SESSION DISCOGRAPHY * ALBUMS DISCOGRAPHY * SINGLES DISCOGRAPHY

Country and crossover since 1920s and my favorite artists of all genres too...
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Thursday, March 10, 2011

Billy J. Killen

*1929 Florence, AL, +1996
by Praguefrank with help of RCS site
SESSIONS
Fall 1957 unknown – Billy J. Killen as Billy Match & The Starfires
001 I WANT MY BABY Starfire 45-664/Ace CDCHD-708 White Label WLP-8870
002 GIRL OF MINE Starfire 45-664
1958 unknown – Billy J. Killen as Billy Mache & The Starfires
003 J8OW-1156 HEAVENLY Impala J8OW-1156/7
004 J8OW-1157 IT MAKES NO DIFFERENCE Impala J8OW-1156/7/Buffalo Bop BB-2072 Collector CD-4465
ca December 1958 unknown – Billie J. Killen
005 KDL-1508 I WONDER Meridian 1508/9/ Buffalo Bop BB-2015
006 KDL-1509 IT MAKES NO DIFFERENCE Meridian 1508/9/Buffalo Bop BB-2015
ca April 1959 unknown – Billy J. Killen as Billy Mache & The Starfires
007 M-1510/K7OW-4728 GEORGIA BOY Meridian 1510/1
008 M-1511/K7OW-4729 FIRST DANCE, FIRST KISS, TRUE LOVE Meridian 1510/1
1965 unknown – Billy J. Killen
009 S4KM-8406 TRULY LOVE YOU Kam 101
010 S4KM-8407 WALKIN' TALKIN' (IN MY SLEEP FOR YOU)Kam 101
1966 unknown – Billy J. Killen
011 T4KM-9776 I OUGHTA BE HOME WITH NELL Kam No.102
012 T4KM-9777? MISTER BLUE Kam No.102


SINGLES
Starfire (Starday custom, 1957)
45-664 I Want My Baby / Girl Of Mine – 10-57 as Billy Match & The Starfires
Impala (1958)
J8OW-1156/7 It Makes No Difference / Heavenly – 58 as Billy Mache & The Starfires
Meridian (1959)
KDL-1508/9 It Makes No Difference / I Wonder – 01-59 as Billie J. Killen
M-1510 Georgia Boy / First Dance, First Kiss, True Love – 05-59 as Billy Mache & The Starfires (rev. May 11)
Kam (1965)
45-101 Walkin' Talkin' (In My Sleep For You) / Truly Love You – 65
No. 102/634K-9776 I Oughta Be Home With Nell / Mister Blue – 66

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Michel Ruppli, not only for his books which I use daily, but also for a large amount of rare and unpublished data from his giant archive.
Thanks to all my friends - country music fans - in Czech Republic - Vladimir Pikora, Michal Gololobov, Milos Holecek, Tony Foglar, Rene Pavlik and Petr Vitous.
Thanks to Mario Manciotti for sending session details daily
Thanks to Kurt Rokitta for a lot of session info
Thanks to Bill Daniels for sharing a lot of labels info
Thanks to Lillies Ohlsson for many western swing contributions.
Thanks to Dick Grant for many artists files
Thanks to Thieu Van De Vorst for a lot of additions and corrections
Thanks to Goran Adolph for many rare albums info
Thanks to Hans Sandberg for many rare session data
Thanks to Chris Huskey for many sessions info.
Thanks to Kittra Moore for musicians and recording data
Thanks to Dik de Heer for many additions on rockabilly.
Thanks to Luiz Roberto Costa for helping me with the western genre.
Thanks to Wolf Ruediger Sommer, who not only sent me additional data, but is also watch-dog, correcting my typos and other errors.
Thanks to Robert Platt for priceless info on Canadian (but not only) artists.
Thanks to Phil Watson for hard work on Crown Prince of country music discography. Thanks to Walter Gabriel for filling the gaps in track listings of rare albums and various artists compilations.
Thanks to Kent Heineman for many independent recordings info
Thanks to Ken Nelson for bluegrass and more additions.
Thanks to Tony Middleton for RCA session info.
Thanks to Xavier Maire for interesting additions and for info on his website www.bopping.org.
Thanks to Henk Scholts for long time cooperation.
Thanks to Richard Price for miscellaneous session information
Thanks to Carl G. Cederblad for additions to sessionographies
Thanks to Paul Urbahns, Marc Alesina, Bill Millet, Bengt Wahlström, John Morris, Dominique Anglares, Pierre Monnery, Jeremy Roberts, Ben Collins, Alex Frazer-Harrison, K.F.Raizor, Ed Tabor, Mario Wildner, Ole Skjoldhøj, Eileen Sisk, Per Kammersgaard, David Bussey, Bill Marks for rare info on their favorite artists.
Thanks to Reginald Bartlette for info and additions of Columbia custom numbers.
Thanks to Katarina Fromm for various singles info.
Thanks to many others who sent some info - all are important.
Thanks to Richard Weize for his idea to produce projects, which have small commercial potential, but huge value for collectors - I spend a lot of money buying boxes and CDs, sometimes mainly because of the accompanying discographies.
Thanks also to Patrick Milligan, who created many discographies for Bear Family projects
Thanks to Marek Bozickovic for picture in head
And last but not least I would like to thank all who visit this blog - they come from more than 100 countries.