TOMMY STEEL 78 ROCK WITH THE CAVEMAN / ROCK AROUND THE TOWN F10795 E-
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A MEGA RARE 1956 BRITISH ROCK & ROLL 78 FIRST TRIAL RELEASE
LABELLED AS TOMMY STEEL ! NOT STEELE ON UK DECCA
ROCK WITH THE CAVEMAN
VERY FEW OF THESE WERE RELEASED BEFORE THEY CORRECTED THE NAME TO STEELE!
Tommy Steele
- Real Name: Thomas Hicks
- Birth Date: 17th December 1936
- Birth Place: London
Tommy Steele was undoubtedly Britai n'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 precurse 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.
Decca F10795 1956 Rock With The Caveman/ Rock Around The Town #13 CONDITION IS RATED AS EX- 1956 UK 10" 78rpm SHELLAC DECCA F 10795 WHAT A MISTAKE TO MAKE! MEGA -RARE ! ONE OF THE FIRST EVER BRITISH ROCK AND ROLL RECORDSDON'T MISS OUT - BID NOW!!
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