eddie - sittin’ on the balcony

eddie - cmon everybody



(anyone else ever notice the kids in the hall borrowed this music for their ’these are the daves I know’ skit?)

Anyone interested in scooping up good footage of Gene Vincent could do a lot worse that getting in touch with the tasteful folk at www.nortonrecords.com. Fifteen bucks’ll snare you either an immaculate dvd of the Hod Rod Gang flick, or a compilation dvd of assorted and rare Gene Vincent footage, titled The Screaming End.

Conversely, anyone not interested in scooping up good footage of Mr Vincent probably shouldn’t.

Here’s how the compilation dvd, the Screaming End, breaks down...


GENE VINCENT - THE SCREAMING END
FOOTAGE 1956–1965

01 Dance In The Street from the film Hot Rod Gang, 1958
02 Dance To The Bop from the film Hot Rod Gang, 1958
03 Baby Blue from the film Hot Rod Gang, 1958
04 Be Bop A Lula from the film The Girl Can’t Help It, 1956
05 Dance To The Bop Ed Sullivan Show, US TV 17.11.57
06 Bluejean Bop RAI TV Studio, Rome, Italy 28.05.60
07 Sexy Ways RAI TV Studio, Rome, Italy 28.05.60
08 Rocky Road Blues RTBF TV, Brussels, Belgium L’Ancienne Belgique 10.10.63
09 Be Bop A Lula RTBF TV, Brussels, Belgium L’Ancienne Belgique 10.10.63
10 Long Tall Sally RTBF TV, Brussels, Belgium L’Ancienne Belgique 10.10.63
11 Spaceship To Mars from the film It’s Trad, Dad, 1961
12 Temptation Baby from the film Live It Up 1963-64
13 Be Bop A Lula Granada TV special, Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On 19.03.64
14 You Are My Sunshine Granada TV special, Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On 19.03.64
15 Say Mama Granada TV special, Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On 19.03.64
16 Be Bop A Lula RTF TV, France, Tete de Bois-Tendres Annees 19.04.65
17 Baby Blue [incomplete] RTF TV, France, Theatre de L’Alhambra, Paris, France 08.03.64
18 What’d I Say [Cavern Club, Liverpool] RTF TV, France, Tete de Bois-Tendres Annees 31.03.65
19 Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On [Cavern Club, Liverpool] RTF TV, France, Tete de Bois-Tendres Annees 31.03.65
20 Dance To The Bop American Bandstand 16.12.57
21 Silent colour footage from The Big D Jamboree, 1958
22 Hot Rod Gang film trailer
23 The Girl Can’t Help It film trailer
24 Gene Vincent leaving the UK in 1960

Eddie’s "Summertime Blues" is one of the greatest tunes ever, as evidenced by the number of covers. Here’s the original.



And here’s one of the better covers, from the Who at Monterey Pop Festival, 1967.