Laura Lee Perkins

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Laura Lee Perkins (Alice Faye Perkins, Killarney, West Virginia, 20 July 1939 - April 6, 2018) was an American rockabilly singer, pianist and songwriter. Laura Lee Perkins has been reissued so frequently (on 22 different compilations, according to Terry Gordon's "Rockin' Country Style" website) that we tend to forget that her complete recorded output consists of only six recordings. After graduating from high school in 1957, she moved to Cleveland, Ohio, where she was managed by fiddle player Slim Luse. She was spotted by Cleveland's famous deejay Bill Randle of WERE, one of the nation's most active disc jockeys when it came to recording masters and selling them to record labels. He recorded most of his sides in Cleveland at the Audio Recording Studio. This was where Laura Lee's first session was held, in late 1957. Three songs were recorded ("Don't Wait Up", "Oh La Baby" and "Come On Baby"), with Laura's Lee's pounding piano playing well to the fore. Randle managed to sell the masters to Imperial Records. She was then flown to Hollywood for a second session in February 1958, produced by Jimmie Haskell. Again three tracks were laid down. This time her piano wasn't so prominent, but there were equally exciting solos, by ace guitar man Joe Maphis. Imperial decided to release the Hollywood recordings first. "Kiss Me Baby"/"I Just Don't Like This Kind Of Livin'" (Imperial 5493) was reviewed in the Billboard issue of February 24, 1958: "Exhuberant (sic) rendition on a rockabill

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Don't Wait Up - Juke Box Pearls

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Cat Talk - The Best Of Imperial Rockabilly

Don’t Wait Up - Juke Box Pearls

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Red Hot Rockabilly Part 1

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That'll Flat Git It, Vol.12 (IMPERIAL)

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Girls Gone Rockin' [Part 1]

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Dance Hall Killers

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Don´t Wait Up

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Rockabilly (As Good as It Gets) (disc 1)

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Best Pop and Rock from the 50s Vol 10

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Girls Gone Rockin'

Ultra Rare Rockabilly's vol. 05

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