Chanteur
Rock 'n' Roll et acteur anglais né Thomas Hicks, le 17 décembre 1936 à
Bermondsey, près de Londres. Il fut la première vedette du Rock 'n' Roll en
Angleterre.
You'd
never know it to look at film of him today, but during the summer of 1956, Tommy
Steele became England's first home-grown rock 'n roller. Or he wasn't a rock 'n
roller at all. Some 43 years after he first charted a record, many pop-music
scholars still question whether Tommy Steele belongs on a list of rock 'n roll
performers. But whatever he was, in 1956, England had never seen anything quite
like him. He was born Tommy Hicks on Dec. 17, 1936 in Bermondsey, South London,
to a working class family. In 1952, at age 15, he joined the merchant navy, and
for the next four years, he worked on the Cunard line. He was hospitalized at
one point during his time at Cunard, and during his convalescence, learned to
play the guitar. Hicks began singing and performing for his fellow merchant
seamen and discovered that he had a natural ability as an entertainer, with a
special affinity for country-and- western songs, and for comedy. During shore
leave, he began appearing at American air force bases, among other venues, often
with a country band called the Sons of the Saddle, led by a Canadian named Jack
Fallon. Hicks made it a point, whenever he was ashore in the United States, to
listen to as much music as he could find. In early 1956, he chanced to see
Elvis Presley on the Dorsey Brothers'
Stage Show and Milton Berle. During the spring of 1956, Hicks met Lionel Bart
and Mike Pratt, two songwriters who were also working as performers and had an
interest in this new brand of music that was coming over from America. At that
time, Bill Haley's "Rock Around the Clock"
had become a hit in England, but the new music wasn't yet sweeping the British
charts the way it was in America-Elvis's first single and album had received
only limited release in the UK, a result of the end, during early 1956, of EMI's
longstanding licensing agreement with RCA-Victor. The particulars of rock 'n
roll eluded many English listeners and even music professionals. The country had
no blues tradition, and a contact with jazz that was restricted almost entirely
to a restricted, very conservative Dixieland-based style called "trad" (which,
itself, wasn't welcomed in a lot of the best performing venues), which was
starting to sell records. The blues and r&b elements of early rock 'n roll were
imponderables to most teenage listeners and musicians, but the energy and the
animated nature of the music was identifiable. A breakthrough of sorts took
place in 1955 when a guitarist-singer named Lonnie Donegan introduced a brand of
music called skiffle, which mixed blues, folk, country and jazz elements into a
coherent whole that was lively and infectious to listen to, when it was done
correctly. Donegan became skiffle's superstar and opened up major (although much
shorter) careers for acts such as Wally Whyton and the Vipers Skiffle Group and
American-born Johnny Duncan; more
important, he inspired tens of thousands of British teenagers to buy acoustic
guitars, appropriate washboards, and assemble washtub bases to play skiffle. It
wasn't rock 'n roll, but it was closer to it than anything heard in England up
to that point. Donegan, however, was born in 1931, and had already served in the
British army; he was not a teenager, and was more of a musician than a "star, "
although he did fill the latter role very well for years. Tommy Hicks formed a
band of his own, the Cavemen, with Bart and Pratt while he was on shore leave in
London in the summer of 1956. In the summer of that year, Hicks and the Cavemen
began playing in coffee bars in London's Soho, where young people were
congregating in ever-larger numbers to hear the skiffle bands that were
performing there. He was finding an audience, particularly at a coffee bar
called The 2 I's, where Hicks and the Cavemen were discovered by a public
relations man named John Kennedy. And Kennedy, in turn, convinced impressario
Larry Parnes that there was something happening in Soho, and those teenage
audiences and the musicians they were turning out to see, that could be turned
into a viable national career for someone, and that Tommy Hicks and the Cavemen
had a good chance of doing just that. He was rechristened Tommy Steele, the
first of a string of Parnes clients who took on names like Duffy Power and
Billy Fury. Orchestrated by Parnes, Tommy
Steele was given a big publicity build-up, booked into fashionable London clubs,
and pushed as the new favorite of the upscale teenage female population.
