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1980 ‘(Jack Good’s) Oh Boy!’ – 2nd series

Filmed in Birmingham, the format of the second series of ‘Oh Boy!’ (not the second series as per YouTube clips) was quite different from the first with more than a nod to the style of the 1950s original with musical backing by the Oh Boy! Cats & Kittens and a starker set with no audience […]

1979 ‘(Jack Good’s) Oh Boy!’ – 1st series

Filmed at the Astoria Theatre, London, the revival of ‘Oh Boy!’ in 1979 (fully ‘Jack Good’s Oh Boy!’) was a recognition by British television in the last year of the 1970s of the pure entertainment value of 1950s rock’n’roll. Here we will analyse no more, we’ll just give you the programmes as they were first […]

50s Swedish rock’n’rollers’ performances

‘just the same’ 1963 by Jerry Williams  

Sugar Ray’s – a perfect modern recreation of a 1950s recording studio

Sugar Ray’s Vintage Recording Studio, set in a garden centre in Wickford, Essex, just north of London, is the brainchild of Pat Reyford aka ‘Sugar Ray Ford’, Dean Amos and Dave Privett. This trio of rock’n’roll artists who had participated in the rockin’ scene since the 1970s had felt nonplussed at the results which modern recording […]

The rock’n’roll ‘barking’ sax

The ‘barking’ baritone sax is the epitomy of rock’n’roll saxophone, listen to Lottie B honking with Sarah Mai on ‘ain’t gonna hush’ Ivan Hewett in the Daily Telegraph 26 Feb 2014 Is the sound of a saxophone intrinsically ugly? No, a million jazz fans will cry. Yes, many classical music lovers will shout back. There was a moment […]

50s rock’n’roll dancing USA

We all know that the teenage dancers were always ‘bopping’ in rock’n’roll songs 1950s but what was the ‘bop’ as a dance ? What it definitely wasn’t was the ‘bop’ as it was known since the 1960s among the British teddy boy fraternity, a singleton dance. The 1950s bop may have been danced at times […]

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  • 2015 ‘Rockabilly lovers’ cartoon clip
  • Gene Vincent tribute performances
  • When others get it wrong – bopping
  • Hepsters
  • Babs Gonzales, the hepster from ‘Oo-poo-pa-doo’
  • 1991 The Firebirds in concert
  • ‘Rock’n’roll’ – ‘rockabilly’ – ‘rhythm’n’blues’ : a rant about musical terminology
  • 1994 ‘Tear it Up! The Rockabilly Documentary’
  • The rockin’ sax
  • 1959 ‘Six O’Clock Rock’ Aussie rock’n’roll tv show
  • Lightning Recorders studio, Berlin – another perfect recreated 50s recording studio
  • 1981 Jack Good’s ‘Let’s Rock!’ – 3rd series
  • 1980 ‘(Jack Good’s) Oh Boy!’ – 2nd series
  • 1979 ‘(Jack Good’s) Oh Boy!’ – 1st series
  • 50s Swedish rock’n’rollers’ performances
  • Sugar Ray’s – a perfect modern recreation of a 1950s recording studio
  • The rock’n’roll ‘barking’ sax
  • 50s rock’n’roll dancing USA
  • Thrashabilly
  • The Blue Cats (Blue Cat Trio)
  • 2019 ‘Dandilicious’
  • 1970s, 1980s Later Vince Taylor performances
  • 2018 Johnny and the Timebombs
  • early 60s Vince Taylor performances
  • Cringeworthy rock’n’roll moments
  • early 60s Chats Sauvages performances
  • 50s performances of Cliff Richards and the Shadows
  • The ‘mystery black buskin’ boppin’ ted’
  • 2018 Ted shows Americans how we bop
  • Whiskey A-Go-Go
  • 1955 Babs Gonzales, be-boppin’ poet present at the dawn of rock’n’roll
  • Gil Brady and other 1950s jitterbugging stars
  • Cat talk
  • 1956 Steve Allen’s ‘be-bop-a-lula’ skit
  • 50s performances of original pieces by ‘unknowns’
  • 50s performances of Fats Domino
  • 50s performances of Jerry Lee Lewis
  • 50s performances of Eddie Cochran
  • 50s performances of Bill Haley and his Comets
  • 50s performances of Little Richard
  • Fun YouTube clips of rock’n’roll songs
  • 50s performances of Gene Vincent
  • 50s performances of Johnny Burnette, Conway Twitty, Ronnie Hawkins and Jack Scott
  • 50s performances of Carl Perkins
  • 1953 ‘Glory in the Flower’, James Dean and Bill Haley share a bill
  • 50s performances of Elvis Presley
  • 50s performances of Chuck Berry
  • Les Paul (1915–2009), creator of the rock’n’roll sound in the late 1940s
  • 1950s Rock’n’roll films
  • 1961 French rock’n’twist
  • 1960-61 Johnny, Eddy and Dick, the French favourites
  • 1959 The twist and other dance crazes
  • 1958 The stroll and the madison
  • 1954 Alan Freed and rock’n’roll
  • Scopitones
  • Jukeboxes
  • Last song of the rock’n’roll era
  • Acrobatic rock’n’roll
  • Origin and meaning: jive and jitterbug
  • Origin and meaning: rockabilly
  • Origin and meaning: rock’n’roll
  • Origin and meaning: bop
  • Jiving
  • Randy Richter – doyen of the authentic 50s rockabilly and rock’n’roll guitar sound
  • Great French rock’n’roll covers
  • Book reviews: Sun records & Sonny Burgess
  • Speeded-up rock’n’roll recordings of the 50s

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