{"id":3119,"date":"2012-10-01T05:21:40","date_gmt":"2012-10-01T09:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=3119"},"modified":"2016-02-02T21:33:10","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T21:33:10","slug":"album-review-various-artists-its-saturday-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2012\/10\/01\/album-review-various-artists-its-saturday-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Various Artists &#8211; It&#8217;s Saturday Night!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/musoscribe.com\/images\/its_saturday_night.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"280\" hspace=\"20\" vspace=\"20\"  \/>Leave it once again to the people at UK-based Fantastic Voyage to put together an interesting compilation of in-danger-of-being-lost American music. Their latest entry is a 3CD set called <em>It&#8217;s Saturday Night! Starday-Dixie Rockabilly 1955-1961<\/em>. Stuffed to the limit, this set includes 103 tracks that originally appeared on Texas-based Starday (a label founded by <strong>Lefty Frizzell<\/strong>&#8216;s manager <strong>Jack Starns<\/strong> and <strong>\u201cPappy\u201d Daily<\/strong>) and the Dixie imprint.<\/p>\n<p>If names like <strong>Sonny Fisher<\/strong>, <strong>Rocky Bill Ford<\/strong>, <strong>Rudy Grayzell<\/strong> and <strong>Benny Barnes<\/strong> didn&#8217;t become household names, it may have had as much to do with the limits of record distribution in the 50s, plus a surfeit of talented performers. <em>It&#8217;s Saturday Night!<\/em> is full of gems; it&#8217;s the kind of collection that feels at times as though it&#8217;s full of hits. In truth, few of these tunes went anywhere commercially. Many of the artists featured had some or other connection to the big time: maybe they wrote songs for an artist who made it big; maybe they played on somebody else&#8217;s hit record. Or, more often, maybe neither.<\/p>\n<p>Astoundingly, the sound quality on these sides is quite impressive. Once again I&#8217;m left to wonder just how Fantastic Voyage gains access to masters and sorts out knotty licensing issues for the ancient tracks. But fans of early rockabilly and rock&#8217;n&#8217;roll should be glad the English label keeps at it; <em>It&#8217;s Saturday Night<\/em> is well worth grabbing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/the_musoscribe\">Follow \u201cthe_musoscribe\u201d on <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/musoscribe.com\/images\/icon_twitter_small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"18\" height=\"18\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"1\" vspace=\"0\" \/> Twitter<\/a> and get notified<br \/>\nwhen new features, reviews and essays are published.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leave it once again to the people at UK-based Fantastic Voyage to put together an interesting compilation of in-danger-of-being-lost American music. Their latest entry is a 3CD set called It&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[810],"class_list":["post-3119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-review","tag-fantastic-voyage","cat-65-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10238,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3119\/revisions\/10238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}