 My
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Jackson Sloan, Oo-Bop-Sh'Bam |
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1 Barnyard Boogie/Louis
Jordan
"My whole top five could feature this man. He could
wail, jump, shout, croon and swoon. A fantastic musician and band
leader. Cut in 1947 this song features crazy lyrics over a great boogie."
2 Midnight Cannonball/Big
Joe Turner
"Great side from Atlantic Records cut at
J&M Studio, Rampart Street, New Orleans. The boss blues shouter, shouting
the blues over a great jump blues session."
3 The Deacon
Don't Like It/Wynonie Harris
"Originally a gospel song recorded in 1953, Wynonie's unique vocal style rocks this song. A flamboyant larger than life rhythm'n'blues giant."
4 Move Me Baby/Jimmy
Witherspoon
"Great song, great feel. Johnny Otis band backing Jimmy's
vocal with the superb Lamplighters adding fantastic vocal harmony
as the band rolls along."
5 Butcher Pete/Roy
Brown
"Roy jumps straight in and the band follows, always
a hit an the dancefloor. The Young Pretender hits the scene running!
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1 Sweet little Sixteen/Chuck Berry
"'Tight dresses and lipstick, she's sportin' high-heeled
shoes.' Chuck's indispensable piece-de-resistance comes loaded with
rock'n'roll attitude plus a backbeat to die for. So forceful is the
rhythm, the big man doesn't appear to be pickin' his guitar at all.
It sounds like he's driving a damned train."
2 Ring-A-My-Phone/Brenda Lee
"No matter how many times I play this superfine track, it still curls my toes. The atmosphere is that of a ballroom filled with whirling, swirling couples, drawn to the floor like moths to a rock'n'roll flame. When guitarist Hank Garland takes what has to be his career best solo, the emotion is almost overpowering."
3 Ooh, Little Girl/Floyd Dixon
""'Cut me while I'm hot!' You can almost hear Floyd Dixon hollering out such a phrase in the studio, knowing that he's hitting top form. The backbone of Plas Johnson, Earl Palmer and Rene Hall underscoring Floyd's sore-throated vocals represents the finest threesome ever to cut rock'n'roll out on the coast."
4 A Big Hunk
O'Love/Elvis Presley
"Boom town rock'n'roll at its finest, and how appropriate that Elvis was the cat that licked the cream. Boasting a vocal delivery that is bigger than all outdoors, this record simply exudes authority. The level of confidence on show is appropriated by Floyd Cramer, who flicks his wrist at the keyboard defiantly."
5 Dance Me To Death/The Hi-Liters
"Any record that opens with 'I'm gonna plant you now and dig you later' deserves everyone's undivided attention. Coming on like a college combo let loose in the study hall, The Hi-Liters highlight their guitarist, piano player and sax man over no less than three wonderfully unhinged instrumental breaks." |
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1 The Girl Can't Help
It/Little Richard
"Without doubt the true king of rock'n'roll! This is
the song that got me hooked on the music. The way the saxophones bring the
song in, to Little Richard screaming his distinctive vocals over a rock
steady backbeat, followed by a great gravelly sax solo makes this song a
classic."
2 Saturday Night Fish
Fry/Louis Jordan
"This song is great in the way it tells
a story of what it was like to party back in the late 1940's in New Orleans.
Also I love the arrangement of the song, the way the verses are minor and
then switch to major for the chorus. One of the best front men and entertainers
as well as a great sax player. Louis Jordan rocks!"
3 Johnny B Goode/Chuck
Berry
"Another classic that started my love for rock'n'roll.
The way his guitar kicks this song in and the chorus, which I still have
to sing along to, means that this is still one of my all time greats. Every
rock'n'roll guitarist will have been influenced by this song one way or
the other."
4 Boogie Woogie Country
Girl/Big Joe Turner
"Boogie woogie at its best. Pumpin' piano played by Pete
Johnson with Joe Turner's powerful deep voice as well as the rest of the
band cookin'! I can never sit still when this record is played."
5 Caldonia's Wedding/Roy
Brown
"King of the blues shouters in my opinion, this is one
of Roy Brown's greatest songs. The beat gets me every time, especially with
his high wailing vocal style over the top and then the song just builds
and builds towards the end making this a classic R&B tune." |
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• Doncha Think It's
Time/Elvis Presley
• A Big Hunk O' Love/ Elvis Presley • Portrait Of A Fool/ Conway Twitty • Well Alright/Billy Fury • Conway Twitty/Such A Night |
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| Ian Rivers, The Moonshiners | |||
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1 Mystery Train/Elvis
Presley
"That classic riff gets me every time, coupled with
Scotty Moore's cool guitar solo. All his great playing on those Elvis records
has stood the test of time."
2 Don't Worry Baby/Los Lobos
"This is as rock'n'roll as the blues can get, with David Hidalgo/Caesar Rosas' fluid solos
cutting loose in the middle. It's a seminal Telecaster workout."
3 Matchbox/Carl Perkins
with Eric Clapton
"In 1985 HBO produced a live recorded session
in Limehouse, London with Carl Perkins and friends. Eric Clapton joined
him for this number and showed the world just how good and versatile Clapton
is. Perkins was visibly gobsmacked at the end of the song and lost for words."
4 Don't Let Your Daddy Know/Dr Feelgood with Wilko Johnson
"Great stroller for an r'n'b band. I'm surprised no one has done this on the r'n'r circuit
yet."
5 Ooby Dooby/Roy Orbison
with James Burton and Bruce Springsteen
"Roy Orbison recorded a concert in 1987 with some big
names in the business for A Black and White Night Live. All three
were trading guitar solos with each other on this song. Pure magic!"