Parnes's campaign worked, and Steele was soon being scouted by numerous record
labels. One of those executives who came down to The 2 I's was George Martin,
the head of Parlophone Records, who passed on Steele. Instead, it was English
Decca that signed Tommy Steele during the early fall of 1956. (Martin did end up
signing the Vipers Skiffle Group). For their recording debut, the trio cut an
original song, "Rock With the Caveman," with help from some British jazz
notables (including saxman Ronnie Scott), who got billed at the Steelmen. The
new singing star made his television debut in October of 1956, and was
immediately booked for a second appearance when thousands of letters arrived
requesting to see him again. "Rock With the Caveman" made the British top-20, a
respectable start for a previously unknown artist working with one of his own
songs. Listening to it today, it seems a curiously bland, formulaic effort at
rock 'n roll, its use of the word "rock" in the lyrics more than its style
identifying it, though he and the band do play hard. In order to appreciate it,
however, one must recognized what the state of English popular culture was
during the second half of 1956. At that time, a few British jazz bands were
beginning to add rock 'n roll to their repertories or, in some cases, retooling
themselves entirely. Tony Crombie & His
Rockets, in particular, were starting to make a lot of noise and names for
themselves at dances. Their model was Bill
Haley's Comets; this band and others like it were sax-driven, with lots of
rhythm guitar (good lead guitarists being almost impossible to find), their
songs relying on rousing repetitive choruses and a heavy beat, rather than any
particular cleverness or flair in their lyrics— forget
Chuch Berry, the Brits didn't even have
anyone with Bill Haley's non-existent songwriting ability in their midst. And,
as was the case with Haley, none of them was especially youthful or particularly
charismatic, and English teenagers found little of compelling. Then along came
Tommy Steele, who was all of 19 years old and sang and played a guitar. He had a
toothy smile, wore his hair in what was considered an unkempt manner (compared
with the proper way most English performers groomed themselves), and seemed
possessed of boundless energy and humor. He was no blues singer or stylist like
Elvis Presley, his voice more pleasant
than powerful, his demeanor more genial than threatening, but the latter was
actually a point in Steele's favor in becoming a star in England-Elvis's overtly
sexual presence gave Americans pause, and would have been impossible to emulate
in England. His songs, especially the early ones, were uniquely English variants
on a rock 'n roll sound, honking saxes in front of a basic rhythm-guitar-and-piano
backing, with maybe a little moderately amplified jazz-type lead guitar ("Doomsday
Rock") and lyrics that included lines like "The British Museum's got my head"
(on "Rock With The Caveman"). They did the job, as did covers of American hits
like Melvin Endsley's "Singing The
Blues" and the Charlie Gracie hit "Butterfly."
Only a month after "Rock With The Caveman" made the British top 20, Steele was
voted one of the top 10 male British singers in a New Musical Express poll, and
on his first major tour found himself greeted by hoards of screaming fans. His
second single, "Doomsday Rock, " failed to chart, but his third, "Singing The
Blues," bumped Guy Mitchell's version from the No. 1 spot on the British charts.
By early 1957, Steele had made his first screen appearance, in a small role as a
singer in the thriller Kill Me Tomorrow, directed by Hammer Films alumnus
Terence Fisher. By February of that year, the production of the movie The Tommy
Steele Story had begun-shot in less than three weeks, it was in theaters in May
of 1957, just in time to herald his second major British tour, on which he was
billed with the American rock 'n roll band
Freddie Bell & the Bellboys. There
were also the Decca albums, The Tommy Steele Stage Show and other early 10-inch
LPs, which had a decent quota of well played songs. Two songs off The Tommy
Steele Story, "Handful of Songs" and "Water, Water," later charted in the
British top 5. Steele display more versatility with the Calypso-flavored "Water,
Water, " the orchestrated pop song "Butterfingers" and also the folkish number "Shiralee,"
which was recorded for the movie of the same name. The latter was a most
impressive performance, showing a depth and maturity that had previously eluded
him. Everything associated with Steele seemed poised for success. Among his two
Cavemen associates, Lionel Bart later went on to compose the musical Oliver!,
which became one of the most massively popular British musicals in history, and
which yielded a hit blockbuster film (one of the last old-style musicals of the
1960's to turn a significant profit for its makers) from Columbia Pictures in
1968. Mike Pratt, for his part, became a television star in England. Steele's
second movie, The Duke Wore Jeans, was in production in September of 1957, and
the following month, English audiences voted him the No. 2 World Music
Personality, outpolled only by Elvis Presley. That same month, he was the star
of his own television special, and appeared in the Royal Variety Show before an
audience that included members of the Royal Family. The following year, Steele
made his first international tour, of Europe and South Africa, which was
followed by a British tour on which, at Dundee, he was mobbed by fans and
injured so seriously that he was forced to take two months off from performing.
During the summer of 1958, Steele appeared in the premiere episode of Oh Boy!, a
new televised musical showcase, whose line-up also included a newcomer to
professional music named Cliff Richard.
It was a harbinger of things to come. Steele continued to record some rock 'n
roll, including a version of Ritchie Valens'
"Come On, Let's Go" (which was produced by Joe Meek), but increasingly, his
output consisted of pop-style numbers, including show tunes. "Give! Give! Give!"
