Dreamboats and Petticoats Presents: A Handful of Hits

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Sir Tommy Steele is the UKs original Rock & Roll star. Before Cliff. Before Marty Wilde. Before Billy Fury. Before everyone this side of the pond, Tommy hit it big first.

Dreamboats & Petticoats Presents Tommy Steele A Handful of Hits is a celebration of Sir Tommy Steeles incredible career in music, as he celebrated his 85th birthday year and 65 years in showbusiness last year. This collection, which takes its title from his 1957 track A Handful Of Songs features all Tommys biggest and best-loved tunes:

Rock With The Caveman was Tommys first hit in 1956 when he became a household name as the frontman of The Steelmen. Tommy drew immediate comparisons with Elvis who himself made his UK debut that year.

Singing The Blues, Tommy Steeles version of this early blues standard gave him his debut No. 1 in the UK Singles Chart in January 1957

Come On Lets Go: Tommy made this Ritchie Valens penned classic his own in 1958, scoring a Top 10 UK hit.

The Little White Bull was written by Lionel Bart, Mike Pratt and Tommy Steele (the trio wrote many hugely successful songs together) for the 1959 musical comedy film Tommy The Toreador, starring Tommy, and has remained a popular classic for generations after.

Flash Bang Wallop is a stage and screen belter from the 1967 British musical Half a Sixpence. Tommy played the lead role of Arthur Kipps in this screen adaptation of HG Wells novel Kipps: the Story of a Simple Soul.

TRACKS:
1 A Handful Of Songs
2 Singing The Blues
3 Little White Bull – From “”Tommy the Toreador””
4 Come On, Let’s Go
5 Rock With The Caveman
6 Butterfingers
7 Flash, Bang, Wallop
8 What A Mouth (What A North And South)
9 Water, Water
10 Nairobi
11 Knee Deep In The Blues
12 Shiralee
13 The Only Man On The Island
14 Hey You!
15 Happy Guitar – From “”The Duke Wore Jeans””
16 Tallahassee Lassie
17 Give! Give! Give!
18 The Writing On The Wall
19 Half A Sixpence
20 If The Rain’s Got To Fall
21 Princess – From “”The Duke Wore Jeans””
22 What Do You Do – from the film soundtrack “”The Duke Wore Jeans””
23 It’s All Happening
24 Elevator Rock
25 Tommy The Toreador – From “”Tommy The Toreador””
26 Hiawatha
27 Doomsday Rock
28 Put A Ring On Her Finger
29 Plant A Kiss
30 Happy-Go-Lucky Blues
31 Rock Around The Town
32 Rebel Rock
33 Butterfly
34 Where Have All The Flowers Gone