Lesly's Dynamite Not As Usual! (LP)

(Tessy Records) 12 tracks

If you like Bill Haley or Stargazers (the old Northern Band sound), you will definitely enjoy this longplayer. The 'normal' quartet line-up is joined by saxophone and piano. Sometimes it sounds like a good white cover version of an R&B rocker (but they are only own songs!), sometimes there are a few jazz and swing elements, so that also friends of Ray Collins get their money's worth. In between there are also some backing vocals. So the whole thing sounds like a very clean, professional recording from the 1950s, when the different styles united to form Rock'n'Roll. From the fast but danceable "Hop and don't stop", guaranteed best suited for record-hop, to the ballad, everything is there.