Tommy Steele OBE (born Thomas William Hicks, 17 December 1936), is an English entertainer. Steele is widely regarded as Britain’s first teen idol and rock and roll star.
When a ship Steele was serving on docked in Norfolk, Virginia, USA, he heard Buddy Holly and fell in love with rock and roll, turning his back on the British skiffle craze. He was discovered by freelance photographer John Kennedy, who believed Steele could be Britain’s answer to Elvis Presley. Later co-manager Larry Parnes was incorrectly credited with creating the stage name ’Tommy Steele.’ It was Steele who adapted the surname of his Scandinavian paternal grandfather, Thomas Stil-Hicks (pronounced Steel-Hicks), adding another E to the spelling.
Steele shot quickly to fame in the UK as the frontman for a rock and roll band, the Steelmen, after their first single, ”Rock With the Caveman,” reached number 13 in the UK Singles Chart in 1956. Steele and other British singers would pick known hit records from the United States, record their cover versions of these songs, and release them in the UK before the American versions could enter the charts. Most of Steele’s 1950s recordings were covers of American hits, such as ”Singing the Blues” and ”Knee Deep in the Blues”. Although Steele never proved a serious threat to Presley’s popularity in the UK, he did well on the 1950s UK chart and ”Singing the Blues” got to Number 1 in the UK before Presley did so.
Guy Mitchell was number 1 with ”Singing the Blues” on 4 January 1957 and Tommy Steele on 11 January 1957. Steele’s 1957 album, The Tommy Steele Story, was the first by a UK-based act to reach No. 1 in the UK. Only four months after his first chart presence, he was filming his life story. To do so, Steele and his songwriting collaborators, Lionel Bart and Mike Pratt, wrote twelve songs in seven days.His first three single releases were issued at a rate of one every three weeks. in 1957 Steele bought a four-bedroomed house in South London for his parents. In August 1959, Steele undertook a three-day concert visit to Moscow. Svenska Wikipedia har nästan inget så kolla istället English Wikipedia.
Tommy Steele – Hey you 1957
Tommy Steele – Tallahassee Lassie 1957
Tommy Steele – Singing the blues 1957
Tommy Steel sjunger Young Love från 1956 och är en hit för Sonny James i USA. Tommy gör en hyfsad coverversion.
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Ni som gillar Tommy Steele, har ni ingenting att förtälja för dem som gillar andra rockkungar, som the King of rock n roll, eller Johnny Tillotson, Paul Anka eller vår egna Little Gerhard, Rock Ragge och Rock Olga för att inte glömma Rock Boris, Vita Björn och den rockande Samen Gösta Johnsson, Burken och Jerry Williams. Tommy hade ju börjat i en skiffelgrupp hemma i England. vad gjorde man där. Kom igen nu och släpp loss till Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard och Chucken (Chuck Barry) och snälla ni säg vad som ni tyckte bäst om hos Tommy Steele de cirka 2-3 åren han höll på. Var det kanske hans Steelmen? Jag vill lära mig vem Tommy var och vad han betydde för er och vad ni beundrar honom mest för? Och vem kommer på torsdag?
Tommy var ju endast känd i England och Sverige. Helt okänd i USA.
Tommy Steele var väl bara med de allra första åren av rock n roll epoken och då gick jag i första och andra klass i folkskolan och hade inte ens hört en enda låt med Tommy Steele. Nu var det som det var i min lilla landsortsskola. Killarna skulle gilla Tommy för tjejerna gilla Elvis. Så jag fick en skolväska med en tryckt bild av Tommy Steele har jag för mig, men något diggande blev det inte, och 1958 hörde jag Elvis i King Creole och på den vägen är det än, fast han är inte ensam men för de allra flesta, den största från rockperioden 1956-1961-62. Vet inte var den slutade riktigt, eller om rocken någonsin har slutat, utan bara utvecklats åt olika håll.
Jag får väl rätta till mitt misstag med den här videon från den tidiga rockåldern. Det behövs lite större utrymme, så den finns redan på Youtube och ni får klicka på länken. Rena stenåldern. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9AeBbBKihE
Nja, föredrog Elvis. Guy Mitchell har gjort en hög bra låtar.