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Mike George, Crackerjack magazine and The Shotrods Top 5 albums |
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1 Tear It Up/Johnny
Burnette Rock'n'Roll Trio
"It says on the cover of my reissue: 'To be played at
maximum volume'. And you have to play it that way. Although the Rock'n'Roll
Trio have been overexposed on today's scene, the album still generates
as much excitement as when I first heard it."
2 The Complete
Buddy Holly
"I treasure this fantastic box set, put
together by John Beecher and Malcolm Jones. It contains everything
by musical genius, Buddy Holly. He was far ahead of his time, that
parts of the music scene still haven't caught up!"
3 The Sun Singles/Elvis,
Scotty and Bill
"This is where rock'n'roll all started.
It's difficult to imagine the furore that Elvis caused when he first
appeared, until you see some of the early films, that is."
4 Cocaine Blues/Roy
Hogshead
"Many may think this a strange choice. Others may not
know the artist or the album. My suggestion is to hunt down a copy,
and try to remember this pre-dates rock'n'roll."
5 Motorvatin'/Chuck Berry
"I was stuck between Gene Vincent and Chuck Berry for
my final choice, and Chuck won out simply because of his genius at
capturing the spirit of the 50s rock'n'roll scene with his lyrics."
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| Pete Cook, Sentinels of Rhythm | |||
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1 Corrine Corrina/Big
Joe Turner
"I love all those old Joe Turner sides and this one
feels so good. The band grooves like mad, and sound like they’re having
a ball. It makes me want to play!"
2 Nadine/Chuck Berry
"I had to have a Chuck Berry tune. All
his songs tell a story and the lyrics seem much more grown up than a lot
of his contemporaries. I think he’ll be hailed as a major 20th century folk
poet, and that’s before you mention how influential his guitar playing’s
been."
3 On Revival Day/LaVern
Baker
"This is another record that just feels so good. Great
Paul Quinchette sax solo, proving you can be a Lester Young disciple and
still rock!"
4 Honey Hush/Johnny
Burnette
"It’s got a great ‘nervous’ thing about it."
5 Sincerely/The Moonglows
"Just check out that cool thing they do on the last
note!" |
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| Paul Richardson, Ocean's 7 | |||
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1 You Better Believe
It/Paul Gayton
"This track never leaves my player. A great up tempo
shuffle that just makes you want to get up and do your thang!"
2 King Kong/Big T
Tyler
"Big beat, fast and thrashy r'n'b at its
best. I can imagine the atmosphere in the studio when these guys crowded
around the mic to cut this track. Great solo work from the tenor player
and another feelgood tune."
3 Burnt Toast And
Black Coffee/Mike Pedicin
"Originally by Shorty Long and covered by Ocean's 7
on their forthcoming CD, this version has a cool sixties feel to it. Good
riffs and infectious melody."
4 The Gorilla/The
Ideals
"Classed as a stroller by dancers but another great r'n'b
tune with a slight mambo feel and with imperfections throughout that gives
it the real feel and not manufactured in the studio. Hey, there seems to
be a bit of a monkey theme here!"
5 Bop Sit In Blues/Ed
Blanchard
"As instrumentals go, this has to be one of the best.
Hooks all over the track provided by the stonkin' horn section, with some
good drum work to boot. The cover by The Big Town Playboys on their Off
The Clock CD is comparable with the original." |
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| Bomber Wade, City Shakers | |||
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1 Lucille/Little Richard
"The groove on this track is unique. Earl Palmer provides
that drum beat and the rest is history. Sublime."
2 The Walkin' Blues/Fluffy
Hunter
"First time I heard this I knew it was
special. The constant 'sock' rhythm and the double entendres. This is R&B
as it should be."
3 Shame, Shame, Shame/Smiley
Lewis
"Another New Orleans recording. Once again the great
Earl Palmer on drums with Red Tyler blowing a fantastic sax. Such control
yet so much passion."
4 Well All Right/Big
Joe Turner
"The first time I heard Big Joe on the Charly label I
knew that I'd found what I was looking for. It could be any Big Joe number,
but this one gets me going."
5 Jam Up/Tommy Ridgely
"It is what it says, a 'jam up'. The cream of New Orleans
musicians recorded in Cosimo Matassa's studio doing their thing. Did I mention
that my hero Earl Palmer was the drummer?" |
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1 Red Bluejeans And
A Ponytail/Gene Vincent & The Blue Caps
"For pure grist rock'n'roll I don't think you can beat
Mr Vincent's second LP and I've always held Dickie Harrell up as the most
exciting rockin' drummer ever. What an amazing band topped off with such
a great singer."
2 Jack The Ripper/Link
Wray
"I've been a fan since I was a kid. If
Harley Davidson had ever designed a guitar, Link Wray would have been the
only man able to play it!"
3 Boogie Woogie Country
Girl/Big Joe Turner
"There's only one thing you can do after playing this
record. Play it again. Perfection."
4 I Feel That Old
Feeling Coming On/James Brown
"Brown's stuff is so powerful and full of energy. Possibly
the second most influential artist to ever grace this planet. And tons of
innovative drummin' too!"
5 21 Days In Jail/Magic
Sam
"Great rockin' blues. I bopped my heart out to this
track all those years ago at our local youth club... and still love it."
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1 Goin' Back To Birmingham/Little Richard
"This will always be my number one. The power of his
voice with the ferociousness of the band is unbelievable when it kicks in.
I would give anything to be playing that song with that band at that time!"
2 Suffering With The
Blues/Little Willie John
"This is by far the greatest voice I have
ever heard. It's hard to pick one track in particular as he always delivers,
but this one kills me every time."
3 I Smell A Rat/Young Jessie
"Bring it on! Jessie's voice at its best."
4 Hound Dog/Big Mama
Thornton
"What a voice, what a gal. This is the only way Hound
Dog should be heard!"