b/w "Tallahassee Lassie" were his last rock 'n roll sides, in 1959. Steele's
version of the Freddy Cannon hit is perfectly credible rock 'n roll. By that
time, Cliff Richard and his backing band the Shadows had ushered in a new wave
of British rock 'n roll with "Move It"- an original song that felt and sounded
American-and its immediate follow-up records. It was Richard, not Steele, who
starred in Expresso Bongo (1959), a film based on a satirical play that
had been inspired by Steele's rise to fame. From the beginning, Steele had aimed
at having a career as a more diversified entertainer, in part out of personal
preference-he liked American rock 'n roll, but he also appreciated other kinds
of music-and some biographers believe that the 1958 incident in which he was
injured pushed him into the decision to move out of rock 'n roll once and for
all. Additionally, the direction of Steele's career out of rock 'n roll proved
to be a typical career course for Parnes's clients, and most British rock 'n
roll stars (and, for that matter, many of the biggest white American stars, most
obviously Elvis). Some of it was a result of expediency-nobody knew how long the
teenage fixation on rock 'n roll would last, and managers and the artists
themselves wanted to maintain their careers and build on it, not become trapped
in a musical genre that, it was presumed, could go stale for the public at any
time. Steele remained popular with younger listeners, and was voted among the
top 5 British male singers of 1959. He did two more movies that year, Tommy
The Toreador and Light Up the Sky, the latter a World War II comedy
that also featured comedian Benny Hill. His single "You Were Mine" (a cover of
the Fireflies' hit) failed to chart, but in 1960 he scored another top 10 single
with "Little White Bull," a soft children's song (Steele contributed all of the
royalties to the Children's Cancer Research fund) from Tommy The Toreador. An
Australian tour followed, which reunited him with the Steelmen and also featured
a 15-piece backing band led by Harry Robinson aka Lord Rockingham. Steele got
married that June to Ann Donoghue, but apart from a week's honeymoon, barely
slowed his career. He spent that summer appearing at the Blackpool Opera House
in a record-breaking season with veteran entertainer Alma Cogan. Most British
teenagers thought of Steele as passe by 1960, however. It was four years since
he'd broken into the charts, and a whole new wave of children had reached their
teen years, listening to Elvis (whose records, a little later than they did in
America, did top the charts in England),
Gene Vincent, Buddy Holly,
Cliff Richard,
Billy Fury, and other much harder sounds
than Tommy Steele. In a sense, however, Steele was more successful than any of
them in advancing out of rock 'n roll, which was what he wanted to do. By 1963,
he was a new sensation on the London stage in the musical Half A Sixpence (based
on the H.G. Wells novel Kipps), and he followed this with a hit run on Broadway
in the same play two years later. Steele had successfully reinvented himself.
Two years after the opening of the show's Broadway run, he did a Hollywood hat-trick
that he could scarcely have dreamt of when he formed the Cavemen 11 years
earlier, by starring in three big-budget, big studio film in a single year-the
film version of Half A Sixpence, the Disney film The Happiest
Millionaire, and Finian's Rainbow. In contrast to his low-budget rock
'n roll movies, none of which took more than three weeks to film and most of
which were dumped on the American market, these were color, widescreen movies
shot over a period of months and given a wide release all over the world.
Finian's Rainbow, in particular, was something of a pinnacle in Steele's feature
film career, teaming him up with Fred Astaire and Petula Clark, both of whom
were already established screen stars (in Astaire's case, a legend) when he was
still working for Cunard-not bad for a working class boy who had to go to sea
when he was 15. Steele's rock 'n roll era was well behind him by the time the
smoke cleared from this series of big films. From that day forward, when he did
perform, it was far more likely to be songs like "Half A Sixpence" than "Rock
With the Caveman" or even "Singing The Blues." He has played more legitimate
theater and big-budget musicals than rock 'n roll for more than 35 years and, as
a more personal creative endeavor, has also cultivated a flair for art and
graphic design. Tommy Steele's reputation as a rock 'n roller over the years has
risen and fallen, depending upon the which side of his music output was
available and who was doing the writing. A lot of Britons who were simply kids
listening to records back when he started making them still love his work to
this day (Decca was reissuing his original LPs as 10-inch discs in the early
1980's), and few Englishmen over the age of 25 have harsh words to say about him.
Some scholars and historians feel differently, deriding Steele as a manufactured
pretender, rather than a real rock 'n roller. Other call him "the most
innovative and influential act of the 1950's" in England, although that's a bit
extreme-Lonnie Donegan and Cliff Richard are certainly in the running for that
designation. Steele's success as a rock 'n roller was important, vitally so, in
several respects. His music proved that English musicians could, after a fashion,
write and play something roughly akin to American-style rock 'n roll without
being too loud or crude (two impediments to rock 'n roll's acceptance, or at
least being tolerated, in England); additionally, his success drew a major
British record company into rock 'n roll, which was doubly important considering
that Decca had passed on signing Lonnie
Donegan a year earlier because they doubted that the skiffle boom would
last. Additionally, his music and its success were also a vital link in the
chain of evolution from Lonnie Donegan to
Cliff Richard, which helped pave
the way, indirectly, for the Beatles and all that followed. Most important at
the time, he was the first English teenager to elicit excitement with his music
from the mass public and, incidental to his popularity, he wrote or co-wrote
many of his own songs in the beginning (which was understandable, in part,
because few professional songwriters in England at that time could compose rock
'n roll). Performers such as Cliff
Richard, the Beatles, and the Rolling Stones (who provoked a legendary riot
at Royal Albert Hall in October 1966, just by taking the stage) would elicit
stronger reactions, but Steele was the English teenager who let the genie out of
the bottle, even if he wasn't the genie.
