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 […]
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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 […]
