RARE 1958 UK #10 TOMMY STEELE 78 " COME ON, LET'S GO " (Ritchie Valens Cover) EX
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AN EXCELLENT COPY OF THIS RARE 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 December 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 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.
DESPITE REACHING THE CHARTS THIS GREAT RECORD IS HARD TO FIND ON A 78!
AMAZINGLY RITCHIE VALENS OWN VERSION DID NOT MAKE IT INTO THE UK CHARTS!
DISC DETAILS
UK DECCA F 11072 78 rpm 10" SHELLAC
ENTERED THE UK CHARTS 14 NOV 1958 REACHED #10 AND STAYED IN THE CHARTS FOR 13 WEEKS
A SIDE:- COME ON LET'S GO (RITCHIE VALENS)
B SIDE:- PUT A RING ON HER FINGER (DUKE)
CONDITION IS RATED AS EX-
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