CLIFF RICHARD - Let Me Tell You Baby Its Called Rock'n'roll LP 2010

Let Me Tell You Baby Its Called Rock n Roll! Cliff Richard & The Drifters (ROLL 2026). Another UK first from Rollercoaster ... the first ever ten-inch/25cm vinyl LP by Cliff Richard and The Drifters (the group was later re-named The Shadows to avoid confusion with the US Drifters). The LP contains recordings which have not been heard since they were first broadcast on the BBC Light Programme s Saturday Club show in 1958. In these recordings we hear Cliff and his group at their rockin best, long before Cliff became an all-round entertainer. The music was wild, sexy, and demonstrated that at last British rock n rollers could compete with the American originals. Cliff had it all, slicked-back hair, sideburns, pink jacket ... and a great voice. Saturday Club s producer, Jimmy Grant, was impressed and booked Cliff as soon as he heard his first single, Move It. The Drifters, who were considered not quite professional enough for Cliff s first radio appearance in 1958, soon proved their critics wrong .... by the second session they were able to give British teenagers what they craved ... real live rock n roll. Repeat appearances resulted, and the audience requests multiplied until Cliff soon gained the weekly most-requested record spot that had regularly been held by his idol, Elvis. The early recordings were often hurriedly made to a strict studio budget and even broadcast live from Manchester and Birmingham while Cliff and his group were on tour, but they remain superb examples of spontaneity and youthful enthusiasm. Fortunately, Saturday Club employed the talents of engineer and producer Bernie Andrews, which guaranteed superb quality recordings and also ensured that most of these broadcasts were preserved rather than being discarded, as was then BBC policy.

1 Dynamite
2 Move It
3 High Class Baby
4 Don't Bug Me Baby
5 Apron Strings
6 Never Mind
7 Mean Streak
8 Rip It Up
9 Ready Teddy
10 Guitar Boogie (tHe Drifters)

Release Date: 25 Oct 2010