GREAT BRITISH ROCK 'N' ROLL Vol. 3: Just About As Good As It Gets - disc 1 & 2 - TWILIGHTZONE

 Oh you want more?! I think you should . . . . . . . . 

SUNDAY Update - and of course the guys have made disc 2 available today.  . . gotta be worth a listen to liven up your Sunday . . . . . . 

Great British Rock n Roll Vol III - Disc 1 here

As we have already mentioned with Vols I & II this series is hysterical and whilst probably only me finds it funny, it is GREAT! Truly it is fascinating and lays bare the history of the earliest roots of Brit Rock n Roll and now we are coming to Cliff's hit singles and still some Tommy Steele classics (check out Come on Let's Go the Ritchie Valens (read: Los Lobos) classic hit. There is more Marty Wilde and some great songs like Cliff's Move it to Rave On, Singing The Blues and Wake Up Little Susie. This is full of great stuff . . . . . . it is available through Zippysh***e so not directly available through British file servers or rather web browsers so you may have to use a VPN if like me you live in the UK but none the worse for that. NB: noting that the second disc available via the easy MEGA in NZ and also that this volume contains monster classic hits like Tequila and Hoots Mon by Lord Rockingham XI!!

(Send me a message of you struggle with that first one)

Many would argue that there was no such thing as Great British Rock 'n' Roll in the 1950s, or at least not until 1958 when Cliff Richard's "Move It" offered a rather more convincing home-grown hit than all of its predecessors. However, apart from the Skiffle explosion, there was another quirky musical scene happening in Britain during the late '40s and 1950s. As far as we are aware, this compilation is the first authoritative musical documentation of that scene.
Perhaps it should better be classed as NOSTALGIA rather than Rock 'n' Roll but there is a lot of fascinating stuff here, such as the Deep River Boys (from Virginia, USA, recording in Britain during their many UK tours), Ray Ellington (a British-based black bandleader of American & Russian descent) and Winifred Atwell, a classically trained pianist from Trinidad who would go to 'her other piano' to belt out some rockin' boogies. Elsewhere there are numerous talented British jazzers seeing which way the wind was blowing and jumping that jive, and some up 'n' coming UK popsters swaying their hips to the transatlantic rhythm. And of course Tommy Steele, who was acclaimed as Britain's first Rock 'n' Roll star (long before he started serenading little white bulls).
This goes to show that swing rock 'n' roll was being recorded and performed on Britain in the early 50's far more than most realized.

Thanks as ever to RYP

trax CD 1:
1. Right Behind You Baby - Vince Taylor & The Playboys 2. Move It - Cliff Richad & The Drifters 3. Come On, Let's Go - Tommy Steele 4. This Is The Night - Terry Dane 5. Five Days, Five Days - Vince Eager 6. Endless Sleep - Marty Wilde & The Wildcats 7. No Other Baby - The Vipers 8. Whole Lotta Woman - Most Brothers 9. High School Confidential - Adam Faith 10. My Feet Hit The Gorund - Cliff Richard & The Drifters 11. I Got A Feeling - Franklyn Boyd & The Socitey Six 12. Cannonball - Ernie Shear & The Lew Randall Band 13. I Like Love - Vince Taylor & The Playboys 14. Start Movin' - Terry Dene & The Malcolm Lockyer Group 15. Don't Let Go - Jim Dale 16. Boogie In The Groove - Winifred Atwell 17. Rave On - Hal Burton 18. Gum Drop - Vince Eager & The Vagabonds 19. Jean Dorothy - The Five Chesternuts 20. High Class Baby - Cliff Richard & The Drifters 21. Fire Of Love - Marty Wilde & The Wildcats 22. Big Not Blues - Bert Weedon 23. Ninety Nine Ways - Ricky James 24. Stood Up - Dave Grant 25. Crazy For You - Jim Dale 26. Play Rough - Johnny Luck 27. Skinnie Minnie - Stan Greig's Jazz Band 28. It's Only Make Believe - Franklyn Boyd & The Coronets 29. Singing The Blues - David Ross 30. Teenage Love - The Five Chesternuts 31. Faulous - Paul Rich 32. Dob's Boogie - Winifred Atwell 33. Wake Up Little Susie - David Ross 34. Schoolboy Crush - Cliff Richard & The Drifters 
...originally served by Gyro1966..

trax CD 2:

1. Penny Loafers And Bobby Socks - The Southlanders 2. Itchy Twitchy Feeling - The Deep River Boys 3. Living Doll - Ray Ellington 4. Rock Shuffle Boogie - Tony Crombie & His Rockets 5. Rock Pretty Baby - Don Lang & His Frantic Five 6. Rosie Lee - Wee Willie Harris 7. Rock Baby Rock - Bertice Reading 8. Ko Ko Mo - The Rock 'n' Rollers 9. Mercy Mercy Mercy - Neville Taylor & The Cutters 10. I Wanna Jive Tonight - The Southlanders 11. Six Five Blues - Ken Mackintosh 12. Not Too Old To Rock N Roll - The Deep River Boys 13. Hey Baby - The Four Jacks 14. Priscilla - The Four Jacks 15. Big Guitar - Ken Mackintosh 16. This Little Girls' Gone Rockin' - Janice Peters & The Frank Barber Band 17. Happy Baby - The Rock 'n' Rollers 18. Party Time - The King Brothers 19. The Squelch - Lord Rockingham's XI 20. Every Which Way - The John Barry Seven 21. If You're So Smart, How Come You Ain't Rich - Billy Sproud & The Rock N Roll Six 22. The Big Beat - Don Lang & His Frantic Five 23. Weekend - Red Price 24. It's A Lie - The Four Jacks 25. Dynamo - Les Houbeaux 26. Tequila - Johnnie The Gash Gray 27. Take Me Back Baby - Tommy Steele & The Steelman 28. Bye Bye Baby - Paul Rich 29. Rex Rocks - Tony Crombie 30. A Million Tears - The Four Jacks 31. Alligator Roll - Victor Silvester & His Rock N' Roll Rhythm 32. Gettin' Ready For Freddy - Alma Cogan 33. Hoots Mon - Lord Rockingham's XI 34. A Sweet Old Fashioned Boy - Terry Thomas Esq. With His Rock N Roll Rotters 

...originally served by Gyro1966...

From Vol III disc 2 - Lord Rockingham - Hoots Mon (ask a Scot!?!!)

TEQUILA! - Johnny 'The Gash' Gray · Ken Jones & His Orchestra