Lew Williams

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Bop Bop Ba Doo Bop 00:00 Tools
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Gone Ape Man 00:00 Tools
Something I Said 00:00 Tools
Abra Cadabra 00:00 Tools
Abracadabra 00:00 Tools
Don't Mention My Name 00:00 Tools
Bop Bop Ba Doo Bop (Classroom Hop) 00:00 Tools
Gone Apeman 00:00 Tools
Cat Walk 00:00 Tools
I'll Play Your Game 00:00 Tools
Make With The Lovin' 00:00 Tools
I've Been Doin' Some Slippin' Too 00:00 Tools
The Girl I saw on Bandstand 00:00 Tools
New Pink Suedes (1955 demo) 00:00 Tools
Rock N Roll School (1957 Demo) 00:00 Tools
Bop Bop Ba Doo Bap (Fishnet Stockings) 00:00 Tools
I Saw You Crying in the Show 00:00 Tools
Teenagers Talkin' on the Telephone 00:00 Tools
My New Pink Suedes 00:00 Tools
Between Classes 00:00 Tools
All Through the Night 00:00 Tools
Teenage Tears 00:00 Tools
Please Don't Tell a Lie About Me 00:00 Tools
I Like the Way 00:00 Tools
Rock N Roll School 00:00 Tools
Ba-Ba-Baby 00:00 Tools
You're Not My Baby This Year 00:00 Tools
Just for Tonight 00:00 Tools
I've Been Doing Some Slippin' Too 00:00 Tools
I Cried Over You for the Last Time Last Night 00:00 Tools
Somebody's I Said 00:00 Tools
I Saw You Cryin' At The Show 00:00 Tools
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Lew Williams (b. Jan. 12, 1934, Chillicothe, Texas) is an American rockabilly singer and songwriter, known as the "Cab Calloway of rockabilly". Williams began singing at age four, and moved with his family to Dallas at age eleven. He played in local clubs after graduating Adamson High School and entered Midwestern State University in 1952. However, a few months later he secured a job as a headliner for a radio program on Frederick, Oklahoma station KTAT. The following year, Williams recorded demos at Jim Beck's recording studio and managed to get a single released on Flair Records in June 1953, but "I've Been Doin' Some Slippin' Too" was not a hit, and he did not release further material from these sessions. He sent some of the demos to Imperial Records, who offered him a publishing contract; Williams attempted to secure a recording contract as well but was unsuccessful initially. Imperial finally signed him as a recording artist in 1955, and his first releases came out in 1956. A few singles were issued in 1956 and 1957, with Jimmie Haskell producing and Barney Kessell on guitar; they did not sell and Williams was dropped early in 1957. He graduated from the university in 1957 and devoted himself to songwriting full-time. He wrote materian for Jimmy Hughes (with Mae Axton), Ferlin Husky, Floyd Cramer, Porter Wagoner, and Hoyt Johnson. After serving time in the Army, Williams took the pseudonym Vik Wayne for one final release on Dot Records, "The Girl I Saw on Bandstand"; when it did not sell, he opened a recording studio and started a talent agency. He left music for good in the early 1960s, moving into the publishing and mail order businesses. After Bear Family Records released some of his material in the 1990s, fed by the burgeoning interest in rockabilly in Europe and Japan, he made a comeback, appearing in Las Vegas in 2000 and touring widely thereafter. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.