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Apron Strings (anto47)
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On August 9, 2008
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Sorry, HDM, I have never seen your topic.
So, Billy The Kid (KAPP) had recorded the o.v., didn't he ? HE DID !!! (12/09/2011)
There's also a mystery of a non-released version by Curtis Hoback (Hobock)...What do you think of it seeing his son said his father had never recorded it even as a demo ? Very strange seeing this link :
http://rateyourmusic.com/release/single/billy_the_kid__usa_/apron_strings___i_ha…
YT :
Apron strings / Living doll : July 1959 !
UK 7" 45 rpm : COLUMBIA 45-DB 4306, 07/1959
See atts of both sides...
July '59 ? Source : CLIFF RICHARD THE HIT LIST THE BEST OF 35 YEARS, EMI UNITED KINGDOM, 11/1994 (NL ref.
7243 8 30917 2 0 , 11/1994)
"See additional label credits for original (P) dates"
Stephan Koenig
Last updated by Stephan Koenig on 2011-09-12 16:52:17 UTC
It seems he did record it: http://www.myspace.com/curtishobacksunyears. The big question then is if he did so before or after Billy The Kid. I'm affraid that more research is needed to decide who did the first recording...
For now The Shadows have been changed to The Drifters.
For what it's worth...
"Billy The Kid recorded this song on 12 January 1959 (probably); it was released on 2 February 1959 on Kapp K-261X with the song "I Hardly Know Me" on the B-side."
ref: http://users.telenet.be/davidneale/elvis/originals/list1.html
Last updated by flip on 2010-08-18 11:35:02 UTC
I hold the answer. Cliff Richard's Apron Strings is the A-side of Living Doll, COLUMBIA 45-DB 4306, July 1959. Source taken from the inlay card of CLIFF RICHARD THE HIT LIST THE BEST OF 35 YEARS, 1994 (EMI UNITED KINGDOM (NL 7243 8 30917 2 0) including Living doll CD 1/1. Other songs from 09/58 until 02/79.
See atts : original 7" 45 rpm (A & B-sides)
Matrices : A : 7XCA 24877 45 / B : 7XCA 24889 45
+ the page which contains "July '59".
The date mentionned for Billy "The Kid" Emerson is :
2.1.1959 written by LittleRocknRoller 2 years ago.
Eng.-writting : day/month/year
Am.-writting : 1959/01/02 (for a very long time ago in this form).
Stephan Koenig
Last updated by Stephan Koenig on 2011-09-12 16:22:19 UTC
AAAAAAAAAAARRRRRGH ! Hard rock tonight at the Spirit of 66 in Verviers with Parisian band Showtime 
I'm almost on my way
Apron strings by Billy the Kid is the original version
So, what else ? 
- Cold case
BTKE : release date : 2.1.1959
C.Richard : release : July 1959.
Stephan Koenig
Last updated by Stephan Koenig on 2011-09-12 16:55:44 UTC
Billy the Kid version now added and set as original.
The credits for Cliff Richard and The Drifters have been changed in the meantime.
Hoback, who recorded as "Hobock", is not first anyway. He had cut two sides with Lu mid-1959.
http://rcs-discography.com/rcs/artist.php?key=hobo1000
His relationship with a major label like Sun was most likely exclusive, therefore the Lu recordings preceded his relationship with Sun. That MySpace article does read "after the Lu recordings were issued". We also see nothing in the late-1959 to 1960 period except the then-unissued Sun recordings, including "Apron Strings".