http://www.tommysteeleinternationalfanclub.com/
Talents : Singer, Guitar, Actor
Style musical : Rock 'n' Roll, Pop
PLANT A KISS
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DISCOGRAPHY
Singles & EP
| 1956 | SP DECCA F10795 (US) | . | Rock With The Caveman / Rock Around The Town | ||
| 1956 | SP DECCA F10808 (UK) | . | Doomsday Rock / Elevator Rock | ||
| 1956 | SP DECCA F10819 (UK) | . |
Singing The Blues
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Rebel Rock
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| 1957 | SP DECCA F10849 (UK) | . | Knee Deep In The Blues / Teenage Party | ||
| 1957 | SP DECCA F10877 (UK) | .. | Butterfingers / Cannibal Pot | ||
| 1957 | SP DECCA F10896 (UK) | . | Shiralee / Grandad's Rock | ||
| 1957 | SP DECCA F10923 (UK) | . | Water Water / A Handful Of Songs | ||
| 1957 | SP DECCA F10941 (UK) | . | Hey You! /
Plant A Kiss
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| 1957 | EP DECCA DFE 6388 (UK) |
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YOUNG LOVE - Young Love / Doomsday Rock / Wedding Bells / Rock With The Cavemen | ||
| 1957 | EP DECCA DFE 6389 (UK) |
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SINGING THE BLUES -
Singing The Blues
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Rebel Rock
/ Knee Deep In The Blues / Elevator Rock |
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| 1957 | EP DECCA DFE 6398 (UK) |
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THE TOMMY STEELE STORY No. 1 – Take Me Back Baby / Water, Water / Will It Be You? / Build Up | ||
| 1957 | EP DECCA DFE 6424 (UK) |
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| 1957 | EP DECCA 457 000 (F) |
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1 - Rock With The Cavemen / Rock Around The Town
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Rebel Rock
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Singing The Blues
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| 10/1957 | EP DECCA 457 001 (F) |
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2 - Doomsday Rock / Young Love / Elevator Rock / Knee Deep In The Blues | ||
| 02/1958 | EP DECCA 457 005 (F) |
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THE TOMMY STEELE STORY - Hey You / Nairobi / Plant A Kiss / Neon Sign | ||
| 02/1958 | EP DECCA DFE 6398 (F) |
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THE TOMMY STEELE STORY - Take Me Back, Baby / Water, Water / Will It Be You / Build Up | ||
| 1958 | SP DECCA F10976 (UK) | . | Happy Guitar / Princess | ||
| 1958 | SP DECCA F10991 (UK) | . | Nairobi / Neon Sign | ||
| 1958 | EP DECCA DFE 6424 (F) |
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THE TOMMY STEELE STORY - A Handful Of Songs / Cannibal Pot / Time To Kill / You Gotta Go | ||
| 1958 | SP DECCA F11026 (UK) | . | It's All Happening / What Do You Do | ||
| 1958 | SP DECCA F11041 (UK) | . | The Only Man In The Island / I Puts The Lightie On | ||
| 1958 | SP DECCA F11072 (UK) | . | Come On Let's Go / Put A Ring On Her Finger | ||
| 1958 | SP DECCA F11089 (UK) | . | A Lovely Night / Marriage Type Love | ||
| 1958 | EP DECCA DFE 6472 (UK) |
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DUKE WORE JEANS – Photograph / Hair-Down Hoe Down / Princess / Happy Guitar | ||
| 1958 | EP DECCA DFE 6551 (UK) |
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TOMMY STEELE – Come On, Let’s Go / Put A Ring On Her Finger / The Only Man On The Island / Number Twenty-Two Across The Way |
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| 1959 | SP DECCA F11117 (UK) | . | Hiawatha / The Trial | ||
| 1959 | SP DECCA F11152 (UK) | . | Tallahassee Lassie / Give Give Give | ||
| 1959 | SP DECCA F11162 (UK) | . | You Were Mine / Young Ideas | ||
| 1959 | SP DECCA F11177 (UK) | . | Little White Bull / Singing Time | ||
| 1959 | EP DECCA DFE 6592 (UK) |
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TOMMY – I’m A Little Blackbird / Georgia On My Mind / Sweet Georgia Brown / Mandy, Make Up Your Mind | ||
| 1959 | EP DECCA DFE 6607 (UK) |
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TOMMY THE TOREADOR – Tommy The Toreador / Where’s The Birdie? / Little White Bull / Amanda / Take A Ride / Singing Time |
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| 12/1959 | EP DECCA DFE 6607 (F) |
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TOMMY THE TOREADOR – Tommy The Toreador / Take A Ride / Where's The Birdie / Little White Bull / Singing Time / Amanda | ||
| 1960 | SP DECCA F11245 (UK) | . | What A Mouth / Kookaburra | ||
