Smith & Co
PO Box 608
1620 AR Hoorn
The Netherlands
Phone: 0031 (0)229 - 578425
Fax: 0031 (0)229 - 579640
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Paul Smith - Managing Director
Petra Smith - Business manager
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Smith & Co - New Releases
More than 50 years after the original quartet assembled as The Drifters to accompany an up and coming young singer named Cliff Richard on stage and record - and after some changes of personnel, fallow years and successful comebacks - The Shadows are still statistically among the top raters in the overall history of the UK pop singles and albums charts. During the late 50s/early 60s period of this celebratory compilation they became for a while the most influential group in Britain, greatly boosting the sales of Fender guitars, Vox amps and mohair suits.
The "Just about as good as it gets! " series received 4 and 5 star reviews and has been selling consistently since the day it was released. These lovingly mastered recordings on a series of double collections are bringing us lots of goodies that were consistently charting in the fourties and fifties as well as some diamonds that never reached this side of the Atlantic. On this page you'll find an overview of the "Just about as good as it gets! " Rock 'n Roll series divided in Skiffle, Rockabilly and British Rock 'n Roll. You'll find the 'Just about as good as it gets!' jazz series here.
Still a great crowd-pleaser on the oldies rock ‘n’ roll circuit, Massachusetts-born Freddy “Boom Boom” Cannon was by far the rowdiest pop charting vocalist on both sides of the Atlantic during the 1959-1963 lull between the big guns of the mid 50s and mid 60s. Not so much singing as barnstorming his way through a succession of hit singles and a couple of best-selling albums, his recordings vibrated with echo, resounding percussion, syncopated hand-clapping, much background whooping & hollering and some stinging guitar licks from session man Kenny Paulson. Subtle, he and his producers were not!
TITO PUENTE LIVE IN BRUSSELS
THE TITO PUENTE BIG BAND & CELIA CRUZ LIVE IN AMSTERDAM
MONGO SANTAMARIA LIVE IN THE NETHERLANDS
From Cuban and Puerto Rican roots, the signature rhythms of what is now generally termed Afro-Cuban music pulsed out of New York City's 'Spanish Harlem' in the late 1940s/early '50s: an inspiration for innovative jazz musicians of the era, soon becoming an essential repertoire ingredient of international dance bands and a pervading influence on composers, arrangers and producers in the pop mainstream.
Between the mid-to-late Fifties Rock 'n' Roll heyday and the Sixties tsunami of Beat, Folk, Soul and such, on both sides of the Atlantic there was a sanitization of the vocal talents being hit paraded - when instrumental recordings provided a more exciting antidote. They could be studio sessioneers vamping under an alias, backing groups stepping to the fore, established soloists or newly formed combos.
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