The Baseballs ,

are a rock and roll band founded in Berlin in 2007. They became popular with Rockabilly cover versions of modern hits such as “Umbrella” by Rihanna and “Hot n Cold” by Katy Perry. The band members are only credited by their first names (Sam, Digger and Basti). Their version of “Umbrella” was a hit in Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Finland, Iceland, Austria, Switzerland, Sweden and Norway and got into the charts in all seven countries.

Their debut album, Strike!, was produced by JMC Music and released in May 2009 in Germany, Switzerland and Austria, in October 2009 in Finland, in December 2009 in Sweden, in February in Norway and in March 2010 in The Netherlands. It reached #15 in Austria, #6 in Germany, #2 in Switzerland and The Netherlands, #1 in Finland, #1 in Sweden and #1 in the Norwegian album charts. In the UK it was released on Rhino Records UK on May 17, 2010.
The band is re-releasing the album in 2010 as Strike! Back! The lead single is a rockabilly version of Snow Patrol’s “Chasing Cars.” The video features the band rocking a 1950s prom. ….Read More

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Eddy Mitchell ,

(born Claude Moine July 3, 1942, Paris) is a French singer and actor. He began his career in the late 1950s, with the group Les Chaussettes Noires (The Black Socks), taking his name from the American expatriate tough-guy actor Eddie Constantine (later the star of Jean-Luc Godard’s Alphaville). The band performed at the Parisian nightclub Le Golf Drouot before signing to Barclay Records and finding almost instant success; in 1961 it sold two million records.

Heavily influenced by American rock & roll, Mitchell (who went solo in 1963) has often recorded outside France, at first in London, but later in Memphis and Nashville, Tennessee. Guitarist Big Jim Sullivan, Jimmy Page and drummer Bobby Graham were among the British session musicians who regularly supported him in London. For his American recordings he employed session men such as Roger Hawkins, David Hood, Jimmy Johnson, Kenneth Buttrey, Reggie Young, David Briggs, Charlie McCoy and others. ….Read More

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Roy Kelton Orbison ,

(April 23, 1936 – December 6, 1988) was an American singer-songwriter and musician, well known for his distinctive, powerful voice, complex compositions, and dark emotional ballads. Orbison grew up in Texas and began singing in a rockabilly / country & western band in high school until he was signed by Sun Records in Memphis. His greatest success came with Monument Records in the early to mid 1960s when 22 of his songs placed on the US Billboard Top Forty, including “Only the Lonely”, “Crying”, “In Dreams”, and “Oh, Pretty Woman”. His career stagnated through the 1970s, but several covers of his songs and the use of one in a film by David Lynch revived his career in the 1980s. In 1988, he joined the supergroup The Traveling Wilburys with George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, and Jeff Lynne and also released a new solo album. He died of a heart attack in December that year, at the zenith of his resurgence. He had experienced some major tragedies in his life, including the death of his first wife and two of his children in separate accidents. ….Read More

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Jive Bunny & The Mastermixers – School Days ,

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01. Daydream Believer
02. Dancing Queen
03. Stayin’ Alive
04. Jive Talkin’
05. Car Wash
06. Billie Jean
07. We Are Family
08. Cuba
09. Electric Avenue
10. I Feel Love
11. Girls on Film
12. Rockin’ All Over the World
13. All Right Now
14. Crocodile Rock
15. Boys Are Back in Town
16. Bat out of Hell
17. Time Warp
18. Baggy Trousers

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Sir Cliff Richard ,

(born Harry Rodger Webb; 14 October 1940) is an Indian-born English musician and actor.

