Hardrock GUNTER

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Chanteur US né Sidney Louis Gunter. Hardrock, le 27 février 1927 à Birmingham (Alabama). Hardrock Gunter forme son premier groupe à l'age de 13 ans: les "Owl Ramblers". Il devient ensuite guitariste des "Golden River Boys" jusqu'en 1941. En 1950, il enregistre son premier disque chez Bama Records. Hardrock Gunter, qui n'a jamais connu de succès, a aussi enregistré chez MGM, Decca, Sun, Emperor, Seeco, D, Gee Gee, Starday, Cullman, et Essgee Records. Il a pris sa retraite en 1973.Talents : Singer, Guitar, Songwriter
Style musical : Rockabilly, Country Boogie, Rock 'n' Roll

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Années en activité :

1910

20

30

40

50

60

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80

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2000

DISCOGRAPHIE
Singles & EP

03/1950	SP BAMA 104 (US)	Birmingham Bounce / How Can I Believe You Love Me
09/1951	SP DECCA 9-46363 (US)	Hardrock GUNTER & Roberta LEE - Sixty Minute Man / Tennessee Blues
11/1951	SP DECCA 9-46383 (US)	Hesitation Boogie / Don't You Agree
05/1952	SP DECCA 9-28191 (US)	Honky Tonk Baby / I'm Looking For Another You
1953	SP MGM K11596 (US)	Sunday Angel Side / Where Have You Been
12/1953	SP DECCA 9-28932 (US)	You Played On My Piano / Perfect Woman
05/1954	SP SUN 201 (US)	Gonna Dance All Night / Fallen Angel
10/1955	SP KING 45-1505 (US)	I'll Give 'em Rhythm / I Put My Britches On Just Like Everybody Else
07/1956	SP CROSS COUNTRY CX524 (US)	The RHYTHM ROCKERS / Vocal, Hardrock GUNTER - Juke Box, Help Me Find My Baby / Fiddle Bop
09/1956	SP SUN 248 (US)	The RHYTHM ROCKERS / Vocal, Hardrock GUNTER - Juke Box, Help Me Find My Baby / Fiddle Bop
03/1957	SP EMPEROR 45-112 (US)	HARDROCK & The RHYTHM ROCKERS with Buddy DURHAM SINGERS - Whoo ! I Mean Whee ! / We Three
01/1958	SP ISLAND IR6 (US)	Sidney Jo LEWIS - Boppin' To Grandfather's Clock / Beggars Can't Be Choosers
1958 ?	EP ISLAND EP 7544 (US)	Rock-A-Bop Baby / ? / Birmingham Bounce / ?
02/1962	SP EMPEROR 45-EM-B-H-1-62 (US)	BUDDY & HARDROCK - Hillbilly Twist / As Long As You're Happy (instr.)
02/1962	SP STARDAY 581 (US)	Hardrock GUNTER & Buddy DURHAM - Hillbilly Twist / As Long As You're Happy (instr.)

