The Colourful Era

The Saint Helier Arms was the Mecca of rock’n’roll life in Sarf Lannan during the late 1970s. Here’s an 8-minute clip from 1978 aired on the BBC in 1979 showing us a good tranche of the teds from 1978 before the advent of the hepcats (it features a performance by the Flying Saucers of ‘keep […]

Here are the 1980s Norwegian rock’n’rollers Teencats singing ‘teddy boy stomp’ on NRK channel. It doesn’t get any better than this! (Not to be confused with the French Teen Kats, another good group from the same period). The Teencats from Hernes near Elversum started off in 1984. Teencats er et norsk Teddy Boy Rock’n’Roll-/rockabillyband fra […]

Here is the Norman group les Teddy Bears performing on the regional tv programme ‘Dialogues’ in Caen. Three songs are ‘skinny Jim’, their own ‘they slapped James’ and ‘Ubangi stomp’. Good unpretentious rock’n’roll … Now the Old Timers sing ‘tock’n’roll boogie’ and ‘I’m loving you, baby’ (Blois 1981)

 

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.  followed ‘Elvis’ also at the Astoria theatre. 4 acts are standout from a teds point-of-view (Shakin’ Stevens, Freddie Fingers Lee, the (‘Rockin’) […]