INFO & JUKE BOX FOR FEB 2012 UPDATED
Hi Hi Hi,
Regular visitors will know that this site covers the music of the last 100 years, but concentrates on the great tracks and acts of the 1950s and 1960s, and is updated every month. This month there's a special JUKE BOX TRIBUTE to two of the all time greats who died in late January, JOHNNY OTIS and ETTA JAMES.
- See CHART GALLERY for charts of 70, 60, 55, 50 years ago this month and the full US Top 100s from 50 Years Ago (UPDATED FOR FEBRUARY) . LATEST NEW chart for 55 years ago (UPDATED FOR FEBRUARY) has been added to give me a reason for playing more r'n'r -related music and 50s faves on the box!
- Daily Record Breaking Facts and linked 'On This Day' Music Trivia from the last 60 years of music (UPDATED FOR FEBRUARY)
- The chronological story of the Birth of Rock'n'Roll has now been completed .
- 195O & 51 - MONTH BY MONTH -Starts Jan 1950 INCLUDES R&B and C&W Top 10s of 60 years ago!
- Newcomers- do check out PREVIOUS FEATURES and UK 50S & 60S ITEMS, as there's loads of good stuff there on hits, charts, acts, magazines, TV shows, films, interviews, months in music and chart toppers of the past.
- Dave Penny checks out "Unsung Heroes" Johnny Jano, Al Ferrier, Sugar Chile Robinson, Charlie Feathers, Jackie Brenston, Bonnie Lou, Chuck Miller, The Robins, Ella Mae Morse and The Treniers.
- The most successful songwriters in the UK in the 1950s.
- Interesting odds: NME Pollwinners, early UK hit in the US, UK's first charts & first Top 100 and earliest Silver and Gold Discs.
WHO AM I?Also you may be interested in knowing that three CDs I compiled reached the UK Top 20 albums in 2011!
Check out 'Dave Who? & Book At Bedtime' and 'Dave's CD Compilations' if you really want to know.
By the way, Fantastic Voyage Records have recently released a series of albums containing my choice of the most important UK hits of 1953-1957 (complete with detailed notes in which I try to bring back memories of the year concerned). If this sounds interesting check out THEN 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956 & 1957.
(ALSO DO CHECK OUT UNBIASED(!) PRESENT IDEAS PAGE)
Dave