Rockabilly Fever

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Rockabilly Fever
Wanda Jackson--Rockabilly Fever.jpg
Studio album by
Released1984 (1984)
RecordedSeptember 1984 (1984-09)
StudioMusic Mill Recording Studio
Genre Rockabilly [1]
Label Tab
Producer Kenth Larsson
Wanda Jackson chronology
My Kind of Gospel
(1983)
Rockabilly Fever
(1984)
Teach Me to Love
(1984)
Rock and Roll Away Your Blues
Wanda Jackson--Rock n Roll Away Your Blues.jpg
Side one [5] [7]
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Rock-A-Billy Fever" Carl Perkins 4:07
2."Stupid Cupid"2:07
3."Rock 'n' Roll Away Your Blues"Ronald Brashear2:27
4."Sweet Nuthin's" Ronnie Self 2:27
5."It's Only Make Believe"
2:25
6."Oh Boy"
2:14
Side two [7]
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Rock-a-Billy Hound Dog"Brashear2:44
2."Breathless" Otis Blackwell 3:00
3."Sad Love Songs"Brashear2:27
4."Rave On"
  • Petty
  • Tilgman
  • West
1:53
5."Meet Me in Stockholm" Doug Sahm 3:23
6."Ain't It the Gospel"George Gagliardi2:31

Rock 'n' Roll Away Your Blues

Side one [8]
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Breathless"Blackwell3:00
2."Rock-A-Billy Fever"Perkins4:07
3."Sweet Nuthin's"Self2:27
4."It's Only Make Believe"
  • Nance
  • Twitty
2:25
5."Oh Boy"
  • Petty
  • Tilghman
  • West
2:14
Side two [8]
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Rave On"
  • Petty
  • Tilgman
  • West
1:53
2."Rock 'n' Roll Away Your Blues"Brashear2:27
3."Sad Love Songs"Brashear2:27
4."RockaBilly Hound Dog"Brashear2:44
5."Stupid Cupid"
  • Greenfield
  • Sedaka
2:07
6."Ain't It the Gospel"Gagliardi2:31

Digital version

Rockabilly Fever (digital) [9]
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Rock-A-Billy Fever"Perkins4:12
2."Stupid Cupid"
  • Greenfield
  • Sedaka
2:33
3."Rock 'n' Roll Away Your Blues"Brashear2:35
4."Sweet Nuthin's"Self2:35
5."It's Only Make Believe"
  • Nance
  • Twitty
2:33
6."Oh Boy"
  • Petty
  • Tilghman
  • West
2:22
7."Rock-a-Billy Hound Dog"Brashear2:53
8."Breathless"Blackwell3:07
9."Sad Love Songs"Brashear2:35
10."Rave On"
  • Petty
  • Tilgman
  • West
2:02
11."Meet Me in Stockholm"Sahm3:33
12."Ain't It the Gospel"Gagliardi2:34

Personnel

All credits are adapted from the liner notes of Rockabilly Fever and Rock 'n' Roll Away Your Blues. [5] [7]

Release history

RegionDateFormatLabelRef.
Sweden1984VinylTab Records [5]
United Kingdom1985Magnum Force Records Ltd. [7]
  • Canada
  • United States
1986Varrick Records [8]
2010s
  • Music download
  • streaming
Tab Records [9]

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