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(1958) Sun 300 ''I Dig You Baby'' b/w ''Sweetie Pie'' Tommy Blake

STUDIO SESSION FOR TOMMY BLAKE AT THE MEMPHIS RECORDING SERVICE FOR SUN RECORDS 1958 SUN RECORDING STUDIO 706 UNION AVENUE, MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE SUN SESSION: SATURDAY MARCH 15, 16, 1958 SESSION HOURS: UNKNOWN PRODUCER AND RECORING ENGINEER - SAM C. PHILLIPS "I DIG YOU BABY" (2) Composer: - Tommy Blake-Jerry Ross Publisher: - B.M.I. - Hi-Lo Music Incorporated Matrix number: - U 313 - Master (2:13) Recorded: - March 16, 1958 Released: - June 1958 First appearance: - Sun Records (S) 78/45rpm standard single SUN 300-A mono I DIG YOU BABY /SWEETIE PIE Reissued: - 1996 Bear Family Records (CD) 500/200rpm BCD 15803-2-19 mono THE SUN SINGLES COLLECTION - VOLUME 3 This effort, which included the cream of Sun's studio musicians. Everyone is here, from Roland Janes to Stan Kesler to Jimmy Van Eaton. Yet the results still seem a bit forced. Its hard to blame the band for what goes wrong here. So why aren't the results more engaging? It comes down to Blake's performance. Unlike the best of Sun's rockabilly, Blake sounds like he's posturing here; almost like an old man trying to sing young folks' music. "I Dig You Baby" featured on Tommy Blake's second and last single for Sun. Neither enjoyed much commercial success. In fact, a harsh verdict might be that both are deservedly rare. Blake's efforts have been minimized even by most collectors who lionize every minute of music that ever appeared on a yellow Sun label, or every note ever played in the tiny studio on the corner of Union and Marshall Avenues in Memphis. The puzzle is even more pronounced on "I Dig You Baby". The band is superb. From the first four bars, this record sizzles instrumentally. How could anyone or anything dilute its effectiveness? A Tennessee hound dog howling against this backing track might have produced a classic Sun record, but Blake isn't up to the challenge. His lyrics are strained ("At the drug store we did meet"). And, once again, vocally he manages to drag the proceedings to the level of mediocrity. At best, this is an almost great record. You won't hear better, more powerful instrumental work anywhere in Sun's release schedule in the 300 series. But you're going to hear lots of vocals that'll make you wish Blake had stayed in Shreveport, Louisiana. (HD) (MH) "SWEETIE PIE" Composer: - Tommy Blake-Jerry Ross Publisher: - B.M.I. - Knox Music Incorporated Matrix number: - U 312 - Master (2:05) Recorded: - March 15, 1958 Released: - June 1958 First appearance: - Sun Records (S) 78/45rpm standard single SUN 300-B mono SWEETIE PIE / I DIG YOU BABY Reissued: - 1996 Bear Family Records (CD) 500/200rpm BCD 15803-2-20 mono THE SUN SINGLES COLLECTION - VOLUME 3 Tommy Blake's lascivious enunciation on ''Sweetie Pie'', the second of his two Sun singles, rates highly on the confidence scale. Thwarted by his lack of progress as a performer, he concentrated on songwriting and made the transition by providing hard-hitting country for the likes of Johnny Cash, Carl Belew and Ray Price. Unfortunately a growing tendency to live out the lyrics of his songs finally got the better of him, and in 1985 he was killed in a domestic dispute with his wife. (SC) ''Sweetie Pie'' was penned by Dale Hawkins and Carl Adams, not Tommy and Jerry Ross as other sources have claimed. Curiously, Carl also co-wrote Mrs. Mergitory's Daughter and Lovin' Bug with Dale. On "Sweetie Pie", drummer Van Eaton lays down a really fine track, emphasizing the cowbell. The band trades two bar phrases with Blake, working a slowed down Bo Diddley rhythm. Shane Hughes asserts that Dale Hawkins and Carl Adams (who worked for Hawkins by this point) wrote the song, but it became a moot point because Blake's version wasn't a hit and Hawkins' version wasn't released for decades. Jerry Ross incidentally, left a demo at Sun as Gene Ross and later recorded "Everybody's Tryin" (the song he'd demo'd at Sun) for Murco Records in Shreveport. Blake was credited as the co-writer under the name Thomas Givens, probably to sidestep the Sun publishing contract. (HD) (MH) Name (Or. No. Of Instruments) Tommy Blake - Vocals and Guitar Carl Bailey Adams - Guitar William Edwin Bruce - Guitar Roland Janes - Guitar Sid Manker - Guitar Stan Kesler - Bass Edward "Eddie Hall" Dettenheim - Bass James M. Van Eaton - Drums Jimmy Wilson - Piano © - 706 UNION AVENUE SESSIONS - ©