Link Wray

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This landmark series now spans four insane volumes! Rare, unissued, and live vintage tapes & acetates are lovingly compiled in:

NORTON 210 LINK WRAY - HILLBILLY WOLF

Teenage Cutie/I Sez Baby/Johnny Bom Bonnie/Pancho Villa/Hillbilly Wolf/Flirty Baby/Danger One Way Love Ahead/Got Another Baby/ I'm Countin' On You/I'm Gonna Sit Right and Cry Over You/Roughshod/The Stranger/Boo Hoo/ Lawdy Miss Clawdy/ Vendetta CD adds It's Music She Says/Turn Me Loose/TV Baby/Sleep Tight/Gotta Go Get My Baby

Ravin' rockabilly roots of Lucky Wray & the Palomino Ranch Gang thru the early days of the Raymen! Unreal, classic rocked up hillbilly hall o' fame- worthy boppers! Soo-perb! LP $8/CD $12

NORTON 211 LINK WRAY - BIG CITY AFTER DARK

Big City After Dark/Dance Contest/ Walkin' Down The Street Called Love/Hold It/The Outlaw/Baby What You Want Me To Do/Big City Stomp/Slow Drag/The Bad & The Good/Rumble Rock/The Stranger (live)/ Raw-hide '63/I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry/ Link's Boogie/Hard Headed Woman/Roughshod CD adds Night Life/I Want You I Need You I Love You/The Thrill Of Your Love/Walkin' Down The Street Called Love #2/Lucille/Street Fighter

More snarlin' savagery from Link, w/ previously unished live stompers @ '61 plus wild unished studio recordings! Ultimate crime inspiring whangery that spits, sweats and swaggers. Thee ultimate! LP $8/CD $12

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NORTON 212 LINK WRAY - SOME KINDA NUT

Baby Doll/ Run Boy Run/Growling Guts/ Drag Strip/ Hungry Child/ Genocide/ Please Please Me/XKE/Red Riding Hood & The Wolf/ The Girl Can't Dance/Remember The Twist/ Other Side Of The Moon/The Earth Is Crying/ Some Kinda Nut/Rumble '69 CD adds And I Love Her/You're My Baby/Blue Eyes (Don't Run Away)/Giovana/Four Gray Walls/Mindblower

Link & the Raymen in their prime -- early & midsixties rarities! LP $8/CD $12

253 LINK WRAY - STREETS OF CHICAGO (MISSING LINKS VOL. 4)

Friday Night Dance Party/Streets Of Chicago/Tattoo/Be-Bop-A-Lula/Lillian/Bluebeard/It's Too Late/ Soul Train/Lowdown/Street Fighter/I'm Counting On You/Lawdy Miss Clawdy/Stuck On You/Drown In My Own tears/Ace Of Spades/Rumble/Friday Night Dance Party Part Two

Are you ready to Rumble?!! After a 6 year diggin' spree we've come up with this series' strongest volume yet! A sonic 7 song unissued studio + live roundup from 1959-65, the Linkster's primo racket time! SCORCHIN' BEYOND BELIEF!! LP $8/CD $12

All packaged in full color sleeves featuring unseen photos!

All four available on LP and compact disc!

MORE LINK ON NORTON:

NORTON 242 LINK WRAY & THE RAYMEN - MR. GUITAR

Jack the Ripper/Bo Diddley/ Ace Of Spades/Five And Ten/The Sweeper/ Alone/Run Chicken Run/Deuces Wild/The Shadow Knows/The Black Widow/Hound Dog/Law Of The Jungle/Hidden Charms/Cross Ties/ Deacon Jones/My Beth/Branded/Ruby Baby/ Zip Code/Heartbreak Hotel/Batman Theme/ Sorrento/Blue Eyes (Don't Run Away)/Mashed Potato Party/Mr. Guitar/Good Rockin' Tonight/Scatter/Stop And Listen To Me/My Alberta/Soul Train/Rumble/Fat Back/Let The Good Times Roll/ The Fuzz/ Mustang/ Honky Tonk/Turnpike USA/Chicago Bird/I Still Love You/So Young/Steel Trap/Return Of Birdland/ Ace Of Spades/Frenchy/I'll Do Anything For You/Dinosaur/ Hang On/ Peggy Sue/Summer Dream/Big Ben/Run Chicken Run/Autumn Leaves/Week End/What A Price/Ace Of Spades/That'll Be The Day/Tammy/Girl From The North Country/Run Boy Run/Blueberry Hill/You Hurt Me So/Begin The Beguine/Rumble