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Albums

1960	LP 12" BRONJO BR-104 (US)	SONGS THEY CENSORED IN THE HILLS - Blood Shot Eyes / I'll Go Chasin' Women / She Came Runnin' Down The Mountain / Rye Whiskey, Rye Whiskey / It May Be Silly (But Ain't It Fun" / The Freckle Song / Oh! What a Beauty! / A Little Bit Ain't Gonna Help Us Much / Mountain Dew / With Only Two Hairs On His Chest / Take Away Your Rosy Lips / The Right Key But The Wrong Keyhole / Conversation With A Mule / Out Behind The Barn
02/1984	LP 12" CHARLY CR 30228 (UK)	BOOGIE WOOGIE ON A SATURDAY NIGHT - Boogie Woogie On A Saturday Night / I've Done Gone Hog Wild / Dixieland Boogie / Hesitation Boogie / Honky Tonk Blues / Tennesse Blues / The Senator From Tennessee / You Played On My Piano / Sixty Minute Man (with Roberta LEE) / Honky Tonk Baby (with Roberta LEE) / Silver & Gold / Perfect Woman / Don't You Agree / I'm Looking For Another You / If I Could Only Live My Dream / I Believe That Mountain Music Is Here To Stay
08/1999	CD HYDRA 27108 (D)	I'LL GIVE 'EM RHYTHM - DANCE-O-RAMA - Boogie Woogie On A Saturday Night / I've Done Gone Hog Wild / I Believe That Mountain Music Is Here To Stay / Honky Tonk Blues / Sixty Minute Man / Hesitation Boogie / Dixieland Boogie / Silver And Gold / The Senator From Tennesee / You Played On My Piano / Perfect Woman / Honky Tonk Baby / Where Have You Been / Like Lovers Do / Naptown End / First, Last, And Always Game Of Love / I'll Give 'Em Rhythm / Turn The Other Cheek / I Put My Britches On Just Like Everybody Else / It May Be Silly (But Ain't It Fun) / A Little Bit Ain't Gonna Help Us Much / Pins And Needles / A White Sports Coat / Half As Much / Singing The Blues / Colubus Stockade Blues / Hillbilly Twist / Music Music Music / Rebel Guitar Picker
11/2000	CD JAR 5255 (US)	HARDROCK GUNTER - If You Ever Leave Me, I'm Going With You (Hardrock GUNTER, WISDOM, JOHN & His TONKIN' HONKERS) / Walking The Floor Over You (Hardrock GUNTER, WISDOM, JOHN & His TONKIN' HONKERS) / Pistol Packin' Mama (Hardrock GUNTER, WISDOM, JOHN & His TONKIN' HONKERS) / When My Blue Moon Turns To Gold Again (Hardrock GUNTER, WISDOM, JOHN & His TONKIN' HONKERS) / Wabash Cannonball (Hardrock GUNTER, WISDOM, JOHN & His TONKIN' HONKERS) / I'm My Own Grandpaw (Hardrock GUNTER, WISDOM, JOHN & His TONKIN' HONKERS) / Kansas City (Hardrock GUNTER, WISDOM, JOHN & His TONKIN' HONKERS) / Bill Bailey - Just Because (Hardrock GUNTER, WISDOM, JOHN & His TONKIN' HONKERS) / 5 Foot 2 - Please Don't Talk About Me (Hardrock GUNTER, WISDOM, JOHN & His TONKIN' HONKERS) / Just Because (Hardrock GUNTER, WISDOM, JOHN & His TONKIN' HONKERS) / You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Loves You (Hardrock GUNTER, WISDOM, JOHN & His TONKIN' HONKERS) / Alabama Jubilee (Hardrock GUNTER, WISDOM, JOHN & His TONKIN' HONKERS) / There'll Be Some Changes Made (Hardrock GUNTER, WISDOM, JOHN & His TONKIN' HONKERS) / Who's Sorry Now (Hardrock GUNTER, WISDOM, JOHN & His TONKIN' HONKERS) / Somebody Stole My Gal (Hardrock GUNTER, WISDOM, JOHN & His TONKIN' HONKERS) / Do You Ever Think of Me (Hardrock GUNTER, WISDOM, JOHN & His TONKIN' HONKERS) / In The Shade Of The Old Apple Tree (Hardrock GUNTER, WISDOM, JOHN & His TONKIN' HONKERS) / My Blue Heaven (Hardrock GUNTER, WISDOM, JOHN & His TONKIN' HONKERS) / The Hormone Shot / Alabama Doctor / Predestination / The Jogger / Get Weighed / Doctor's Advice / The Pope's Visit / The Elephant Story / The Circus Worker / The Gold Plated Banjo
12/2000	CD ORCHARD 5254 (US)	GONNA ROCK 'N' ROLL, GONNA DANCE ALL NIGHT - (Hardrock GUNTER & The RHYTHM ROCKERS) - Birmingham Bounce / Lonesome Blues / (Gonna Rock 'n' Roll) Gonna Dance All Night / How Can I Believe You Love Me / My Bucket's Been Fixed / Rifle Belt And Bayonet / Maybe Baby You'll Be True / Birmingham Bounce / Boppin' To Grandfather's Clock / Beggars Can't Be Choosers / It Can't Be Right / Rock-A-Bop Baby / Whoo I Mean Whee / We Three (My Echo, My Shadow And Me) / Jukebox Help Me Find My Baby / Fiddle Bop / Hardrock Rocks The Moon (How High The Moon) / Bloodshot Eyes / Take Away Your Rosy Lips / The Right Key But The Wrong Keyhold / Mountain Dew / I'll Go Chasin' Women / Spring Has Sprung / Tico Tico / Go Low Boogie / Bonaparte's Retreat / Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy / Dad Gave My Hog Away / Guitar On The Mountain / Fallen Angel / Gonna Dance All Night

