John Joseph "Johnny"
Burnette (25 de marzo de 1934 –14 de agosto de 1964) fue un cantante y
compositor de Rock and Roll , especialmente popular entre 1960 y 1964. Junto
con su hermano mayor, Dorsey Burnette y su amigo Paul Burlison, fundaron el
grupo The Rock and Roll Trio (1952). Sin embargo, el salto a la fama se dió
cuando comenzó su carrera en solitario. Es considerado junto a otros grandes
artistas, uno de los últimos "Teenage Idol" de este movimiento.
Cultivó sobre todo el subgénero del Rockabilly y la balada melódica de los años
sesenta. Es internacionalmente reconocido por canciones como
"Dreamin'" (1960) y "You're Sixteen" (1960).
Biografía
Johnny nació en Memphis,
Tennessee, hijo de Willie May y Dorsey Burnett (la e del final la añadiría más
tarde). Creció con sus padre en Dorsey en unas viviendas de protección oficial
del área de Lauderdale Courts en Memphis entre 1948 y 1954, lugar en el que
también vivieron Gladys y Vernon Presley y su hijo, Elvis.
The Rock and Roll Trio
En 1952, a los 18 años, los
hermanos Burnette y Paul Burlinson, formaron el grupo The Rhythm Rangers;
Johnny cantaba y tocaba la guitarra acústica, Dorsey tocaba el bajo y Paul
Burlinson la guitarra. Por razones económicas, el 1956, los tres se trasladaron
a vivir a Nueva York, donde consiguieron una audición con Ted Mack en su
programa Original Amateur Hour. Ganaron tres concursos seguidos y en una de las
finales consiguieron como premio un contrato de grabación con Coral Records,
convirtiéndose oficialmente en The Rock and Roll Trio
Unieron a su experiencia a Henry
Jerome como manager y a Tony Austin (sobrino de Carl Perkins) como batería. Sus
grabaciones más conocidas se las grabó la Coral Records con sesiones en las que
había músicos del llamado Equipo A de Nashville: Grady Martin en la guitarra,
Bob Moore en el bajo y Buddy Harman en la batería.
Hicieron apariciones en los
programas de Dick Clark (American Bandstand), Steve Allen (Tonight Show) y
Perry Como (Kraft Music Hall), así como giras de verano con Carl Perkins y Gene
Vincent.
El 9 de septiembre de 1956 quedan
finalistas en el concurso Original Amateur Hour de Ted Mack en el Madison
Square Garden, retransmitido por la ABC-TV, coincidiendo en televisión la misma
noche en la que Elvis hizo su debut en el programa The Ed Sullivan Show en la
CBS.
A partir de ahí, el trío se vio
obligado a hacer giras por todo Estados Unidos.
Muerte
El 14 de agosto de 1964, mientras
Johnny pescaba en su pequeño bote en Clearlake (California), un yate chocó
contra él dejándolo inconsciente en el agua, lo que provocó su ahogamiento. Fue
enterrado en el Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery de Glendale, (California).
Se considera que tras El día que murió la música, su trágica muerte suponía una
pérdida más de las ya pocas figuras del Rock and Roll que aún quedaban vivas.
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John Joseph "Johnny" Burnette (March 25, 1934 – August 14,
1964) was an American singer-songwriter of rockabilly and pop music. In 1952,
he and his older brother, Dorsey Burnette, and their friend Paul Burlison
formed the band that later was known as the Rock and Roll Trio.
He is the father of the 1980s rockabilly singer Rocky Burnette.
Early life
Johnny Burnette was born to Willie May and Dorsey Burnett Sr. in
Memphis, Tennessee. (The "e" at the end of his name was added later.)
Johnny grew up with his parents and Dorsey Jr. in a public housing project in
the Lauderdale Courts area of Memphis, which from 1948 until 1954 was also the
home of Gladys and Vernon Presley and their son, Elvis.[citation needed]
Johnny attended Blessed Sacrament Parochial School, and after graduating
from the eighth grade he went to Catholic High School, in Memphis.[citation
needed] (Early press reports, dating back to 1956, stated erroneously that
Johnny attended Humes High School with Presley.[citation needed]) He showed an
aptitude for sports, being on the school baseball team and playing linebacker
on the football team. Both he and Dorsey were also keen amateur boxers and
later became Golden Gloves champions. After leaving high school, Burnette tried
his hand at becoming a professional boxer, but after one fight with a
sixty-dollar purse and a broken nose or an encounter with Norris Ray, a top
paycheck of $150, he decided to quit boxing. He went to work on barges
traversing the Mississippi River, where Dorsey also worked. Johnny worked
mainly as a deck hand; Dorsey worked as an oiler. After work they would go back
to Memphis and perform songs in local bars with a varying array of sidemen,
including another former Golden Gloves champion, Paul Burlison, whom Dorsey had
met at an amateur boxing tournament in Memphis in 1949.
