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VA - Rock You Sinners! The Dawn of British Rock & Roll (1950s)

Исполнитель: Various Artists
Название альбома: Rock You Sinners!
Год выпуска: 2007, Rev-Ola Records
Формат файлов: Mp3, 320
Размер архива: 167 Mb
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For most listeners around the world, the "dawn" of British rock & roll didn't take place until the Beatles started to make their first records. Even for those who grew up in the U.K. at the time, the true dawn of British rock often isn't considered to have taken place until the late '50s, when the first credible homegrown singers in the idiom emerged, like Cliff Richard and Billy Fury. In fact, however, British rock & roll -- or, perhaps more accurately, the influence of rock & roll in British pop music -- was starting to be heard as early as 1953, when bandleader Ted Heath covered Bill Haley's "Crazy Man Crazy" (included on this CD). This intriguing 31-track compilation offers a wealth of pre-Cliff Richard & the Shadows recordings that, if not exactly rock & roll, showed British pop musicians trying to do something with the form. As it happened, they more often than not ended up sounding like rather staid swing jazz bands trying to broaden their appeal by putting a rock & roll or R&B song in their set without gaining any true grasp or appreciation of this newfangled music that had originated on the other side of the Atlantic. It wasn't really until Tommy Steele's late-1956 hit "Rock with the Caveman" (also included here) that any British performer made a reasonable approximation of authentic rock & roll sounds, and even that hit was something of a clumsy novelty. But while this is by no means something you would put on the order of the later British pioneers like Richard, Fury, and Johnny Kidd, let alone jump blues and early rock & roll bands rocking the urban centers of the United States, that doesn't mean that this isn't a fairly enjoyable compilation on its own musical terms, if something of a crass guilty pleasure. Though many of these efforts to spice up what's essentially fairly square jazz-pop music with a bit of rock & roll (or at least do a rock & roll song with a jazz arrangement) sound a little unintentionally funny, much of them do have a somewhat appealing naïve energy, like that of performers suppressing a grin while they exploit a passing fad. Of course, that passing fad, both in the U.S. and U.K., turned out to be the most popular musical style of the 20th century, relegating these early somewhat exploitative attempts to mimic it to the dustbins of history. This compilation is a small revelation, however, in exposing how the roots of the music's foothold in Britain ran much deeper and earlier than is commonly assumed, almost amounting to documentation of a missing chapter in rock & roll history. Yes, there are some awfully stiff covers of early rock & roll hits on board, like Gale Warning's Mae West-ish take on "Heartbreak Hotel." But really, some of these tracks aren't bad by any standards, like Steele's credibly swinging "Doomsday Rock" and Tony Crombie & His Rockets' credibly pounding "Rock Shuffle Boogie," while the Goons' parody "Bloodnok's Rock 'n' Roll Call" (an actual number three U.K. hit in 1956) remains pretty funny.
Richie Unterberger, AMG

01. Bloodnok's Rock 'n' Roll Call - The Goons
02. Bygraves' Bogie - Max Bygraves
03. Dance With Me Henry - Henry Crun & Minnie Bannister
04. Crazy Man Crazy - Ted Heath
05. Giddy Up A Ding Dong - Ray Ellington
06. Rock-A-Beatin' Boogie - Ivor & Basil Kirchin Band
07. Birmingham Bounce - Ted Heath & His Orchestra, Jack Parnell
08. Oakie Bogie - Ted Heath, Lita Roza
09. Smack Dab In The Middle - The Deep River Boys
10. Tweedle Dee - Ivor & Basil Kirchin Band
11. Sugaree - Dennis Lotis
12. That's Right - The Deep River Boys
13. Art's Theme - Art Baxter & His Rock 'n' Roll Sinners
14. Rock 'n' Roll Boogie - The Squadronaires
15. Let's You And I Rock - Tony Crombie & The Rockets
16. Shake, Rattle & Roll - Jack Parnell & His Orchestra
17. Rock Around The Clock - The Deep River Boys
18. Rex Rocks - Tony Crombie & The Rockets
19. Rock Around Town - Tommy Steele & The Steelmen
20. Heartbreak Hotel - Gale Warming & The Weathermen
21. Whole Latta Shakin' Goin' On - The Deep River Boys
22. Teach You To Rock - Tony Crombie & The Rockets
23. Short'nin' Bread Rock - Tony Crombie & The Rockets
24. Seventeen - Don Lang & The Frantic Five
25. Doomsday Rock - Tommy Steele & The Steelmen
26. I Gotta Have Lovin' - Art Baxter & His Rock 'n' Roll Sinners
27. Left Hand Boogie - The Ray Ellington Quartet
28. Rock With The Caveman - Tommy Steele & The Steelmen
29. Stop It (I Like It) - Tony Crombie & The Rockets
30. Rock Mr piper - Don Lang & The Frantic Five
31. Rock Shuffle Boogie - Tony Crombie & The Rockets

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