Gene Vincent / Eddie Cochran - Rock'n'roll memories
Saturday Club 5.3.1960 1.Theme and introduction 2.Say mama 3.Interview with Gene Vincent 4.Summertime 5.Interview with two of Eddie's fans 6.Somethin' else 7.Hallelujah! I love her so 8.Be-bop-a-lula 9.Twenty flight rock 10.Rocky road blues 11.C'mon everybody 12.Closing theme
Saturday Club 12.3.1960 13.Theme and introduction 14.Wildcat 15.My heart 16.What'd I say 17.Interview with Eddie Cochran 18.Milkcow blues
Boy Meets Girl 16.1.1960 19.Introduction 20.Hallelujah! I love her so 21.C'mon everybody 22.Somethin' else 23.Interview with Eddie Cochran 24.Twenty flight rock
Boy meets girl 23.01.1960 25.Introduction 26.Money honey 27.Have I told you lately that I love you 28.Hallelujah! I love her so 29.Closing announcement
Boy meets girl 20.2.1960 30.Summertime blues 31.Milk cow blues
Boy meets girl 27.2.1960 32.Introduction and interview 33.I don't like you no more 34.Sweet little sixteen 35.Introduction 36.White lightnin'
The Monty Lister interviews 37.With Gene Vincent and Eddie Cochran 38.With Billy Fury 39.With Joe Brown 40.Spencer Leigh talks to Monty Lister on Radio Merseyside (1985).
Rock'n'roll at the BBC
Historic stuff! I used to listen to Saturday Club on the old Light Programme way back when. This sort of treat made a welcome change from Brian Poole and The Tremeloes (who had their moments) or the Mark Leeman Four (who didn't).
"Following from the glorious Rockstar Town Hall Party cd we return again to the live radio/tv sound of the brothers in rock. Two BBC Saturday Club radio shows from 5th and 12th of March 1960, Four ITV Boy Meets Girls January 16th and 23rd, February 20th and 27th 1960. As a bonus, three back-stage tour members' inteviews from Mr 'Microphone', Monty Lister, back-stage at the Liverpool Empire theatre March 1960 and a 1995 interview with Monty himself from 1995. Add a brilliant colour NME Poll Winners concert cover, a detailed booklet fine intro by Big jim Sullivan and lotsa rare pics and you're sorted matey. Stop reading this and rush to your nearest record emporium and acquire forthwith. OK, so you may have the 1981 Rockstar lp with the Saturday Club cuts BUT these are from the BBC master tapes and sound absolutely awesome. Tiptop ticketyboo chaps, jolly well done that boy Duncan Cowell in the sound dept! The quaint Brian Matthews dj bits and the star struck girl fan interviewees all add to the impact when the Americans let rip, coaxing their UK band members to unthought of heights of competancy. Great stuff and fantastic to hear in this high quality depth of sound. C'Mon Everybody wasn't on the original album but it's here in all its glory. The Boy Meets Girl tracks first surfaced on the old much beloved and now very worn On Air UA lp from 1972. Even though they've been on cd previously (EC Box set etc.), they sound really crisp hear thanks to Duncan's knob twiddlings. Love the closing announcement on one show where Marty Wilde says that Ronnie Hawkins will be on the show next week and OTIS BLACKWELL (what!!!!!) performing as well. Cue voodoo doll intermission for curses to be laid on the blinkered TV executive plonker who gave the go-ahead to wipe the film/video of these epic performances way back when. Just think of film of Eddie Cochran ripping up Sweet Little 16 or the lads closing on White Lightning. The aural memories expertly conserved here will suffice. One day though will our intrepid Indiana Jones' Tone n Del achieve mission impossible finding this long lost footage? International finger crossing day starts now. Look what a surprise the Town Hall Party footage turned out to be. Hard to believe we want more after the long hard effort it's taken to put this gem of a cd together. Steve Aynsley and Roger Nunn have annotated a superb telling of the last tour by the tunesome twosome. 10 out of 10 and a gold star (or even Goldstar) all round. Buy with confidence as they used to say. The last two cds and Darrel/Julie's book means that the 40th anniversary year of Eddie Cochran's passing has been acknowledged in a most fittting and memorable manner. Yah boo sucks to Radio 1, you deserve the music you play daily. This stuff is immortal. Now where's them lil' Town Hall Party videos boisbach? PHIL DAVIES AUGUST 2000
"It is fabulous, even richer than the LP I had. Thanks." G G - USA
Saturday Club 5.3.1960