The Rock and Roll Trio
In 1952, the Burnette brothers and Burlison formed a group called the
Rhythm Rangers. Johnny sang and played acoustic guitar, Dorsey played bass and
Paul Burlison played lead guitar. For economic reasons, the three moved to New
York in 1956 and managed to get an audition for Ted Mack's Original Amateur
Hour. Winning the competition three times in a row gained them a place in the
finals and a recording contract with Coral Records, and they renamed themselves
the Rock and Roll Trio. They also gained a manager, the bandleader Henry
Jerome, and a drummer, Tony Austin (a cousin of Carl Perkins).
Promotional appearances were arranged on Dick Clark's American
Bandstand, Steve Allen's Tonight Show and Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall,
together with a summer tour with Carl Perkins and Gene Vincent. On Sunday
September 9, 1956, they appeared as finalists in the Original Amateur Hour at
Madison Square Garden. Despite this activity, the three singles they released
over this period failed to make the national charts.
In order to cover their living expenses, the Trio was forced to go on
the road, for what seemed to be an endless stream of one-night stands.[citation
needed] This exhausting regime led to squabbles, which were exacerbated in
Dorsey's case by Jerome's use of the name Johnny Burnette and the Rock and Roll
Trio on records and live dates. Things finally came to a head at a gig in
Niagara Falls in autumn 1956, when, as a result of a fight, Dorsey quit the
group a week before they were to appear in Alan Freed's film Rock, Rock,
Rock.[citation needed]
Johnny Black, the brother of Elvis's bassist Bill Black, was rapidly
recruited to fill Dorsey's place. Despite the film appearance and three more
single releases and one LP release, the group failed to achieve any chart
success. The Rock and Roll Trio disbanded in autumn 1957.[citation needed]
Success in California with Ricky Nelson
Now unemployed in Memphis, Burnette decided to try his luck in
California. He and a friend, Joe Campbell, hitchhiked to the West Coast, where
they joined Dorsey. With their past differences forgotten, the brothers
attempted to resurrect the Rock and Roll Trio and sent for Paul Burlison. He
joined them briefly but decided to return to Memphis and concentrate on his
electrical business. Dorsey and Johnny continued with their songwriting, but
Dorsey kept his day job as an electrician to pay the family expenses.[citation
needed]
The Burnettes' brashness got them their first success in the music
business in California. On arriving in Los Angeles, Joe Campbell bought a copy
of "A Map to the Stars", which showed the location of the house of
the teen idol Ricky Nelson. In an effort to get their songs to him, the
Burnettes and Campbell decided to sit on the steps of his house until they
could get a meeting with him.[citation needed] Their persistence worked, and
Nelson was sufficiently impressed with their work that he eventually recorded
several of their songs, including "Believe What You Say", "It's
Late", "Waitin' in School", and "Just a Little Too
Much", amongst others. Other Imperial Records artists, such as Roy Brown,
benefited from their songwriting. The success of his recording of the brothers'
"Hip Shakin' Baby" led to a recording contract with Imperial Records
as a duo. While in California, they met Doyle Holly, who played bass guitar for
a short time with the band. Holly went on to become the bass player for Buck
Owens and the Buckaroos and to record as a solo artist.
As the Burnette Brothers, they released one single, for Imperial,
"Warm Love" backed with "My Honey" (Imperial X5509), on May
5, 1958. It did not make the charts. After this failure, they continued to work
together as songwriters but began to follow separate careers as performing
artists. In 1961, however, Johnny and Dorsey released two instrumental singles,
credited to the Texans, for two small labels, Infinity and Gothic: "Green
Grass of Texas" backed with "Bloody River" (Infinity INX-001),
released on February 20, 1961, and "Rockin' Johnny Home" backed with
"Ole Reb" (Gothic GOX-001), released on May 29, 1961. Another
instrumental, "Lonely Island" backed with"Green Hills"
(Liberty 55460), credited to the Shamrocks, was released by Liberty Records on
June 6, 1962. "Green Grass of Texas" and "Bloody River"
were to be re-released in February 1965 on the Vee Jay label (VJ 658), again
credited to the Texans.
