GREAT BRITISH ROCK 'N' ROLL Vol. 3: Just About As Good As It Gets - disc 2

This fascinating collection sets out to show what was going on in the swing rock 'n' roll scene in Britain from the early 50's to 1956.
Many would argue that there was no such thing as Great British Rock 'n' Roll in the 1950s, or at least not until 1958 when Cliff Richard's "Move It" offered a rather more convincing home-grown hit than all of its predecessors. However, apart from the Skiffle explosion, there was another quirky musical scene happening in Britain during the late '40s and 1950s. As far as we are aware, this compilation is the first authoritative musical documentation of that scene.
Perhaps it should better be classed as NOSTALGIA rather than Rock 'n' Roll but there is a lot of fascinating stuff here, such as the Deep River Boys (from Virginia, USA, recording in Britain during their many UK tours), Ray Ellington (a British-based black bandleader of American & Russian descent) and Winifred Atwell, a classically trained pianist from Trinidad who would go to 'her other piano' to belt out some rockin' boogies. Elsewhere there are numerous talented British jazzers seeing which way the wind was blowing and jumping that jive, and some up 'n' coming UK popsters swaying their hips to the transatlantic rhythm. And of course Tommy Steele, who was acclaimed as Britain's first Rock 'n' Roll star (long before he started serenading little white bulls).
This goes to show that swing rock 'n' roll was being recorded and performed on Britain in the early 50's far more than most realized.

trax CD 2:
1. Penny Loafers And Bobby Socks - The Southlanders 2. Itchy Twitchy Feeling - The Deep River Boys 3. Living Doll - Ray Ellington 4. Rock Shuffle Boogie - Tony Crombie & His Rockets 5. Rock Pretty Baby - Don Lang & His Frantic Five 6. Rosie Lee - Wee Willie Harris 7. Rock Baby Rock - Bertice Reading 8. Ko Ko Mo - The Rock 'n' Rollers 9. Mercy Mercy Mercy - Neville Taylor & The Cutters 10. I Wanna Jive Tonight - The Southlanders 11. Six Five Blues - Ken Mackintosh 12. Not Too Old To Rock N Roll - The Deep River Boys 13. Hey Baby - The Four Jacks 14. Priscilla - The Four Jacks 15. Big Guitar - Ken Mackintosh 16. This Little Girls' Gone Rockin' - Janice Peters & The Frank Barber Band 17. Happy Baby - The Rock 'n' Rollers 18. Party Time - The King Brothers 19. The Squelch - Lord Rockingham's XI 20. Every Which Way - The John Barry Seven 21. If You're So Smart, How Come You Ain't Rich - Billy Sproud & The Rock N Roll Six 22. The Big Beat - Don Lang & His Frantic Five 23. Weekend - Red Price 24. It's A Lie - The Four Jacks 25. Dynamo - Les Houbeaux 26. Tequila - Johnnie The Gash Gray 27. Take Me Back Baby - Tommy Steele & The Steelman 28. Bye Bye Baby - Paul Rich 29. Rex Rocks - Tony Crombie 30. A Million Tears - The Four Jacks 31. Alligator Roll - Victor Silvester & His Rock N' Roll Rhythm 32. Gettin' Ready For Freddy - Alma Cogan 33. Hoots Mon - Lord Rockingham's XI 34. A Sweet Old Fashioned Boy - Terry Thomas Esq. With His Rock N Roll Rotters
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