Rockabilly by Michael Dregni

Author:Michael Dregni
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: MBI
Published: 2011-03-25T16:00:00+00:00

This last session was quite the star-studded affair, with A-list session musicians Jerry Cole on guitar, Carol Kaye on bass, and Ritchie Frost on drums, all of whom appeared on many Los Angeles–produced hit records by (for instance) the Beach Boys, Ricky Nelson, and others. The session yielded the fun novelty tune “I Still Didn’t Have the Sense to Go,” which was paired with “I’ll Never Stop Loving You” and released as Dore 717 in the fall of 1964. This record turned out to be Glen’s last 45. The advent of the Beatles effectively killed Glen’s chance at stardom, and apart from a demo recording done at his house (“It’s a Sad Thing to See”), this would be the last recording he would make in the original era of rock ’n’ roll.

The story doesn’t quite end here, however. Although Glen faded into obscurity in America, his records were prized and revered by the burgeoning Teddy Boy 1950s revival scene in England and Europe starting in the late 1960s. With the 1977 album release of Hollywood Rock and Roll on England’s Chiswick Records, Glen’s classic rockabilly sides were rediscovered by a slew of young rockabilly fanatics. “Everybody’s Movin’” became a standard in the rockabilly songbook. Ace Records released a best-selling album of alternate takes and live recordings, The Glen Glenn Story, that sold incredibly well for an obscure rockabilly artist such as Glen. After its encouraging sales, Glen and Gary Lambert, his old guitar-playing buddy, went into the studio and recorded a new album, Everybody’s Movin’ Again, for Ace Records, which also sold well.

Glen and Gary began performing again around Los Angeles, backed by young new bands that idolized them. Eventually Glen finally relented to the many offers he had received from Europe and flew overseas to perform at the English Hemsby Festival and other festivals across Europe.

Glen’s influence, via the slew of reissue recordings, was quite surprising to him. He discovered that Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, and Bob Dylan had all performed “Everybody’s Movin’” in their live concerts. Dylan even personally asked Glen to open a Hollywood Palladium show for him, marking a personal high point in a career that had already spanned over forty years.

Glen Glenn and Gary Lambert are still around, playing the occasional show and meeting with visiting fans that love to hear their stories from the past. Glen loves the attention from the young fans who idolize him as one of rockabilly’s original architects.

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