Solo career
The Liberty years
In the fall of 1958, Johnny Burnette obtained a recording contract as a
solo artist with Freedom Records, an offshoot of Liberty Records. He released
three singles on this label: "Kiss Me" backed with "I'm
Restless" (44001), released on September 11, 1958; "Gumbo"
backed with "Me and the Bear" (44011), released on March 6, 1959; and
"Sweet Baby Doll" backed with "I'll Never Love Again"
(44017), released on June 24, 1959. All of these songs except "Sweet Baby
Doll" were written by Burnette. None of these records were hits.
In mid-1959, the Freedom label was shut down, and Burnette moved to the
parent Liberty label, under the direction of the producer Snuff Garrett. Liberty
had better promotional capabilities than Freedom, so that Johnny's singles for
Liberty stood a greater chance of succeeding. His first two singles for
Liberty, "Settin' the Woods on Fire" backed with "Kentucky
Waltz" (Liberty F-55222), released on November 10, 1959, and "Patrick
Henry" backed with "Don't Do It" (Liberty F-55243), released on
March 4, 1960, sold well regionally but were not national hits. However, his
third single, "Dreamin'" backed with "Cincinnati Fireball"
(Liberty F-55285), released on May 4, 1960, reached number 11 on the Billboard
Hot 100 and number 5 in Britain. It sold over one million copies and was
awarded a gold disc by the RIAA.
His fourth Liberty single, "You're Sixteen" backed with
"I Beg Your Pardon" (Liberty F-55285), released on October 5, 1960,
did even better, reaching number 8 on the Hot 100 and number 3 in Britain and
earned him another gold record. Burnette went back into the studio and under
Snuff Garrett's direction recorded "Little Boy Sad". This was
released on January 3, 1961, backed with "(I Go) Down to the River"
(Liberty F-55298). Shortly after its release, Burnette was hospitalized with a
ruptured appendix, which kept him bedridden for several weeks. He was unable to
undertake many personal appearances to promote the new record, and it reached
only number 17 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 12 in Britain. Frustrated by
this prolonged inactivity he tried to return to work too early, and he promptly
collapsed. This meant that his fifth Liberty single, "Big Big World"
backed with "Ballad of the One Eyed Jacks" (Liberty F-55318),
released on March 30, 1961, received no promotion at all and reached only
number 58 on the Hot 100.
His sixth Liberty single, "I've Got a Lot of Things to Do"
backed with "Girls" (Liberty F-55345), released June 14, 1961, was
handled differently from his previous records. In Britain, the upbeat side,
"Girls", was promoted as the topside and reached number 23 in the
British charts in September 1961. In the United States it was flipped over with
"I've Got a Lot of Things to Do" as the topside, but despite heavy
promotion it failed to become a hit, peaking just outside the Hot 100 at number
109.
After recovering from his illness, Burnette returned to the road with a
tour of Northern cities, culminating in a season at the Brooklyn Paramount
Theatre, after which he undertook a tour of Australia with Connie Francis. Back
in the limelight, his next release was scheduled to be a Carl Perkins song,
"Fools Like Me", backed with "Honestly I Do" (Liberty
55377), but this was cancelled in favour of "God, Country and My
Baby" backed with "Honestly I Do" (Liberty 55379), which was
released on September 27, 1961. It reached number 18 on the Hot 100, but was to
be Burnette's last major American hit.
In 1962, Burnette toured Britain for the first time, with Gary U.S.
Bonds and Gene McDaniels, where he made an appearance on the New Musical
Express Poll Winners' Concert and several TV appearances. His next single
"Clown Shoes" backed with "The Way I Am" (Liberty 55416)
was released on January 26, 1962, but it failed to make the US Hot 100. It was
more successful in Britain, where it reached number 35. "Clown Shoes"
was written by P. J. Proby.
Burnette had two more single releases on Liberty Records. These were
"The Fool of the Year" backed with "The Poorest Boy in
Town" (Liberty 55448), which was released on April 13, 1962 and "Damn
the Defiant" backed with "Lonesome Waters" (Liberty 55489), which
was released on July 30, 1962. Neither of these singles was a hit, but
"Damn the Defiant", a Johnny Horton–style naval saga, was Burnette's
first self-penned A-side for Liberty, It was also his last single for the
label.
