Mona Lisa CD

Carl Mann
Mona Lisa CD

Just seventeen years of age when his Rockabilly-styled revival of Nat King Cole’s Mona Lisa sold a million copies in 1959, Carl Mann was among the last of Sam Phillips' great Rock n' Roll discoveries.
Yet perhaps because he was younger and enjoyed success in a more commercially accessible style, Mann was never accorded quite the same iconic status as other Sun Rockers.
Nonetheless the body of work he recorded for Sam Phillips was hugely impressive, and his reputation took a further upswing when he came to the UK and Europe for Rock 'n' Roll and Rockabilly festivals in the late 1970s.
This compilation anthologises his releases on Sun’s Phillips International subsidiary between 1959 and 1962, preceded by a one-off 45 cut for a local label a couple of years earlier.
Also included are a further ten sides he recorded at Sun, which were not originally released.