Best record ever to jive to............ even tho' I was fourteen at the time ....... oh Betty Dickens, my first girl friend.... where are you now I wonder, and do you remember sneaking out of the Christmas party for a kiss, and getting caught my Mr Kneebone, who sent us to the headmaster's study which meant we missed the last dance.
I saw him perform this live when he was on tour in the UK with the GREAT GREAT Eddie Cochran That was just before Eddie left us.
Rock shows didn't come much better.
If you begged me to pick out just ONE record by Gene Vincent - I´d pick this gem. It has pretty much a nearly complete setting of the details that made Good Old Rock ´n Roll great. Gene didn´t get the credits he earned for this one. Maybe the radio stations had started to let softer numbers get more and more time as this wasn´t recorded 1956 like Be Bop A Lula. On the other hand Chuck Berry and Little Richard still had great charts, so it marks out that 1958 was a year when Rock ´n Roll in several ways began to fade away a bit. Not from being great music, but from being played as much as when Be Bop A Lula came out two years earlier.
I am old enough to remember the great original R & R stars. Gene Vincent was among that body. I saw him (he walked very close by me) at Peterborough Corn Exchange, when he was playing there; I suppose it was 1960, when he had the leg calliper. I shall always remember. Great days of my youth.