That was Western movies the 1st and biggest hits of the lympics a vocal quartet from Compton in Northern California whose style was newspeak into that of the coasters though western movies actually predated the coast his own send up of the conventions of cowboy films along came Jones the gunfire in the record came from the sound effects LP You can hear the scratches if you listen carefully the whole production was literally homemade the studio being in the home of the postman also played bass on the session the drums were played by Effie Smith one time R. And B. Star vocalist who by now run a talent agency with her husband John Krajina the Olympics with just about the best act they spotted in Western movies made the top 10 both on B. And pop in the States on. Top 20 in the U.K. In the autumn of 9058 reaching its peak of number 8 in America in mid September on Volume 3 of the Golden Age of American rock N roll on a second's summer was drawing to an end in September but that didn't stop Eddie Cochran out in the top 10 hit with this record. Suffering from a fit of Summertime Blues recent. By him in association with his manager Jerry Capehart is him to teenage truculence was recorded in Hollywood in the spring of 98 with Eddie handling the vocals including his thought those deep voiced interjections and also the guitar parts in addition there were as Garbo Smith on bass Palmer on drums and Jerry Capehart and Sharon Sheeley on hand claps a 1000000 seller Summertime Blues became Eddie's only US Top 10 success when it beats a number 8 in the States the end of September 58 in even greater defiance of the season's the record went on to become Eddie's U.K. Chart debut when it reached number 18 here as late as November just under 10 years later in the spring of 1968 Summertime Blues became a British Top 40 hit all over again you just can't keep a rock N roll classic down to only track of the very best of Eddie Cochran on E.M.R. I. It wasn't often that Elvis failed to reach the US top 5 in the 9050s when this did happen it was huge because it was a Besides charting in its own right such was the case with I got stung Oh OK let's take the line of one about the get up and do me with the song along with you in the long long long long time I break out in a call comes with come out on the bum of the I'm I'm wrong I got some of you come on come on come on come on come on come on I'll break I'm going to call come off that come up to come up with me Mum I am up against some of the. Elvis Presley and I got stung song from the Schroeder and Hill writing team that had L. With his usual band of Scotty Moore Bill Black and D.J. Fontana or mentored by Chet Atkins on guitar Floyd Kramer on piano and the Jordan airs on backing vocals I got stung was issued as a B. Side of a revival of Smiley Lewis's one night and initially so faster peaking at number 8 in late November 9583 weeks after that one night asserted itself at last peak at number 4 but there's no risk of a split vote occurring on this side it one tick on the singles released here in January at 959 as it's promoted as a double A side and reacted by going straight in at number one both one night and I got stung around 50000000 Elvis fans can't be wrong Elvis gold records Volume 2 on R.C.A. . Now the next 2 records up in the age in the U.S. Charts goodbye baby by Jack Scott on the peace a gun theme by Ray Antonin hocussed Are you very recently in my American top 20 new Come series so we head to a pro 59 now this one of Smash Hits for Joe Cole Travis and Bob. That was tell him No by Travis and Bob country from Alabama who was seen by a small time that ambitious country singer and record company owner called John Bozeman as the next Everly Brothers the duo was recorded on the primitive conditions in his studio but what often happens the very low finest of the record called the public's fancy so much so that Travis and Bob slowly became flavor of the month when the song reached number 8 in the charts the end of April 9059 not an even better how not a cover version by Dean and Mark depressed its sales by also reaching the top 50 on Mike Dean and Mark who later became 2 thirds the hit makers the new beats Travis and Bob were never heard of again their lone claim to fame is on the Golden Age of American rock N roll volume 5 on a stretcher holds. I'm not trying to some bald Frankie Avalon was very much a product of the centralized music industry or D.C. Philadelphia branching out into the street he's made his record was aimed squarely one might almost say cynically teenage talking to one teens. And today so you are in doubt is what to say. Frankie Avalon with a sartorial rite of passage number called bobby socks to stockings I suppose the title is meant to be an innocent one the various Philadelphia teen idols Fabian being a prime example when out of the fact that their pretty boy looks didn't extend to having a decent set of tonsils Frankie Avalon could be nearly the best of them on a good day and is clearly very successful on scoring 13 US Top 40 hits in total when he came to recall bobby socks stockings it was clearly not one his good days and his voice was about and certainly all over the place not that it made him much difference to Frankie sales potential following on from the success of his number one hit Venus and with the usual relentless plugging on Dick Clark's American Bandstand T.V. Show the basics of stockings which number 8 in the charts in July in 1 to 59 this besides a boy out of girl just creeping into the top 10 behind it however it makes me