5 Born To Cry/Dion
"Doesn't get much better than this. Makes you wanna
be 18 again." |
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1 All By Myself/Johnny Burnette
2 Be Bop A Lula/Gene Vincent 3 Jeannie Jeannie Jeannie/Eddie Cochran 4 Fishnet Stockings/Stray Cats 5 Bop Street/Gene Vincent |
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| Kav Kavanagh's Elvis favourites | |||
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1 Rockahula
"Great all round party tune."
2
Slicin' Sand
"Great fun jive beat."
3 Ain't That Lovin'
You Baby
"Makes you wanna dance like Presley."
4
I Need Your Love Tonite
"Another great jive beat."
5
Baby Let's Play House
"The definitive Presley rockabilly tune." |
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1 Rock Around The
Clock/Bill Haley And His Comets
2 Rock-a-beatin' Boogie/Bill Haley & His Comets 3 She's The Most/Five Keys 4 Sixty Minute Man/Billy Ward & The Dominoes 5 Bim Bam/Sam Butera |
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1
I Feel That Old Feeling Coming On/James Brown
"You just can't beat early James Brown
- although his later soul stuff doesn't do it for me particularly. You can't
deny his raw talent and energy which really shine through in tracks like
this and Chonnie On Chon."
2 Ball The Wall/Professor
Longhair
"I just love the way this shambles along,
building up and the piano slightly losing it with the band. You get
the feeling they just walked in to the studio and made this up as
they went along!"
3
Lucille/Little Richard
"The man is a genius and this is one of
those tracks that
you grow up listening to and suddenly one day really hear it
properly and get knocked out by it!"
4
My Man/Dolly Cooper
"A sentimental favourite of mine. I'm not a fan of female
vocalists, but this song is the top of the pile for
me. I met Bloater because of this song."
5
Country Boogie/Preston Love Orchestra
"A recent discovery and a song that we now cover in
the band. We couldn't stop playing it over and over - a sure sign
of a knockout song!" |
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1
Singin' To My Baby/
Eddie Cochran Darrel says: "I first heard this when I was about four years old. It had an immediate and profound effect on me, with the front cover making as much of an impression as the music. From the moment that I heard the first track, Sittin' In The Balcony, my life was never going to be the same again. Even now I play this record quite often and I find myself totally in awe of the talent that this guy possessed. He was only 18 at the time of the recording. It was to be the only album released during his all too brief career."
2 Great Hits/Gene
Vincent
"Not long after Elvis died I was with my
dad walking through Woolworths. I wanted some more Elvis records, but Dad
said to me that if I was going to learn anything about r'n'r I should buy
a Gene Vincent LP. So I bought this record, took it home, put it on my old
record player and was immediately scared to death by what I was hearing!
This first experience with Vincent taught me a valuable lesson... Rock'n'roll
should be aggressive, moody, mean, scary, and it should frighten little
children."
3
The Sun Sessions/Elvis Presley
"In the early 80s my local station Chiltern Radio used
to have a three-hour rockabilly show every Sunday evening. I would lie in
bed with this little radio, which was designed to look like a Marlboro fag
packet, pressed up to my ear. This show was a godsend and introduced me
to the likes of Tennessee Ernie, Merrill E Moore, Johnny Burnette, Charlie
Feathers, Mac Curtis, etc. It was also the first time I ever heard any of
Elvis's Sun stuff and I was totally blown away. I'd heard The King even
before Cochran, so I'd been a big fan for years and his death affected me
greatly, but I was only familiar with the hits. I practically learned how
to play the guitar to this LP."
4
The Rock'n'Roll Trio/Johnny Burnette
"Sweet Love On My Mind, Rockabilly Boogie, Lonesome Train,
Please Don't Leave Me, Baby Blue Eyes... It doesn't get any better than this, does it?"
5 100% Cotton/The
Jets
"To me this is the greatest r'n'r LP made since the
50s and was hugely influential to me. I bought it when it was first released
in the early 80s and played it till I wore it out. Then I found another
copy and proceeded to wear that out. Now I've got it on CD and it's the
most played CD in the car. All the songs are superbly played, but it's just
one of those wonderfully rare records where you love every track. Over twenty
years later and I still play the bloody thing, and I still enjoy it tremendously."
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1 Tune Up/Junior Walker
& The All Stars
2 On Revival Day/LaVern Baker 3 Work Out/Jackie Wilson 4 Hey Hey Baby/Jon Thomas 5 Don't Set Me Free/Ray Charles | |||
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1 Spin That 45/Stargazers
2 Jump Around/Stargazers 3 Farewell So Long Goodbye/Bill Haley 4 Perfidia/Four Aces 5 Giddy Up A Ding Dong/Freddie Bell |
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| Pagan Gould, The Wanderers | |||
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1 Rock This Town/Stray
Cats
"I was nine when I heard this the first time. Still
is and always will be a classicl."
2 Rockabilly Rebel/Matchbox
"The first single I bought."
3 Indians/Long Tall
Texans
"The first neo band I got into."
4 Barking Up The Wrong
Tree/Don Woody
"Good fun bopper. Pure rockabilly at its best."
5 Two Time Lover/Firebirds
"A great jiver with a hint of country. Goes down a storm
on any dance floor." |
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1 Settin' The Woods
On Fire/Hank Williams
2 Changing All Those Changes/Buddy Holly 3 Race With The Devil/Gene Vincent 4 Boogie Woogie Country Girl/Big Joe Turner 5 Sugar Babe/Buster Brown |
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| Mike Thomas, Cadillac Kings | |||
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1 Shoppin' For
Clothes/Coasters
2 Feelin' Good/Little Junior's Blue Flames 3 Hard-headed Woman/Elvis Presley 4 Long Tall Sally/Little Richard 5 Howlin' For My Darlin'/Howlin' Wolf |
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1 Brown
Eyed Handsome Man/Buddy Holly
2 Mean Little Mama/Roy Orbison 3 Lonesome Train/Number Nine 4 Down Home Special/Bo Diddley 5 That Certain Female/Charlie Feathers |
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1 I'm In
Love/Dualers
2 Around The World/Buddy Greco 3 My Heart Will Go On/Big Daddy 4 Twenty One/Barnshakers 5 Chalk It Up To The Blues/Big Sandy |
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| Michael Garfield | |||
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1 Baby Let's
Play House/Elvis Presley
"This is the blueprint rockabilly song. Today's rockin'
crowd seem to have forgotten Elvis's influence. Their loss."
