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Cat. No. BCD 17648: JIMMY CAVALLO ~ ROCKS. BEAR FAMILY BCD 17648. (IMPORT).

Cat. No. BCD 17648: JIMMY CAVALLO ~ ROCKS. BEAR FAMILY BCD 17648. (IMPORT).

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LONG BEFORE THE GUITAR BECAME ROCK AND ROLLS PREFERRED WEAPON, WAILING TENOR SAX TITANS WERE THE TREETOPPERS THAT WHIPPED TEENAGE JITTERBUGGERS INTO AN ALL-OUT FRENZY. THOSE SAXOPHONE GIANTS WERE THE UNSUNG HEROES OF THE BRIGHTEST MAGNITUDE. JIMMY CAVALLO BELONGS ON THAT LIST TOO. WHILE HE AND IS HOUSE ROCKERS NEVER MANAGED TO CRACK THE POP HIT PARADE WITH THEIR BLISTERING OUTPUT FOR CORAL RECORDS AND A HANDFUL OF LESSER CONCERNS, THE HONKING HORN MAN WAS WITHOUT DOUBT A TRAILBLAZER: HE MAY WELL HAVE BEEN THE FIRST WHITE BANDLEADER TO RECORD JUMP BLUES. LATER JUMPING ON THE ROCK AND ROLL BANDWAGON, CAVALLO STARRED IN ALAN FREED’S ’56 MOVIE “ROCK, ROCK, ROCK” BELTING OUT THE THEME SONG UNDER THE OPENING CREDITS. HE WAS REPORTEDLY THE FIRST WHITE ROCKER TO STAR AT HARLEM’S APOLLO THEATRE, BEATING BUDDY HOLLY AND SEVERAL OTHER BETTER-KNOWN ICONS TO THE HONOUR. AND CAVALLO WAS STILL JOYOUSLY SWINGING MORE THAN HALF A CENTURY LATER WHEN MOST OF HIS CONTEMPORARIES HAD SHUFFLED OFF THIS MORTAL COIL, HUNG UP THEIR INSTRUMENTS FOR GOOD, OR SWITCHED THEIR FOCUS TO MORE ADULT MUSICAL PURSUITS. CAVALLO ONCE SAID, “I HAD THE FIRST WHITE ROCK GROUP THAT HAD A TWO-TENOR SOUND AND HAD A BLACK SOUND ACTUALLY. MOST OF THE GROUPS OUT THERE WERE SOUNDING PRETTY MUCH LIKE BILL HALEY. I WAS THE FIRST WHITE GROUP TO HAVE TWO TENORS UP FRONT.” JIMMY CONTINUED TO ENTERTAIN HIS LEGION OF FANS UNTIL SHORTLY BEFORE HIS DECEMBER 2, 2019, DEATH AT THE AGE OF 92. GREAT ROCK’N’ROLL ****

TRACK LISTING: Jimmy Cavello & The House Rockers – Rock, Rock, Rock / That’s The Groovy Thing / Jimmy Cavallo & The House Rockers – I Got Eyes For You / Ha Ha Ha Blues / Rock The Joint / Leave Married Women Alone / Jimmy Cavello & The House Rockers – Soda Shoppe Rock / The Big Beat / Ooh-Wee (You Sure Look Good To Me) / Foot Stompin’ / I’m With You / Let ‘M Roll / Teenage Lover / Yo-Yo Baby / Dream Toy / Cherry Pie / Jimmy Cavallo & His Quintet – Don’t Move Me No More / Blue Turning Grey Over You / The Cavello-Chickeni Quintet – Chicken Talk / School Days / Jimmy Cavallo & His House Rockers – Fanny Brown / Early In The Morning / The Jimmy Cavallo Four – La-La / Jimmy Cavallo with Ron Spencer & Jumpstart – I’m Gonna Move To The Outskirts Of Town / I Feel That Old Age Coming On / Jimmy Cavallo & The House Rockers – Rock, Rock, Rock (live) / That’s The Groovy Thing (live).

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