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  • ‘Last Son Of Sun Records,’ Rockabilly Star Carl Mann, Dies At 78

    12/24/2020 11:16:50 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 3 replies
    Udiscovermusic ^ | December 22, 2020 | Paul Sexton
    Mann had his biggest commercial success with a rocking 1959 version of ‘Mona Lisa.’Carl Mann, the rockabilly singer and pianist who was one of the last of the original rockers championed by Sam Phillips at Sun Records, died on December 16 at the age of 78. Mann, described in a 2012 book as the Last Son of Sun, had his biggest commercial success with a rocking 1959 version of “Mona Lisa,” Nat King Cole’s 1950 No.1, which reached No.25 in the US. Mann became a key part of the significant revival of interest in rockabilly that swept Europe in the...