Review of Rock, Rock, Rock! (1956) by Daibhid J — 12 May 2014

Alan Freed! Chuck Berry! Johnny Burnett! The Moonglows! The Flamingos! LaVern Baker! Frankie Lymon! And Tuesday Weld when she was a cute kid! Too bad they deleted Frankie Virtue and the Virtues, a good pre-surf guitar band of the era who would no doubt be better known if they had been left in.

The otherwise obscure Jimmy Cavello & the House Rockers are pretty cool white jump-blues group, but the inclusion of pop dreck like Teddy Randazo or the Bowties is just embarrassing, not everything that came out of the 50's was cool you know, I seem to recall that Pat Boone sold a ton of vinyl at the time.

My DVD copy also has a double feature in The Rhythm and Blues Revue, from 1955 which has Big Joe Turner, Cab Calloway, Amos Milburn, Sarah Vaughn, Count Basie, Lionel Hampton, The Larks and the Delta Rhythm Boys.