BEAR FAMILY

Billy was a big country star in the Seventies, but these are his early rare and rockin' sides for Columbia. Recorded in Nashville between 1958 and 1960 when Billy was a young rockabilly just arrived...

Three years before his breakthrough hit, Don't Mess Around With Jim, Jim Croce was half of a folk singer-songwriter duo with his wife, Ingrid Croce. The New York-based couple co-wrote seven of the 11...

Luck is a rare word in the Blues. But luckily the Blues had a baby and they named it Rock and Roll!Crudup (1905 - 1974) was amongst the unlucky bluesmen who barely got a dime for writing the songs...

2008 release, an absolute must-have for doo-wop and vocal group collectors! The Cues recorded the original version of Bill Haley's 'Burn That Candle' and recorded the Hot 100 classic 'Why'. of all...

The fifth volume in our documentary series on Rock 'n' Roll from Great Britain. CD album with Lee Curtis' best recordings for Decca and Star-Club. There are similarities to King Size Taylor, to...

Mac Curtis - Rocks / Wake Up, Rock 'n' Roll Rock-A-Baby: Bear Family Records½ provides a CD album by Mac Curtis in the popular 'Rocks' series. -This disc was long overdue, delivering for the first...

Or perhaps you know them as the Dandleers at least that's the way the label read on their first release on the tiny, Mercury-distributed Amp 3 label. True one-hit wonders, the group scored big on...

'Splish Splash' wasn't the beginning for Bobby Darin, nor was it just a flirtation with Rock 'N' Roll. Raised in a Manhattan tenement, Walden Robert Cassotto found a way to escape: through his music...

-Bear Family Records« presents the first high-quality vinyl LP (25 cm) with recordings of the blues shouting rocker, fiddle and sax player Link Davis from Northeast Texas.-His 1953 rendition of the...

Eater Davis never achieved the recognition and the commercial success that he had deserved. 1:1 re-issue of his finest album with the original artwork, originally released on the House of Orange...

Perhaps the greatest pedal steel guitarist of all time, Jimmy Day worked countless sessions and played on the road with Hank Williams, Elvis Presley, Jim Reeves, Lefty Frizzell, Ray Price, and Willie...

-The house band of the popular Peppermint Lounge in the heart of Manhattan landed an enormously successful hit with Peppermint Twist in early 1962! -For Bear Family Records½ an occasion to dedicate...