greaseball1

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Member Since: 7/1/2002
Total Mixes: 44
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Other Mixes By greaseball1

Cassette | Mixed Genre
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Cassette | Mixed Genre
Cassette | Mixed Genre
Cassette | Mixed Genre
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Mentally Unstable, Petty Little Sawdust Ceasars

Side A
Artist Song
Johnny Hallyday  Souveniers Souveniers 
Vince Taylor  Brand New Cadillac 
Johnny Kidd & the Pirates  Shakin' All Over 
Marty Wilde  Rubber Ball 
Tommy Steele  Rebel Rock 
Billy Fury  Nothin's Shakin' (But the Leaves on the Trees) 
Gene Vincent  Race With the Devil 
Marty Wilde  Bad Boy 
Vince Taylor and his Playboys  Trouble 
Clff Richard  Move it 
Vince Taylor and his Playboys  Ready Teddy 
Link Wray  Mary Ann 
Elvis Presley  That's All Right 
Eddie Cochran  Cut Accross Shorty 
Jerry Lewis  High School Confidential 
Heinz  Just Like Eddie 
Duane Eddy  Shazam ! 
The Beatles  Be-Bop-A-Lula ( Hamburg '62 ) 
Chuck Berry  Hail , Hail , Rock and Roll 
Dickie Lee and the Collegiates  Memories Never Grow Old 
Side B
ArtistSongBuy
Baby Washington  A Handful of Memories 
Witches and Warlocks  Behind Locked Doors 
Eli Bonaparte  Never an Everyday Thing 
Mr. Dynamite  Sh'mon 
Connie Van Dyke  It Hurt Me Too 
Louise Brown  Son in Law 
Tom Jones  Stop Breaking My Heart 
The Intentions  Dancing Fast , Dancing Slow 
The Ellingtons  Destined to Become a Loser 
Jackie Trent  You , Baby 
St. Louis Union  Think About Me 
Delilah Moore  I'll Just Walk Away 
Quartetto Cetro  The Lambretta Twist 
The Hugabaloos  The Hugabaloos Theme 
The Giant Crab  E.S.P. 
Sonny Til & the Orioles  Hey Little Woman 
Jaqueline Taieb  7 Heures Du Matin 
The Kingsmen  Under My Thumb 
Frank Wilson  My Sugar Baby 
   

Comment:

Whitsun weekend in May 1964, Mods and Rockers clashed in the seaside resorts of Clacton, Margate, Brighton and Bournemouth. This could maybe be the soundtrack except I'm sure some of these tunes came out after 1964, but the idea is ...Rockers on side one and Mods on side two.
I'm sure at the time that there wasn't as much rockabilly being heard overseas as there was here so I've tried to put in mostly English rockers here alongside the obvious American artists, as well as Johnny Hallyday from France and I'm not sure where Heinz is from. Don't be scared off by the Cliff Richard, it's a good rockin' number from before he got wussified, and the Tommy Steele song is from before he turned into a 'Knee's Up Mother Brown' type of English pub song singer. The Eddie Cochran song is the B-side from his last single, sadly he was killed in England in a car accident while on tour with Gene Vincent in 1959.
Britain was the last holdout for rockabilly, it had pretty much gone underground in North America, most artists turning to country and western or going the opposite way into a more garage punk sound.
The Mod songs here are mostly Northern Soul songs with a few other things thrown in for fun, Tom Jones, kind of a Welsh blue eyed soul man, The Lambretta Twist must have been used in a scooter commercial, and Jaqueline Taieb's french ode to Mods and Rockers.
ENJOY!
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greaseball1
Date: 4/25/2003
Oh ! and the title is a quote from one of the judges presiding over subsequent charges that were laid after the riots.
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Jana
Date: 4/25/2003
This is fantastic!!
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Sean Lally
Date: 4/25/2003
"Are you a mod or a rocker?" "I'm a mocker." This is amazing. Great idea, great execution. Wish I'd thought of it. Hats of to the mighty Greaseball.
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brad32
Date: 4/25/2003
great great mix!
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brad32
Date: 4/25/2003
great great mix!
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Adam Bristor
Date: 4/25/2003
This is ridiculously cool.
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sport1
Date: 4/25/2003
This is a masterpiece!
Great job...
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Saaf
Date: 4/25/2003
Hey, how come the mods got stuck on side two?!? (Just kidding!) Put this one right between the American Graffiti and Quadrophenia soundtracks.
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Moe
Date: 4/25/2003
Fantastic! Did you ever know that you're my hero?
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Bear
Date: 4/26/2003
Eddie Cochran was killed in my hometown, a quiet little place called Chippenham. There's a plaque on the side of the very unprepossessing road marking the spot his car crashed. Every year (around this time, late April) there's a 'Eddie Cochran Rock N Roll Festival' held to mark the date of his death. People come from all round the world on their motorbikes to watch bad rockabilly bands in the pubs. Very cool.
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fwak
Date: 4/29/2003
Wow! You've been busy since my previous visit to AOTM. I would love to trade for this when we're back home :-)

P.S. thanks also for the Hugabaloos link.
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laufi
Date: 5/3/2003
hey greaseball, cause i went for a short holiday i missed this one as well - sorry! PLEASE: in case you haven't send my mixes off yet could you include this HOT HOT HOT mix as well? heinz is king and so is this mix.
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Dom1
Date: 9/6/2003
Great mix - totally agree with Cliff Richard - Heinz I think is German - Joe Meek's lover - nice to see Mrs Tony Hatch (Jackie Trent) - picked up Look of Love album on vinyl other day - great cover of Scott Walker's Such a Small Love - hats off to ya.