EDDIE BOND

Chanteur Country US né Edwards James Bond, le 1^er juillet 1933 à Memphis (Tennessee).
Eddie Bond, encore adolescent, se produit dans la région de Memphis avec son groupe les "Stompers".

En 1952, il forme le "Western Swing Band" et en 1955, Eddie se présente sans succès chez Sun et Meteor Records. Il enregistre finalement un premier disque chez Ekko.
Ensuite Eddie signe chez Mercury (56) avec ses "Stompers".
Il a aussi enregistré pour Stomper Time, United Southern Artists,
Diplomat, Memphis, Tab et Phillips International Records (62).

Eddie Bond a fait un retour en 1982 chez Rockhouse. Eddie a aussi été un comédien sur la radio KWEM (Memphis, Tennessee)
en 1955; Disc Jockey sur la même radio en 1956-58 et un
chanteur régulier du Louisiana Hayride (KWKH, Shreveport,
Louisiane).

Despite never becoming a major national figure, Eddie Bond has carved out a place as a rockabilly and country star, as well as a radio personality, for 50 years. A contemporary of Elvis Presley and a fixture in Memphis and on the Louisiana Hayride in the mid-'50s, Bond was one of the best singers of the period, and led the Stompers, one of the hottest bands, but he never broke out the way Elvis did. His records, whether rockabilly, country, or gospel, however, were among the best to come from Memphis from the mid-'50s through the 1960s, and helped Bond remain a much loved country/rockabilly performer into the new millennium.
Born Edwards James Bond in Memphis, he was originally drawn into music by the work of Ernest Tubb and Roy Acuff. By age eight, Bond had saved enough to buy his first guitar, and as a teenager he played at beer joints around Memphis. He drifted through various jobs after finishing school, including furniture factory worker and truck driver, before serving an 18-month hitch in the Navy.
After returning to civilian life, he began putting together his band, the Stompers, whose membership at various times in the years 1952-1954 included Jody Chastain and Curtis Lee Anderson. By 1955, the group's mainstays included Reggie Young on lead guitar, John Hughey on the pedal steel, and Johnny Fine at the drums. Bond led the Stompers on tours across the South and Southwest, billed alongside Roy Orbison, among other future country and rock & roll stars. They failed in auditions for Sam Phillips at Sun and the Bihari brothers' Meteor label, and in 1955 he signed with tiny Ekko Records, which resulted in a pair of singles issued late in the year, "Double Duty Lovin'"/"Talking Off the Wall" and "Love Makes a Fool (Everyday)"/"Your Eyes." These were pleasant, well-played country numbers, but they didn't include the band, only Bond as singer. With Hank Garland on lead guitar, Jerry Byrd on steel guitar, and Marvin Hughes at the ivories, they were OK records and then some, but not representative of Bond's real sound — "Talking Off the Wall" was a rocker, with a solid beat and lots of tension in the lead and rhythm guitar parts, but it was the B-side to the milder "Double Duty Lovin'." In any case, neither record attracted any notice from the public or the musical world.
Bond and his band managed to get signed to Mercury Records in 1956, and this was where they came into their own. From their first Mercury session in February of 1956, Eddie Bond & the Stompers cooked, with a lean, hard rockabilly sound that rocked with the best of them. The band in those days featured Young, Hughey, and Fine, with Bond playing rhythm. The single "I Got a Woman"/"Rockin' Daddy" from that session is testimony to the excitement they could generate. That Mercury debut sold well in the spring of 1956, and they were getting lots of gigs and broadcast exposure at the time. Bond played the Louisiana Hayride alongside Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, and Johnny Horton, and it was around this time that he started his own radio show, an activity that was to loom ever larger in his career. His second Mercury session produced still more rockabilly gold, including "Slip, Slip, Slippin' In" and "Flip, Flop Mama," and they sold respectably, if not spectacularly.
Bond didn't stay with rockabilly music, however, and his later Mercury sessions produced country sides, although "Love Love Love" rocks pretty well. His Mercury contract ended in 1957, and for his next sessions, Bond was back doing rockabilly again, followed by more country music and even a foray into gospel in the early '60s. Bond's biggest success in the years that followed came on radio, where his show achieved huge ratings; this, in turn, helped sustain his record sales, as he recorded or licensed various songs to different labels, mostly in a country vein.
Eddie Bond was never going to be another Elvis Presley — he wasn't going to be turned into a movie star as easily, or branch into other, heavily produced sounds, and he was too successful early on as a radio personality to abandon that activity. But he made a more than fair rival to Conway Twitty (whom he played with around 1955, when the latter was still known as Harold Jenkins), with a pleasing tenor voice, understated in its sweetness and dramatic nuance, and a good sense of how to deliver a song, whether ballad, rocker, or gospel number. He continued performing through the 1990s and into the new century. His broadcasting career was especially successful and assured him of a wide country audience, while his classic rockabilly sides from the '50s helped make him a living legend among enthusiasts, especially in Europe. Five decades into performing, he remains true to his country and rockabilly roots.