feel very patriotic spirit to report that this period curiosity fell completely in this country where no one even bothered to cover it not even for embassy records both sides the single on a collection of the straight faced title of the fabulous Frankie Avalon on a second's. Now for someone who could really sing Donna Washington. We're told. What difference a day may. Use when to fall on its own I'll love the. Water the sun and the flower beds. Where they used to live again. Yesterday was blue day. To day. To day. My. Father would. Say you were my. Difference they made. You. Dinah Washington and what a difference a day makes although this R. And B. Star was also a familiar figure to mainstream audiences she never cracked the pop top 20 before she can desperately close a $950.00 with I want to be loved but recently even her R. And B. Hits a start of the tail off. Over the years a Washington had become a real interpreter of standards and what a Difference a Day Makes was right up her street originally a Spanish song or mantic ballad in the Bolero style is English language version of being popularized by the Dorsey Brothers back in 1934 Donna Washington's revival made with the orchestra Belford Hendrix and produced by Clyde Otis started off with its original title of what a difference a day made but when Diana dramatically shifted the tense from the past the present part way through the title was changed accordingly not only was it the title track of a forthcoming album but when releases a single it gave her a 1st RB top 5 hit in nearly 5 years and in August 9th 59 it reaches high as Number 8 in the pop charts dramatically reviving her career in the process this is from Dinah Washington the E.P. Collection on See For Miles records. A month later this memorable reco by Fox domino made his number 8 in the U.S. Chopper. You won't. be weird to me that I'm not to late. Morning your You. And I want to you. That. I want to walk you home an easy going New Orleans rocker from Fats Domino with I think warm on trial on guitar written by facts alone without the collaboration of his band leader they perform you want to walk you home continued fats impressive haul of hits by reaching number one R. And B. Or bit the last time on the 8 pop in September not a 59 and finding a place in the British top 20 later on in the autumn he's beside I'm going to be will some day or so hovered around the edge of the top 20 both the Army and pop charts both sides on a fast on a collection. Career from 150 to 96 he won although they later crossover years get more attention than the Early on the ones albums call Greatest Hits walking to New Orleans and it's on Capitol Records. For something a good deal more showbizzy though not without merit Primrose lane by Jerry Wallace . i was jerry wallace with the jewels and primrose lane jory wallace was a country singer bony missouri anon she 28 race in arizona he really well remembered nowadays but he began recording in non to 51 on a school together which so Evan made the Top 40 Primrose lane might seem a touch on the corny side but it's producing co-written by Wayne Shanklin had a golden touch with some of his other compositions Jessa Bell chance on down more on the Big Hurt being the most successful of them all of those songs is exactly rock N roll but Jerry Wallace his vocals get Primrose Lane a welcome edge to it and he's a be supported in his endevor by the jewels who are taking to his backing band here at any event the record better days previous high watermark how the time flies by becoming his career best hit when it reached number 8 in the pop charts at the end of October $9059.00 in this country though it was Dicky prides cover version that took such honors as were being handed out when it fleetingly appeared in our top 30 Jerry what was his rendition is on teenage crush Volume 3 on a struggles that site hits a month for this month. Half . Your listening to Henrietta's jukebox on B.B.C. Radio Humberside Lincolnshire and York coming up next the eighty's head of R. And B. Number 5 I'd go to far as the letter H. In this series last month for the so many contenders and reached only as far as for the H.'s as the old style blues month Smokey Hawk I'll continue with something from the more sophisticated end of the blue spectrum the great Billie Holiday. Oh a new. Home and I. Love. Our. Home mommy. But no one. Knew. That. Was. With a friend. To meet. Me. And you. All want. Him. To fuck. Us. With a. Bit of. A stain. It's . Seat week. And you. Know let's. See if. We. Went. To the a. It was Billie Holiday with one of her signature songs love a man a Where can you be specially written for her but with repeated musicians union strikes and reluctance of the management at Decca to fork out money for the sort of arrangement Billy wanted he took 2 years before her producer Milt Gabler mice to swing things so she could enter the studio and be presented with toots Camerata and his orchestra Needless to say she made the most of her opportunity most of Billy's hits came before a black music sales chart was published and even then had biggest R. And B. Success the chart topping traveling light went out under the name of her bandleader Paul Whiteman with her getting 2nd billing on her nickname of Lady Day but she got full acknowledgment from love a man which in May 945 went to number 5 R. And B. In the so-called juke box race records chart and number 16 the ones love a man but not annoyingly traveling light finds a place 19042245 the R. And B. Hits on Indigo records. The fifty's do up next