Al Casey

Longtime program guitarist Al Casey is most noted for the information he made out of manufacturer Lee Hazlewood, with performers like Duane Eddy and Sanford Clark. He also offers made numerous information by himself, reaching his industrial peak in the first 1960s, whenever a handful of his instrumental (or mainly instrumental) browse and R&B-rock singles produced the very best 100. In the ’60s and ’70s, he worked well frequently as a program player in LA, and was still placing out information under his personal name in the ’90s. Casey was still in his teenagers when he began dealing with Hazlewood in Phoenix, presenting Hazlewood to Sanford Clark, whose strike “The Fool” was made by Hazlewood. Casey’s music group backed Clark within the singer’s information, and also other discs slice by Hazlewood. Casey is at Eddy’s music group, the Rebels, where he performed the piano, although he’s even more known for his acoustic guitar playing. Casey also published among Eddy’s earliest strikes, “Ramrod,” aswell as co-writing another Eddy strike, “Forty Kilometers of Bad Street,” with Duane. In the first ’60s Casey was dividing his time taken between classes in L.A. and Phoenix, and dealing with his personal group, the Al Casey Combo. Relatively surprisingly, taking into consideration his twangy history with Eddy as well as the browse recordings in his forseeable future, his initial successes had been with bluesy instrumental rock and roll singles using a jazzy body organ groove (performed by Casey himself). “Cookin'” produced number 92 over the pop graph, while an identical follow-up, “Jivin’ Around,” do just a little better, addressing amount 71 pop and amount 22 in the R&B entries. In 1963, nevertheless, he and Hazlewood rode the browse craze and trim an entire browse LP, a lot of which highlighted Hazlewood compositions, and which acquired respectably challenging reverberant electric guitar by Casey. An individual from the record, “Surfin’ Hootenanny” (with nearly incidental feminine vocals with the K-C-Ettes, aka the Blossoms), became Casey’s biggest strike, making amount 48; best L.A. program dudes Leon Russell (body organ) and Hal Blaine (drums) had been present on many or every one of the tracks. Casey’s single profession petered out when the tiny unbiased label he documented for, Stacy, shut shop around the start of 1964. Casey discovered a whole lot of function, though, being a program guy, on recordings by performers including the Seaside Children, Eddy Arnold, and Frank Sinatra. He also went a music shop in Hollywood in the past due ’60s, and performed as an associate of the music group on Dean Martin’s tv program. In the middle-’90s he produced a solo documenting for Bear Family members, Sidewinder.