STUDIO SESSION FOR BARBARA PITTMAN AT THE MEMPHIS RECORDING SERVICE FOR SUN RECORDS 1957
SUN RECORDING STUDIO 706 UNION AVENUE, MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE SUN SESSION: WEDNESDAY JUNE 5, 1957 SESSION HOURS: UNKNOWN PRODUCER - JACK CLEMENT RECORDING ENGINEER - ROLAND JANES
"TWO YOUNG FOOLS IN LOVE" Composer: - Jack Clement Publisher: - B.M.I. - Hi-Lo Music Incorporated Matrix number: - P 303 - Master (2:24) Recorded: - June 5, 1957 Released: - September 23, 1957 First appearance: - Phillips International (S) 78/45rpm standard single PI 3518-A mono TWO YOUNG FOOLS IN LOVE / I'M GETTING BETTER ALL THE TIME Reissued: - 1997 Bear Family Records (CD) 500/200rpm BCD 15805-3-5 mono THE SUN SINGLES COLLECTION - VOLUME 5
Name (Or. No. Of Instruments) Barbara Pittman - Vocal Roland Janes - Lead Guitar Jack Clement - Acoustic Guitar Jerry Lee Lewis or Jimmy Wilson - Piano James M. Van Eaton - Drums Stan Kesler - Bass Billy Riley - Bass Hank Byers - Vocal and Trumpet
Curiously, Barbara Pittman's lone Sun single, issued in September 1956 never had a follow-up, despite respectable sales and media attention. For some reason, Sun never saw fit to follow through on her "female Elvis" image, by billing her as a tough competitor to Janis Martin. Pittman was no stranger to the Sun studio in late 1956 and early 1957, but no further titles were issued until these sides, both of which are relatively gentle compared to the steaming "I Need A Man" on Sun Records.
On "Two Young Fools In Love", Pittman offers a fine multitracked performance of a melodic tune that told us as much about producer and composer Jack Clement as it did Ms. Pittman. Clement's acoustic guitar added a strong folkie feel to this venture that stood a real chance with the teenage marketplace in the fall of 1957. Granted, it was a very different segment of the record buying public than Barbara had appealed to with Sun 253, but things were beginning to chance. Clement's lyric and its references to high school dances and wearing rings on chains are pointedly teen-oriented in contrast to most Sun fare, but they were commercial shrewd. In an 1989 conversation, Barbara recalled "Roland Janes engineered the session and forget to use echo. At first Jack was very mad at him, but then he listened to it and decided he liked it better without the echo. That's the way they released it". (HD)
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