Catalogue: JASCD 352-3
Price Code: D
Release Date: 01/02/1999
Bar Code: 604988 03522 3
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Lonnie DONEGAN & LEINEMANNLonnie Donegan Meets Leinemann - The Complete Sessions
 
By the end of the 1960s, it might have seemed
that Lonnie Donegan's career was going nowhere - but that career to date had
been startling. Through the mid-1950s he had been the banjo player with Chris
Barber's Jazz Band, with moments of glory as singer/guitarist of that band's
'Skiffle' unit. By the end of 1956, he was Britain's biggest 'Pop' sensation and
as the decade finished, he had progressed from being 'King Of Skiffle' to an
all-round entertainer with an enviable trail of record chart hits behind him.
Who could doubt that the 1960s would continue in the same way? However, the
march of musical progress had other ideas. The hits became harder to find, not
entirely helped by Donegan's various changes of style. "The Party's Over", the
penultimate chart success in 1962, summed up at least the record sales part of
Donegan's career, the curtain being brought down a few months later with a
return to old styles in "Pick A Bale Of Cotton". Ironically, the public had
rejected the single which had been issued between the two, "I'll Never Fall In
Love Again"; revived five years later, in the gutsier hands of Tom Jones it
became a Number One hit. Donegan didn't miss out entirely, however, as he had
the copyright for the song safely tucked up in his own music publishing company.
(Some years later, when Elvis Presley forgot that he was Elvis Presley and
started imitating Tom Jones [for whom Presley was, ironically, his role model],
he too recorded the song.)
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