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Billy Lee Riley (October 5, 1933 – August 2, 2009) was an American musician, singer-songwriter, and record producer. His most memorable recordings include "Rock With Me Baby", "Flyin' Saucers Rock and Roll" [note 1] and " Red Hot ".
Mon 3 Aug 2009 14.05 EDT. A Memphis contemporary of Elvis Presley and Jerry Lee Lewis, Billy Lee Riley was a pioneering rockabilly musician who missed out on fame. Riley, who has died aged 75 ...
Billy Lee Riley Biography. Born in Pocahontas, Arkansas, the son of a sharecropper, Riley learned to play guitar from black farm workers. After 4 years in the Army, Riley first recorded in Memphis, Tennessee in 1955 before being lured to Sun Studios by Sam Phillips. He recorded “Trouble Bound” for Jack Clement and Slim Wallace.
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Real Name: Billy Lee Riley. Profile: Born October 5th, 1933, in Pocahontas, Arkansas. Died August 2nd, 2009, in Jonesboro, Arkansas. Billy Lee Riley was an American 1950's Rockabilly singer, best known for his recordings for Sun Records of Memphis. Performed as part of the "The Little Green Men", the "house band" at Sun.
Aug 4, 2009 · Aug. 4, 2009. JONESBORO, Ark. (AP) Billy Lee Riley, a rambunctious performer who helped develop the Sun Records sound as a studio musician for other headliners, died here on Sunday. He was 75. The ...
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Billy Lee Riley - Biography. 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.
