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1-CD (Digipak) with 36-page booklet, 36 individual tracks, total playing time approx. 79...more

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Tommy Sands: The Drugstore's Rockin' - A Big Date With Tommy Sands (CD)

1-CD (Digipak) with 36-page booklet, 36 individual tracks, total playing time approx. 79 minutes.

As a seven-year-old, Tommy Sands, born in 1937, appeared on the legendary country show 'The Louisiana Hayride'.
At age 20, he starred in the NBC television show 'The Singing Idol' in Hollywood, based on Elvis' life story - and landed a huge hit with Teen-Age Crush.
Bear Family Records® collects on this CD all the great rockers and teen rockers he recorded for Capitol .
With The Raiders (later to become The Sharks) and outstanding lead guitarist Scotty Turner, he recorded some of the best West Coast-produced rockers like Blue Ribbon Baby, The Worrying Kind and Wicked, Wicked Woman!
Extensive liner notes by Bill Dahl; comprehensive booklet with lots of pictures and illustrations and a discography on the recordings.
Carefully remastered from the best accessible sources.

Capitol Records was in the enviable position of having two challengers to Elvis’ regal status in 1957: Gene Vincent, who may have appeared just a little too threatening for full-on mainstream embrace in the states, and the more clean-cut Tommy Sands. He was no mere teenage idol; Tommy really did possess the vocal chops to convincingly rock, as he proves throughout this jam-packed compilation.

Although it seemed that Sands burst upon the scene like a hydrogen bomb with his early 1957 smash Teen-Age Crush, he’d actually been recording since 1951, initially as a pubescent country singer in Houston, before he and his mom moved to Los Angeles to properly break into show biz. Tommy’s records actually got tougher as time went on; his incredible ’58 album ‘Sands Storm!’ rocked like crazy (his cover of The Clovers’ Hey, Miss Fanny sported a jaw-dropping guitar solo that was likely the work of Joe Maphis).

Once he hooked up with The Raiders who later became The Sharks and led by guitarist Scotty Turner, Sands really got down to rocking business on Blue Ribbon Baby, The Worrying Kind, and Wicked, Wicked Woman. You won’t find any of Sands’ sedate pop crooning on this collection—it’s non-stop rocking from first track to last with the exception of Teen-Age Crush and three great mid-tempo songs!

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Interpret: Tommy Sands
Album titlle: The Drugstore's Rockin' - A Big Date With Tommy Sands (CD)
Genre Rock'n'Roll
Label Bear Family Records
Preiscode AH
Artikelart CD
EAN: 5397102175435
weight in Kg 0.22

Sands, Tommy - The Drugstore's Rockin' - A Big Date With Tommy Sands (CD) CD 1
01	Is It Ever Gonna Happen	Tommy Sands
02	Ring My Phone	Tommy Sands
03	The Worryin' Kind	Tommy Sands
04	Maybelline	Tommy Sands
05	Every Little Once In A While	Tommy Sands
06	Blue Ribbon Baby	Tommy Sands
07	Hearts Of Stone	Tommy Sands
08	Hey Miss Fannie	Tommy Sands
09	Playin' The Field	Tommy Sands
10	The Chicken And The Hawk	Tommy Sands
11	Man Like Wow!	Tommy Sands
12	Wicked Woman	Tommy Sands
13	Soda Pop Pop	Tommy Sands
14	Ring-A-Ding-A-Ding	Tommy Sands
15	Oop Shoop	Tommy Sands
16	Big Date	Tommy Sands
17	I Ain't Gettin' Rid Of You	Tommy Sands
18	Gonna Get A Girl	Tommy Sands
19	The Old Oaken Bucket	Tommy Sands
20	One Day Later	Tommy Sands
21	Tweedle Dee	Tommy Sands
22	Bigger Than Texas	Tommy Sands
23	Can't Change My Love	Tommy Sands
24	Should I	Tommy Sands
25	A Bundle Of Dreams	Tommy Sands
26	Hawaiian Rock	Tommy Sands
27	Your Daddy Wants To Do Right	Tommy Sands
28	Little Mama	Tommy Sands
29	Goin' Steady	Tommy Sands
30	Teenage Doll	Tommy Sands
31	Rock Light	Tommy Sands
32	Who Baby	Tommy Sands
33	Honey Love	Tommy Sands
34	Doctor Heartache	Tommy Sands
35	I Love You Because	Tommy Sands
36	Teen-Age Crush	Tommy Sands

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Tommy Sands

Thanks to his 1955 friendship with the pre-international superstardom Elvis, Tommy Sands was recommended by Col. Tom Parker for the starring part in a major television show called 'The Singing Idol' (loosely featured on Presley's meteoric rise). Sands had knocked around for a while as a young country singer, recording eight singles for RCA, but Capitol's Teenage Crush – featured in 'The Singing Idol' - became one of the fastest breaking discs of the period: eventually reaching number two in early 1957.

The song is somewhat identikit Elvis, with a low vocal and a slow tempo, but it is enlivened by some tough guitar back-up and a lyric that restates the same old teenage problem – this time somewhat pointedly aimed at parents in an early rumble of inter-generational dissent: "They call it a teen-age crush/ They don't know how I feel/ They call it a teen-age crush/ They can't believe this is real/ They've forgotten when they were young/ And the way tried to be free/ All they say is 'This young generation/ Is just not the way it used to be'".

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From: Dusty Grooves On:22 Jul 2022

Tommy Sands maybe wasn't the coolest cat in the crowd – but at the right moment, with the right recording style, he could deliver up some surprisingly great work!

Tommy Sands maybe wasn't the coolest cat in the crowd – but at the right moment, with the right recording style, he could deliver up some surprisingly great work – as you'll hear in this well-done collection that's in the best Bear Family tradition! Sands' work for Capitol Records isn't usually the type that's tracked down by collectors – but the cuts together here really show a lost legacy of a singer who could really shine when he wanted to – and who gets superb backing here by the great Bob Bain on guitar and arrangements on many tracks – and the legendary Scotty Moore on some others! The set features a massive 36 tracks in all – and titles include "Big Date", "Soda Pop Pop", "The Worryin Kind", "Ring My Phone", "Is It Ever Gonna Happen", "Bigger Than Texas", "Doctor Heartache", "Rock Light", "Goin Steady", "Little Mama", "Your Daddy Wants To Do Right", "Should I", "Can't Change My Love", "The Old Oaken Bucket", and "I Love You Because"

From: Markus On:21 Apr 2022

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