The Paris group Les Chaussettes Noires with their singer Eddy Mitchell (born Claude Moine) were just about the best of the French rock’n’roll groups that sprung up after 1960. Like the others, most of their songs were covers, but they did a good job in adapting the originals so that there’s nearly always something fresh […]
1980s The Stray Cats interviewed in America
New York three-piece rockabilly band the Stray Cats famously made it big in Europe where there was a rock’n’roll scene revival. Things were not so rosy in America at the time for the music and style we love, so it’s interesting to see the Stray Cats interviewed by an American pop music show and see […]
1955 The Battle of Bankfoot, Bradford
2011 Eddy & Rick, the rock’n’rollers (Reeves & Mortimer)
Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer, off-the-wall British comedy legends, in a comedy cheap webcast series ‘Vic and Bob’s Afternoon Delights’ from 2011 have a piss-take go at 50s rock’n’roll fans through their portrayal of Eddy (or is it Eddie?) and Rick who try to keep the spirit of rock’n’roll alive in their home town of […]
AI rock’n’roll gems
Well here it is, rock’n’roll that you never heard before. Some of it is good and some is great even if it is a mystery to most of us how it is produced. The Retro Beat Repository/J Guilbaul released May 2024 released April 2024 May 2024 August 2024 June 2024 October 2024 May 2024 June […]
50s (rocking) performances of Pat Boone
‘Saturday Tennessee Night’ 1955 (with Red Foley, his father-in-law) on the Ozark Jubilee tv show (17 Sep 1955) ‘crazy little mama (at my front door) on the Chevy Showroom tv show (14 Nov 1957)
