Rebel-'Rouser

"'''Rebel-'Rouser'''" is an instrumental song written by Duane Eddy and Lee Hazlewood and originally released on Jamie Records in 1958 by "Duane Eddy and his 'twangy' guitar" as a single (Jamie 1104) as the 'B' side with the song 'Stalkin' listed as the 'A' side. Both tracks were produced by Lester Sill and Lee Hazlewood. In an interview with Radio DJ 'Wild' Wayne from Connecticut, Duane said that when the song was released the record company was pushing "Stalkin' as the 'A' side despite Duane's preference for Rebel Rouser. Eddy went on to say that Dick Clark was at a local dance in Philadelphia there to play records for the kids to dance to. He didn't realize until he arrived at the dance that he only had a short stack of records to play. As a result in order to help fill in with the music, he was forced to start playing the 'B' sides of the records he had with him. He had already played the 'Stalkin' side of the Duane Eddy record so when he played the 'B' side 'Rebel Rouser' there was an immediate response by the teens there to keep playing it over and over again. From there, Dick started plugging 'Rebel Rouser' on his American Bandstand show from which it became a national hit.

It was Eddy's third single as a solo artist, following the 1957 release of the single "Ramrod"/"Caravan" on the Ford record label (a release that was credited to "Duane Eddy and His Rock-A-Billies", although Al Casey (who wrote "Ramrod") actually played lead guitar on both tracks) and which was followed in 1958 by the release of the "Moovin' n' Groovin'"/"Up And Down" single on Jamie (Jamie 1101), which was also released as "Duane Eddy and his 'twangy' guitar". "Rebel-'Rouser" also appeared on Duane Eddy's debut album, ''Have 'Twangy' Guitar Will Travel''.