Decca Years 1956-1963

Decca Years 1956-1963 Artist: Tommy Steele
Label: Universal/Polygram
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 2


UPC: 028946640920
EAN: 0028946640920
ASIN: B00000JXI0


Release Date: 1999-05-18

Decca Years 1956-1963


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Tracks:

  1. Rock With The Caveman
  2. Rock Around The Town
  3. Doomsday Rock
  4. Elevator Rock
  5. Singing The Blues
  6. Rebel Rock
  7. Knee Deep In The Blues
  8. Teenage Party
  9. Butterfingers
  10. Cannibal Pot
  11. Shiralee
  12. Grandad's Rock
  13. Butterfly
  14. Water, Water
  15. A Handful Of Songs
  16. Hey You!
  17. Plant A Kiss
  18. Nairobi
  19. Neon Sign
  20. Happy Guitar
  21. Princess
  22. It's All Happening
  23. What Do You Do
  24. The Only Man On The Island
  25. I Puts The Lightie On
  26. Come On, Let's Go
  27. Put A Ring On Her Finger
  28. A Lovely Night
  29. Marriage Type Love
  30. Hiawatha
  31. The Trial
  32. Tallahassee Lassie
  33. Give! Give! Give!
  34. You Were Mine
  35. Young Ideas
  36. Little White Bull
  37. Singing Time
  38. What A Mouth (What A North And South)
  39. Kookaburra
  40. Happy-Go-Lucky Blues
  41. Long Black Hair (The Girl With The)
  42. Must Be Santa
  43. Boys And Girls
  44. The Dit-Dit Song
  45. My Big Best Shoes
  46. The Writing On The Wall
  47. Drunken Guitar
  48. Hit Record
  49. What A Little Darlin'
  50. He's Got Love
  51. Green Eye
  52. Butter Wouldn't Melt In Your Mouth
  53. Where Have All The Floweres Gone
  54. Flash, Bang, Wallop!
  55. She's Too Far Above Me
  56. Half A Sixpance
  57. Giddy-Up-A-Ding Dong
  58. Kaw-Liga
  59. Young Love
  60. Take Me Back Baby
  61. Build Up
  62. Time To Kill
  63. Hair-Down Hoe-Down
  64. Sweet Georgia Brown
  65. Tommy The Toreador
  66. Hollerin' And Screamin'
  67. Lonesome Traveller
  68. So Long (It's Been Good To Know Yuh)

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Album Description

68 tracks from the British entertainer, including A & B-sides of 27 singles, plus the best of his EP and LP tracks. Also contains a 20 page booklet. Featured tracks include 'Rock With The Caveman', 'Rock Around The Town', 'Doomsday Rock', 'Elevator Rock'

Album Details

68 Tracks from the British Entertainer Including A&b Sides of 27 Singles plus Best of EP and LP Tracks. 20 Page Booklet.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars First British rock star.......2003-06-29

Tommy's place in British rock history has been largely ignored, possibly because he was always more interested in being an all-round family entertainer, something at which he became hugely successful in the sixties and beyond. As a singer-actor, he appeared in several successful West end plays and also appeared in several movies, including Finian's rainbow alongside Fred Astaire and Petula Clark.

Nevertheless, Tommy's earliest successes were as a singer - he was Britain's first indigenous rock'n'roll star. Although some of his hits were covers of American songs (the prevailing fashion in fifties Britain), he did not rely entirely on those. Indeed, he wrote some of his own songs.

His first British chart success was with Rock with the caveman, a typical slice of rock'n'roll. His biggest success (and only number one hit) was with a cover of Singing the blues. Curiously, Tommy's version and Guy Mitchell's version both reached number one in Britain - they swapped places at the top of the charts. Many people think that Guy's version was the original, but actually both were covers - Marty Robbins recorded the original version. Both Guy and Tommy also covered another Marty original, Knee deep in the blues.

As time went by, Tommy's desire to be an all-round entertainer was reflected in the diversity of material that he recorded. Among his other British hits were Butterfly (but it was Andy Williams who topped the charts with it), Handful of songs, Water water, Shiralee, Nairobi, Happy guitar and the children's song Little white bull.

This compilation shows the full range of Tommy's talents as a singer, including covers of folk songs (Where have all the flowers gone, Lonesome traveller), country songs (Kaw-liga) as well as more rock'n'roll songs, stage and screen songs and the Christmas song Must be Santa.

It is difficult to assess the true significance of Tommy's contribution to British rock history, but it is certainly far greater than he is given credit for.

5 out of 5 stars Whose Tommy Steele????.......2001-01-24

Hello! I first heard Tommy Steele back in 1973, I was about 13years old. I was sick and stood home from school, KTLA used to have movies at 9am, I think? And "Rock around the World" came on. It was Tommy's autobiography, it was pretty cooool!!! He was a sickly kid and Sister of a Church gave him a guitar and he learned to play it, you have to watch this to get the rest. I fell in love with him and he's been my Idol since, the favorite tracks are "Two Eyes" and "Elevator Rock"!

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