Johnny & The Hurricanes LP: The Big Sound

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Johnny & The Hurricanes: The Big Sound

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Interpret: Johnny & The Hurricanes
Album titlle: The Big Sound
Genre Rock'n'Roll
Label VINYL
Geschwindigkeit 33 U/min
Vinyl record size LP (12 Inch)
Record Grading Mint (M)
Sleeve Grading Mint (M)
Artikelart LP
EAN: 4000127719355
weight in Kg 0.21

Johnny & The Hurricanes - The Big Sound LP 1
01	Molly - O	Johnny & The Hurricanes
02	You Are My Sunshine	Johnny & The Hurricanes
03	Like... Rock	Johnny & The Hurricanes
04	Beatnik Fly	Johnny & The Hurricanes
05	The Kid	Johnny & The Hurricanes
06	By By Blackbird	Johnny & The Hurricanes
07	Sheba	Johnny & The Hurricanes
08	Tom's Tune	Johnny & The Hurricanes
09	Mister Irving	Johnny & The Hurricanes
10	Traffic Jam	Johnny & The Hurricanes
11	Teensville Tonight	Johnny & The Hurricanes
12	Corn Pone	Johnny & The Hurricanes
13	Down Yonder	Johnny & The Hurricanes
14	Du, du liegst mir im Herzen	Johnny & The Hurricanes
15	Oh du lieber Augustin	Johnny & The Hurricanes
16	OId Smokie	Johnny & The Hurricanes
17	Rocking Goose	Johnny & The Hurricanes
18	Ten Little Indian	Johnny & The Hurricanes

Johnny and the Hurricanes Originally from the Toledo, Ohio area, the band - Johnny Paris... more

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"Johnny & The Hurricanes"

Johnny and the Hurricanes

Originally from the Toledo, Ohio area, the band - Johnny Paris (tenor sax), Paul Tesluk (organ), Dave York() (guitar), Lionel 'Butch' Mattice (bass) and Don Staczek (drums) - first got together at High School and then played local hops and dances behind a vocalist at Toledo's, Pearson Park.

As instrumentalists, they were signed to a management contract early in 1959 by Irving Micahnik and Harry Balk, two Detroit entrepreneurs who placed them with Morty Craft's newly-formed Warwick label. Their first record, a frantic, exciting dance-disc titled `Crossfire', reached No. 23 in America in July, 1959, but did not feature the prominent organ-sound for which they be-came famous. Their follow-up 'Red River Rock' (an adap-tation of the traditional 'Red River Valley') reached No. 5 in America and the British Top Ten, establishing the group internationally. By this time, Bill 'Little Bo' Savitch from the Royaltones had replaced Staczek on drums — not that fans knew it in an era when group members were anonymous faces in photographs.

Two more hits, 'Reveille Rock' and `Beatnik Fly', followed on Warwick before the group switched to Big Top in New York where they continued their run with 'Rocking Goose' (which reached No. 1 in England but only No. 60 in America), `Ja-Da' and 'Down Yonder' before flopping with 'Old Smokie' and 'Minnesota Fats' in 1962. The original 1959 line-up had disbanded by 1961, and between 1962-63 the touring line-up underwent constant personnel changes with only leader Johnny Paris remaining static. While the group toured, sessionmen made the records, a precedent which had been established as early as 'Beatnik Fly' in 1959. Johnny and the Hurricanes were the archetypal Fifties instrumental group, even if they were merely a trademark for a highly marketable sound.

In all probability, the group's management profited most from the group's existence since Micahnik and Balk took writer credits (as Tom King and Ira Mack respectively) for most of their early records.

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