Interpret1 :BENNIE HESS
Art : CD
Label : HYDRA
Artikel Nr. : #BCK 27129
1 Bennie Hess Boogie
2 You Just Won´t Do
3 Drink Drink Drink
4 Jungle Land Rock
5 Wild Hog Boogie
6 You Ain´t Cheating On Me Now
7 I´m So In Love With You
8 Boppin´ The Rock
9 You Called Me Honey
10 Lifes Meditation
11 Novelty Yodel 1
12 Wild Hog Hop
13 Your Kind Ain´t Hard To get
14 Bennie Hess Boogie
15 Bennie´s Texas Blues
16 Novelty Yodel 2 - 1/2 Century Blues
17 Tennessee mama Blues
18 Truck Driving Man
19 Country Style Boogie
20 Look Once More Before You Go
21 Blue Monday Night
22 Teenage Bop
23 Gone Mama Blues
24 Elvis Presley Boogie
25 Travellin´ Blues
26 Wild Hog Hop
27 I´m A One Woman Man
28 Two Potatoes And One Oignon
29 Truckers Blues
30 Troy Hess Boogie
US Country and Rockabilly singer Bennie Hess was born February 10, 1914 in Chriesman (Texas). Bennie Hess formed his first band The Rhythm Wranglers in 1940 and played a show on the local radio KFYO Lubbock (Texas). First recorded in 1947 for the Black And White Records and then for a wide variety of labels including his own Spade and Showland company. Bennie spent some time at the Louisiana Hayride in Shreveport (Louisiana), the Big D Jamboree in Dallas (Texas) and the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville(Tennessee). He produced many other artists including his son Troy Hess and was a wheeling and dealing business man and larger than life caracter. . Bennie Hess died November 22, 1984 in Houston (Texas). Texas Rockabilly and Country at it´s best.
There have been many colorful characters in the record business and Bennie Hess
is way up there on the list. Some, but not all, of his traits were as a hillbilly and
rockabilly singer, guitarist, fanatical follower of (Country) Jimmie Rodgers, an avid
Ernest Tubb stylist,a persistant eccentric record man for over 30 years, a born
optimist, a natural hustler and a raconteur of tall stories - this and much more
was Bennie Hess. Hillbilly and Rockabilly collectors around the globe are
constantly searching for Bennie´s recordings. So,they will be happy that finally
his first sole album is available without spending hundreds of Dollars for his songs.
Texas born Bennie learned to play guitar from legendary “Blue Yodeler” Jimmie
Rodgers and started recording in the 1940s with local success until 1948 when
his “Tonight And Every Night” went to number 1. He started some own labels
and recorded under various names in the years to follow. While working
with Elvis he saw that this new Rockabilly music had some potential, and so
he started recording and producing some fine records in this style.Also he never had
any chart success again, in the 70s there was some new interest in him and his
music, which was the reason he re-released some of his old recordings and
also made new ones. He even was part of an BBC TV production called “All You
Need Is Love”. In later years he started promoting his son Troy as the youngest
honky tonk singer, before Bennie passed away in 1984.
