23-07-2013, 09:10
JOHNNY BURNETTE "hits and other favourites" 1962
another from my parents old vinyls....
teenybopper idol from the early 1960s who died tragically in a boating accident in the mid 1960s...
best remebered for the original versions of "only sixteen","dreamin'","the girl of my best friend" and "youre the reason"...
i actually thought ole Ringo did a great version of "only sixteen" in the early 1970s!
he also does "moody river", im not a big Pat Boone fan but i prefer his version of it, and "hello walls"...crap compared to Faron's version, but nonetheless, an important figure in early 1960s pop...his brother Dorsey was also a singer as was his son Rocky who had a couple of hits around 1980ish...
album scores a respectable 2.0 from me, a couple of links from a couple of my faves are below
dreamin'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnkjOHVK-H4 audio
big big world
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yn8OXsJF3A4 audio
only sixteen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWU04w9I3cA audio
another from my parents old vinyls....
teenybopper idol from the early 1960s who died tragically in a boating accident in the mid 1960s...
best remebered for the original versions of "only sixteen","dreamin'","the girl of my best friend" and "youre the reason"...
i actually thought ole Ringo did a great version of "only sixteen" in the early 1970s!
he also does "moody river", im not a big Pat Boone fan but i prefer his version of it, and "hello walls"...crap compared to Faron's version, but nonetheless, an important figure in early 1960s pop...his brother Dorsey was also a singer as was his son Rocky who had a couple of hits around 1980ish...
album scores a respectable 2.0 from me, a couple of links from a couple of my faves are below
dreamin'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnkjOHVK-H4 audio
big big world
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yn8OXsJF3A4 audio
only sixteen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWU04w9I3cA audio
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