Description
Label Review.
Baker Knight was one of the most successful and celebrated songwriters of the 50s, 60s and 70s, enjoying success in the rock & roll, pop and country markets. This compilati on rounds up all his singles between 1956 and 1962. Jasmine.
Our Overview.
Baker Knight ’Bippin’ & Boppin’ - The Early Years’ is a compilation that rounds up all Bakers singles between 1956-62, and includes a number of near-mythical releases, e.g. 'Bop Boogie To The Blues', 'Little Heart', 'Sister', 'Peek-A-Boo', which have never previously been reissued in any format, much less CD.
Baker Knight was one of the most successful and celebrated songwriters of the 50s, 60s and 70s, enjoying success in the rock & roll, pop and country markets and is proof that sometimes you can have a catalogue of hit songs without ever becoming a household name. The writer and musician from Birmingham, Alabama was born on Independence Day, 1933, and had a successful career of some 30 years and more than a thousand song copyrights.
His songs were famously recorded by Ricky Nelson (including six million-sellers), Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Eddie Cochran, Dean Martin, Hank Williams Jr., Frank Sinatra, Nancy Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Perry Como, Mickey Gilley, Eddy Arnold, Paul McCartney, and countless others, and he's the man who wrote one of Elvis Presley's best-loved chart-toppers, 'The Wonder Of You.'
He also enjoyed a parallel career as a rock & roll singer, recording variously for Kit, Decca, Jubilee, Coral, Kick, RCA-Victor, Chess and Checker. Astonishingly, none of his own releases were commercial successes, and they are all nowadays highly sought-after collectors' artefacts. He died of natural causes at the age of 72 in 2005, and remains an unjustly under-appreciated name in the annals of hit songwriters.