2 Good Rockin'
Tonight/Elvis Presley
"This is the only version that matters."
3 Mystery Train/Elvis
Presley
"The ethereal quality of this track is Sun Records at
its best. Rockabilly at its purest and finest."
4 Houng Dog/Elvis
Presley
"Some are silly enough to suggest that Big Mama Thornton's
version is better. Elvis wipes the floor with any other version. The
way it should have been sung from the beginning."
5 Blue Suede
Shoes/Elvis Presley
"Carl's version was rockabilly, Elvis's was rock'n'roll.
Take your pick. Mine is the Elvis's version all the way."
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| Sören Heinze, Big Bad Shakin' | |||
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1 Jitterbop Baby/Hal
Harris
"Never try to cover this unique classic. You are bound
to fail."
2 Sapphire/Big Danny
Oliver
"The best rocker there will ever be."
3 Hit Git And Split/Young
Jessie
"A fabulous hook line, a stompin' beat and a raunchy
voice."
4 Teenage Shaker/Crazy Cavan
"The best tune Cavan and the gang have ever done."
5
Nothing But A Nothin'/Jimmy Stewart
"It took me years to get a good copy of the song. It was worth waiting." |
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#1 Please Mama Please/Go Cat Go 191 votes
2 Stray Cat Strut/Stray Cats 145
3 Boogie Woogie Country Girl/Big Joe Turner 143
4 Rock This Town/Stray Cats 141
5 Jump Jive An' Wail/Brian Setzer Orchestra 127
6= Flip Flop And
Fly/Big Joe Turner 114
6= High Class Lady/Lennerockers 114
8 Bim Bam/Sam Butera 104
9 Gonna Type A Letter/Billy Fury 99
10 Ain't Got No Home/Clarence 'Frogman' Henry 95
11 She's The Most/Five Keys 91
12 Zoot Suit Riot/Cherry Poppin' Daddies 87
13 Sag Drag And Fall/Sid King 84
14 Sing Sing Sing/Benny Goodman 82
15 Choo Choo Ch'Boogie/Louis Jordan 77
16 59 Ford/Firebirds 74
17 Fools Fall In Love/Drifters 73
18 Rock Around The Clock/Bill Haley & His Comets 72
19 On Revival Day/LaVern Baker 71
20 Chonnie-on-chon/James Brown 70
21 In The Mood/Glenn Miller Orchestra 68
22= Rock-a-beatin' Boogie/Bill
Haley & His Comets 63
22= Rockabilly
Rebel/Matchbox 63
24 Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens/Louis Jordan 61
25 Brown Eyed Handsome Man/Buddy Holly 58
26 High Class Baby/Darrel Higham 57
27 Jailhouse Rock/Elvis Presley 55
28= I Knew The Bride/Dave Edmunds 46
28= Watch The Birdie/Anita
O'Day With Gene Krupa 46
30= Flying Home/Lionel
Hampton 45
30= Mr Zoot Suit/Flying
Neutrinos 45
30= Till The Well
Runs Dry/Wynona Carr 45
33 Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy/Andrews Sisters 44
34= Ding Dong Daddy/Sophie
Garner & Her Swing Kings 43
34= Reet Petite/Jackie
Wilson 43
36 Booger Red/Sid King 42
37 Great Balls Of Fire/Jerry Lee Lewis 41
38= Ice Cold/Restless
39
38= Opus One/Tommy Dorsey
& His Orchestra 39
38= Regular Joe/Indigo Swing
39
38= Wow Wow Baby/Searchers
39
42= Keep On Coming/Flying
Saucers 38
42= Train Kept A-Rollin'/Johnny
Burnette Trio 38
44= At The Hop/Danny
& The Juniors 37
44= I Know Why/Senti-Mentals
37
46= Be Bop A Lula/Gene
Vincent & The Bluecaps 36
46= Pick Up The Phone/Swingerhead
36
48= Atomic
Cocktail/Slim Gaillard 35
48= Johnnie B Goode/Chuck
Berry 35
48= Please Don't Touch/Johnny
Kidd & The Pirates 35
48= Saturday Night
Fish Fry/Louis Jordan 35
52 Whatcha Gonna Do/Drifters 34
53= Dirty Boogie/Brian
Setzer Orchestra 33
53= Etcetera/Jackie Wilson
33
55= Git It/Gene Vincent
32
55= Jeannie Jeannie Jeannie/Eddie
Cochran 32
55= See You Later Alligator/Bill
Haley & His Comets 32
55= Sea Cruise/Frankie Ford
32
55= Shame Shame Shame/Mike Sanchez
32
55= Sixty Minute Man/Billy
Ward & The Dominoes 32
61= As Long As I'm
Moving/Ruth Brown 31
61= Kansas City/Johnnie
Johnson Band 31
61= Sing Me A Swing
Song (And Let Me Dance)/Chick Webb Featuring Ella Fitzgerald
31
61= The Girl Can't
Help It/Little Richard 31
65= Chicken
Shack Boogie/Amos Milburn 30
65= Make Me Know It/Elvis Presley 30
67= For Dancers
Only/Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra 29
