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The Sheik Of Shake - Expanded Edition

Dickie Pride

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Cat No: JASCD1178

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Release Date:  10 November 2023

Label:  Jasmine Records

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  604988117820

Genres:  Rock 'N' Roll  Pop-Rock  

  • Description

    Over the decades, more nonsense has been written about Dickie Pride than almost any of Britain's early Rock & Rollers. A much maligned and misunderstood character, due to the circumstances surrounding his tragically early death he has often been written off as a R&R failure.

    But by the common consensus of every one of his contemporaries, he was a seriously underrated singer and musician, by far the most talented member of manager Larry Parnes' "Stable Of Stars".

    And had his inner demons and narcotic intake not undermined his fragile mental health, he may have lived long enough to make a comeback in a later musical era.

    His recorded legacy is brief, and admittedly patchy, although he charted with 'Primrose Lane' in 1959.

    This compilation reissues everything that he recorded for U.K. Columbia between 1959-61, plus a couple of live, early '59 appearances from Oh Boy!

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Slippin' 'N' Slidin'
      • 2. Don't Make Me Love You
      • 3. Fabulous Cure
      • 4. Midnight Oil
      • 5. Primrose Lane
      • 6. Frantic
      • 7. Betty Betty (Go Steady With Me)
      • 8. No John
      • 9. You're Singing Our Love Song To Somebody Else
      • 10. Bye Bye Blackbird
      • 11. Anything Goes
      • 12. It's Only A Paper Moon
      • 13. Isn't This A Lovely Day
      • 14. I Could Write A Book
      • 15. You Turned The Tables On Me
      • 16. Too Close For Comfort
      • 17. Loch Lomond
      • 18. There's A Small Hotel
      • 19. Falling In Love
      • 20. They Can't Take That Away From Me
      • 21. Give Me The Simple Life
      • 22. Lulu's Back In Town
      • 23. Slippin' 'N' Slidin' Live
      • 24. Three Cool Cats (With Marty Wilde & Cliff Richard) Live