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Billy Lee Riley

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Billy Lee Riley was a rockabilly singer and multi-instrumentalist. An alumnus of Sunlight Information, he was probably one of the most crazed, unabashed rockers that label got to provide — together with Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Sonny Burgess, that’s stating a lot. Effective in harmonica, acoustic guitar, bass, and drums, Riley added like a sideman to numerous a classic Sunlight program, and his combo, the tiny Green Males (especially guitarist Roland Janes and drummer J.M. Vehicle Eaton), with time became sunlight house music group. Riley recorded for several labels in a number of designs, specifically effective with blues. Though under no circumstances commercially effective, Riley’s Sunlight recordings of “Soaring Saucer Rock and roll ‘n’ Move” and “Crimson Popular” (both protected in solid wood renditions by Robert Gordon) stay landmarks from the genre. Billy Lee Riley passed away of tumor in Jonesboro, Arkansas in ’09 2009; he was 75 yrs . old.

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Full Name Billy Lee Riley
Died August 2, 2009, Jonesboro, Arkansas, United States
Profession Singer, Songwriter, Music Producer
Nationality American
Spouse Joyce Riley
Music Songs Red Hot, Rock With Me Baby, Flyin' Saucer Rock 'n' Roll, Pearly Lee, I Want You Baby, No Name Girl, Trouble Bound, Baby Please Don't Go, Got the Water Boiling, Searchin', Dark Muddy Bottom, The Little Green Men, College Man, Rockin' on the Moon, Open the Door Richard, When a Man Gets the Blues, Come Back Baby, Wouldn't You, Flying Saucers Rock, Rockin' Fifties, Repossession Blues, Hillbilly Rockin' Man, Swanee River Rock, Blue Collar Blues, Too Much Woman for Me, Flying Saucers, Rockin' Old Lang Syne, Is That All to the Ball, Mr Hall, Billy Lee Riley Red Hot, Saturday Night Fish Fry, Your Cash Ain't Nothin' but Trash, Betty and Dupree
Albums Hot Damn!, Funk Harmonica, Billy Lee Riley: In Action !!!!, Shade Tree Blues, Still Got My Mojo, Harmonica Beatlemania, Live at the Whisky a Go Go, Blue Collar Blues, Rockin' Fifties, Let's Talk About Us, Southern Man, Hits And Swanee River Rock, Flyn' Saucers, Rock'n'roll (Original Artist Original Songs), Hillbilly Rockin' Man, Harmonica And The Blues, One More Time, Twist & Shout!, Pearly Lee, Classic Recordings 1956-1960, Rockin' With Riley, Rock With Me Baby, The Sun Years, The Legendary Sun Classics, Swanee River Rock, Folsom Prison Blues, Baby, Please Don't Go, Sweet William, Still Go My Mojo, Classics - Billy Lee Riley, Billy Lee Riley Selected Hits, That's Right, Just Stay Here Tonight, Red Hot, Rockin' With Riley CD 2, Once In A Blue Moon, Sun King Collection - Billy Lee Riley, Down By the Riverside, Another Classic Album, The Very Best Of, Les Génies du Rock, Volume 33: Flying Saucers Rock 'n' Roll, Searchin' (Original Artist Original Songs), All My Succes - Billy Lee Riley, College Man, The Crazy 50s Vol. 30, When Time Goes By, Billy Lee Riley's Kay, Rock with Me Baby: Classic Recordings by the Lost Giant of Rock & Roll, 1956-1960, Folsom Prison Blues, Flyn' Saucers Rock'n'roll, Rock 'N' Roll Legend: Billy Lee Riley, The Mojo Albums, Plus, Betty And Dupree, The Crazy 50s Vol. 16


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Soundtrack

Soundtrack

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Paul 2011 performer: "FLYING SAUCERS ROCK 'N' ROLL" - as Billy Riley
Flying Saucer Rock 'N' Roll 2006 writer: "Flying Saucers Rock 'N' Roll"
Walk the Line 2005 performer: "Rock with Me Baby" - as Billy Riley / writer: "Rock with Me Baby" - as B. Riley
A Dirty Shame 2004 performer: "Red Hot" / writer: "Itchy" - as Billy Riley
American Masters 2001 TV Series documentary performer - 1 episode
Moonshine Highway 1996 TV Movie performer: "Red Hot" - as Billy Riley
When the Bough Breaks 1994 writer: "MY HEROINE" - as B. Riley
Long Gone 1987 TV Movie performer: "Red Hot"
The Speed Lovers 1968 "A Girl I Know" / performer: "The Speed Lovers"
The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet 1965 TV Series performer - 1 episode

Actor

Actor

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The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet 1965 TV Series One-Man Band

Thanks

Thanks

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American Masters 2001 TV Series documentary acknowledgment - 1 episode

Self

Self

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Sounds of Memphis 2002 TV Movie documentary
American Masters 2001 TV Series documentary Himself - Sun Artist

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