This is it, daddy-o! The most comprehensive roundup EVER on Link's monstrous 1962-66 Swan label recordings! Whoppin' 2-CD set rounds up classics like Jack The Ripper + Run Chicken Run, rarities (inc. entire now-deleted SWAN DEMOS LP on Hangman), outtakes, un-issued toons + natch, Rumble and Ace Of Spades, as heard in PULP FICTION! 63 tracks (26 makin' their 1st ever US appearance!) pummel w/gigundo scorchin' sound from orig. masters! No overlap w/our acclaimed MISSING LINKS series! Jammed 28 page booklet details early career of the king of the crunchin' guitar w/wild tales & previously unseen photos! For those of you who dig "hidden charms", the first press of MR. GUITAR comes w/official Link Wray guitar pick! THE ULTIMATE COLLECTION BY THE GREATEST GUITAR PLAYER OF ALL TIME! LINK WRAY!!! double CD set $22

"If you're looking for background music for fightin', fuckin' or carryin' on, start here." - L.A. Reader

"It's time to get hip to The Link and find out what started it all, 'cause he's the cat who chopped down the forest and did it all with just his hands and his heart." - Goldmine

LINK WRAY & THE WRAYMEN

Hey loud crowders! Norton Records Special Products Division, in conjunction with Epic/Sony Music, is proud to bring you this long demanded rerelease of Link Wray's original 1960 debut LP! The all instrumental album includes Link's smash hit "Raw-Hide", the often covered "Comanche", the chill bumpin' ballad "Lillian" and nine more cuts, with absolutely zero overlap with Link's previous Norton material! Issued with the original lustrous godlike full color cover!

Caroline/Slinky/Right Turn/Rendezvous/Dixie-Doodle/Ramble/Hand Clapper/Raw-Hide/ Lillian/Radar/Comanche/Studio Blues LP only $10

Link Wray Jukebox Series

Announcing the LINK WRAY JUKEBOX SERIES, featuring Link's most sonic Swan A-sides (unavailable on 45 in 30 years!) b/w worthy obscuro flips & tucked in a knockout custom sleeve! All ten Norton seven inchers are out NOW! $3.50 each

801 JACK THE RIPPER/BO DIDDLEY

802 ACE OF SPADES/FAT BACK

803 HIDDEN CHARMS/FIVE AND TEN

804 THE BLACK WIDOW/MUSTANG

805 RUN CHICKEN RUN/SCATTER

806 BRANDED/LAW OF THE JUNGLE

807 DEUCES WILD/THE SWEEPER

808 THE SHADOW KNOWS/HANG ON

809 GOOD ROCKIN' TONIGHT/SOUL TRAIN

810 BATMAN THEME/ZIP CODE

MORE LINK 45's PLUS THE JUNIOR RAYMEN!!!:

LINK WRAY & THE RAYMEN - VENDETTA/ FACIN' ALL THE SAME TOMORROWS (45-003)

Vintage early 60's Link on superb instrumental Vendetta, plus unished 1965 vocal demo on the flip. Boffo sleeve! Now get all the other Norton Link Wray records! $3.50

LINK WRAY & BUNKER HILL - FRIDAY NIGHT DANCE PARTY/THE GIRL CAN'T DANCE (45-046)

Never before ished 1962 tearass screamer b/w insane party time bone buster! Ebony & Ivory indeed! Hide the car keys! $3.50

NORTON 213 THE JUNIOR RAYMEN - RUMBLE '66

I'm Branded/Ace of Spades/The Rat Fink/Jack The Ripper/Rumble '66 Link Wray's nephew Vern circa 1966 with his teen combo the (what else?) Junior Raymen whangin' away on four Link stompers & an original, Rat Fink on this killer mini-LP! The J.R.'s star never got a chance to shine, as Vern was killed a few months after these sessions! Produced by Vernon Wray! Vinyl only LP $6.50

"Fantastic rippin' guitar tornados." - The Rocket

LINK WRAY TEESHIRT!:

Boss white teeshirt with cool classic photo of Link with his Danelectro Longhorn! Star motif in background. Classic! LG and XL. $10 each

LINK WRAY GUITAR PICK! You may never play like Link but this mojo may help get on the Rumble train! Emblazoned LINK WRAY, official Norton pick as featured in MR. GUITAR double CD set. $1

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