Ferlin Husky – Draggin‘ The River – Bebe Beautiful Baby 7inch
Numbered edition, limited to 500 copies! company sleeve.
LIMITED EDITION
Our 45 RPM series covers the rarest of the rare with the aim of filling the serious gaps in your collection. Carefully selected by our knowledgeable staff from the deepest vaults, our 45s sometimes feature previously unissued songs … and sometimes songs making their first appearance on vinyl!
- 500 numbered copies limited edition vinyl single (45 RPM) – small center, company sleeve, photo inlay card.
- ‚Draggin The River‘ is a midtempo Countrybopper and a class of its own, realeased in 1959 on Capitol, a real gone dancefloor filler.
- ‚Bebe Beautiful Baby‘ is a previously unissued 1955 uptempo Country rocker out of the deep from the vaults of Capitol Records.
- The Capitol studio musicians in their height, with a rockin‘ steel-guitar and an upright slap bass that leaves Psychobilly bassists getting pale faces.
Ferlin Husky – Draggin‘ The River – Bebe Beautiful Baby 7inch
Ferlin Husky Ferlin Husky was a unique American country music superstar. He was born Ferlin Eugene Husky on December 3, 1925, on a farm in Cantwell, in the east Desloge area, Missouri. One of his uncles taught him how to play guitar before age 10. In his latter childhood he became interested in music, especially those by Red Foley and Bing Crosby. Then there was World War II interrupting Ferlin’s musical start. He became a fighting soldier at age 19, and was sent over to the European theatre. He was a gunner on a troop vessel and experienced the horror of D-Day at the coast of Cherbourg, Normandy, France, June 1944. Directly after the war Husky began working as a
Ferlin Husky – Draggin‘ The River – Bebe Beautiful Baby 7inch
dee-jay in the California area of Bakersfield. Western star Smiley Burnette hired him for a tour but forced him to change his name. Burnette said, Ferlin Husky does not sound country. Ferlin started working under his first pseudonym, Terry Preston, on tour as well as on appearances in local honky tonks and juke joints in and around Bakersfield and also on various studio sessions backing other artists as a bass player.
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