A COPY OF THIS RARER 1958 UK DECCA 78 FROM TOMMY STEELE COVERING THE RITCHIE VALENS CLASSIC
"COME ON LET'S GO"
b/w "PUT A RING ON HER FINGER"
TWO REALLY GREAT SIDES!
Tommy Steele
Real Name: Thomas Hicks
Birth Date: 17th Dec. 1936
Birth Place: London
Tommy Steele was undoubtedly Britain's first great Rock and Roll idol. Like many who followed him Tommy started his musical career by playing in a skiffle group. He was also the first of the London based artists who would preempt their fame by singing at the 2 'I's Coffee Bar- a venue which later hosted the virtually unknown Adam Faith and Cliff Richard. Although Tommy's brand of Rock and Roll was nearer to 'easy listening' than that of some of his American contemporaries he more than made up for it with his personality. His manager, Larry Parnes, once said "Tommy Steele was the greatest entertainer that I ever had on my books", and Tommy Steele's rise as a teenage star was probably attributable to charisma rather than simple sex appeal.
By the end of the 1950s Tommy Steele had been urged to move away almost completely from his Rock and Roll beginnings and instead concentrate on recording novelties, and his stage act. He soon became established as a family entertainer, broadening from- probably mostly dispensing with- his original teenage following. He became a master of the stage musical and an archetypal performer of the British pantomime. He continued successfully in this role for more than three decades, but faded somewhat from the scene during the 1990s. Most of Tommy's later recorded work concerned his stage and film 'Musicals' which included 'Half A Sixpence', 'Finian's Rainbow', 'The Happiest Millionaire' and 'Hans Anderson' -for which Tommy later received an award from the Danish government.
ENTERED THE UK CHARTS 14 NOV 1958 REACHED #10 AND STAYED IN THE CHARTS FOR 13 WEEKS
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10" 78 RPM RECORDS NEED CAREFULLY PACKING, AND I CLAIM TO HAVE THE BEST PACKAGING IN THE WORLD FOR DISPATCHING THEM!!
THE GREG'S GREAT'S SYSTEM CONSISTS OF A SPECIALLY DESIGNED INNER BOX MADE OUT OF 1" THICK POLYSTYRENE, WHICH THEN GOES INSIDE A DOUBLE CORRUGATED STIFF OUTER CARDBOARD CARTON. THE BOXES CAN TAKE UP TO 21 RECORDS,
USUALLY FOR MAILING OVERSEAS, I RECOMMEND NO MORE THAN 7 IN A BOX, OTHERWISE IT GOES OVER THE AIRMAIL SMALL PACKET MAXIMUM WEIGHT OF 2Kgs WHICH CAUSES A LARGE HIKE IN POSTAL RATES.
I SEND OUT ON AVERAGE ABOUT 30 PARCELS A WEEK AND DISPATCH IS NORMALLY DONE ONCE A WEEK
Record Label | Decca |
Type | Single |
Material | Shellac |
Language | English |
Artist | Tommy Steele |
Record Size | 10" |
Format | Record |
Style | ROCK AND ROLL |
Country/Region of Manufacture | United Kingdom |
Release Title | 78 AS LISTING |
Era | 1950s |
Genre | Pop |
Genre | ROCK AND ROLL |
Release Year | 1958 |
Speed | 78 RPM |