Cecil Campbell

Steel guitariste Country US né Cecil R. Campbell, le 22 mars 1911 à Danbury (Caroline du Nord). Cecil Campbell est décédé le 18 juin 1989.

Cecil Campbell was most famed as a steel guitarist for the Tennessee Ramblers during the 1930s and '40s, although he also played tenor banjo. Born March 22, 1911, in North Carolina, Campbell worked on his father's tobacco farm and played occasionally on WSJS in Winston-Salem. While visiting his brother in Pittsburgh in the early '30s, he met Dick Hartman and was asked to join Hartman's Tennessee Ramblers, a large group that played both Western swing and old-time string music. Campbell played on radio broadcasts and Bluebird sessions with the band throughout the '30s, taking over the leadership of the Ramblers' by-then skeleton crew in 1945, when the only original member left was guitarist Harry Blair.
Cecil Campbell & the Tennessee Ramblers gained a contract with RCA Victor in 1946 and recorded throughout the late '40s. Campbell's steel guitar wizardry was emphasized, and the Ramblers gradually became more Campbell's backing group than an original entity themselves. During his RCA tenure, "Steel Guitar Ramble" became Campbell's only hit when it reached the country Top Ten in May 1949. Campbell also recorded for Disc and Palmetto Records during the early '50s, but signed with MGM in 1955, mixing some rockabilly material in with his traditional swing. He recorded in the '60s for Starday, and Campbell later founded his own label in North Carolina, occasionally playing shows and recording. He also appeared often at the Western Film Fair (held in Raleigh, NC) until his death in 1989.

Talents : Composer, Steel Guitar, Tenor Banjo, Guitar

Style musical : Western Swing, Traditional Country

ROCK AND ROLL FEVER

STEEL GUITAR JAMBOREE

THE ROCKING GUITAR

Années en activité :

1910

2000

DISCOGRAPHIE

78 t., Singles & EP

1946	78 t. RCA VICTOR 20-1790 (US)	.	Hawaiian Skies / Midnight Boogie
1946	78 t. RCA VICTOR 20-1874 (US)	.	North Carolina Skies / Beatty Steel Blues
1946	78 t. RCA VICTOR 20-2024 (US)	.	Campbell's Steel Guitar Special / I Trusted You
1947	78 t. RCA VICTOR 20-2155 (US)	.	Little Hula Shack In Hawaii / Last Night I Cried
1947	78 t. RCA VICTOR 20-2303 (US)	.	Steel Guitar Hop / She's Got The Cutest Eyes
1947	78 t. RCA VICTOR 20-2404 (US)	.	Come Home To You / Hawaiian Moon
1947	78 t. RCA VICTOR 20-2531 (US)	.	Talk, Talk, Talk / Hawaiian Dreams
1947	78 t. RCA VICTOR 20-2669 (US)	.	Put Some Meat On Them Bones / 'Neath Hawaiian Palms
1948	78 t. RCA VICTOR 20-2807 (US)	.	Tyron Street Blues / Please Don't Call Help
1948	78 t. RCA VICTOR 20-2918 (US)	.	Who's Blues Are You Now / Southern Special
1948	78 t. RCA VICTOR 20-3116 (US)	.	Please Daddy Don't Drink / Chant Of Hawaii
1949	78 t. RCA VICTOR 20-3339 (US)	.	Time Will Tell / I'm A Henpecked Man
1949	78 t. RCA VICTOR 21-0014 (US)	.	Cecil CAMBELL's TENNESSEE RAMBLERS - Steel Guitar Ramble / Left All Alone
1949	SP RCA VICTOR 48-0076 (US)	.	Tropical Island / Tarheel Rag
1949	SP RCA VICTOR 48-0126 (US)	.	Tear Drops / No Where, No Time, No Place
1950	78 t. RCA VICTOR 21-0022 (US)	.	Tennessee Border / Barn Dance Breakdown
1950	SP RCA VICTOR 48-0169 (US)	.	No Blues For Me / One Little Flower
1950	SP RCA VICTOR 48-0340 (US)	.	Steel Guitar Swing / Catawba River Blues
1950	SP RCA VICTOR 48-0376 (US)	.	Serenade Of The Winds / Proud Papa Polka
1951	78 t. RCA VICTOR 20-4325 (US)	.	Carolina Steel Guitar / No Wedding Bells For Me
1951	SP RCA VICTOR 48-0409 (US)	.	Steel Guitar Dig / Spookie Boogie
1951	SP RCA VICTOR 48-0445 (US)	.	Steel Guitar Wiggle / Coconut Island
1951	SP RCA VICTOR 48-0472 (US)	.	Paper Roses / Tennessee Steel Guitar
1951	SP RCA VICTOR 48-0499 (US)	.	Steel Guitar Jamboree (instr.) / You Kept Makin' Eyes At Me
1955	SP MGM K12118 (US)	.	Gomango / Steel Guitar Waltz
1956 ?	SP WINSTON 1002 (US)	.	50th State Hula / Hawaiian Skies
1956 ?	SP WINSTON 1003 (US)	.	Joretta / I Like The Country
1956 ?	SP WINSTON 1003 (US)	.	Contentment / Just Before The Battle
1956 ?	SP WINSTON 1004 (US)	.	Fog Rising On The Mountain / I Went Back Home
1956 ?	SP WINSTON 1006 (US)	.	Steel Guitar Swing / Mountain Due Blues
1956 ?	SP WINSTON 1007 (US)	.	Steel Guitar Jamboree (instr.) / Lonesome At Twilight
1956 ?	SP WINSTON 1008 (US)	.	Let's Spread A Little Happiness / Waltzing With The Steel Guitar
05/1956	SP MGM K12245 (US)	.	Cecil CAMPBELL & His TENNESSEE RAMBLERS - Dixieland Rock / Fog Rising On The Mountain
1957	SP MGM K12405(US)	.	I'm On The Right Road Now / Contentment
05/1957	SP MGM K12482 (US)	.	Cecil CAMPBELL & His TENNESSEE RAMBLERS - Rock And Roll Fever / The Rocking Guitar (instr.)
1958	SP MGM K12605(US)	.	I Get The Blues / On The Prado
1964 ?	EP STARDAY SEP 227 (US)		CECIL CAMPBELL