for the Hollywood Flames. The Hollywood Flames both buzz buzz this Los Angeles group started out as the flames there's early as $950.00 went through more than half a dozen name changes in their convoluted 16 year 19 label recording career founder member Robert Byrd was a songwriter but on both boys boys it was Earl Nelson who joined the ever shifting personnel in 155 who took the lead vocal the flames thought their look at change in the autumn not a 59 when a Robert Byrd composition and titled Little bitty pretty one looked like a serious contender for national rather than local fame has bounced into oblivion by a cover version from Thurston Harrison the shops became a big crossover hit the flames of call themselves Bobby day and the satellites on that occasion they hit back immediately for another label with Buzz buzz buzz in which they reverted to the current favorite moniker of the Hollywood Flames success at last the record took off in a big way and ended up at number 5 R. And B. In December 9057 and crossed over to Number 11 pop at the turn of the year Robert Byrd later recycled the twiddly daily do you phrase and some other durable elements in a new song he called Rockin Robin that became an even bigger hit in the autumn of 958 seemingly a solo item for Byrd under his Bobby de alias except it was really him singing lead with the rest of the Hollywood Flames as usual I've taken both bows both from a do what collection called should be dooby doo wop on a second's of some earthy blues from John Lee Hooker. They can our I thought oh bought. Out of free trade Oh my free man. Although some. You know offered 7. All along no we bomb. Bomb. Bomb. Shell Ahmed mommy mommy. She bought me down to the OP. All. See them a Saudi gone gone gone off. It is gone and. The way our home all numb. From. June on no one now coming from other or. Even. From. Your law. And. Order Line are. John Lee Hooker and Hobo blues what Muddy Waters John Lee Hooker brought the intense blues music of the rural south into the northern cities in the media postwar years both of them modernize their music by going electric and taking advantage of such advanced recording technology as was available to small independent companies at the time so doing how huge appeal for a migrant population that had moved north in search of work since they were at one in the same time deeply rule in spirit but on hold on compromising the urban in presentation both men were from Clarksdale Mississippi and of the same generation Waters' was born in 115 orca in 170 allegedly in his case but where as money went to Chicago where he recorded for aras to crat soon to evolve into the mighty chess label John Lee wound up in Detroit where recommendations from impressed attendees of the house parties where he played led him to was one of the few professional recording studios in town run by an engineer called Bernie besan is besan who plugged him in gave him the board to see. Dump his foot on and wound everything up with tons of reverb the spectacular result was Boogie Chillen a recording besan sold on to modern records of Los Angeles with a result that John Lee Hooker scored a number one R. And B. Hit at the beginning of $9049.00 with his debut single hobo blues was its follow up more mournful and reflective this time but still highly popular reaching above 5 R. And B. In the early summer in fact he might have done even better were it not for competition from its own beside who gave Boogie which was initially more popular before holding out in the Munnabhai in all of these sides can be found on the John Lee Hooker album called legendary modern recordings 948-292-5418 strict loads as well as John Lee Hooker and Muddy Waters another uncompromising Southern blues man emerge on to the national stage 9049 Sam Lightnin Hopkins he is a much the same generation as hooker and waters but he was from Texas rather the Mississippi and he did things differently letting the northern recordings of industry come to him rather than the other way about you tell us about it playing in a Houston club by an agent called Mona Cullum the enterprising Mrs Cullom already had a most Millburn on her books and she had the contacts and experience to be able to take lining all the way to Los Angeles 1st recording session in 9046 but within 2 years lightning was doing things on his own terms recording back home in Houston and selling on the Masters to West Coast labels on an ad hoc basis sometimes met in singles ended up competing with each other but already scored 2 national hits by the time his bestseller came with shotgun blues. Yes I was a girl playing in my shotgun. Bob praying he came back some sham. Yes that's the goal of training my shotgun. Bob Graham in fact have found it full of shit. Yes if I don't get some competition. You know it's gone be trouble here. Yes You know me I want to try to quit when I have done nothing no she don't put me out of billboard I ain't got no home and go running in my shotgun. And load up obvious blues. Yes if I don't get some competition. You know it's got to be trouble here. And. Yes You know my mama told me the day that I left her door she say got to have balance on it I don't care where you go on the jet plane in my shotgun. All you can brain have wanted to share. As if I don't is a competition. You know it's got to be trouble here and I'll play it just a minute right now. Cried Bob you know you've done me wrong I'm not taking a live shot now I'm going. Home I'm. On the money. On camera. Yes I've been a bad thing I didn't you. Didn't