Arlie Neaville

Arlie Neaville (a.k.a. Dean Carter) is an American gospel singer and songwriter who has been active in music since the early 1960s.^[1] For several years during the 1960s he recorded and performed as Dean Carter, specializing in rockabilly and soul influenced garage rock displayed in songs such as "Rebel Woman" and a version of "Jailhouse Rock", but in the early 1970s he switched to gospel, which has been his style ever since.^[1][2]

Biography[]

Neaville was born in Champaign, Illinois, and began playing rockabilly in the late 1950s.^[1] He recorded under his real name on the Ping label between in 1961 and on Fraternity Records in 1962–1963.^[1] In 1964, he began to record as Dean Carter on the Limelight label, where he released the single, *"Sixteen Tones" b/w "The Lucky One".^[1][3][4] That year, he and Arlie Miller, a member of his backing band, the Lucky Ones, started a home studio in Danville, Illinois.^[1] They also ran the Milky Way label, which released music by Carter and others.^[1][2] There, Carter recorded a string of singles: "Number One Girl" (1965), "The Rockin Bandit" (1965) and "Run Rabbit Run" (1967), as well as the record for which he is best known, "Jailhouse Rock" b/w "Rebel Woman" in 1967.^[1][3][5][4] Carter's version of "Jailhouse Rock", featured the odd sounds of walkie talkie beeps, overdriven guitars, augmented with a ukulele, accordion, dobro, and clarinet.^[1][5]

In the late 1960s, Carter moved to the Washington State on the West Coast and recorded a couple of singles with Gene Vincent and guitarist Jerry Merritt on Merritt's Tell International label.^[1] For International, Carter released the single "Mary Sue" b/w "Wandering Soul".^[1][3][4] He returned to the Midwest at the end of the decade to resume recording with Miller, and went back to billing himself as Arlie Neaville.^[1] In the early 1970s, he switched to gospel music, which has been his style ever since.^[1][6][7][8] In the early-to-mid 1970s he released the singles, "Brighter Days" b/w "Don't Throw Any Stones" and "Sweet Side of Life".^[3][4]

In the intervening years, Neaville's music has come to the attention of music enthusiasts, particularly his recordings made in the 1960s as Dean Carter.^[5] His collected recordings as Dean Carter were issued on the Call of the Wild anthology, released in 2002 by Big Beat Records.^[5][2] The song "Rebel Woman" has appeared on Pebbles, Volume 6, Chicago Part 1 and Best of Pebbles, Volume One.^[9][10]

Discography[]

As Arlie Neaville[]

• "Angel Love" b/w "River of Life" (Ping 8001, 1961)
• "Alone on a Star" b/w "The Skip" (Fraternity F-900, 1962)
• "Drink My Wine" b/w "Tawney" (Tell International 45-378, 1969)
• "Brighter Days" b/w "Don't Throw Any Stones" (Fraternity F 1202, 1973)
• "Sweet Side of Life" b/w "In God We Trust" (Shout N Shine IRDA 143, 1975)

As Dean Carter[]

• "Sixteen Tones" b/w "The Lucky One" (Limelight Y-3019, 1964)
• "Number One Girl" b/w "Fever" (Milky Way MW-003, 1965)
• "The Rockin Bandit" b/w "Care" (Milky Way MW-004, 1965)
• "Run Rabbit Run" b/w "Soul Feelin'" (Milky Way MW-011, 1967)
• "Jailhouse Rock" b/w "Rebel Woman" (Milky Way MW-011, 1967)
• "Mary Sue" b/w "Wandering Soul" (Tell International 369, October 1967)
• "Good Side of My Mind" bw/ "Do I Need a Reason" (Tell International 45-373, 1968)

See also[]

• The Midnite Sound of the Milky Way

References[]