1.I got ah woman 2.Runnin from ah love 3.That's all over now 4.I see the storm 5.She just don't care 6.Thirty something 7.Won't be no more 8.I can't let go 9.Love those girls 10.What do you think about that 11.I hope that you're happy 12.Country rockin' roll 13.I can't stop thinking about you 14.What's the cost of lovin' you 15.Eyes as big as Dallas
Johnny Fortune
The guy who made 'Dragster' all those years ago 'goes Country'. Real name Johnny Sudetta. Johnny Fortune was born in Ohio. He started when he was barely ten years old, and patterned his style after Chet Atkins. Johnny Fortune moved to Ontario, California, from Ohio in 1959. His earliest recordings were vocals dating from 1959. These were recorded at the nearby Pal Recording Studio in Cucamonga. He obtained some studio session work in Los Angeles in 1960 and 1961. Among the several recordings he played on were Sam Cooke's 'Chain Gang' and Barbara George's 'I Know (You Don't Love Me No More)', both Top 10 hits. During this period, he met John Fisher, a local guitarist and singer. In 1963, Fisher decided to form a record label and wanted Fortune to have the first release. According to an interview with author Robert Dalley, Fortune said: "I wrote 'Soul Surfer' on the way to the studio in the car. I had my guitar and was playing different riffs and John was telling me to play this, so I would play it until it sounded good. Then he would tell me to play something else high on the neck until I did play something that sounded good. That's how I wrote the whole thing. "My brother Joe was only ten years old when he played the drums on the recording. I played in the booth and went direct into the board. The drums were placed way down at the end of the studio and Joe used earphones. Jim O'Keith played sax and I overdubbed the bass." Johnny Fortune made it all seem so simple, yet 'Soul Surfer' was not a particularly easy guitar piece. 'Soul Surfer' made a respectable showing on local radio stations in May and June of 1963, but failed to receive any national recognition. In truth, the other side, 'Dragster' was the much better track.
"Contemporary honky tonk and certainly not over-produced. There's some country-rock (some of it rocks pretty hard) as well as ballads with a pop flavor and a lot of mid-tempo honky tonk." Blue Suede News #51
Johnny Fortune - US Surfer goes Country.