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Talents : Singer, Deejay
Style musical : Rockabilly, Traditional Country, Country-Gospel

FLIP FLOP MAMA HERE COMES THAT TRAIN SLIP, SLIP, SLIPPIN' IN

08/1955	SP EKKO 1015 (US)	.	Talking Off The Wall / Double Duty Lovin'
09/1955	SP EKKO 1016 (US)	.	Love Makes A Fool / Your Eyes
03/1956	SP MERCURY 70826x45 (US)	.	Rockin' Daddy / I've Got A Woman
06/1956	SP MERCURY 70882x45 (US)	.	Slip, Slip, Slippin' In / Flip Flop Mama
09/1956	SP MERCURY 70941x45 (US)	.	Boppin' Bonnie / Baby, Baby, Baby
03/1957	SP MERCURY / STARDAY 71067x45 (US)	.	They Say We're Too Young / You're Part Of Me
07/1957	SP MERCURY / STARDAY 71153x45 (US)	.	Hershey Bar / Lovin' You, Lovin' You
12/1957	SP MERCURY / STARDAY 71237x45 (US)	.	Love, Love, Love / Backslidin'
10/1958	SP D 1016 (US)	.	The Blues Got Me / Standing In Your Window
1958 ?	SP STOMPER TIME 1155 (US)	.	Can't Win For Losing / When The Jukebox Plays
04/1959	SP STOMPER TIME 1156 (US)	.	Boo Bop Da Caa Caa / You'll Never Be A Stranger To Me
05/1960	SP CORAL 62200 (US)	.	The Little Black Book / Is My Ring On Your Finger
11/1960	SP WILDCAT W0058 (US)	.	Can't Win For Losing / You'll Never Be A Stranger To Me
12/1960	SP SPA 25-1001 (US)	.	I Walk Alone / Only One Minute More
07/1961	SP UNITED SOUTHERN ARTISTS 5-106 (US)	.	This Old Heart Of Mine / Second Chance
1962	SP MEMPHIS M-105 (US)	.	Tomorrow I'll Be Gone / Make The Parting Sweet
10/1962	SP PEN 114 (US)	.	I Guess I've Got The Blues / As Long As I'll Forgive
1963	SP DECCA 31469 (US)	.	I Guess I've Got The Blues / As Long As I'll Forgive
1963	SP DIPLOMAT 660S-1502 (US)	.	Every Part Of Me / In From Stepping Out
1964	SP DIPLOMAT 645D-8566 (US)	.	Monkey And The Baboon / Short Honeymoon
1965	SP MEMPHIS M-114 (US)	.	Raunchy / Cold Dark Waters
07/1965	SP MEMPHIS M-115 (US)	.	Here Comes That Train / Someday I'll Sober Up
1965	SP K-ARK 643 (US)	.	Here Comes That Train / Someday I Will Sober Up
1965	SP GOLDWAX 107 (US)	.	I Can't Fight This Much Longer / Now And Then
1965	SP MILLIONAIRE 108 (US)	.	I Just Found Out / Back To Vietnam
1966	SP MILLIONAIRE 9721 (US)	.	Is My Ring On Your Finger / Little Black Book
1966 ?	SP MEMPHIS 446 (US)	.	Books Like Money / Someday I'll Sober Up
1967	SP TAGG 6406 (US)	.	I'm From Stepping Out / Every Part Of Me
1967	SP TAGG 6408 (US)	.	Big Boss Man / Empire
1967	SP ASHLEY ? (US)	.	Someday I'll Sober Up / Cool Dark Waters
1967	SP MILLIONAIRE 556 (US)	.	Looks Like A Monkey / Daddy's Drinkin' Up Our Future
1968	SP XL 356 (US)	.	Runnin' Drunk / We Live In Two Differents Worlds
1968	SP TAB 003 (US)	.	Babby Sitter / Daddy's Drinking Up Our Future

