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"LEGENDS OF ROCKABILLY/ROCKNROLL . JOHNNY POWERS


 
Rockabilly artist Johnny Powers' story is one of the

more intriguing the genre has to offer. Born John Leon Joseph Pavlik in 1938 in East Detroit, MI, he was the oldest of five children. The family later
moved to the small town of Utica, MI, north of Detroit, where he was raised. Pavlik was exposed to music from an early age by members of his father's family, which included several amateur and semi-professional musicians who played weddings

and local dances. It was country music, however, that first drew Pavlik into music on a personal level; he discovered Lonnie Baron, a veteran country singer with a show on local radio and would listen and try to play along with a guitar that he'd bought for $2.50 from a neighbor. He later got some helpful instruction from Marvin Maynard, a professional musician who lived in Utica. In 1954, at age 16, Pavlik joined Jimmy Williams and the Drifters, a local country band that played at a local venue called Bill's Barn and got a featured radio spot on a radio station out of Marine City, MI. He also played on one single cut by the band, but it wasn't long before rock & roll attracted Pavlik. It was Jack Scott's single, "Baby She's Gone," that drew him into rock & roll.

Courtesy of Jimmy Williams' brother Russ, Pavlik discovered Elvis Presley when he was still a Memphis-based phenomenon, and his current single was "Milk Cow Blues Boogie," which really interested him, as a country song with a rock & roll beat. Soon he was adding the beat to his own country songs, and in 1957, Johnny Powers, as he was now known, got an audition with Fortune Records in Detroit. He paid $100 for his own session to record a pair of songs, "Honey, Let's Go to a Rock and Roll Show" b/w "Your Love" on the Hi-Q label. A black deejay named Ernie Durham played his record on WJLB, and Johnny Powers was one of the few white artists who would play the record hops that Durham sponsored. He later put together a band, Johnny Powers & His Rockets, with his friend Marvin Maynard on bass, Clark Locker on the drums, and Stan Getz on guitar. Powers jumped to the Fox label in 1958, getting a pair of regional hits with "Rock Rock" and "Long Blond Hair." The group got steady work cutting demos, some of which have surfaced as bootleg releases in recent years. Among his strongest work from this period were a pair of originals, "Mama Rock" and "Indeed I Do," cut for Leedon. On both, he sounds like the young, wild Elvis Presley that just arrived at RCA, and the group sings uncannily like the Jordanaires on the latter track.



Things began to happen faster for Johnny Powers when his manager, Tommy Moers, got him a contract with Sun Records in 1959, heralded with the release of "With Your Love, With Your Kiss" b/w "Be Mine early that year. A second single followed, but Powers was dropped by Sun in 1960. He later became the first white artist signed to Motown Records, but with the passing of the '60s into the '70s, Power's career found him on the other side of the studio glass, producing hits with Tim Tam & the Turn-Ons' "Wait A Minute" and Jack Kittel's oddball country sickie "Psycho." Still active today, Johnny Powers is proof positive of rock's ability to produce a true survivor who also is a true believer in the strength that lies within the music itself.