67= Zip Gun Bop/Royal Crown
Revue 29
69= Bloodshot
Eyes/Wynonie Harris 28
69= Jungle Rock/Hank Mizell
28
71= Catch 'Em Young Treat 'Em
Rotten/Mabel Scott 27
71= Long Black Shiny Car/Restless
27
71= One Hand Loose/Charlie
Feathers 27
71= Sho Enough/Tommy Castro
27
75= Boot 'Em Up/Du-Droppers
26
75= Is You Is Or Is You
Ain't My Baby/Louis Jordan 26
75= The Morse Code Of Love/Capris
26
78= Late Night Swing/Casey
MacGill & The Spirits Of Rhythm 25
78= Little White Lies/Senti-Mentals
25
78= Shake Your Hips/Slim
Harpo 25
81=
Hey Mr Locomotive/Bellfuries 24
81= Mildred Won't
You Behave/Bill Elliot Swing Orchestra 24
81= Such A Night/Elvis
Presley 24
84= Blue Days Black Nights/Buddy
Holly 23
84= Come Rock With Me/Bill Haley
23
84= Flying Home/Illinois Jacquet
23
84= Red Light/Indigo Swing
23
84= Tequila/Champs
23
89= Believe
What You Say/Ricky Nelson 22
89= Ding Dong Daddy/Wynona
Carr 22
89= How Low Can You Feel/Ray
Campi 22
89= Slow Down/Larry Williams
22
93= Baby Please Don't
Go/Restless 21
93= Blue Suit Boogie/Indigo
Swing 21
93= Pocketful Of Rainbows/Darrel Higham 21
93= Rockabilly Guy/Polecats
21
93= Teenage Cutie/Eddie
Cochran 21
93= Two Time Lover/Firebirds
21
99=
Baby Workout/Jackie Wilson 20
99= Cavan Eddie And
Chuck/Doomsday Rockers 20
99= I Go Ape/Crazy
Cavan 20
99= Mack The Knife/Bobby
Darin 20
99= Rockin' My Life
Away/Jerry Lee Lewis 20
104=
Boogie Woogie Blue Plate/Marion Price 19
104= Caldonia/Louis Jordan
19
104= Chantilly Lace/Big Bopper
19
104= Hey Pachuco/Royal Crown
Revue 19
104= Shotgun Boogie/Tennessee
Ernie Ford 19
104= Waitin'
In School/Ricky Nelson 19
110= Chattanooga
Choo Choo/Glenn Miller Orchestra 18
110= I'm
On Fire/Jerry Lee Lewis 18
110= Lovin' Machine/Wynonie Harris
18
110= Sapphire/Mike Sanchez
18
110= She's So Pretty/Doomsday Rockers
18
115= Completely Sweet/Eddie Cochran
17
115= Harry Potter Bop/Rockin' Rascals
17
115= Long Blonde Hair/Johnny
Powers 17
115= Woodpecker
Rock/Nat Couty 17
119= Don't
Be Angry/Nappy Brown 16
119= Drummin' Man/Gene Krupa
& His Orchestra 16
119= Jump Jive An' Wail/Louis
Prima 16
119= Just A Gigolo/Louis
Prima 16
119= Rocket 88/Jackie Brenston
16
119= Pink And Black Cadillac/Wildkatz
16
119= You And Me And The Bottle
Makes Three Tonight Baby/Big Bad Voodoo Daddy 16
126= Big Ten
Inch Record/Bull Moose Jackson 15
126= Caldonia/Woody Herman & His
Orchestra 15
126= C Jam Blues/Eddie Reed Big
Band 15
126= Growl/Johnny Kidd
15
126= My Babe/Flying Saucers
15
126= My Way/Eddie Cochran
15
126= Lucille/Little Richard
15
126= Move It/Cliff Richard
15
126= Please Don't Leave Me/Johnny
Burnette Trio 15
126= Red Light/Number Nine
15
126= Shame Shame Shame/Smiley Lewis
15
126= She's The One To Blame/Crazy
Cavan 15
138= Bounce
Me Brother/Andrews Sisters 14
138= Come On And Dance With Me/Good
Rockin' Daddies 14
138= Didn't Start Living/Darrel
Higham & The Enforcers 14
138= Let's Go Baby/Robert Parker
14
138= Sexy And Seventeen/Stray Cats
14
138= Shake Rattle And Roll/Big
Joe Turner 14
138= T'Ain't
What You Do/Billy May 14
145= Blue
Suede Shoes/Elvis Presley 13
145= Bop Pretty Baby/Crazy Cavan
13
145= Dig That Boogie/Roy Hall
13
145= Flat Feet/Sammy Masters
13
145= Lonesome Train/Johnny Burnette
13
145= Number Nine/Tarheel Slim
13
145= Rocket Ship/Jackie Lowell
13
145= Sisterheart/Senti-Mentals
13
145= Splanky/Count Basie
13
145= Tu Vuo Fa L'Americano/Ray
Gelato Giants 13
145= Whole Lotta Shakin' Going
On/Jerry Lee Lewis 13
156= 59/68
Comeback Special 12
156= Americano/Brian Setzer
Orchestra 12
156= Beat Me Daddy Eight
To The Bar/Andrews Sisters 12
156= Bim Bam Baby/Sugar Ray's
Flying Fortress 12
156= Brand New Cadillac/Vince
Taylor 12
156= Like A Bomb/Gene Gambler
& The Shufflers 12
156= No Heart To Spare/Go
Getters 12
156= Red Blue Jeans And Pony
Tail/Gene Vincent & The Bluecaps 12
156= Rockin' Goose/Johnny
& The Hurricanes 12
156= Rockin' Rollin' Stone/Andy
Starr 12
156= Swing Me Baby/Johnny
Earle 12
167= Barking
Up The Wrong Tree/Don Woody 11