| 1960 | SP DECCA F11275 (UK) | . | Happy Go Lucky Blues / The Girl With The Long Black Hair | ||
| 1960 | SP DECCA F11299 (UK) | . | Must Be Santa / Boys And Girls | ||
| 1960 | EP DECCA DFE 6660 (UK) |
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WHAT A MOUTH – What A Mouth / Kookaburra / Little Darlin’ / Hollerin’ & Screamin’ | ||
| 1961 | SP DECCA F11361 (UK) | . | My Big Best Shoes / The Dit Dit Song | ||
| 1961 | SP DECCA F11372 (UK) | . | Writing On The Wall / Drunken Guitar | ||
| 1962 | SP DECCA F11479 (UK) | . | Hit Record / What A Little Darling | ||
| 1963 | SP DECCA F11532 (UK) | . | Where Have All The Flowers Gone / Butter Wouldn't Melt In Your Mouth | ||
| 1963 | SP DECCA F11551 (UK) | . | He's Got Love / Green Eyes | ||
| 1963 | SP DECCA F11615 (UK) | . | Flash Bang Wallop / She's So Far Above Me | ||
| 1963 | SP COLUMBIA DB 7070 (UK) | . | Egg And Chips / The Dream Maker | ||
| 1965 | SP RCA VICTOR 1654 (UK) | . | Half A Sixpence / If The Raon's Got To Fall | ||
| 1967 | SP BUENA VISTA DF 457 (UK) | . | Fortuosity / I'm A Brass Band Today | ||
| 1974 | SP PYE 7N45393 (UK) | . | King’s New Clothes / Wonderful Copenhagen | ||
| 1984 | SP SAFARI SAFE61 (UK) |
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Singin’ in the Rain / You Are My Lucky Star | ||
| 1984 | SP SAFARI SAFE62 (UK) | . | Half A Sixpence / If the Rain’s Got To Fall | ||
| 1985 | SP OLD GOLD OG 9536 (UK) | . | Singing The Blues / Come On, Let’s Go |
Albums
| 1957 | LP 10" DECCA LF1287 (UK) |
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TOMMY STEELE STAGE SHOW - Giddy Up a Ding-Dong / Treasure of Love / Honky-Tonk Blues / Razzle Dazzle / Kaw-Liga / Teenage Party / Wedding Bells / What Is This Thing Called Love? / On The Move / Rock With The Caveman | ||
| 1957 | LP 10" DECCA LF1288 (UK) |
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THE TOMMY STEELE STORY - Take me Back Baby / Butterfingers / I Like / A Handful of Songs / You Gotta Go / Water, Water / Cannibal Pot / Will It Be You? / Two Eyes / Build Up / Time To Kill / Elevator Rock / Doomsday Rock / Teenage Party | ||
| 1958 | LP 10" DECCA LF1308 (UK) |
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TOMMY STEELE IN THE DUKE WORE JEANS - It’s All Happening / What Do You Do? / Family Tree / Happy Guitar / Hair Down Ho-Down / Princess / Photograph / Thanks A Lot | ||
| 1959 | LP 12" DECCA LK4304 (mono) / SKL4050 (stereo) (UK) |
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CINDERELLA - Overture / In My Own Little Corner / A Very Special Day / Do I Love You Because You’re Beautiful? / The Prince Is Giving a Ball / Marriage Type Love / Stepsister’s Lament / Your Majesties / A List Of The Bare Necessities / When You’re Driving Through the Moonlight / A Lovely Night / Impossible / No Other Love / Ten Minutes Ago / You and Me | ||
| 1960 | LP 12" DECCA LK4351 (UK) |
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GET HAPPY WITH TOMMY STEELE - LIVE - Hollerin’ & Screamin’ / Lonesome Traveler / A Handful Of Songs / Nairobi / Little Darlin’ / Old Obadiah / What A Mouth / Shiralee / Kookaburra / Tommy, The Toreador / So Long / Shout | ||
| 1963 | LP 12" DECCA SLK4521 (UK) |
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HALF A SIXPENCE - All In The Cause of Economy / Half A Sixpence / Money To Burn / Oak And Ash / She’s Too Far Above Me / I’m Not Talking To You! / If The Rain’s Got To Fall / The Old Military Canal / The One That’s Run Away / Long Ago / Flash, Bang, Wallop / I Know What I Am / I’ll Build A Palace / I Only Want A Little House | ||
| 1963 | LP 12" COLUMBIA 33SX1537 (mono) / SCX3486 (stereo) (UK) |
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IT’S ALL HAPPENING - Wind And The Rain / Dream Maker / Meeting You / Casbah / Maximum Plus / Somebody Else Not Me / That’s Livin’, That’s Lovin’ / Flamenco / Eggs And Chips / Day Without You | ||
| 1964 | LP 12" COLUMBIA 33SX1674 (mono) / SCX3536 (stereo) (UK) |
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SO THIS IS BROADWAY - Something’s Coming / Hey There! / It I Were A Bell / Hey, Look Me Over / The Girl That I Marry / Too Close For Comfort / Everything’s Coming Up Roses / I Talk To The Trees / I Wish I Were In Love Again / Happy Talk / They Say It’s Wonderful / There Once Was A Man | ||
| 1965 | LP 12" LIBERTY LRP 3426 (US) |
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EVERTHING'S COMING UP BROADWAY - Too Close For Comfort / Hey Look Me Over / I Wish I Were In Love Again / I Talk To The Trees / Everything's Coming Up Roses / If I Were A Bell / The Girl That I Marry / Hey There! / They Say Iy's Wonderful / Something's Coming / There Once Was A Man / Happy Talk | ||
