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"Straight Skirt" | |
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Single by Gene Summers and His Rebels | |
A-side | "Straight Skirt" |
B-side | " School Of Rock 'n Roll" |
Released | 1958 |
Recorded | 1958 - Los Angeles |
Genre | Rockabilly |
Length | 1:58 |
Label | Jan Records |
Songwriter(s) | Mary Tarver |
"Straight Skirt" (later "Straight Skirts") is a song written by Mary Tarver in 1958 and published by Song Productions, BMI the same year. It was originally recorded by Gene Summers and his Rebels, a rockabilly band from Dallas, Texas and was first released in February 1958 by Jan Records #11-100. On March 8, 1958, Cash Box picked it as their 'Sleeper of the Week'. In Billboard 's 'Reviews of Pop Records' they wrote: "The artist is backed by a chorus and cheerful rockabilly support on this blues. The kids might take to this".
"Straight Skirt" was flipped with " School Of Rock 'n Roll", an upbeat rockabilly song written by James McClung who was a high school friend of Summers. McClung was also the original guitarist for The Rebels and would continue to work with Summers well into the mid-1960s.
In the 1970s, at the beginning of the rockabilly revival in Europe, " School Of Rock 'n Roll" and "Straight Skirt" were re-discovered by a new legion of rockabilly fans and bands. Since that time they have become classic dance floor-fillers and renewed Gene's career to the extent of worldwide concert appearances from 1980 onwards.[ citation needed]
Prestige Records #PSP 0066, New Zealand September 1958
Prestige Records PEP 2017, New Zealand October 1958
Southern Music Publishing Company, New Zealand 1958
Around,” “ Straight Skirt,” “ I’m Grateful,” “ How Would ‘Ya Be” Bell Records BE-198, Australia 1959
Music World Records MALPS-536, New Zealand 1972
Festival Records CD 26255, Australia 1998
Festival Records CD D26481, Australia 2000
EMI Records 5784512, New Zealand 2004 (Johnny Devlin “Straight Skirt” track #2.)
Mercury Records # , United States 1958
Mercury PYE 7MT.208, U.K. 1958
plus The Platters “Winner Take All”/”My Dream” Mercury Records MG 10114, Spain 1959
Mercury Wing Records MGW 12114 (Mono), United States 1959 (Straight Skirts- Side 2, Track 3)
Mercury Wing Records MGW 12114, Canada 1959 (Straight Skirts - Side 2, Track 3)
Ebenezer Records 01, (country) (year) (Straight Skirts - Side 1, Track 6)
Rome Records 157, Italy 1990
Stardust Records CD 1010, United States 1996
Remember Records CD RMB 75072, Portugal 1999
Canetoad Records CTCD-1013, Australia 2007 (Straight Skirt-Track #11)
No Hit Records LP-001, U.K. 1988
No Hit Records CD-001, U.K. 1993
Crystal Clear Sound Records CD CCR 9643-2, United States 1996
Empire Records EMPCD-105, U.K. 2005
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"Straight Skirt" | |
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Single by Gene Summers and His Rebels | |
A-side | "Straight Skirt" |
B-side | " School Of Rock 'n Roll" |
Released | 1958 |
Recorded | 1958 - Los Angeles |
Genre | Rockabilly |
Length | 1:58 |
Label | Jan Records |
Songwriter(s) | Mary Tarver |
"Straight Skirt" (later "Straight Skirts") is a song written by Mary Tarver in 1958 and published by Song Productions, BMI the same year. It was originally recorded by Gene Summers and his Rebels, a rockabilly band from Dallas, Texas and was first released in February 1958 by Jan Records #11-100. On March 8, 1958, Cash Box picked it as their 'Sleeper of the Week'. In Billboard 's 'Reviews of Pop Records' they wrote: "The artist is backed by a chorus and cheerful rockabilly support on this blues. The kids might take to this".
"Straight Skirt" was flipped with " School Of Rock 'n Roll", an upbeat rockabilly song written by James McClung who was a high school friend of Summers. McClung was also the original guitarist for The Rebels and would continue to work with Summers well into the mid-1960s.
In the 1970s, at the beginning of the rockabilly revival in Europe, " School Of Rock 'n Roll" and "Straight Skirt" were re-discovered by a new legion of rockabilly fans and bands. Since that time they have become classic dance floor-fillers and renewed Gene's career to the extent of worldwide concert appearances from 1980 onwards.[ citation needed]
Prestige Records #PSP 0066, New Zealand September 1958
Prestige Records PEP 2017, New Zealand October 1958
Southern Music Publishing Company, New Zealand 1958
Around,” “ Straight Skirt,” “ I’m Grateful,” “ How Would ‘Ya Be” Bell Records BE-198, Australia 1959
Music World Records MALPS-536, New Zealand 1972
Festival Records CD 26255, Australia 1998
Festival Records CD D26481, Australia 2000
EMI Records 5784512, New Zealand 2004 (Johnny Devlin “Straight Skirt” track #2.)
Mercury Records # , United States 1958
Mercury PYE 7MT.208, U.K. 1958
plus The Platters “Winner Take All”/”My Dream” Mercury Records MG 10114, Spain 1959
Mercury Wing Records MGW 12114 (Mono), United States 1959 (Straight Skirts- Side 2, Track 3)
Mercury Wing Records MGW 12114, Canada 1959 (Straight Skirts - Side 2, Track 3)
Ebenezer Records 01, (country) (year) (Straight Skirts - Side 1, Track 6)
Rome Records 157, Italy 1990
Stardust Records CD 1010, United States 1996
Remember Records CD RMB 75072, Portugal 1999
Canetoad Records CTCD-1013, Australia 2007 (Straight Skirt-Track #11)
No Hit Records LP-001, U.K. 1988
No Hit Records CD-001, U.K. 1993
Crystal Clear Sound Records CD CCR 9643-2, United States 1996
Empire Records EMPCD-105, U.K. 2005