We use Royal Mail First Class for UK deliveries and standard Air Mail for all other territories, very large orders will usually be sent via parcelforce. For all other territories packaging is free and postage is charged on a weight basis. 24 Preview Just Doing Rock 'N' Roll - Chick & His Hot Rods.22 Preview Bull Frog Boogie - Earl Slone.21 Preview I'll Give 'Em Rhythm - Hardrock Gunter.20 Preview Rockin' Chair Mama - Wayne Carroll.19 Preview I'm The Jivin' Mr Lee - Kenny Martin.18 Preview You Are My Happiness - Booker Lee Jr.16 Preview I Want A Lover - Wes Voight & the Town Three.15 Preview Shake 'Em Up Baby - Rusty York.14 Preview Boy! This Stuff Kills Me - Bruce Channel.13 Preview Guitar Pickin' Fool - Teddy Humphries.11 Preview Midnight Ramblin' Tonight - H-Bomb Ferguson.10 Preview Vim Vam Vamoose - Bob Temple with the Dave Martin Orchestra.08 Preview Oh Baby, Dance With Me - Gene Stewart.07 Preview Goose Bumps - Delbert Barker.06 Preview Rock 'N' Roll Mr Bullfrog - Moon Mullican.02 Preview Midnight Blues - Wes Voight & the Town Three.01 Preview What Is Your Technique? - Ronnie Speeks & his Elrods.It's all terrific fun and if you enjoyed "King Rockabilly", then this CD makes an essential companion volume. Rob Finnis has put it all together with his usual thoroughness and penned the accompanying notes. Wacky Booker Lee Jr, one of the star turns on "King Rockabilly", makes a return with You Are My Happiness, the other side of his sole Federal 45. There's a confidence about it that shows that Lopez had it down long before fame beckoned. Wait till you hear Trini Lopez' Rock On cut for King in 1959 when he was a club entertainer playing to drunks who didn't know, or care, who he was. Jivers will warm to Bob Temple's Vim Vam Vamoose and Kenny Martin's I'm The Jivin' Mr Lee, not to mention Wayne Carroll's Chicken Out. He is thrice represented here in convincing form. Wes Voight, who later changed his name to Chip Taylor and penned the rock anthem Wild Thing, started out as a teenage rock'n'roller on King's DeLuxe subsidiary back in 1958. Among the fine one-offs is What Is Your Technique by Ronnie Speeks and the Elrods, a mythical Elvis imitator who was popular in the backwaters of the Mid-West 40 years ago. Delbert Barker's previously unissued Goose Bumps stems from the same session as No Good Robin Hood and Jug Band Jump (heard on "King Rockabilly") while Fuller Todd impresses with You Baby and Cuddle Up, two unissued sides drawn from the same session as Top Ten Rock, which also appeared on "King Rockabilly". Two artists featured on King Rockabilly make a return. King Rock'n'Roll is the long-awaited sequel to King Rockabilly and brings together 24 rare records that show King going for broke in the market for commercial rock'n'roll with a range of styles that comprises Bill Haley-ish 'jivers', country-boogies, rockabilly and straightforward Elvis-influenced rockers. It wasn't until those attention-to-detail specialists Ace Records took an interest in the 1990s that fresh light was thrown on King's vast repertoire - in fact, an entire programme of rock, R&B and soul will be coming your way on Ace in the next year or two. Only a tiny fraction of King Records were released in the UK during the 1950s and 60s and in common with most collectors of that generation, I was only to discover much later, the depth and scale of King's back catalogue. Like when Chubby Checker hit big with The Twist, she'd go around telling people "Uncle Sydney gave that boy his start", an oblique reference to the fact that King had put out the original version of The Twist by Hank Ballard which Chubby had merely cloned to his complete advantage for another record company. Mother wouldn't suddenly say, "I see Hank Ballard's got a new one out, then", as she ladled out the soup. And later, when my father would gripe about Elvis Presley and that awful racket he makes", he was told not to complain as Uncle Sydney had done very well out of "that kind of music".Īnd so it went. Mum was thrilled when one of Uncle Syd's discoveries, a girl named Bonnie Lou, made a sizeable splash with Tennessee Wig Walk, a jaunty little novelty number that completed for UK chart honours with big-timers like Frankie Laine and Guy Mitchell, two singers my mother adored. The distant cousin of a distant cousin of an obscure American relative on my mother's side, Uncle Syd was the family's only link to the entertainment world, an extremely tenuous connection that my mother grandly made the most of during those grey and glitz free years. When I was growing up in Epping on the outskirts of London during the 1950s, Uncle Syd" Nathan was a familiar unseen presence in the life of our family.
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