The Chancellor stint
Burnette moved to Chancellor Records, which had had success with teen
idols like Fabian Forte and Frankie Avalon. Chancellor released three singles
by Burnette in 1962: "I Wanna Thank Your Folks" backed with "The
Giant" (Chancellor C-1116), "Tag Along" backed with "Party
Girl" (Chancellor C-1123) and "Remember Me (I'm the One Who Loves
You)" backed with "Time Is Not Enough" (Chancellor C-1129). None
of these singles were hits.
The Capitol sessions
Burnette moved on from Chancellor, briefly joining Dorsey on Reprise
Records for one single, "Hey Sue" backed with "It Don't Take
Much" (20153), before signing a one-year contract with Capitol Records in
the summer of 1963. Johnny's first recording session was held on July 23, 1963,
at the Capitol Tower with Jim Economides and Jimmie Haskell overseeing the
proceedings. A number of tracks were recorded: "It Isn't There",
"Wish It Were Saturday Night", "I'll Give You Three
Guesses", "All Week Long" and "Congratulations, You've Hurt
Me Again". Of these "It Isn't There" backed with "Wish It
Were Saturday Night" (Capitol 5023) were issued on August 19, 1963, as his
first American single. In Britain, the flipside was changed to "All Week
Long", but neither single made the charts. On December 13, 1963, a second
session was held, with the same two men in charge. Four more songs were
recorded, of which "The Opposite" backed with "You Taught Me the
Way to Love You" (Capitol 5114) was released as a single on January 20,
1964. Again it failed to find chart success. A third session was held on
February 14, 1964, which produced four songs: "Aunt Marie", "Two
Feet in Front of Me", "If I Were An Artist", and "And Her
Name Is Scarlett". None of these songs were deemed fit for release and
remained in the can for thirty years. A fourth session was held on March 16,
1964, which was overseen by David Gates, who later went on to fame with the
band Bread. This session produced "Sweet Suzie, I Think She Knows"
and "It All Depends on Linda", which was written by Bobby Bare. Of
these songs, "Sweet Suzie" backed with "Walkin' Talkin'
Doll", which had been held back from the December 1963 session, were
released as Capitol single (Capitol 5176) on April 5, 1964. This single also
failed to make the charts.
Sahara and Magic Lamp labels
When his Capitol contract ran out, Burnette decided to take charge of
his own affairs on his own terms. He formed his own label Sahara and in July
1964 released the single "Fountain of Love" backed with "What a
Summer Day" (Sahara 512). When he was informed that the name Sahara had
already been taken, he renamed the label Magic Lamp and a different single,
"Bigger Man" backed with "Less Than a Heartbeat" (Magic
Lamp 515) was released.
Death
On August 14, 1964, Burnette's unlit fishing boat was struck by an
unaware cabin cruiser on Clear Lake, California. The impact threw him off the
boat, and he drowned. When he received the news, Dorsey Burnette called Paul
Burlison, who flew out to comfort him and attend Johnny's funeral. The two men
were to keep in touch until Dorsey's death of a heart attack in 1979. Johnny
Burnette is interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale,
California, near his brother and their parents in Ascension, Lot 8276, Space 4.
Legacy
Burnette gained prominence in 1973 both for the inclusion of
"You're Sixteen" on the American Graffiti soundtrack and for Ringo
Starr's version of the same song. In addition, Burnette's original song was
recognized by the Rockabilly Hall of Fame.[10] One of his songs, "Train
Kept A-Rollin'" by Tiny Bradshaw, would later be recorded by the
Yardbirds, Motörhead and Aerosmith.
The Beatles, with John Lennon on vocal, performed "Lonesome Tears
in My Eyes" at the BBC on July 10, 1963 for broadcast airing on July 23,
1963. During the airing Lennon introduced the song, originally recorded by
Johnny Burnette and the Rock 'n Roll Trio on July 3, 1956 and released in March
1957, joking, "This is a Dorsey Burnette number, brother of Johnny
Burnette, called 'Lonesome Tears in My Eyes', recorded on their very first LP
in 1822!" This live in-studio recording of 'Lonesome Tears in My Eyes'
(including Lennon's spoken intro) was later included on the Beatles' 1994
two-CD set, Live at the BBC.
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