| 1965 | LP 12" LIBERTY LRP 7566 (US) |
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SIXPENNY MILLIONAIRE - Something's Coming / Hey There! / If I Were A Bell / Hey Look Me Over / The Girl That I Marry / Too Close For Comfort / Everything's Coming Up Roses / I Talk To The Trees / I Wish I Were In Love Again / Happy Talk / They Say It's Wonderful / There Once Was A Man. | ||
| 1967 | LP 12" RCA VICTOR RB6735 (mono) / SB6735 (stereo) (UK) |
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HALF A SIXPENCE - All In The Cause Of Economy / Half A Sixpence / Money To Burn / I Don’t believe A Word Of It! / I’m Not Talking To You! / Proper Gentleman / She’s Too Far Above Me / If The Rain’s Got To Fall / Lady Botting’s Boating Regatta Cup Racing Song (The Race Is On) / Flash, Bang, Wallop / I Know What I Am / This Is My World | ||
| 1967 | LP 12" BUENA VISTA BV5001 (mono) / BV5001 (stereo) (UK) |
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THE HAPPIEST MILLIONAIRE - Fortuosity / What’s Wrong With That / Watch Your Footwork / Valentine Candy / Strengthen The Dwelling / I’ll Always Be Irish / Bye-Yum Pum Pum / Are We Dancing? / I Believe In This Country / Detroit / When A Man Has A Daughter / There Are Those / Let’s Have A Drink On It | ||
| 1968 | LP 12" WARNER BROS. ? (UK) |
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FINIAN’S RAINBOW - This Time Of The Year / How Are Things In Glocca Morra? / Look To The Rainbow / If This Isn’t Love / Somethin Sorta Grandish / The Great Come And Get It Day / Old Devil Moon / When The Idle Poor Become The Idle Rich / When I’m Not Near The Girl I Love / Necessity / Rain Dance Ballet / The Begat Song | ||
| 1968 | LP 12" RCA VICTOR LSO 1146 (US) |
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HALF A SIXPENCE - Overture / All In The Cause Of Enconomy / Half A Sixpence / Money To Burn / I Don't Believe A Word Of It - I'm Not Talking To You / A Proper Gentleman / She's Too Far Above Me / If The Rain's Got To Fall / Regatta Cup Racing Song / Flash, Bang, Wallop Tommy Steele / I Know What I Am / This Is My World / Finale | ||
| 1969 | LP 12" DECCA PA24 (mono) / SPA24 (stereo) (UK) |
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THE HAPPY WORLD OF TOMMY STEELE - Nairobi / A Handful of Songs / Little White Bull / Flash, Bang, Wallop / Rock With The Caveman / The Only Man On The Island / What A Mouth / Singing The Blues / Marriage Type Love / Hit Record / Shiralee / Sweet Georgia Brown | ||
| 1971 | LP 12" DECCA SPA 137 (UK) |
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WORLD OF TOMMY STEELE, VOL 2 - Hiawatha / It’s All Happening / Kaw-Liga / Young Love / The Writing In The Wall / Happy Guitar / Come On, Let’s Go / Green Eye / Wishing Star / Butterfingers / Young Ideas / She’s Too Far Above Me | ||
| 1974 | LP 12" ARCADE ADEP14 (UK) |
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40 FAVOURITES - Medley 1: Consider Yourself - Get Me To The Church On Time - I’m Henry The Eighth I Am - Knees Up Mother Brown - Roll Out The Barrel / Medley 2: Singing In The Rain - Rambling Rose - Tiptoe Through The Tulips - When The Red Red Robin - On An Slow Boat To China / Medley 3: Carolina In The Morning - My Mammy - April Showers - Is It True What They Say About Dixie? - Baby Face / Medley 4: Que Sera, Sera - Cruising Down The River - Wonderful Copenhagen - Tulips From Amsterdam / You Made Me Love You - On Mother Kelly’s Doorstep - I’ll Be with You In Apple Blossom Time - In A Shanty In Old Shanty Town - Underneath The Arches / Medley 2: I Wonder Who’s Kissing Her Now - Hey, Good Looking - Sunny Side Of The Street - Zip A Doo Dah - When You’re Smiling / Medley 3: For Me And My Gal - You Are My Lucky Star - You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby - Oh, You Beautiful Doll / Medley 4: Boiled Beef And Carrots - Any Old Iron - Wotcher - My Old Man’s A Dustman - Don’t Dilly Dally On The Way - I’ve Got A Lovely Bunch Of Coconuts | ||
| 1977 | 2 LP 12" DECCA FOS21/2 (UK) |
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| 1979 | LP 12" RONCO RTD2041 (UK) |
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FAMILY ALBUM - Handful Of Songs / Matchstick Men And Matchstick Cats And Dogs / Flash, Bang, Wallop / Sometimes When We Touch / High Hopes / The Runaway Train / Bridge Over Troubled Waters / Singing In The Rain / Bright Eyes / Wonderful Copenhagen / Windmills Of Old Amsterdam / Half A Sixpence / What A Mouth / Sweet Caroline / King Of The Road / Little White Bull / Singing The Blues / Puff, The Magic Dragon / When I’m 64 / Superbird | ||