With his backing group The Shadows, Richard, originally positioned as a rebellious rock and roll singer in the Elvis Presley style, dominated the British popular music scene in the pre-Beatles period of the late 1950s and early 1960s. His 1958 hit single “Move It” is often described as Britain’s first authentic rock and roll song, and John Lennon once claimed that “before Cliff and the Shadows, there had been nothing worth listening to in British music.” A conversion to Christianity and subsequent softening of his music later led to a more middle of the road pop image, sometimes venturing into gospel. ….Read More

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Jive Bunny & The Mastermixers – Pop Back To The 70’s ,

      Track Listing: :

01 Crazy Horses
02 Blockbuster
03 Rock ‘N’ Roll, Pt. 2
04 Hot Love
05 Sugar Baby Love
06 Bye Bye Baby
07 Can the Can
08 See My Baby Jive
09 Skweeze Me Pleeze Me
10 Tiger Feet
11 Dancing Queen
12 I Love to Love
13 Rock Your Baby
14 The Hustle
15 Car Wash
16 Boogie Nights
17 Yes Sir, I Can Boogie
18 I Feel Love
19 Born to Be Alive
20 Black Is Black
21 King Fu Fighting
22 December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night)
23 Baker Street
24 Love Is in the Air
25 Beautiful Sunday
26 Living Next Door to Alice
27 Is This the Way to Amarillo
28 Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep
29 American Pie
30 Blinded by the Light
31 Substitute
32 Fly, Robin, Fly
33 Movie Star
34 Rivers of Babylon
35 Magic Fly
36 Mississippi
37 Singin’ in the Rain
38 Ding a Dong
39 Ca Plane Pour Moi
40 Radar Love

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Jive Bunny & The Mastermixers – Havin’ A Party ,

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01. Jive Bunny And The Mastermixers – Rock ‘N’ Roller
02. Jive Bunny And The Mastermixers – Party In The Country
03. Jive Bunny And The Mastermixers – Nutty Party Mix
04. Jive Bunny And The Mastermixers – Lovers’ Mix
05. Jive Bunny And The Mastermixers – Disco Stompin’
06. Jive Bunny And The Mastermixers – Swing The Sixties
07. Jive Bunny And The Mastermixers – Party Animals

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Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers – Lets Swing Again ,

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Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers ,

were an 1980s and early 1990s novelty pop music act from Rotherham, Yorkshire, UK. The face of the group was Jive Bunny himself, a cartoon rabbit who appeared in the videos, and also (as a human being in a costume) did promotional appearances for them. Doncaster DJ and producer Les Hemstock created and mixed the J.Bunny concept for father and son team John and Andrew Pickles. Ian Morgan a fellow DJ and producer also engineered and mixed the first albums.

They were only the third artist ever to have their first three releases go to number one on the UK Singles Chart, a feat they achieved between July and December 1989. The previous bands to do so were Gerry & the Pacemakers and Frankie Goes to Hollywood. They also went to number one in several other countries around the world.

Jive Bunny’s three number ones were “Swing the Mood”, “That’s What I Like” and “Let’s Party”. All three songs used sampling and synthesisers to combine pop music from the early rock and roll era together into a medley. The results were somewhat like Jaap Eggermont’s Stars on 45, although he had hired “sound-alike” singers and musicians to recreate the music from scratch. ….Read More

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Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers ,

were an 1980s and early 1990s novelty pop music act from Rotherham, Yorkshire, UK. The face of the group was Jive Bunny himself, a cartoon rabbit who appeared in the videos, and also (as a human being in a costume) did promotional appearances for them. Doncaster DJ and producer Les Hemstock created and mixed the J.Bunny concept for father and son team John and Andrew Pickles.
Jive Bunny’s three number ones were “Swing the Mood”, “That’s What I Like” and “Let’s Party”. All three songs used sampling and synthesisers to combine pop music from the early rock and roll era together into a medley. The results were somewhat like Jaap Eggermont’s Stars on 45, although he had hired “sound-alike” singers and musicians to recreate the music from scratch. ….Read More

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The Rubettes ,

were an English pop band of the 1970s assembled in 1973 by the songwriting team of Wayne Bickerton, the then head of A&R at Polydor Records, and his co-songwriter, Tony Waddington, after their doo-wop and 1950s American pop-influenced songs had been rejected by a number of existing acts. The band duly emerged at the tail end of the glam rock movement, wearing trademark white suits and cloth caps on stage.
The Rubettes’ first (and biggest) hit was “Sugar Baby Love” (released in 1974) which was a UK number one, going on to sell around eight million copies worldwide. Two million copies being sold in France alone an achievement matched by no other British group. The distinctive falsetto lead vocal to “Sugar Baby Love” was performed by Paul Da Vinci (real name: Paul Prewer) on the original Polydor recording session who declined the opportunity to actually become a member of the band put together by John Richardson.

