Gene Vincent and The Blue Caps is an album

Album

An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...

 by Gene Vincent

Gene Vincent

Vincent Eugene Craddock , known as Gene Vincent, was an American musician who pioneered the styles of rock and roll and rockabilly. His 1956 top ten hit with his Blue Caps, "Be-Bop-A-Lula", is considered a significant early example of rockabilly...

 and His Blue Caps. It was originally released in 1957

1957 in music

-Events:*January 5 – Renato Carosone and his band start their American tour in Cuba.*January 6 – Elvis Presley makes his final appearance on the The Ed Sullivan Show.*January 16 – The Cavern Club opens in Liverpool, UK....

, four months after its predecessor, Bluejean Bop. It was released on the Capitol

Capitol Records

Capitol Records is a major United States based record label, formerly located in Los Angeles, but operating in New York City as part of Capitol Music Group. Its former headquarters building, the Capitol Tower, is a major landmark near the corner of Hollywood and Vine...

 label. It was re-released on CD in 2002. Cliff Gallup

Cliff Gallup

Clifton E. "Cliff" Gallup was an American electric guitarist, who played rock and roll in the band Gene Vincent and his Blue Caps in the 1950s.-Biography:...

 and rhythm guitarist, Willie Williams, had left The Blue Caps in the summer of 1956. Gallup was persuaded by producer, Ken Nelson, to temporarily rejoin for the sessions that resulted in the album.

Track listing

1. "Red Blue Jeans and a Ponytail" (Bill Davis, Jack Rhodes
   Jack Rhodes
   Andrew Jackson Rhodes was an American country music producer and songwriter, penning such hits as "A Satisfied Mind", "Silver Threads and Golden Needles", "Conscience I'm Guilty", "The Waltz of the Angels", "Beautiful Lies", and "Till the Last Leaf Shall Fall"...
   
   )
2. "Hold Me, Hug Me, Rock Me" (Vincent, Tex Davis)
3. "Unchained Melody
   Unchained Melody
   "Unchained Melody" is a 1955 song with music by Alex North and lyrics by Hy Zaret. It has become one of the most recorded songs of the 20th century, by some counts having spawned over 500 versions in hundreds of different languages....
   
   " (Alex North
   Alex North
   Alex North was an American composer who wrote the first jazz-based film score and one of the first modernist scores written in Hollywood ....
   
   , Hy Zaret
   Hy Zaret
   Hy Zaret was an American Tin Pan Alley lyricist and composer best known as the co-author of the 1955 hit "Unchained Melody", one of the most recorded songs of the 20th century.-Biography:...
   
   )
4. "You Told a Fib" (Vincent, Cliff Gallup
   Cliff Gallup
   Clifton E. "Cliff" Gallup was an American electric guitarist, who played rock and roll in the band Gene Vincent and his Blue Caps in the 1950s.-Biography:...
   
   )
5. "Cat Man" (Vincent, Tex Davis)
6. "You Better Believe" (Cliff Gallup)
7. "Cruisin'" (Vincent, Bill Davis)
8. "Double Talkin' Baby" (Danny Wolfe)
9. "Blues Stay Away from Me" (Henry Glover
   Henry Glover
   Henry Glover was an American songwriter, arranger, record producer and trumpet player. In the music industry of the time, Glover was one of the more successful, and influential, black executives. He gained eminence in the late 1940s, primarily working for the independent King label...
   
   , Wayne Raney
   Wayne Raney
   Wayne Raney was an American country singer and harmonica player.-Biography:Raney was born on a farm with a foot deformity and could not do heavy labor. After learning to play harmonica at an early age, he moved to Piedras Negras, Mexico at age 13, where he played on radio station XEPN...
   
   , Alton Delmore, Rabon Delmore
   The Delmore Brothers
   Alton Delmore and Rabon Delmore , billed as The Delmore Brothers, were country music pioneers and stars of the Grand Ole Opry in the 1930s...
   
   )
10. "Pink Thunderbird" (Bill Davis, Paul Peek)
11. "I Sure Miss You" (Charles Matthews)
12. "Pretty, Pretty Baby" (Danny Wolfe)

CD reissue bonus tracks:

1. "Important Words" (Version one)
2. "B-I-Bickey-Bi, Bo-Bo-Go"
3. "Five Days, Five Days"
4. "Teenager Partner" (Version one)
5. "Five Feet Of Lovin'" (Version one)