2 CD set – click sleeve for more details and to BUY CD1: JOHNNY KIDD & THE PIRATES – Shakin’ All Over: GERRY TEMPLE – No More Tomorrows: JOHN LEYTON – Oh Lover: OZZIE WARLOCK & THE WIZARDS – Juke Box Fury: PATSY ANN NOBLE – A Good Looking Boy: MIKE BERRY WITH THE OUTLAWS…

2 CD set – click sleeve for more details and to BUY CD1: THE ALLISONS – Are You Sure: HOWIE CASEY & THE SENIORS – Double Twist: LEE DIAMOND & THE CHEROKEES – Josephine: BOBBI CAROL – It Doesn’t Matter: FRANK KELLY with THE HUNTERS – I Saw Linda Yesterday: ROY YOUNG – Just Keep…

   CLICK SLEEVE TO BUY Available right now – our double CD look at the Pye label Track Listing: CD1: MARK WYNTER – Venus In Blue Jeans: JULIE GRANT – Up On The Roof: EMILE FORD & THE CHECKMATES – Counting Teardrops: THE PACKABEATS – Theme From ‘The Traitors’: THE VISCOUNTS – That Stranger Used…

  CLICK SLEEVE TO BUY Available now – our double disc look at the Columbia label. Track Listing: CD1: RICKY VALANCE – Tell Laura I Love Her: CRAIG DOUGLAS – Our Favourite Melodies: JIMMY CRAWFORD – Love Or Money: DAVE SAMPSON & THE HUNTERS – Sweet Dreams: ALMA COGAN – Tell Him: CLIFF RICHARD & THE…

Oriole Records’ somewhat convoluted history began in the mid 1920s, which actually makes them one of the UK’s earliest record labels, although they had periods of inactivity during the 30s and 40s. They were entirely unrelated to the American Oriole label. The Oriole imprint was resurrected again in 1950, initially with a se­ries of UK…

Decca Records was formed by financier Sir Edward Lewis, the man who would famously run the company from its inception in 1929, right up until his death, in 1980. Fast-forwarding some twenty-odd years, by the 1950s, Decca was es­tablished alongside EMI as one of the UK’s two major Majors. Indeed, from a per­spective of ‘Popular…

   click sleeve to BUY Brit-Pop Instros of the immediate pre-Beatles era (for a recap, check out Vol.1, RHGB 21 / Vol.2, RHGB 30). As we have learned, broadly speaking, the “Golden Age” of UK Instrumentals occurred between the late 50s and the early 60s, peaking in 1961 & 62 following the arrival of The…

   click sleeve to BUY Brit-Pop Instros of the immediate pre-Beatles era (for a recap, check out Vol.1, RHGB 21 / Vol.2, RHGB 30). As we have learned, broadly speaking, the “Golden Age” of UK Instrumentals occurred between the late 50s and the early 60s, peaking in 1961 & 62 following the arrival of The…

Despite what many would have us believe, not every ‘hit record’ is listed in the dreaded Guinness Book Of Hit Singles.  Let’s face it, quite apart from the fact that the ‘official’ early 60s charts have long since been exposed as deeply flawed, it should be remembered that not every track which became popular was…

To tie in with the extra-ordinary Missing Charts book, for the first time we have put together a 4 CD set compilation with the Number Ones of the Forties. 104 Number One British hits – you really cannot say better than that can you. To buy click HERE

Like its predecessor, (RHGB 25), this compilation traces the rise of UK ladies from the R&R era to the early 60s, and heralds the newly emergent Brit Girl sound that was evolving at the dawn of the Beat era.  As we have learned, although the arrival of the archetypical 60s ‘dolly bird’ was still a…