The Colourful Era

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’) […]