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Gunter, Hardrock

Full name Sidney Louis Gunter Jr. Born 1925 in Birmingham, Ala. Disc jockey and performer on WWVA (Wheeling, W.Va.) in 1953-54.

Original Releases

Discography is not intended to be complete

Date & Source	Label & Number	V	Titles {& References to LP/CD List}	As By	Matrix Numbers
1951/Sept. 15 Bb c&w rev.	Decca 9-46363		Sixty Minute Man {c,g,o,r} Tennessee Blues {g}	2 3	45-81422+ 45-81423
1952/May 31 Bb c&w rev.	Decca 9-28191		Honky Tonk Baby {g,n,r} I'm Looking For Another You {g}	1 1	45-82770+ 45-82771
1954/May 29 Bb c&w rev.	Sun 201		Gonna Dance All Night {i,j,x,z, C,E} Fallen Angel {j,x,z, C,F}	1 1	U-113 U-112
1955/Oct. 22 Bb c&w rev.	King 45-1505		I'll Give 'Em Rhythm {b,p,r,t} I Put My Britches On Just Like Everybody Else {a,r}	1 1	45-K4011 45-K4014
1956/July BMI clear.	Cross Country CX524		Juke Box, Help Me Find My Baby {e, C} Fiddle Bop {C}	4 5	CX524-35 CX524-36
1956/Sept. 15 Bb c&w rev.	Sun 248		Juke Box, Help Me Find My Baby {f,h,s, A,D} Fiddle Bop {j,y}	6 7	U-209 U-208
1957/Mar. 23 Bb pop rev.	Emperor 45-112		Whoo! I Mean Whee! {l,m,v, B,C} We Three {C}	8 8	VG-57-45-1 VG-57-45-2
1958/Jan. 13 Bb pop rev.	Island IR6		Boppin' To Grandfather's Clock {w, B,C,G} Beggars Can't Be Choosers {C}	12 12	7 HOW-0502 8 HOW-0503
	Island EP 7543/4		W.W.V.A. Jamboree Special [monaural] Rock-A-Bop Baby {C,G} Birmingham Bounce {q, C,G} Ida Red Rock You're Just A Baby Gonna Be A Fire Down In The Holler Where Sally Lives Juke Box Play For Me {e,k, G} You Gotta Go {G}	1 1 11 11 9 9 10 10	J8OH-7544 J8OH-7544 J8OH-7544 J8OH-7544 J8OH-7543 J8OH-7543 J8OH-7543 J8OH-7543

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1959/Mar. 23 Bb c&w rev.	Cullman 6410	If You Want To Be A Queen Is It Too Late	1 1	C-124-X C-6423-X
1962/Feb. BMI clear.	Emperor 45-EM-B-H-1-62	Hillbilly Twist As Long As You're Happy [instr.]	13 14	A B
1962/Feb. 24 Bb c&w rev.	Starday 581	Hillbilly Twist {r,u} As Long As You're Happy [instr.]	15 15	5275 5276
Additional Tracks on Comps
	[unissued]	Jukebox Help Me Find My Baby [alt. vers.] {d}

