Dame Shirley recorded her first session at IBC studios in January ’56, shortly after her nineteenth birthday. Her debut single - which was engineered by a young Joe Meek - paired up ...
The lunatic image of Spike Jones conducting the band with a baton in one hand and a starting pistol in the other is the way the world remembers him. If it ever considered what lay ...
Featuring six tracks of Richmond with His Organ Grinders Swing and twenty with him and his trademark Hammond Organ.The almighty Hammond organ, equally at home in funky blues ...
The post war boom in Rhythm & Blues was fuelled partly by the enormous number of rural African Americans who migrated to the big cities like New York, Los Angeles, Detroit and Chicago ...
Every Night Something Atrocious - the squaddies interpretation of those initials was, in some cases, pretty near the mark. There were many entertainers to whom ENSA was a lifeline. All ...
