(1955) Sun ''Mom And Pop'' (Take 1) Gene Simmons

STUDIO SESSION FOR GENE SIMMONS AT THE MEMPHIS RECORDING SERVICE FOR SUN RECORDS 1955 SUN RECORDING STUDIO 706 UNION AVENUE, MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE SUN SESSION: SATURDAY JUNE 18, 1955 SESSION HOURS: UNKNOWN PRODUCER AND RECORDING ENGINEER - SAM C. PHILLIPS The sound on this session clearly echoes the recordings that Sam Phillips was making with Elvis Presley at the same time. Bass player Jessie Carter recalls those days and the price of insistence. ''Getting into the studio to record, that was the toughest nut to crack. You just don't know what it was like. We'd get up early in the morning, leave Tupelo, drive to Memphis, do a 3 or 4-hour session, pack up, drive back to Tupelo. It'd be 10 or 11 at night before we'd get back home. No expressways in those days. Country highways. Sometimes Sam would call at the last minute and have to cancel. Said, 'I've got something else come up. I'll give you a call next week'. Sometimes we wouldn't hear from him for 2 or 3 weeks. Maybe have to call him again, remind him. (HD) "MOM AND POP" Composer: - Gene Simmons Publisher: - B.M.I. - Hi-Lo Music Incorporated Matrix number: - 2550 - Take 1 - Not Originally Issued (1:38) Recorded: - June 18, 1955 Released: - 1985 First appearance: - Sun England (LP) 33rpm LP 1019-5 mono ROCK-A-BILLY BLUES Reissued: - August 1997 Bear Family Records (CD) 500/200rpm BCD 16210-3 mono THAT'LL FLAT GIT IT! - VOLUME 14 Name (Or. No. Of Instruments) Gene Simmons - Vocal Jesse Carter - Bass Carl Simmons - Guitar Talmadge Hester - Guitar © - 706 UNION AVENUE SESSIONS - ©