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Product: CAROLINE CASEY AND THE STRINGSLINGERS
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Caroline Casey is the second "half" of the Casey Sisters, a rock'n'roll-rockabilly band that released two albums on the Tail label.
She makes her solo debut with this album on the Spanish label El Toro. While her ex-partner in crime Lil' Rachel cho...
Product: V/A - Ai! Si! Si!
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In the mid 50's, the Mambo craze was all over the USA Anything that had the word Mambo in the title, latin percussions and at least one Spanish word in its lyrics became suddenly cool.
It didn't take long to the labels to jump on the wagon and Doo-W...
Product: V/A - WHAT A NIGHT VOL. 4
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The third and fourth volume of this excellent serie gather stuff from the collection of Dave Penny.
Like volume one and two, the material compiled is mostly rare and comes from obscure artists though the names of Ernie Chaffin, Lonzo and Oscar, Gate...
Product: V/A - CAMPUS BOOGIE VOL. 2
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"Collector's Choice" a perfect name for this great and exciting serie launched by El Toro Records from Spain.
It gathers a majority of unknown and rare recording from the 50's that were until now only available on scarce 45's and 78's.
Volume 1 fo...
Product: V/A - EARLY FEMALE ROCKABILLY
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Girls can rock too ! This is what, with no less than 33 songs, this nicely made compilation proves.
Hardcore collectors will know most of the titles here, but this is a good start for anyone whos interested in early female rockabilly singers.
Ani...
Product: JERRY LEE LEWIS
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"The Road Begins" is a perfect introduction to the vast world of Jerry lee Lewis.
Thirty one songs that cover the beginning of his career. You'll find his first single for Sun (End Of The Road/Crazy Arms - Sun 259), his classic rockers (Whole Lotta...
Product: BUDDY HOLLY
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El Toro pursues its superb work of reissue of Buddy Holly's complete recordings. Three cd's have been necessary to gather every sides Buddy played on in 1957.
The amount of work is impressive both from Holly and 50 years later from the label. 1957 ...
Product: BUDDY HOLLY
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Someday, if all the legal issues are resolved or most likely when his recordings fall into the public domain, someone will release an ultimate and definitive Buddy Holly boxset. In the meantime we'll enjoy this reissue of his early material recorded ...
Product: CHARLIE FEATHERS
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May the gods of Rock'n'roll bless ElToro. Here you have the complete 50's recordings of Charlie Feathers, in other words "the ultimate rockabilly album" :47 songs from the best stylist of the genre, a great country singer (Sam Phillips once said "He ...
Product: JOHNNY BURNETTE AND THE ROCK'N'ROLL TRIO
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El Toro released another batch of rockabilly classics with one of the most influential band of the era : The Johnny Burnette Trio.
I won't make a song by song review as they are all familiar to almost everybody here and the interest of this release...