1957
Cap. mx code
Fox (Mich.) GB-916/7
(pressed by Capitol)
Pertinent Label shot Song sample Long Blond Hair, Red Rose Lips — Johnny Powers With The Band Of Stan Getz & Tom Cats GB-916 Bullet Collector CD 4425 (#12)
Bullet Dial LP 004 (#11)
Bullet Fed CD 05 (#17)
Bullet Lucky CD 810 (#11)
Bullet Mustang CD 2 (#20)
Bullet Norton CD 229 (#1)
Bullet Norton LP 229 (#1)
Bullet Presto CD 1 (#26)
Bullet Rhino CD 73346 (#13)
Bullet Roller Coaster CD 200 (#20)
Bullet Roller Coaster LP 2010 (#1)
Bullet Roller Coaster CD 3038 (#1)
Bullet Vladimir Twist LP 6902 (#7)
Pertinent Label shot Song sample Rock Rock — Johnny Powers With The Band Of Stan Getz & Tom Cats GB-917 Bullet Collector CD 4425 (#13)
Bullet Dial LP 004 (#12)
Bullet Emusic/Lost Gold MP 11163032 (#15)
Bullet Golden Stars CD 5374 (#33)
Bullet Hallmark CD 305242 (#14)
Bullet Lost Gold CD 5698 (#15)
Bullet Lucky CD 814 (#27)
Bullet Luxel CD 7104 (#10)
Bullet Norton CD 229 (#2)
Bullet Norton LP 229 (#2)
Bullet Roller Coaster LP 2010 (#2)
Bullet Roller Coaster CD 3038 (#2)
Bullet Yeaah! CD 22 (#15)
1957/Aug.
BMI clear.
Fortune (Mich.)  199  Pertinent Label shot Song sample Honey Let's Go (To A Rock And Roll Show) — Johnny Powers And His Rockets F 115 Bullet Chief CD 1156504 (#30)
Bullet Chief CD 1256501 (#7)
Bullet Collector CD 4425 (#17)
Bullet Norton CD 229 (#7)
Bullet Norton LP 229 (#7)
Bullet Roller Coaster LP 2010 (#3)
Bullet Roller Coaster CD 3038 (#3)
Bullet Titanic CD 1001 (#7)
Pertinent Label shot Song sample Your Love — Johnny Powers And His Rockets F 116 Bullet Chief CD 1156502 (#28)
Bullet Chief CD 1256501 (#24)
Bullet Norton CD 229 (#8)
Bullet Norton LP 229 (#8)
Bullet Roller Coaster LP 2010 (#4)
Bullet Roller Coaster CD 3038 (#4)
Bullet Titanic CD 1001 (#24)
1959/Sept.
(Bb est.)
Sun (Tenn.)  327  Pertinent Label shot Song sample With Your Love, With Your Kiss — Johnny Powers U-370 Bullet AVI CD 5004 (#7)
Bullet Bopcat LP 300 (#7)
Bullet Charly CD 8353 (#2)
Bullet Norton CD 229 (#17)
Bullet Norton LP 229 (#16)
Bullet Roller Coaster LP 2010 (#10)
Bullet Roller Coaster CD 3038 (#10)
Bullet Sun 10 801 (#11)
Bullet Sun (England) CD 18 (#1)
Bullet Sun (England) LP 1029 (#7)
Bullet Teenage Heaven LP 275 (#13)
Pertinent Label shot Be Mine, All Mine — Johnny Powers U-371 Bullet AVI CD 5004 (#8)
Bullet Norton CD 229 (#18)
Bullet Norton LP 229 (#17)
Bullet Roller Coaster LP 2010 (#11)
Bullet Roller Coaster CD 3038 (#11)
Bullet Sun (England) CD 18 (#2)
Bullet Sun (England) LP 1029 (#13)
Bullet Zomboco CD 2 (#13)

Tee Pee (N.Y.)  398  Borderline Label shot Song sample You're To Blame — Johnny Powers 399 Bullet Yeaah! CD 515 (#29)
No rating Label shot Song sample Seventeen — Johnny Powers 398 Bullet Roller Coaster LP 2010 (#20)
Bullet Roller Coaster CD 3038 (#20)

