Mr. Action Packed

Mr. Action Packed

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"Hey you with them slim-jims! With them leopard spots! Come on honey, let's bop!" shouts obscure Texas rockabilly musician Johnny Dollar (his real name) at the start of this collection of 1957-58 recordings. Hearing Dollar's keen, fully formed visceral intensity on "Car Coat Baby" and "Green-Eyed Cat" poses questions as to why a major label didn't snatch him up and take him beyond Dallas's Big "D" stage to wider fame. Dollar was a fountainhead of sorts; his songs "Action Packed" and "Rockin' Bones," heard here in their original form, would become signature tunes for Big "D" teenage rocker Ronnie Dawson. Sadly, aside from modest success as a late-'60s country producer and singer, Dollar was doomed to remain on the fringes, battered by divorces, alcoholism, depression, and finally throat cancer that led to his 1986 suicide. Hearing these vintage tracks leaves a clear sense of his tragically unfulfilled promise. --Rich Kienzle

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Unreleased Texas rockabilly at it's best!

Mr. Action Packed, Music, Johnny Dollar, Blues, Nashville Sound/Countrypolitan, Pop, Rockabilly, Traditional Country, United States of America

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