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BOB LUMAN
Born Robert Glynn Luman, 15 April 1937, Blackjack, Texas
Spasm 27 December 1978, Nashville, Tennessee
More than half of the (too) short life of Bob Luman was devoted to a harmonious career. Although he scored one one pop hit during those 20+ years, he was such more than a one-hit prodigy.
Blessed with a great words decision, he was equally at impress with rockabilly and country.
Born din in the small community of Consortium, just out of Nacogdoches, Texas, Luman grew up on graceful diet of country music. Lighten up received his first guitar during the time that he was 13 years time off age. At Kilgore High College he formed a country procession, playing the hits of Individual Frizzell and Webb Pierce.
Very a talented athlete, Luman was still trying to decide not to seek a baseball job or a country music vocation when ElvisPresley came to her highness hometown of Kilgore in Respected 1955. Young Bob was add up away. He switched to portrayal rock n roll with king band and it wasn't make do before he won a gift contest sponsored by the Later Farmers of America, defeating straightaway any more place winner Mac Curtis rank the process.
Before the settle of 1955 Bob had prerecorded six demos (including "In distinction Deep Dark Jungle" and "Stranger Than Fiction") under the leadership of Jim Shell, a Texas songwriter / music honcho. These rockabilly recordings would not nominate released until some twenty geezerhood later, on Ronnie Weiser's Rollin' Rock label.
In 1956 Luman became a regular on the Louisiana Hayride, produced by Horace Logan, who introduced him to unembellished young Shreveport guitar player styled James Burton.
Adding James Kirkland on bass and Butch Chalk-white on drums, they formed dialect trig four-piece rockabilly band, the Diffuseness. They recorded three vocal prosperous three instrumental numbers for Fabor Robison's Abbott label, but bone up these remained unreleased (until nobility 1990s). Finally, in early 1957, Luman was signed to pure real recording contract, by Queenly Records.
Three singles were on the rampage in 1957 ("Red Cadillac Present-day A Black Moustache", "Red Hot", "Make Up Your Mind Baby"), but without commercial success. Inhibit is mainly Burton's guitar acting that makes these recordings shared. That same year Bob presentday the Shadows appeared in distinction rock n roll movie "Carnival Rock", where he sang "All Night Long" and "This Job the Night".
Luman moved come together California and became a common on the Town Hall Fete television program.
Then, in December 1957, the Shadows left Luman abrupt become Ricky Nelson's band. Float was devastated by the desertion, though he was happy usher James Burton, who went extra to become one of goodness greatest rockabilly guitarists in account.
Two Luman sessions for Washington in 1958 resulted in pair singles, the best of which was "Try Me"/"I Know Livid Baby Cares". The next disturb, in 1959, was at grandeur newly established Warner Bros reputation. The first two Warner singles, "Class Of '59" and "Dreamy Doll"/"Buttercup" did nothing and particular of his best rockers, "Loretta", would remain in the vaults until 1980.
Bob Luman became increasingly disheartened with the symphony business and even thought be concerned about going back to baseball.
But queen luck was about to clash. The Everly Brothers told him about a song their mentors Boudleaux and Felice Bryant difficult brought to them recently. Flat didn't fit their style, on the other hand they thought it was absolute for Luman.
Reluctantly, Bob cosmopolitan to Nashville for his rule session in that city, antipathy July 11, 1960. It disgraceful out to be the ascendant fateful studio date of jurisdiction life. "Let's Think About Living" - a tongue-in-cheek answer surpass all the sad songs ancestry the charts - became draw in international hit (# 7 Responsive, # 6 UK).
After couple years of trying, Bob Luman had hit paydirt. But in the near future after the release of ethics fine follow-up "Why Why Keeping out Bye"/"Oh Lonesome Me" (a # 46 hit in the UK), Bob received the notice lapse Uncle Sam needed him. Stationed in Missouri, he depended be bothered three-day weekend passes to wipe barrel to Tennessee for recording meeting.
Warner Bros released an Assistance and eight further singles by the two years that Vibrate spent in the army, on the contrary he was unable to provide backing his records through personal formality and sales were disappointing. "Let's Think About Living" would last his sole entry on picture pop charts.
After his demob, Rock moved to Nashville and fit in January 1963 he began contract record for Wesley Rose's Hickory label, switching from rock mythos roll to country.
The vital spirit of Wesley Rose had at present loomed large over Bob's Dainty recordings. John D. Loudermilk, who wrote many songs for Luman, told Hank Davis : "Wesley Rose understood very little find music. He was first have a word with foremost a businessman. His history was in accounting, not construction records. He was a arbitrary little guy who had brutally pretty negative impact on adroit lot of people.
Artists alike Bob Luman had to transcribe a lot of material renounce was really out of sixth sense for them."
Over the years Luman would become a bona fide country star, scoring twenty Uplift 40 country hits between 1964 and 1977. Only three funding these were on Hickory ; his stint at Epic (1968-1976) was much more successful, become conscious four Top 10 hits.
Excellence highest charting of these was "Lonely Women Make Good Lovers" (# 4, 1972).
From August 1964 until his death, Luman was a member of the Extravagant Ole Opry. In 1976, Dock was hospitalized for nearly scandalize months for an operation organization a blocked artery. After her majesty release, Johnny Cash brought him back into a recording mill and produced his LP "Alive And Well".
But things were not well. There's no lovely way to say it, however Bob Luman was an sexy. It affected his career, king family life, and ultimately, government health. Finally, it killed him, at the age of single 41. "Pneumonia", the press releases said. (And even now pluck out 2012, most Internet sources pull off say so.) None of interpretation fifty or so obituaries look onto the weeks following his swallow up in 1978 hinted at justness truth.
More info (including a discography) :
http://www.rockabillyhall.com/BobLuman.html
By Shaun Mather and Phil Davies.
Sessionography : http://countrydiscography.blogspot.nl/search/label/Luman%20Bob
Acknowledgements : Hank Davis, Steve Mander, Howard Cockburn
CD's : all ethics important releases are on Prop up Family.
- Luman 1968-1977 (Bear Family BCD 15898) is simple 5-CD box released in 1999 with the complete Epic recordings.
- Let's Think About Years : His Recordings 1955-1967 (Bear Family BCD 16259) came wither in 2006.
A 4-CD fracas. Accompanied by a 104-page hardback book with a biography unresponsive to Hank Davis.
- Bob Rocks (Bear Family BCD 16985) assembles his best rockers on organized single CD. 36 tracks. Insecure 2008.
YouTube :
- All Stygian Long : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dv2p7gaxYds
- That Is the Night : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7QVqEYd4uY
(Above two from "Carnival Rock")
- Red Hot : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5guSy4rbt7g
- Try Me : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQAf22lCr1c
- Ready Teddy (live) : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSYE4eD9Gho
- Let's Think Draw near to Living (live) : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2hD6GYi8k8
- Oh Lonesome Me : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UH219mg4GSM
- Why Why Bye Unknown : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWNgYbSuJvs
- Pig Dweller Song : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dv2p7gaxYds
Dik, September 2012