Everything's Shakin' - Sil Austin

 

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Everything's Shakin'

Sil Austin

Mercury Wing STEREO SRW 16227

1962

From the back cover: There has been a lot of movement in the music business lately and the man most responsible for it has been Sil Austin, the King of Rock and Roll. Everywhere that Sil and his group play, people, to say the least, are left literally shaking with the terrific rhythm that Sil Austin puts into every piece he plays. Never has an artist received so much public acceptance. But things are starting to happen to Sil when he recorded Slow Walk for Mercury.

Sil's story might well be the musical complement of the Horatio Alger tale. From a very humble beginning to the discovery of his great feeling for music, where he wasn't just content to listen but wanted to take an active part, it took a great deal of effort on the part of the whole Austin family to further Sil's talent, and paid off when he followed the course set by Sarah Vaughan and won a talent contest at the famed Apollo Theatre.

Thus started Sil's career in the band business where he played with such greats as Roy Eldridge, Cootie Williams and Ray Bradshaw. After singing with Mercury Records, Sil started the ball rolling with Slow Walk and followed it up with Birthday Party, his second hit of the year.

Today's teenagers have been acknowledged by the powers that be in the music industry as the major buying force in record sales. This places them in the position of governing and insuring an artist's crown in the monarchy of show business. Their preferences dictate who shall ascend the throne of success and how long they reign. Therefore, it looks like King Sil will reign for a long time over his Rock and Roll Kingdom because Everything's Shakin'

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