Collector-Oriented Compilation LPs and CDs Containing Tracks

Single-artist compilations included selectively

a.	Ace CDCHD 854 (cd)	King Hillbilly Bop 'N' Boogie
b.	Ace CDCHD 975 (cd)	King Rock 'N' Roll
c.	Blazon 2003 (cd)	Sizzling Hillbilly, Vol. 3
d.	Bopcat 400 (lp)	Goin' Back To Memphis
e.	Buffalo Bop Bb-CD 55094 (cd)	Jukebox Rock
f.	Charly CR 30147 (lp)	Raunchy Rockabilly
g.	Charly CR 30228 (lp)	Boogie Woogie On A Saturday Night / Hardrock Gunter
h.	Charly PBX CD 345 (cd)	Rock The Joint
i.	Charly SNAJ 713 (cd)	The Sun Records Story
j.	Charly CPCD 8181 (cd)	Sun Hillbilly
k.	Chief CCD 1156520 (cd)	Ultra Rare Hillbilly Boogie, Vol. 1
l.	Club PR PRLP- 010 (lp)	Pure Rockabilly, Vol. 10
m.	Collector CL 1023 (lp)	Gonna Rock And Roll Tonight
n.	Doghouse 002 (cd)	Cowboy Hit Parade, Vol. 2
o.	El Toro H- 100 (cd)	Gravy Train: Hillbilly Meets R&B Before Elvis
p.	Franklin Mint FMRS-CW- 053 (lp)	Rockabilly
q.	Hallmark 305242 (cd)	Do The Ooby Dooby
r.	Hydra BCK 27108 (cd)	I'll Give 'Em Rhythm / Hardrock Gunter
s.	Jan/Star Club 33- 8047 (lp)	Juke-Box Favorites
t.	King 713 (lp)	The Lost King Recordings
u.	Knight LP 1002 (lp)	Twistin' Time, Vol. 2
v.	Lucky CDLR 813 (cd)	Rockabilly Gold, Vol. 13
w.	Mustang MUST 6 (cd)	Rockabilly & Hillbilly Bop, Vol. 6
x.	Orbit 5908 (cd)	Rock N Roll Dance Party Country Style, Vol. 8
y.	Proper PROPERBOX 122 (cd)	Classic Rockabilly
z.	Redita [1st series] 106 (lp)	Memphis Rocks the Country
A.	Roller Coaster RCCD 200 (cd)	Now Dig This: A Whole Lotta Roller Coaster Rockers
B.	Roller Coaster 2008 (lp)	Roller Coaster Rockers, Vol. 1
C.	Roller Coaster RCCD 3013 (cd)	Gonna Rock & Roll, Gonna Dance All Night / Hardrock Gunter
D.	Sun (England) SUN 1010 [1st] (lp)	Sun Rockabillies; Vol. 1
E.	Sun (U.S.) SUN- 1032 (lp)	Rockin' Records
F.	Sun (U.S.) SUN- 1033 (lp)	Rockin' Records, [Vol. 2]
G.	White Label WLP 8814 (lp)	The Island Recordings

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Hardrock Gunter
Born: February 27, 1925
WWVA Original Jamboree
WAPI	Birmingham, AL
WJLD	Birmingham, AL
WWVA	Wheeling, WV

Hardrock Gunter was a native of Birmingham, Alabama. He got a guitar as a Christmas present when he was about 11 years old and began singing.
In high school, Hardrock was active in the ROTC and won the William Randolph Hearst Trophy Team Medal in the National ROTC Rifle Matches in 1952 as well as 14 other ROTC honor medals. He also served in the military in World War II and was a prisoner of war from 1944 to 1945. He was made a second lieutenant in the infantry as a result of his experience in the Ardennes campaign.
After his stint in the service, he worked in Birmingham from 1946 to 1950 and cut his first record on the Bama label. By the time 1951 rolled around, he was doing two early-morning shows over radio station WAPJ and a daily half-hour television show over WAFM-TV. Not to mention a three hour personal appearance gig, six nights a week at the Rose Room in Birmingham for 17 months.
In January 1951, he was called back into the U.S. Army.
When he was discharged from the service on November 3, 1952, he joined the crew at WWVA in Wheeling, West Virginia. There he had his own daily radio show and also emceed the Saturday night show, "World's Original WWVA Jamboree".
By 1954, he was back in Birmingham and working as a dj at WJLD.
He recorded for Decca had had several releases. He achieved a bit of fame with "Birmingham Bounce" which was a hit for Red Foley in 1950. In fact, that song was a "BMI Pin-Up" hit; picked by a British DJ to be his theme song; recorded by Red Foley, Tex Williams, Pee Wee King, Leon McAuliffe, Tommy Dorsey, Lionel Hampton and Art Lund.
He also wrote other tunes such as: