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Thread #119075   Message #2579508
Posted By: Dave Illingworth
02-Mar-09 - 02:41 PM
Thread Name: Best song Lonnie Donegan ever performed
Subject: RE: Best song Lonnie Donegan ever performed
My personal favourite is his first (1956) version of FRANKIE & JOHNNY
(not to be confused with later versions he recorded.)
Denny Wright, Micky Ashman and Nick Nicholls maintain a driving sort of blues-tango rhythm over which Lonnie turns in one of his most exciting and impassioned vocals.
It knocked me out the first time I heard it over 50 years ago -
and still does today.
(Originally issued on the "Lonnie Donegan Showcase" 10" LP, but reissued many times).