BOBBY LORD - Everybody's Rockin' LP

18 tracks, all his 1950s rockers!

Bobby Lord began his career as a teenage jazz singer on Paul Whitemans TV show in the early fifties but he turned to country music while he was a student at the University of Tampa, Florida. During the 50s he gained something of a reputation as a cast member of Red Foley's 'Jubilee USA' TV show and he made his mark on the original 'Ozark Jubilee' show on ABC, and became a regular on WSM's famed 'Grand Ole Opry'.

Through the efforts of his good friend Boudleaux Bryant, he was signed to an exclusive recording contract with Columbia Records and some fine country rockers such as 'Everybody's Rocking But Me', a Jack Turner original on Hickory, had been covered in April of '56 also on Columbia by Werly Fairburn but Bobby Lord chose to perform the song in a more commercial manner a couple of months later and it's hard to believe that such a clean-cut down home country entertainer could once have been the oddball excentric who created such a fine piece as 'No More, No More, No More', once a country blues original by Monroe Jackson. With the uninhibited scatting that the record producer simply give him a free hand to express himself. The result is marvellous.

After several years with Columbia, Bobby moved to the Hickory label where he enjoyed much success in the country charts and his own television series 'The Bobby Lord Show' which launched the may for more regular visits to the best selling lists on Decca in the sixties.