contracted
inoperable lung cancer -- just nine days later, he was dead. ~ Jason Ankeny

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