Bond, Eddie



Born 1933 in Memphis, Tenn. A performer on KWEM (Memphis, Tenn.) in 1955. Disc jockey on KWEM (Memphis, Tenn.) in 1956-58. A regular on the Louisiana Hayride (KWKH, Shreveport, La.) in 1958.

References:
Three-part feature article in issues 39-41 (1991) of Rockin' Fifties. Two-part sessionography in issues 41 & 50.

Original Releases



Discography is intended to be complete through 1964

Date & Source	Label & Number	V	Titles {& References to LP/CD List}	As By	Matrix Numbers
1955/Aug. (Bb est.)	Ekko 1015		Talking Off The Wall {d, C, 1d,1m} Double Duty Lovin' {d, C,Q,Z, 1d,1m}	1 1	AA A
1955/Sept. (Bb est.)	Ekko 1016		Love Makes A Fool (Every Day) {d , 1d,1m} Your Eyes {d, Z, 1d,1m}	1 1	A AA
1956/Mar. 17 Bb c&w rev.	Mercury 70826X45		Rockin' Daddy {d,e,v, D,F,H,R,T,W,Y, 1d,1m} I've Got A Woman {d, T,W, 1d,1m}	2 2	YW12675 YW12674
1956/June 9 Bb c&w rev.	Mercury 70882X45		Slip, Slip, Slippin'-In {d,e,g,u,w, M,O,P, 1d,1l,1m} Flip, Flop Mama {d,e,g, G,M,P, 1d,1m}	3 3	YW12700 YW12702
1956/Sept. 29 Bb c&w rev.	Mercury 70941X45		Boppin' Bonnie {d,e,g,h, I,M,N,P,R, 1d,1m} Baby, Baby, Baby (What Am I Gonna Do) {d,g, M,P, 1d,1m}	3 3	YW12703 YW12701
1957/Mar. 9 Bb c&w rev.	Mercury-Starday 71067x45		They Say We're Too Young {d , 1m} You're Part Of Me {d , 1m}	1 1	YW14716 YW14714
1957/July 22 Bb c&w rev.	Mercury-Starday 71153x45		Hershey Bar {d , 1m} Lovin' You, Lovin' You {d , 1m}	1 1	YW14784 YW14783
1957/Dec. 2 Bb c&w rev.	Mercury-Starday 71237x45		Love, Love, Love {d , 1m} Backslidin' {d , 1m}	1 1	YW14782 YW14717
1958/Oct. 13 Bb c&w rev.	D 1016		The Blues Got Me {Z, 1j} Standing In Your Window {Z, 1d,1j}	2 2	1030 1031

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Back Home In Indiana {d} The Day I Found You {d,z} Fool About You {J} Hallelujah Way {d} A Heart Full Of Heartaches {Z} I Can't Quit {d} I Saw The Light {d} I Thought I Heard You Call My Name {d} I'd Just Be Fool Enough {d} If We Never Meet Again {d} In My Solitude {d} Just A Closer Walk With Thee {d} Letter To God {d} Long Tall Sally {J,L} Most Of All I Want To See Jesus {d} One More Memory {d, Z} One Step Close To You {d} Our Secret Rendezvous {d} Pass Me Not, Oh Gentle Saviour {d} Precious Memories {d} Satisfied {d} Standing In The Window {d} They'll Never Take Her Love From Me {d} Where Could I Go But The Lord {d} Whey They Ring Those Golden Bells {d} Will I Be Lost Or Will I Be Saved {d} Your Conscience {K} Your Eyes {d}

References in "As By" Column:

1. as by Eddie Bond
   
2. as by Eddie Bond And The Stompers
   
3. as by Eddie Bond And His Stompers
   
4. as by Eddie Bond With Jordanaires
   

Other Notes:

• SEE ALSO: Wheeler, Karen