167= Come-A Come-A/Bobettes
11
167= Don't Mess With My Man/Irma
Thomas 11
167= Good Golly Miss Molly/Little
Richard 11
167= Hook Line And Sinker/Bill
Haley & His Comets 11
167= It Ain't The Meat/Swallows
11
167= King Creole/Di Maggio Brothers
11
167= King Cry Baby/James Intveld
11
167= Mary Mary Lou/Sam Cooke
11
167= Stop Whistlin' Wolf/Darrel
Higham & Imelda Clabby 11
167= The Chicken And The Hawk (Up
Up And Away)/Big Joe Turner 11
167= Trickle Trickle/Videos
11
167= Wildcat/Gene Vincent
11
180= Ace
Of Spades/Link Wray 10
180= A Tisket A Tasket/Ella
Fitzgerald 10
180= Dipsy Doodle/Bill Haley
& His Comets 10
180= Gone Gone Gone/Charlie
Feathers 10
180= Lipstick Powder And
Paint/Big Joe Turner 10
180= Love Roller Coaster/Big
Joe Turner 10
180= Mack The Knife/Ella
Fitzgerald 10
180= Man With The Hex/Atomic
Fireballs 10
180= Saturday Night At The
Duckpond/Rapiers 10
180= Southern Boys/Raw Deal
10
180= Tainted Love/Dave
Phillips & The Hot Rod Gang 10
180= The Walkin' Blues (Walk
Right In, Walk Right Out)/Jesse Powell Orchestra & Fluffy Hunter
10
180= Wise Up/Firebirds
10
193= A Big Hunk O'Love/Elvis Presley 9 Fastest climber
193= Baby Let's
Play House/Elvis Presley 9
193= Ballad Of Julio Gonzales/Fat
Cats 9
193= Black And White Thunderbird/Delicates
9
193= Black Cats Bone/Hot Boogie
Chillun 9
193= Black Diamond/Roy Brown
9
193= Boppin' To Grandfather's Clock/Mario
Bradley 9
193= Choo Choo Ch'Boogie/Rock Island
Line 9
193= Jelly Bean/Doomsday Rockers
9
193= I Beg Of You/Elvis Presley
9
193= I Got The Feeling/Belvadares
9
193= Long Drape Coat/Belvadares
9
193= My Boy Elvis/Janis Martin
9
193= Planet Jive/Jive Aces
9
193= Rock'n'Roll Blues/Eddie
Cochran 9
193= Sapphire/Big Danny Oliver
9
193= Sorry I Ran All The Way Home/Impalas
9
193= That Mellow Saxophone/Brian
Setzer Orchestra 9
193= The Business Of Love/Domino
9
193= Voodoo Voodoo/Imelda Clabby
9
193= Yes Tonight Josephine/Jets
9
214= 99
Chicks/Polecats 8
214= All Of Me/Count Basie
Orchestra 8
214= All Shook Up/Elvis Presley
8
214= Brand New Cadillac/50s
Flyers 8
214= Buona Sera/Emile Ford
& The Checkmates 8
214= Chicken Gum Boogie/Ray
McKinley 8
214= Dixie Fried/Carl Perkins
8
214= Fury's Tune/Billy Fury
8
214= Good Morning Judge/Wynonie
Harris 8
214= Good News/Dave Bartholomew
8
214= I Got Stung/Elvis
Presley 8
214= Jive Time/Johnny Earle
8
214= Let's Have A Party/Wanda
Jackson 8
214= Lorraine/Accelerators
8
214= Matchbox/Carl Perkins
8
214= Midnighter/Champs
8
214= Move Around/Groovy
Joe Poovey 8
214= Mr Bang Bang Man/Little
Hank 8
214= My Rifle Pony And Me/Darrel
Higham 8
214= Queen Of The Hop/Bobby
Darin 8
214= Such A Night/Colin Paul
& The Persuaders 8
214= Sweet Little Sixteen/Chuck
Berry 8
214= Tennessee Saturday Night/Riot
Rockers 8
214= That Certain Female/Charlie
Feathers 8
214= Too Much/Elvis Presley
8
214= The Senior Class/Mickey
Lee Lane 8
214= You Don't Love Me/Go
Getters 8
241= Alabama
Shake/Flying Saucers 7
241= All I Can Do Is Cry/Wayne
Walker 7
241= A Thousand Stars/Billy Fury
7
241= Ay La Bah/Sophie Garner &
Her Swing Kings 7
241= Catty Town/Dick Glasser
7
241= Five Guys Named Moe/Louis
Jordan 7
241= Gene And Eddie/Stray Cats
7
241= Good Rocking Tonight/Wynonie
Harris 7
241= Hip Shake Baby/Mike Sanchez
7
241= I Love The Way She Shakes
That Thang/Earl Thomas 7
241= I'm Beginning To See The
Light/Ella Fitzgerald 7
241= I've Got A Brand New Home/Big
Town Playboys 7
241= Juke Box/Sugar Ray's Flying
Fortress 7
241= Kelly/Del Shannon
7
241= King Kong/Big Boy Bloater
& His Southside Stompers 7
241= Long Tall Sally/Marty Robbins
7
241= Love's To Blame/Flying Saucers
7
241= My Babe/Little Town Big Shots
7
241= Pasquale Americano/Goodfellas
7
241= Pretty Bad Blues/Shakin'
Pyramids 7
241= Rockin' Bones/Ronnie Dawson
7
241= Rhythm Is Our Business/Jimmie
Lunceford Orchestra 7
241= Rock All Night/Shirley & Lee
7
241= Shoo Bop/Firebirds
7
241= Skyliner/Charlie Barnet &
His Orchestra 7
241= Some Like It Hot/Flying
Saucers 7