The Rubettes went on to have a number of other hits across Europe during the mid-seventies such as “Tonight”, “Juke Box Jive” and “I Can Do It” sung by Alan Williams, mostly written by the Bickerton-Waddington songwriting team. Their most successful self composed hit was the ‘country rock’ styled ballad – “Baby I Know” – which reached number 10 in the UK & Germany in 1977.

The band continued releasing records into the 1980s, then re-grouped in 1983 in order to exploit the German market for 1970s nostalgia. In 1994, the group’s profile was raised by the inclusion of “Sugar Baby Love” in the hit movie, Muriel’s Wedding. This song was also featured in the 2005 Neil Jordan film, Breakfast on Pluto soundtrack. ….More

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Neil Sedaka ,

(born March 13, 1939 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American pop singer, pianist, and songwriter often associated with the Brill Building. He teamed up with Howard Greenfield to write hits for himself and others. Sedaka’s voice is tenor and alto.
Sedaka was born in Brooklyn, New York on 13 March 1939. His father, Mac Sedaka, a taxi driver, was the son of Turkish-Jewish immigrants; his mother, Eleanor (Appel) Sedaka, was of Polish-Russian Jewish descent.

He demonstrated musical aptitude in his second-grade choral class, and when his teacher sent a note home suggesting he take piano lessons, his mother took a part-time job in an Abraham & Straus department store for six months to pay for a second-hand upright. He took to the instrument immediately. In 1947, he auditioned successfully for a piano scholarship to the Juilliard School of Music’s Preparatory Division for Children, which he attended on Saturdays. He also maintained an interest in popular music, and when he was 13, a neighbor heard him playing and introduced him to her 16-year-old son, Howard Greenfield, an aspiring poet and lyricist. The two began writing together.

The best-known Billboard Hot 100 hits of his early career are “The Diary” (#14, 1958), a song that he offered to Little Anthony and the Imperials; “Oh! Carol” (#9, 1959); “You Mean Everything to Me” (#17, 1960); “Calendar Girl” (#4, 1960); “Stairway to Heaven” (#9, 1960); “Run Samson Run (top 30, 1960); “Little Devil” (#11, 1961); “Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen” (#6, 1961); “Breaking Up Is Hard to Do” (#1, 1962); and “Next Door To An Angel” (#5, 1962). “Oh! Carol” refers to Sedaka’s Brill Building compatriot and former girlfriend Carole King. King responded with her answer song, “Oh, Neil”, which used Sedaka’s full name. A Scopitone exists for “Calendar Girl”. Sedaka wrote another hit, Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen, for his then close friend Annette Funicello. ….More

Neil Sedaka – Boppin’ Neil Sedaka- Hits And Rarities

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Charles Edward Anderson “Chuck” Berry ,

(born October 18, 1926 in St. Louis, Missouri) is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter.

Chuck Berry is an influential figure and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music. According to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s website, “While no individual can be said to have invented rock and roll, Chuck Berry comes the closest of any single figure to being the one who put all the essential pieces together.” Cub Koda wrote, “Of all the early breakthrough rock & roll artists, none is more important to the development of the music than Chuck Berry. He is its greatest songwriter, the main shaper of its instrumental voice, one of its greatest guitarists, and one of its greatest performers.” John Lennon was more succinct: “If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it ‘Chuck Berry’.”

Berry was among the first musicians to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on its opening in 1986. He received Kennedy Center Honors in 2000 in a “class” with Mikhail Baryshnikov, Plácido Domingo, Angela Lansbury, and Clint Eastwood. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked Chuck Berry #5 on their list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. He was also ranked 6th on Rolling Stone’s Rolling Stone’s 100 greatest guitarists of All Time.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame included three of Chuck Berry’s songs (Johnny B. Goode, Maybellene, Rock & Roll Music), of the 500 songs that shaped Rock and Roll. ….More

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