WHO'S THIS GUY?

You can bet that eighteen year old Hayden Thompson did a fair amount of beating his head against a wall. He was one of many Sun Records second stringers. His first recording there in 1956 was pushed back for a year before it was released, despite being backed by Billy Lee Riley and his Little Green Men, and Jerry Lee Lewis. You just know that a kid who put out his first record at age sixteen, who finally had his crack at Sun, with that backing band, spent a lot of time thinking "Jeez, what does it take?!!" Take a listen to these and keep in mind that he was competing for shelf space with Elvis, Jerry Lee, Billy Lee Riley, Warren Smith, Roy Orbison, Johnny Cash, and about four thousand others. He threw in the towel, jumped ship, moved north and signed with another label. And that's why you've never heard of him. Fiends excepted.

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Listen:

Hayden Thompson - Love My Baby mp3 at Rocky 52 Recorded at Sun Studio 1956
Hayden Thompson - Don't You Worry mp3 at Rocky 52 Ditto
Hayden Thompson - Mama, Mama, Mama mp3 at Rocky 52 Ditto
Hayden Thompson - Act Like You Love Me (streaming) at YouTube 1954, Von Records, age 16
Hayden Thompson - I Feel The Blues Coming On (streaming) at YouTube Ditto