Skokie (loc?)  202  No rating Echo From The Past — Johnny Powers
No rating I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry — Johnny Powers
Unissued Tracks
1957
[unissued]  uniss.  No rating Indeed I Do [alt. vers.] — Johnny Powers Bullet Roller Coaster CD 3038 (#38)
No rating Tell Me That You Care — Johnny Powers Bullet Roller Coaster CD 3038 (#37)
1958-59
[unissued]  uniss.  No rating Be-Bop-A-Lula — Johnny Powers Bullet Norton CD 229 (#9)
Bullet Norton LP 229 (#9)
Bullet Roller Coaster LP 2010 (#7)
Bullet Roller Coaster CD 3038 (#7)
No rating Don't Go Away — Johnny Powers Bullet Charly CD 8137 (#28)
Bullet Lucky CD 812 (#5)
Bullet Norton CD 229 (#10)
Bullet Norton LP 229 (#10)
Bullet Roller Coaster LP 2017 (#4)
Bullet Roller Coaster CD 3038 (#24)
No rating Endless Love — Johnny Powers Bullet Roller Coaster CD 3038 (#46)
No rating I Need Your Lovin' Baby — Johnny Powers Bullet Roller Coaster LP 2017 (#13)
Bullet Roller Coaster CD 3038 (#32)
No rating I'll Take That Chance — Johnny Powers Bullet Roller Coaster LP 2017 (#17)
Bullet Roller Coaster CD 3038 (#36)
Pertinent Song sample I'm Walkin' — Johnny Powers Bullet Magnum Force LP 056 (#9)
Bullet Norton CD 229 (#22)
Bullet Norton LP 229 (#20)
Bullet Olympic LP 4 (#4)
Bullet Rock-It/Olympic LP 1001 (#10)
Bullet Rockhouse LP 8411 (#9)
Bullet Rockhouse CD 9319 (#26)
Bullet Roller Coaster LP 2010 (#5)
Bullet Roller Coaster CD 3038 (#5)
Pertinent Song sample Mean Mistreater — Johnny Powers Bullet Bison Bop LP 2000 (#1)
Bullet Buffalo Bop LP 2000 (#1)
Bullet Collector CD 4425 (#15)
Bullet Mustang CD 9 (#28)
Bullet Norton CD 229 (#5)
Bullet Norton LP 229 (#5)
Bullet Olympic LP 3 (#13)
Bullet Roller Coaster LP 2010 (#8)
Bullet Roller Coaster CD 3038 (#8)
Bullet Roller Coaster CD 3054 (#20)
No rating My Love, My Life — Johnny Powers Bullet Roller Coaster CD 3038 (#47)
No rating Oh So Far Away — Johnny Powers Bullet Norton CD 229 (#14)
Bullet Norton LP 229 (#13)
Bullet Roller Coaster LP 2010 (#14)
Bullet Roller Coaster CD 3038 (#14)
No rating Someone's Gonna Hurt You — Johnny Powers Bullet Norton CD 229 (#4)
Bullet Norton LP 229 (#4)
Bullet Roller Coaster CD 3038 (#19)
Pertinent Song sample Treat Me Right — Johnny Powers Bullet Bison Bop LP 2001 (#1)
Bullet Buffalo Bop LP 2001 (#1)
Bullet Collector CD 4425 (#16)
Bullet Norton CD 229 (#12)
Bullet Norton LP 229 (#11)
Bullet Olympic LP 3 (#5)
Bullet Roller Coaster LP 2010 (#6)
Bullet Roller Coaster CD 3038 (#6)
No rating Trouble — Johnny Powers Bullet Charly CD 8318 (#5)
Bullet Norton CD 229 (#15)
Bullet Norton LP 229 (#14)
Bullet Roller Coaster LP 2017 (#5)
Bullet Roller Coaster CD 3038 (#9)
Bullet Roller Coaster CD 3038 (#25)
Bullet SAAR CD [RR1] (#9)
No rating Song sample Waitin' For You [vers. 1] — Johnny Powers Bullet Disky CD 05 (#49)
Bullet Disky CD 5203 (#49)
Bullet Norton CD 229 (#6)
Bullet Norton LP 229 (#6)
Bullet Roller Coaster LP 2017 (#3)
Bullet Roller Coaster CD 3038 (#13)
Bullet Roller Coaster CD 3038 (#23)

