ALIS LESLEY - HE WILL COME BACK TO ME

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SIDE A = 1. He Will Come Back To Me   2. Heartbreak Harry   3. Handsome Man

SIDE B = 4. So Afraid   5. Why Do I Feel This Way   6. Don't Burn Your Bridges

Sleazy Records / SR10-10

Sleazy Records keeps on amazing us, now with an Alis Lesley 10" in stunning pink vinyl in the "TenXTen" new series. It seems that this series will include 10 inchers compiling the work of more or less obscure artists from the golden era of Rockabilly that have not been honoured with a compilation of their own. Not at all a bad idea.

So there we go with Alis Lesley, who was nicknamed "The Female Elvis" for obvious reasons. Just take a glance to her photo and you'll see what I mean (well, also name and surname were quite similar phonetically). If my info is correct, this record includes all the songs that this Chicago born Rocker recorded. That is the two songs included in her only single released by Era in 1957: the wonderful "He Will Come Back To Me" and the very good "Heartbreak Harry", plus four songs that were not released when they were recorded: "Handsome Man" (recorded at Sun studio and penned by Charlie Rich), "So Afraid", "Why Do I Feel This Way" and "Don't Burn Your Bridges".

The two first songs are two good Rockabillies and the best of all six songs included in this record. The other four are slow songs of much less quality than the two released by Era. Of those four, I think that "Handsome Man" is quite OK, but I do understand why it wasn't released by Mr. Phillips in his Sun Records label. And if the best song is the one that opens the record, "He Will Come Back To Me", I feel that "Don't Burn Your Bridges", the one that closes it, is just the opposite: a dull ballad. So the record starts full throttle but it worsens as the songs go by.

Regarding the sleeve, I like the artwork, with photos that seem to be drawings and brief bio notes.

To make it short, I won't say that this is a "must have" record, but it won't do no harm in the collection of any 50's Rockabilly fan.

Stunning pink vinyl for this record.