Rock ‘n’ Roll Dance Party
Rock ‘n’ Roll Dance Party
Customer Review: Great reissue
Alan Freed was only the artist via his name being there-the man without whom etc.As a “singer” he isn’t even much of a non singer simply adding the words”rock’n'roll boogie” to the instrumental led by Sam The Man Taylor
The instrumentals here are spot on they groove like a groover and Taylor honks like a crazed honker.
Anyone who remembers listening to Freed’s shows on Radio Luxemburg may remember the vast amounts of white music he played-Ivory Tower for instance was not by the black group who covered the song but the version they covered by Cathy Carr.Rather surprising really as Ivory Tower by Cathy Carr was not exactly rock’n'roll but a Tin Pan Alley Waltz.Cathy cut an album of mainly standards but showed a greater preference for what became high school pop-as her CD on the Teenager label proves.
Maybe this rather stunning blonde in her late 20s in 1956 always wanted to be a teenager
Anyway back to this album-another of Freed’s possibly “guilty pleasures” was a box of singles he would number in his own hand and which contained a few Pat Boone singles.As he was a great friend of pop singer Jody Reynolds he eventually left it to him.
On this CD from the original 2 albums are a number of songs by the Modernaires-of Glenn Miller fame.
Which goes to show-Freed may have named and pioneered rock’n'roll but he was into a lotta other musics as well
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