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 […]
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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)
Hank C. Burnette (1944-)
Born in Sveg (Härjedalen) but has lived in Ockle (Oxelösund) since autumn 1960 [p.c.] Hank C. BurnetteAugust 22, 2012 at 10:52 AM SHORT (VERY SHORT!!) SUMMARY OF THE UNLIKELY CAREER OF THE LEGENDARY HANK C. BURNETTE… Real name: Sven-Åke Högberg, better known as The Legendary Hank C. Burnette with over 70 records/CDs to my credit on […]
2024 Juan J. C.’s rock’n’roll factory
This is a new one for me : how come I’m discovering a real treasure trove of doo-wop and rock’n’roll records for the first time in 2025 ? Simply because they only started coming out in the spring of 2024 … Go look and listen for yourself on the YouTube channel of *Don Juan AI […]
2023 ‘This train’ by Alan Power and the Aftershocks
This is basically not a music site, but sometimes a little-known band play a tune in such a way that it deserves its place here. But there is more, it is a text-book example of how to rock up a song, not only through instrumentation and the arrangement, but also through the voice. EXPAND.