241= Sunshine Superman/Darrel Higham
7
241= The Band's A Rockin'/Johnny
Lee Wills 7
241= The House Is Rockin'/Brian
Setzer Orchestra 7
241= The Prisoners Song/Sonny
Burgess 7
241= The Shape I'm In/Dave Edmunds
7
241= Till I Kissed You/Darrel Higham
& Imelda Clabby 7
241= Tom Dooley Rock'n'Roll/Curtis
Hobock 7
241= Turn My Back On You/Billy
Fury 7
241= We The Boys Will Rock You/Big
Six 7
276= 99 Chicks/Ron
Haydock & The Boppers 6
276= Baby Baby/Curtis Johnson
6
276= Baby Sittin'/Bobby Angelo
& The Tuxedos 6
276= Black And White/Belleview
Cadillac 6
276= Blue Suede Shoes/Carl Perkins
6
276= Boogie Chilun/John Fred
6
276= Breakfast At The Ace/Rapiers
6
276= Bring On The Boogie/Fat Cats
6
276= Buzz Buzz Buzz/Hollywood Flames
6
276= Cast Iron Arm/Riot Rockers
6
276= Crazy Blues/Big Bopper
6
276= Destination Love/Wynonie
Harris 6
276= Driving Wheel/Robert Gordon
6
276= Fabulous Cure/Dickie Pride
6
276= Good Times And Mighty Fine
Rock'n'Roll/Wee Willie Harris 6
276= Hey Mr Cotton Picker/Tennessee
Ernie Ford 6
276= Hip Hip Baby/Denis Herrold
6
276= Honey Don't/Carl Perkins
6
276= If I Can Dream/Elvis Presley
6
276= Ignition/68 Comeback Special
6
276= In Thoughts Of You/Billy
Fury 6
276= It Ain't Right/Paul Ansell's
Number Nine 6
276= I Won't Stand In Your Way/Stray
Cats 6
276= King Kong/Mike Sanchez
6
276= King Of Swing/Big Bad Voodoo
Daddy 6
276= Little Demon/Screamin' Jay
Hawkins 6
276= Lou Ann/Cadillac Kings
6
276= Love Train/Jackie Wilson
6
276= My Little Teddy Girl/Crazy
Cavan & The Rhythm Rockers 6
276= Paralysed/Elvis Presley
6
276= Red Cadillac And A Black Moustache/Hank
C Burnette 6
276= Red Hot Mama/Mike Sanchez
6
276= Rudy's Rock/Bill Haley & His
Comets 6
276= Run Baby Run/Yakety Yak
6
276= Shakin' All Over/Johnny Kidd
& The Pirates 6
276= Something's Going On In My
Room/Daddy Cleanhead 6
276= Swanee Boogie/Rip Masters
6
276= This Life's For Living/Belvadares
6
276= Treat Your Man/Jets
6
276= Voodoo Voodoo/LaVern Baker
6
276= White Hot Christmas/Jive Aces
6
276= White Trash Mama/The Cool
& The Crazy 6
276= Wild One/Mike Sanchez
6
319= Black Cat
Boogie/Black Cats 5
319= Blues In Hoss's Flat/Count
Basie Orchestra 5
319= Blue Skies/Jets
5
319= Bop Bop Ba Doo Bop/Lew Williams
5
319= Bop Party/Bill Fadden & The
Silvertone Flyers 5
319= Both Wheels Left The Ground/Crazy
Cavan 5
319= Breaking Up The House/Tiny
Bradshaw 5
319= Dance Girl Dance/Firebirds
5
319= Deep Feeling/Rapiers
5
319= Don't Cry Baby/Black Cat
5
319= Down The Road Apiece/Chuck
Berry 5
319= Draggin'/Curtis Gordon
5
319= Gettin' In The Mood/Brian
Setzer Orchestra 5
319= GI Jive/Vernon & The GIs
5
319= Hard Rock Cafe/Crazy Cavan
5
319= Hat Back Boogie/Lee Press-on
& The Nails 5
319= Hey Bobba Needle/Chubby Checker
5
319= Hit Git And Split/Young Jessie
5
319= Hoedown Jive/Western Wildcats
5
319= Hold Me Hug Me Rock Me/Gene
Vincent 5
319= House Of Blue Light/Mike Sanchez
5
319= I Got A Feeling/Paul Ansell's
Number Nine 5
319= I'm Ready/Fats Domino
5
319= Jumps And Shouts/Jackie Wilson
5
319= Just One More Time/Big Boy
Bloater & His Southside Stompers 5
319= Ladies Man/Fat Cats
5
319= Little Baby Doll/Go Cat Go
5
319= Love Bug Crawl/Jimmy Edwards
5
319= Lover Please/Clyde McPhatter
5
319= Mais Oui/King Brothers
5
319= Mambo Italiana/Shaft
5
319= Mean Streak/Cliff Richard
5
319= One-Eyed Boogie Boy/Freddie
Fingers Lee 5
319= One Scotch, One Bourbon,
One Beer/Roadrunners 5
319= Please Don't Touch/Wild Angels
5
319= Princess/Johnny Tillotson
5
319= Rockabilly Boogie/Johnny Burnette
5
319= Rockabilly Man/Firebirds
5
319= Rockahula Baby/Meteors
5
319= Rock Around With Ollie Vee/Buddy
Holly 5
319= Rock House/Roy Orbison
5
319= Rock'n'Roll Music/Chuck Berry
5
319= Rough Boy/Doomsday Rockers
5
319= Seven Nights To Rock/Moon
Mullican 5
319= Shakin' Mother For You/Champion
Jack Dupree 5
319= Sh'boom/Chords
5
319= Stop Whistlin' Wolf/Maddox
Brothers & Rose 5
319= Sweet Sue/Lucas & The Dynamos
5
319= Thunder And Lightning/Hicksville
Bombers 5