leave that woman. Lightnin Hopkins and shotgun blew the alarmingly violent lyrics to blues number such as this could be regarded in 2 ways if you wish to settle your conscience over listening to them although they're simply a reflection of a violent society rather than the cause of it the same argument that's currently being advanced to defend so-called Drew music or as a metaphor for something else and if in doubt that something else is nearly always sexual bravado so in the case of songs such as Robert Johnson's 3220 blues and it may well be the case here Attorney Ventura gone blues though recorded in Houston in February 948 became lightnings most commercially successful single when Aventura least on the a lot in label it peaked at number 5 R. And B. In October 950 R. 10 from a lot in Hopkins box set on proper records called Texas thunder boat some 960 S. Alabama soul next from Jimi Hugues who asks Why not tonight. Was. Jimmy Hughes and why not tonight after his initial breakthrough is steal away a top 20 crossover pop hits in the summer and on to 65 this native of Florence Alabama had to wait 2 years before he struck gold again with neighbor neighbor which may number 4 R. And B. Though getting stuck in the 65 in the pop charts at least the momentum has been regained and a further visit to the local fame studio run by recall produced Why not tonight this song written by James Gilreath had his own taste of fame back in 9063 with little band of gold seem to hit the spot with the public because it speedily roast number 5 R. And B. In March 9067 though it barely scraped into the Hot 100 Jimi playing the records relative lack of crossover success on poor promotion but none take who by now handling fame records distribution if so they made amends by making Why not tonight the title track of an album and that album with a generous allocation of bonus tracks makes up volume 2 of a collection of Jimmy Hughes for. Recordings on can record now for some New York soul from Tommy Hunt human. Was to. Lose. I forgot. That I. Thought it. was 2. A beat. Up got the best girl in the world. But made no mistake that was. A period of years. You. Got. Rid. Of the old. That was Tommy Hunt owning up to his faults in human Tommy Hunt who was born in Pittsburgh in 9033 and was a member of the Flamingos for 5 years is best regarded nowadays free superbly original version of I just don't know what to do with myself the record you've just heard was actually by far and away his biggest hit Tom had left the Flamingos United 61 and moved away from that base in Chicago to try to look in New York there he was fortunate to run into Luther Dixon the man who is currently mastermind in the career of the shoe rails who's looking to broaden his horizons he got Tommy signed to his current workplace of Septa records began writing and producing songs for him human was our very 1st collaboration inexplicably scepter released it as the Beside of a song called parade of the broken hearts the deejays would have none of it the result that human became Tommy Hunt's 1st and biggest solo hit when it beats number 5 R. And B. In October 96 he won also just making into the pop top 50 he never came near to matching this achievement again unfortunately despite the high quality of his subsequent recordings this may have been partly due to the fact that he never seemed to get all of the boss of scepter Florence Greenberg when he began dating Beverly leadership roles relations went from bad to worse and he finally moved. On to other labels in 9065 setting a year or 2 later we dynamo records where he was reunited with Luca Dixon the pick of Tommy Hunt's not his 60 sauce about SEPTA and Dynamo on a collection of his work called the biggest man on Kent records and his all fun representative the letter H. In the 80s that of RB number 5 Ivory Joe Hunter. My. Wall or of all the latter growing. Old school marm rare rooms told me. Some day we hear and we mean. . I have a job hunter waiting in vain evidence that he was already aiming determinately at the mainstream before his number one RB hit a 950 I almost lost my mind converted 6 years later into a number one pop hit by Pat Boone Ivory Joe his real name was born in 114 in Kerrville a small town in Texas near the border with Louisiana by his early twenty's he was holding down a residency at a club in Houston and after moving to Oakland California in 9042 he left his small town world far behind him he did you hit record came at the end of 9045 when backed by Johnny Moss 3 Blazers he made the army top 3 with blues sunrise a number one hit 3 years later with pretty mama blues led to signing with King Records of Cincinnati a further step up the ladder there the boss of King Syd Nathan matched average Joe's ambitions by getting various juke Ellington band members to accompany him on several of his sessions the soul composed waiting in vain or the likes of Russell Procope on alto sax and Ray Nance on violin and became average joe 6 chart it when it peaked and there were 5 R. And B. In September $9049.00 this didn't work in King Records favor however because within a month old son to M.G.M. For whom he recorded that breakthrough hit of his I almost lost my mind Blues at sunrise the essential IRA Johanne turn on Indigo records takes us from the title track as far as I need you so he's 3rd number one RB hit scored in the spring of $951.00 it looks like our will to fit in the letter I after all which means that the end of the letter H. Was also by the end of this month's inspection of the 8 is said of armed.