RARE King Size Taylor -Twist Club 1964 - N/mint vinyl Beatles,Liverpool R'n'R
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Extremely rare original German 1st PRESS vinyl album from 1964 featuring Beatles Liverpool contemporaries King Size Taylor & the Dominoes. From Liverpool they played many times at the Cavern at the same time as the Beatles and decamped to the Star Club Hamburg also ; they featured a young Cilla Black guesting on vocals on many of their early Liverpool gigs. This original 1964 album is released on the German Polydor label since that is where their greatest following was - it wasn't issued as an English pressing as far as I know. The vinyl is NEAR MINT and looks unplayed (any lines I'm my scans a simply light reflections and NOT on the vinyl which is superb). The sleeve has slight storage wear to the edges, a faint inscription to the reverse and a small area of slight surface loss where a sticker has probably been on the reverse. However, it is a tremendous example of a very rare album. I found the following on an internet :-
"HERE'S A CONUNDRUM: What's the greatest British rock'n'roll album? No contest.
It's Shakers by Kingsize Taylor and the Dominoes, released on Polydor in 1964.
Let's be clear. The Holy Trinity of early English rock'n'roll records are 'Move It' (Cliff Richard), 'Brand New Cadillac' (Vince Taylor) and 'Shakin' All Over' (Johnny Kidd). That's it. Original, sizzling, blood-stirring stuff that proved that English musicians could rock'n'roll, if not quite as good as the Americans, then good enough to pass muster.
However Kingsize Taylor was a different kind of beast altogether. He had a powerhouse voice that was lacking in those first generation English rockers. A perfect voice for wringing the bollocks out of any hardcore American rock'n'roll song.
Simply, he was the best English rock'n'roll singer there has ever been. He had an original voice that oozed personality and commitment and, most pertinently, he was a stylist who imbued every song he performed with an urgent authority.
He was also the first rock'n'roll singer in that hotbed of beat groups, Liverpool. Later, his band The Dominoes endured a ferocious regime of rehearsals during their Star Club days in Hamburg that would have taxed The Magic Band under Captain Beefheart.
There are a couple of milquetoast vocals on the Shakers album provided by other band members. But those tracks featuring Kingsize and his second lead vocalist Bobby Thompson cut any competition he had with The Beatles, those Star Club rivals of the period. Two great tracks from the album—definitive versions of 'Money' and 'Hippy, Hippy Shake'—are as perfect as early rock records get. 'Mashed Potatoes And Hot Pastrami', featuring the call and response of Taylor and Thompson, are strict lessons in the art of conjuring frenzy.
Liverpool's original rocker
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