319= Tight Skirt/Gene Summers
5
319= True Love Ways/Buddy Holly
5
319= Voo Vee Ah Bee/Platters
5
319= What D'Ya Want?/Casey MacGill
& The Spirits Of Rhythm 5
319= Wild For Kicks/Sabrejets
5
319= You Never Can Tell/Chuck Berry
5
319= You Tell Her I Stutter/Jimmy
Lee Prow 5
375= All In The
Game/Percy Edwards 4
375= American Patrol/Glenn Miller
Orchestra 4
375= Angel Mine/Billy Fury
4
375= A Zoot Suit (For My Sunday
Gal)/Kay Kyser 4
375= Bop A Lena/Ronnie Self
4
375= Breathless/Jerry Lee Lewis
4
375= Bun's Blues/Count Basie &
Oscar Peterson 4
375= Charlene/Jets
4
375= Chicky Mo/Ray Gelato Giants
4
375= Colette/Billy Fury
4
375= Corrine Corrina/Big Joe Turner
4
375= Dig Them Squeaky Shoes/Colin
Winski 4
375= Do You Love Me/Nick Willett
4
375= Get A Job/Silhouettes
4
375= Girls All Over The World/Mike
Sanchez 4
375= Hello Josephine/Colin Paul
& The Persuaders 4
375= Herman The Hermit/Jerry Lee
Lewis 4
375= If I Could Be Anyone/Jet
Set Six 4
375= I've Got My Sights On Someone
New/Roddy Jackson 4
375= I've Got Someone/Billy Fury
4
375= I Want A New Girl/Ben Hewitt
4
375= Jitterbop Baby/Hal Harris
4
375= Late Last Night/Firebirds
4
375= Lay Lady Lay/Number Nine
4
375= Lipsticks And Potions/Jets
4
375= Loch Lomond/Bill Haley & His
Comets 4
375= Long Black Jacket/Doomsday
Rockers 4
375= Long Black Train/Conway Twitty
4
375= Mean Mean Man/Wanda Jackson
4
375= Mean Ol' Train/Papa Lightfoot
4
375= Mobile Alabama/Curtis Gordon
4
375= Mr Lee/Bobettes
4
375= Mystery Train/Elvis Presley
4
375= Nadine/Chuck Berry
4
375= Nine Times Out Of Ten/Cliff
Richard 4
375= Nothin' Shakin' But The Leaves
On The Trees/Billy Fury 4
375= Persuading You To Rock/Colin
Paul 4
375= Please Don't Talk About Me
When I'm Gone/Big Boy Bloater & His Southside Stompers 4
375= Please Give Me Something/Bill
Allen 4
375= Pretty Little Love Song/Hayden
Thompson 4
375= Ramblin' Man/Rimshots
4
375= Rock'n'Roll Guitar/Johnny
Knight 4
375= Rock The Joint/Bill Haley
& His Comets 4
375= Roll On/Johnny & The Jailbirds
4
375= Safronia B/The Love Dogs
4
375= Sally Ann/Wild Angels
4
375= Scatman Jack/Brian Setzer
Orchestra 4
375= See My Baby Jive/Flash Cadillac
& The Continental Kids 4
375= Seventeen/Boyd Bennett & His
Rockets 4
375= Shake Rattle And Roll/Bill
Haley & The Comets 4
375= She's Got Me Hypnotised/Mario
Bradley 4
375= Shu Bop (The Lost Track)/Dion
4
375= Skitter Skatter/Metrotones
4
375= So Fine/Gina & The Strollers
4
375= Speedoo/Cadillacs
4
375= Stare Stare Stare/Jets
4
375= Sweet Home Chicago/Blues Brothers
4
375= Switchin' In The Kitchen/Roomful
Of Blues 4
375= Tail Of A Rattlesnake/Blue
Devils 4
375= Talk To Me/Phil Haley & His
Comments 4
375= Teddyboy Rock'n'Roll/Crazy
Cavan 4
375= Telephone Baby/Werly Fairburn
4
375= The Walkin' Blues/Royal Crown
Revue 4
375= They Call Me Big Mama/Big
Mama Thornton 4
375= Three Little Chickens/Four
Tunes 4
375= Tornado/Jiants
4
375= Trisha Where Are You?/Rockin'
Rascals 4
375= Turnip Greens/Darrel Higham
& The Enforcers 4
375= Up Jumped The Devil/Ronnie
Dawson 4
375= When I Found You/Jerry Reed
4
375= Wildcat/Marty Wilde
4
375= Wow Wow Baby/Spitfires
4
447= Ain't Giving
Up Nothing/Good Rockin' Tonight 3
447= Ain't Misbehavin'/Tommy Bruce
& The Bruisers 3
447= All Right All Night/Shakin'
Pyramids 3
447= All Right Okay You Win/Cat
Pack 3
447= All She Wants To Do Is Rock/Mike
Sanchez 3
447= Baby Take Me Back/Roc LaRue
3
447= Back In The USA/Chuck Berry
4
447= Bad To The Bone/George Thorogood
3
447= Be-Baba-Leba/Helen Humes
3
447= Be Mine/Louis Prima & Sam
Butera 3
447= Be My Guest/Wee Willie Harris
3
447= Bip Bam/Drifters
3
447= Blue Blue Day/Sureshots
3
447= Blue Boy/Mike Sanchez
3
447= Blue Moon Baby/Dave Diddle
Day 3
447= Boppin' At The Hard Rock/Rock
Island Line 3
447= Bradley's Boogie/Mario Bradley
3
447= Bradshaw Boogie/Tiny Bradshaw
3
447= Brand New Cadillac/Wayne Hancock
3
447= Calling All Angels/Crests
3
447= Centipede/Lew Williams
3
447= Chicken Shack Boogie/Leroy
Van Dyke 3
447= Come On Pe