| 1984 | LP 12" SAFARI RAIN1 (UK) |
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SINGING IN THE RAIN - Fit As A Fiddle / Temptation / I Can’t Give You Anything But Love / Be A Clown / Too Marvelous For Words / You Are My Lucky Star / Moses Supposes / Good Morning / Singing In The Rain / Would You? / Fascinating Rhythm | ||
| 1987 | LP 12" OAK OAK 1001 (UK) |
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LIVE AT THE FESTIVAL - Tommy Baby / I’m A Song / A Handful Of Songs / Flash, Bang Wallo / Bridge Over Troubled Waters / Little White Bull / Rock On / Johnny B. Goode / Sweet Caroline / Rock With The Caveman / Nairobi / Water, Water / Happy Guitar / Butterfingers / Singing The Blues / Hey Jude / Maybe It’s Because I’m A Londoner | ||
| 07/1995 | CD HALLMARK 30074 (UK) |
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SINGING IN THE RAIN AND OTHER GREAT STANDARDS - Singin' In The Rain / Ramblin' Rose / Tiptoe Through The Tulips / When The Red Red Robin Comes Bob Bob Bobbin' Along / I'd Like To Get You On A Slow Boat To China / You Made Me Love You / On Mother Kelly's Doorstep / I'll Be With You In Apple Blossom Time / In A Shanty In Old Shanty Town / Underneath The Arches / Carolina In The Office / My Mammy / April Showers / Is It True What They Say About Dixie / Baby Face / I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now / Hey Good Lookin' / On The Sunny Side Of The Street / Zip A Dee Doo Dah / When You're Smiling / Bells Are Ringing For Me And My Girl / Me And My Girl / My Lucky Star / You Must Have Been A Beautiful Baby / Oh You Beautiful Doll / Boiled Beef And Carrots / Any Old Iron / Knocked 'em Out In The Old Kent Road / My Old Man's A Dustman / My Old Man Said Follow The Van / I've Got A Lovely Bunch Of Coconuts / Consider Yourself / I'm Getting Married In The Morning / I'm Henry The Eighth / Knees Up Mother Brown / Roll Out The Barrel | ||
| 10/1995 | CD CAST MASTERS ? (UK) |
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SINGIN' IN THE RAIN - ORIGINAL CAST RECORDING - Overture / Fit As A Fiddle / Temptation / I Can't Give You Anything But Love / Be A Clown / Too Marvellous For Words / You Are My Lucky Star / Moses / Good Morning / Singin' In The Rain / Would You / Fascinating Rhythm / Finale | ||
| 06/1996 | CD SPECTRUM ? (UK) |
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THE WORL OF TOMMY STEELE - Singin' The Blues / Little White Bull / Handful Of Songs / Shiralee / Half A Sixpence / Rock With The Caveman / Water Water / Come On Let's Go / Sweet Georgia Brown / Where's The Birdie / Nairobi / What A Mouth / If The Rain's Got To Fall / Where Have All The Flowers Gone / Only Man On The Island / Knee Deep In The Blues / Butterfingers / Number 22 Across The Way / She's Too Far Above Me / Happy Guitar | ||
| 07/1999 | 2 CD DECCA 4664092 (UK) |
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THE DECCA YEARS 1956-1963
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| 02/2000 | CD UNIVERSAL 5441722 (UK) |
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THE BEST OF TOMMY STEELE - Rock With The Caveman / Singing The Blues / Knee Deep In The Blues / Butter Fingers / Water Water / A Handful Of Songs / Shiralee / Hey You / Nairobi / Happy Guitar / The Only Man On The Island / Come On Let's Go / Tallahassee Lassie / Give! Give! Give! / The Little White Bull / What A Mouth (What A North And South) / Writing On The Wall / Half A Sixpence / Sweet Georgia Brown / Must Be Santa | ||
| 03/2000 | CD SEE FOR MILES 203 (UK) |
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THE ROCK 'N' ROLL YEARS - Rock With The Caveman / C'mon Let's Go / Butterfly / Give! Give! Give! / Elevator Rock / Rebel Rock / You Gotta Go / Build Up / Put A Ring On Her Finger / You Were Mine / Swaller Tail Coat / Singing The Blues / Singing The Blues / Doomsday Rock / Knee Deep In The Blues / Two Eyes / Take Me Back Baby / The Writing On The Wall / Hey You / Teenage Party / Plant A Kiss / Rock Around The Town / Drunken Guitar / Tallahassee Lassie | ||
| 03/2000 | CD SEE FOR MILES 347 (UK) |
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THE EP COLLECTION - Rock With The Cavemen / Title Not Available / Doomsday Rock / Singing The Blues / Take Me Back Baby / A Handful Of Songs / Rebel Rock / Will It Be You? / Happy Guitar / Knee Deep In The Blues / Put A Ring On Her Finger / Young Love / Come On Let's Go / Elevator Rock / The Only Man On The Island / Time To Kill / The Little White Bull / Number Twenty Two Across The Way / You Gotta Go / Singin' Time / Cannibal Pot / Build Up / Water, Water | ||