Sun (Tenn.)  uniss.  No rating But Now That It's Over — Johnny Powers Bullet Charly CD 8137 (#29)
Bullet Roller Coaster CD 3038 (#30)
No rating Don't Lie To Me — Johnny Powers Bullet Norton CD 229 (#19)
Bullet Norton LP 229 (#18)
Bullet Roller Coaster LP 2017 (#6)
Bullet Roller Coaster CD 3038 (#26)
No rating Everybody Says I'm A Lucky Guy — Johnny Powers Bullet Roller Coaster LP 2017 (#15)
Bullet Roller Coaster CD 3038 (#34)
No rating I Got A Girl Who Knows How To Live — Johnny Powers Bullet Roller Coaster LP 2017 (#14)
Bullet Roller Coaster CD 3038 (#33)
No rating I'm Evil — Johnny Powers Bullet Roller Coaster LP 2010 (#9)
Bullet Sun (England) LP 1029 (#15)
Pertinent Song sample Me And My Rhythm Guitar — Johnny Powers Bullet Bear Family CD 16210 (#22)
Bullet Charly CD 36 (#17)
Bullet Charly CD 8099 (#23)
Bullet Disky CD 06 (#44)
Bullet Dressed To Kill/BMG CD 66 (#29)
Bullet J!mco CD 89194 (#20)
Bullet Norton CD 229 (#21)
Bullet Norton LP 229 (#19)
Bullet Roller Coaster LP 2010 (#12)
Bullet Roller Coaster CD 3038 (#12)
Bullet SAAR CD [1] (#20)
Bullet Select CD 586 (#19)
Bullet Sun (England) LP 1031 (#8)
No rating Waitin' For You [vers. 2] — Johnny Powers Bullet Norton CD 229 (#11)
Bullet Norton LP 229 (#15)
No rating Waitin' For You [vers. 3] — Johnny Powers Bullet Norton CD 229 (#16)
Bullet Roller Coaster CD 3038 (#43)
No rating Waitin' For You [vers. 4] — Johnny Powers Bullet Norton CD 229 (#20)
Bullet Roller Coaster CD 3038 (#45)
No rating Waitin' For You [vers. 5] — Johnny Powers Bullet Norton CD 229 (#23)
Pertinent Song sample Waiting For You — Johnny Powers Bullet Bear Family CD 16311 (#13)
Bullet Roller Coaster LP 2010 (#13)
Bullet Roller Coaster LP 2017 (#7)
Bullet Roller Coaster CD 3038 (#27)
Bullet Sun (England) LP 1031 (#9)
No rating Won't You Please, Pretty Baby — Johnny Powers Bullet Roller Coaster LP 2017 (#8)
Bullet Roller Coaster CD 3038 (#28)

[unissued]  uniss.  Pertinent Song sample The Bigger They Are — Johnny Powers Bullet Eagle CD 90205 (#16)
Bullet Roller Coaster LP 2010 (#17)
Bullet Roller Coaster CD 3038 (#17)
No rating Corrine Corrina — Johnny Powers Bullet Roller Coaster LP 2017 (#10)
Bullet Roller Coaster CD 3038 (#44)
Borderline Song sample Fallin' Star — Johnny Powers Bullet Eagle CD 90205 (#15)
Pertinent I Walk — Johnny Powers Bullet Bison Bop LP 2000 (#2)
Bullet Buffalo Bop LP 2000 (#2)
Pertinent Song sample Somebody's Gonna Hurt You — Johnny Powers Bullet Bison Bop LP 2001 (#2)
Bullet Buffalo Bop LP 2001 (#2)
Bullet Magnum Force LP 056 (#10)
Bullet Olympic LP 4 (#11)
Bullet Rock-It/Olympic LP 1001 (#13)
Bullet Roller Coaster LP 2010 (#19)
Need Information

[need info]     No rating Falling Star — Johnny Powers Bullet Roller Coaster LP 2010 (#16)
Bullet Roller Coaster CD 3038 (#16)
No rating I Believe She Loves Me Too — Johnny Powers Bullet Roller Coaster LP 2017 (#12)
Bullet Roller Coaster CD 3038 (#31)
No rating I Just Got To Know Now — Johnny Powers Bullet Roller Coaster LP 2017 (#19)
No rating It's Now Or Never Little One — Johnny Powers Bullet Roller Coaster LP 2017 (#18)
No rating Kiss-A-Me Baby — Johnny Powers Bullet Roller Coaster LP 2010 (#15)
Bullet Roller Coaster CD 3038 (#15)
No rating Please Return My Love — Johnny Powers Bullet Roller Coaster LP 2010 (#18)
Bullet Roller Coaster CD 3038 (#18)
No rating The Rest Of My Days Are Lonely Ones — Johnny Powers Bullet Roller Coaster LP 2017 (#11)
No rating Rosalee — Johnny Powers Bullet Roller Coaster LP 2017 (#9)
Bullet Roller Coaster CD 3038 (#29)
No rating Well I Got Troubles — Johnny Powers Bullet Roller Coaster LP 2017 (#16)
Bullet Roller Coaster CD 3038 (#35)
No rating You Didn't Care — Johnny Powers






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