Bobby Fuller Four — “Little Annie Lou”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — October 29, 2023

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD

996) Bobby Fuller Four — “Little Annie Lou”

Bobby fought little Annie Lou and Annie won! Bobby and his brother/bandmate Randy wrote this firecracker of a number that “rattles with rockabilly inspirations” (Beverly Paterson, https://somethingelsereviews.com/2015/02/01/the-bobby-fuller-four-krla-king-of-the-wheels/) and is a fitting B-side to “I Fought the Law”.

Richie Unterberger tells us that:

With his blatant reverence for Buddy Holly, fellow Texan Bobby Fuller was a bit of an anomaly in the mid-’60s. With his Stratocaster guitar and brash, full sound, at his best Fuller sounded like Holly might have had he survived into the ’60s. Cracking the Top 30 in 1966 with a cover of Holly’s “Love’s Made a Fool of You” and the Top Ten with “I Fought the Law” (written by one-time Cricket Sonny Curtis), Fuller had just become a star when he died in mysterious circumstances in a parked car in Hollywood (the police thought it was a suicide, just about everyone who knew him disagreed). Fuller’s relatively short period of national stardom actually crowned a good half-dozen years of recording, during which he released many outstanding tracks. After a few local singles in his hometown of El Paso in the early ’60s, he moved to California with his combo in 1964 . . . . In the short time he recorded for Mustang in 1965 and 1966, he waxed quite a few tracks (most self-penned) in addition to his hits . . . . Rocking, tuneful, and infectiously joyous, they showed Fuller to be a worthy inheritor of early rock & roll and rockabilly traditions without sounding self-consciously revivalist. . . .

https://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-bobby-fuller-four-mn0000061534#biography

Here they are on TV:

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