Sleepy LaBeef

Thomas Paulsley LaBeff (Smackover, Arkansas, 20 de julio de 1935 – Siloam Springs, Arkansas, 26 de diciembre de 2019),^[1] conocido artísticamente como Sleepy LaBeef, fue un cantante, músico y actor estadounidense.

Sleepy LaBeef
En el Memphis International Rockabilly Festival, agosto de 2015
Información personal
Nombre de nacimiento	Thomas Paulsley LaBeff
Nacimiento	20 de julio de 1935 Smackover, Arkansas,  Estados Unidos
Fallecimiento	26 de diciembre de 2019 (84 años) Siloam Springs (Estados Unidos)
Nacionalidad	Estadounidense
Información profesional
Ocupación	Músico, guitarrista, compositor, productor musical
Años activo	1954–2019
Géneros	Rock, rockabilly Rockabilly
Instrumentos	Voz, guitarra
Tipo de voz	Barítono
Discográficas	Starday, Columbia, Plantation, Sun, Charly, Rounder
Sitio web	SleepyLaBeef.com
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Trayectoria artística

Go Ahead on Baby by Sleepy LaBeef, Columbia late 1960s.

LaBeef nació en Smackover, Arkansas, El apellido familiar era originariamente LaBoeuf.

Discografía

Singles

Year	Title	Record label
1957	"I’m Through" / "All Alone"	Starday Records
1957	"I’m Through" / "All Alone"	Starday-Mercury Records
1957	"All The Time" / "Lonely"	Starday-Mercury Records
1958	"Ballad Of A Teenage Queen" / "Eskimo Pie"	Dixie Records
1958	"Oh, Oh, I’m Falling In Love Again" / "One Week Later"	Dixie Records
1960	"Found Out" / "Can’t Get You Out Of My Mind"	Gulf Records Records
1961	"Turn Me Loose" / "Ridin’ Fence"	Crescent Records
1962	"Ride On Josephine" / "Walkin’ Slowly"	Wayside Records
1963	"Tore Up" / "Lonely"	Wayside Records
1963	"Drink Up And Go Home" / "Teardrops On A Rose"	Finn Records
1963	"Ride On Josephine" / "Lonely"	Picture Records
1965	"You Can’t Catch Me" / "Everybody’s Got To Have Somebody"	Columbia Records
1966	"A Man In My Position" / "Drinking Again"	Columbia Records
1966	"I’m Too Broke" / "I Feel A Lot More Like I Do Now"	Columbia Records
1961	"Ballad Of A Teenage Queen" / "The Ways Of A Woman In Love"	Columbia Records
1969	"Blackland Farmer" / ?	Columbia Records
---	"Baby, Let’s Play House" "Don’t Make Me Go" "Somebody’s Been Beating My Time" "I Ain’t Gonna Take It" "Little Bit More" "Shame, Shame, Shame"	not issued

Discos

• 1974: The Bull's night out
• 1976: Western gold
• 1978: Rockabilly 1977 (Sun Records)
• 1978: Beefy rockabilly
• 1979: Early, rare and rockin' sides
• 1979: Downhome Rockabilly (Sun Records)
• 1979: Downhome Rockabilly (Charly Records, UK)
• 1979: Rockabilly heavyweight (con Dave Travis)
• 1979 "Sleepin' in Spain" (AUVI records, Spain)
• 1979: Sleepy LaBeef and Friends (Ace Records)
• 1979: Sleepy LaBeef and Friends (Ace-Chiswick Records)
• 1980: Early, rare and rockin' sides (re-release)
• 1980: Downhome Rockabilly (re-release)
• 1981: It ain't what you eat, it's the way how you chew it (Rounder Records)
• 1982: Electricity (Rounder Records)
• 1987: Nothin' but the truth (Rounder Records) [live]
• 1990: Attack (Canciones Raras) (Barsa Promociones) [Vinyl recorded in Spain]
• 1994: Strange things Happen
• 1995: The human jukebox (Rounder Records)
• 1996: I'll never lay my guitar down (Rounder Records)
• 1996: Larger than life (6 CD-Box, compilation)
• 1997: A rockin' decade
• 1999: Flyin' saucer rock'n'roll: The very vest of Sleepy LaBeef
• 1999: The Bulls's ride out & Western gold
• 2000: Tomorrow never comes
• 2001: Rockabilly blues
• 2001: Road warrior
• 2003: Johnny's blues: A tribute to Johnny Cash (Northern Blues)^[2]
• 2008: Roots
• 2008: Sleepy Rocks (Bear Family anthology)
• 2012: Rides Again

Referencias

1. Willman, Chris (26 de diciembre de 2019). «Sleepy LaBeef, Enduring Rockabilly Cult Hero, Dies at 84». Variety. Consultado el 27 de diciembre de 2019.
2. LaBeef does a version of "Frankie and Johnny", referred to as "Frankie's Man". The original song appears on the This is Johnny Cash compilation album (Harmony, 1969; reissued 1973), among others.

Enlaces externos

• SleepyLaBeef.com
• Listing of all Sleepy's songs and alternatives Archivado el 27 de diciembre de 2019 en Wayback Machine.
• Sleepy LaBeef at the Rockabilly Hall of Fame
• Sleepy LaBeef en Todo Rockabilly

• Datos: Q351869
• Multimedia: Sleepy LaBeef / Q351869