Dreamboats And Petticoats Presents: TOMMY STEELE - A HANDFUL OF HITS

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£5.94
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Format: CD
Catalogue No.: 3591859
Barcode: 0602435918594
Release Date: 15 Apr 2022
Genre: Rock & Roll

BRITAIN’S FIRST ROCK & ROLL STAR CELEBRATES 65+ YEARS IN SHOWBIZ, 86TH BIRTHDAY YEAR, A KNIGHTHOOD IN 2021 AND A NEW C5 HOUR LONG TV DOCUMENTARY (16TH April)

Sir Tommy Steele is the UK’s original Rock & Roll star. Before Cliff. Before Marty Wilde. Before Billy Fury. Before everyone this side of the pond, Tommy hit it big first.

Dreamboats & Petticoats Presents Tommy Steele ‘A Handful of Hits’ is a celebration of Sir Tommy Steele’s incredible career in music, as he celebrated his 85th birthday year and 65 years in showbusiness last year. This collection, which takes its title from his 1957 track ‘A Handful Of Songs’ features all Tommy’s biggest and best-loved tunes:

• ‘Rock With The Caveman’ was Tommy’s first hit in 1956 when he became a household name as the frontman of The Steelmen. Tommy drew immediate comparisons with Elvis… who himself made his UK debut that year.

• ‘Singing The Blues’, Tommy Steele’s version of this early blues standard gave him his debut No. 1 in the UK Singles Chart in January 1957

• ‘Come On Let’s Go’: Tommy made this Ritchie Valens penned classic his own in 1958, scoring a Top 10 UK hit.

• ‘The Little White Bull’ was written by Lionel Bart, Mike Pratt and Tommy Steele (the trio wrote many hugely successful songs together) for the 1959 musical comedy film Tommy The Toreador, starring Tommy, and has remained a popular classic for generations after.

• ‘Flash Bang Wallop’ is a stage and screen belter from the 1967 British musical Half a Sixpence. Tommy played the lead role of Arthur Kipps in this screen adaptation of HG Wells’ novel ‘Kipps: the Story of a Simple Soul’.

PROMOTION

Channel 5 to air an hour long documentary on Tommy Steele (tx date 16th April).

Sir Tommy is available for press and promotion.

Book: ‘Tommy Steele: A Life in the Spotlight’ was be published By FRA in 2021.

TRACK LISTING
1. A Handful Of Songs
2. Singing The Blues
3. Little White Bull - From "Tommy the Toreador"
4. Come On, Let's Go
5. Rock With The Caveman
6. Butterfingers
7. Flash, Bang, Wallop
8. What A Mouth (What A North And South)
9. Water, Water
10. Nairobi
11. Knee Deep In The Blues
12. Shiralee
13. The Only Man On The Island
14. Hey You!
15. Happy Guitar - From "The Duke Wore Jeans"
16. Tallahassee Lassie
17. Give! Give! Give!
18. The Writing On The Wall
19. Half A Sixpence
20. If The Rain's Got To Fall
21. Princess - From "The Duke Wore Jeans"
22. What Do You Do - from the film soundtrack "The Duke Wore Jeans"
23. It's All Happening
24. Elevator Rock
25. Tommy The Toreador - From "Tommy The Toreador"
26. Hiawatha
27. Doomsday Rock
28. Put A Ring On Her Finger
29. Plant A Kiss
30. Happy-Go-Lucky Blues
31. Rock Around The Town
32. Rebel Rock
33. Butterfly
34. Where Have All The Flowers Gone