Albums

1956 ?	LP 12" WINSTON 1001 (US)	GREATEST HAWAIIAN INSTRUMENTALS
1964	LP 12" STARDAY SLP 254 (US)	STEEL GUITAR JAMBOREE - Steel Guitar Swing / Blues On The Steel / Spanish Style / Cecil's Steel Guitar Special / Boogie On The Steel / Carolina Steel Guitar / Twisting The Steel / Waltzing With The Steel Guitar / Dixie Steel Blues / Lonesome At Twilight / Steel Guitar Ramble
1981	LP 12" COUNTRY CLASSICS 701 (US)	STEEL GUITAR CLASSICS
199?	CD BINGE / BRONCO BUSTER 9003 (D)	CECIL CAMPBELL & HIS TENNESSEE RAMBLERS - No Where, No Time, No Place / Proud Papa Polka / Tennessee Steel Guitar [instr.] / Paper Roses / Fog Rising On The Mountain / Spookie Boogie / Gomango [instr.] / Catawba River Blues / Put Some Meat On Them Bones / Tropical Island / Tar Heel Rag [instr.] / North Carolina Skies / Barn Dance Breakdown [instr.] / No Blues, No Blues For Me / One Little Flower / Contentment, Pt. 1
05/2004	CD JASMINE 3542 (UK)	STEEL GUITAR SWING - (Cecil CAMPBELL & His TENNESSEE RAMBLERS) - Won't You Sometimes Dream Of Me? / Left All Alone With A Broken Heart / Put Some Meat On Them Bones / Steel Guitar Hop [instr.] / It's Gonna Come Home To You / Who's Blues Are You Now? / Please Don't Call In Any Help / Midnight Boogie [instr.] / North Carolina Skies / Talk, Talk, Talk / I Don't Know Why I Should Cry Over You / Steel Guitar Swing [instr.] / She's Got The Cutest Eyes / Time Will Tell / Catawba River Blues / Campbell's Steel Guitar Special [instr.] / I'll Keep On Loving You / I'm A Hen Pecked Man / Southern Special / Tennessee Border / No Where, No Time, No Place / All My Natural Life / Last Night I Cried / Beaty Steel Blues [instr.]