Guitarist Billy Mure recorded Fireworks in 1957 as the followup to his debut album on RCA Victor, Supersonic Guitars in Hi-Fi. Unlike its predecessor Fireworks was recorded in RCA's "Living Stereo," allowing for some pretty amazing fretboard pyrotechnics. (For more information on Billy Mure read this earlier post.)
Added to Mure's multitracked guitars were three drummers and eight vocalists. The guitarist contributed four original numbers to the album, including the opening track Firecrackers.
Firecrackers
Fireworks is not available on CD and the download version being offered by iTunes and others is, according to online comments, a substandard dub from a mono LP. Mure recorded a third album, Supersonics in Flight, for RCA and a similar LP for MGM, Supersonic Guitars. All of these are highly sought after by collectors.
Mure made other albums for MGM, Everest, Kapp and Strand, but those featuring his "Supersonic Guitars" are the ones to get.
Here's a track from that first RCA album, Supersonic Guitars in Hi-Fi.
FOOTNOTE:
Billy Mure passed away in Vero Beach, Fla., on Sept. 25. He was 97.
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