| 06/2005 | 2 CD UNIVERSAL / SPECTRUM 9824798 (UK) |
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| 07/2006 | CD MUST CLOSE SATURDAY ? (UK) |
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HALF A SIXPENCE - (SOUNDTRACK) - Overture / All In The Cause Of Economy / Half A Sixpence / Money To Burn / The Oak And The Ash / She's Too Far Above Me / I'm Not Talking To You / If The Rain's Got To Fall / The Old Military Canal / The One That's Run Away / Long Ago / Flash, Bang, Wallop! / I Know What I Am / I'll Build A Palace - I Only Want A Little House / Finale | ||
| 03/2008 | CD REX 118 (UK) |
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HEY YOU - Singing The Blues / Shiralee / Knee Deep In The Blues / Hey You / Grandad's Rock / Take Me Back Baby / Butterfingers / I Like / A Handful Of Songs / You Gotta Go / Water Water / Cannibal Pot / Will It Be You / Two Eyes / Build Up / Time To Kill / Elevator Rock / Doomsday Rock / Teenage Party / Giddy Up A Ding-Dong / Treasure Of Love / Honky Tonk Blues / Razzle Dazzle / Kaw-Liga / Teenage Party / Wedding Bells / What Is This Thing Called Love / On Te Move Rock / Rock With The Caveman | ||
| 03/2008 | CD HALLMARK 706872 (UK) |
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THE TOMMY STEELE STORY - Take Me Back, Baby / Butterfingers / I Like / A Handful Of Songs / You Gotta Go / Water, Water / Cannibal Pot / Will It Be You / Two Eyes / Build Up / Time To Kill / Elevator Rock / Doomsday Rock / Teenage Party / Giddy Up A Ding-Dong / Treasure Of Love / Honky-Tonk Blues / Razzle Dazzle / Kaw-Liga / Weddings Bells / What Is This Thing Called Love / On The Move / Rock With The Orchestra | ||
| 10/2008 | CD PEGASUS 662 (UK) |
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RAZZLE DAZZLE - Butterfingers / Cannibal Pot / Razzle Dazzle / Teenage Party / Treasure Of Love / Wedding Bells / Young Love / You Gotta Go / Will It Be You? / Two Eyes / Time To Kill / Take Me Back Baby / Plant A Kiss / Singing Time / Number 22 Across The Way / I Like / Hey You! / Butterfly / Build Up / A Handful Of Songs | ||
| 11/2008 | CD BLUE ORCHID 134 (UK) |
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THE REAL STEELE - Rock With The Caveman / What Is This Thing Called Love / Doomsday Rock / Young Love / Singing The Blues / Giddy Up A Ding Dong / Knee Deep In The Blues / Teenage Party / Butterfingers / Razzle Dazzle / Shiralee (from "Shiralee") / Take Me Back, Baby / Water, Water / Kaw-Liga / A Handful Of Songs / You Gotta Go / Hey You! / Honky-Tonk Blues / Happy Guitar (from "The Duke Wore Jeans") / Time To Kill / Nairobi / On The Move / Only Man On The Island / The Truth About Me / Butterfly / Family Tree (from "The Duke Wore Jeans") / It's All Happening / Will It Be You / Come On, Let's Go / Treasure Of Love / Put A Ring On Her Finger / Thanks A Lot (from "The Duke Wore Jeans") / A Lovely Night (from Harold Fielding's "Cinderella") / Photograph (from "The Duke Wore Jeans") / Number 22 Across The Way / Hair-Down Hoe-Down (from "The Duke Wore Jeans") / I Like | ||
| 1282008 | CD ENTERTAIN ME 74655 (UK) |
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A HANDFUL OF SONGS - Handful Of Songs / Rock With The Caveman / Butterfingers / Shiralee / Number 22 Across The Way / You Gotta Go / Singin' Time / Cannibal Pot / Doomsday Rock / Giddy Up A Ding Dong / Grandad's Rock / Hey You / Kaw Liga / Knee Deep In The Blues / Rock Around The Town / Take Me Back Baby / Teenage Party / Time To Kill / Water Water / Young Love / Butterfly / Build Up / Elevator Rock / Rebel Rock / Singing The Blues | ||
| 01/2009 | CD DECCA ? (UK) |
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THE WORLD OF TOMMY STEELE - A Handful Of Songs / Singing The Blues / Knee Deep In The Blues / Water, Water / Nairobi / The Only Man On The Island / Shiralee / Happy Guitar / Butterfingers / Rock With The Cavemen / Tallahassee Lassie / Give! Give! Give! / Come On, Let's Go / Hey You! / The Writing On The Wall / It's All Happening / Hit Record / Half A Sixpence / Flash, Bang, Wallop / Little White Bull / What A Mouth (What A North And South) | ||
| 07/2009 | 2 CD PERFORMANCE 38297 (UK) |
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SINGING THE BLUES :
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| 09/2009 | 2 CD UNIVERSAL DISTRIBUTION 5321840 (UK) |
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THE VERY BEST OF TOMMY STEELE :
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