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4 ago 2009 · Billy Lee Riley, a rockabilly pioneer and songwriter who recorded for the legendary Sun Records label and is best remembered for his 1957 singles “Flyin’ Saucers Rock and Roll” and “Red ...
4 gen 2023 · Billy Lee heard country on the radio and blues in the fields. It penetrated his mind, and he grew up with dreams of making money by making music. He would win a talent show at age 14, but soon after standing behind a mic for the first time, he would learn to shoot a firearm as a 15-year-old soldier.
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BORN: October 5, 1933, Pocohontas, AR Billy Lee Riley is a rockabilly singer and multi-instrumentalist. An alumni of Sun Records, he was one of the most crazed, unabashed rockers that label had to offer -- in the company of Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Sonny Burgess, that's saying a lot.
Billy Lee was born October 5, 1933 in Pocahontas, Arkansas. Riley is part Indian blood, and like the others at Sun, heard the Black Blues in the cotton fields, and White Country music on the radio. Like many of the Sun artists, Riley was born dirt poor, and at one time lived with his family in an army tent.
Billy Lee Riley died of colon cancer on August 2nd 2009, at the age of 75. 2005 marks Billy Lee Riley's 49th year in the music business as artist, writer, producer and label owner. He remembers recording his first commercial recording in a garage on Fernwood Street in Memphis, engineered by Jack Clement.
