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- ABring a Little Water, Sylvie
- BDead or Alive
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- ACumberland Gap
- Blove is strange
Lonnie Donegan, 'Cumberland Gap' and 'Love is Strange', on Nixa 15087; Donegan was the British skiffle pioneer whose acoustic folk-inflected recordings of American blues and folk songs helped spark the British rock-and-roll boom of the mid-1950s.AI summary
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- ACumberland Gap
- Blove is strange
Lonnie Donegan recorded 'Cumberland Gap' and 'Love Is Strange' for Nixa Records—among the earliest skiffle and rock-and-roll recordings in Britain, from the artist who pioneered the skiffle craze in the UK.AI summary
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- ADon't you rock me Daddy-O
- BI'm Alabamy Bound
Lonnie Donegan, the skiffle pioneer, performs 'Don't You Rock Me Daddy-O' and 'I'm Alabamy Bound' on Nixa 15080, an early recording before his major commercial success.AI summary
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- AHam 'n' eggs
- BJack o' diamonds
Lonnie Donegan's 'Ham 'n' Eggs' and 'Jack o' Diamonds' on Nixa 15116; Donegan was a British skiffle pioneer whose folk and blues interpretations sparked the skiffle craze of the 1950s and influenced the British rock boom.AI summary
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- AHam 'n' Eggs
- BJack o' Diamonds
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- AHam 'n' eggs
- BJack o' diamonds
Lonnie Donegan performing 'Ham 'n' Eggs' and 'Jack o' Diamonds' on Nixa Records. Donegan was a British skiffle pioneer who achieved major commercial success in the mid-1950s; this Nixa pressing documents his early recording work.AI summary
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- AI'm just a rollin' stone
- BMy Dixie Darling
Lonnie Donegan, the British skiffle pioneer, recorded "I'm just a rollin' stone" and "My Dixie Darling" for Nixa, a small British label that released blues and folk material.AI summary
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- AJohn Henry
- BRock Island Line
Lonnie Donegan's 'Rock Island Line', recorded with Chris Barber's band and issued in Decca's jazz series, was a hit on both sides of the Atlantic in 1956 and set off the British skiffle craze. It is coupled here with 'John Henry'.AI summary
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- AOn a Christmas Day
- BTake my Hand precious Lord
Lonnie Donegan, pioneer of British skiffle, recorded these two songs for Columbia, likely in the late 1950s as his career was taking off. 'Take My Hand Precious Lord' is a spiritual; 'On a Christmas Day' suggests seasonal novelty material.AI summary
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- APutting on the Style
- BGamblin' Man
Lonnie Donegan's "Putting on the Style" and "Gamblin' Man" on Nixa, recorded in the early skiffle boom of the mid-1950s, capture the genre that brought folk and American blues forms to British teenagers and influenced the rock era that followed.AI summary
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- ARock island line
- B(BobSharples)Portuguese washerwoman
Lonnie Donegan recorded 'Rock Island Line' and 'Portuguese Washerwoman' for Decca POPE7048. Donegan was the British skiffle pioneer who brought folk-based, acoustic-guitar-driven rock to the UK charts in the mid-1950s; 'Rock Island Line' was one of his signature recordings and a major hit in 1956. This is a landmark record of British popular music.AI summary
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- AStewball
- BLost John
Lonnie Donegan, the king of British skiffle, with Stewball and Lost John on Nixa N15036.AI summary
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- AThe Golden Vanity
- BMy Old Man's a Dustman
Lonnie Donegan, the British skiffle pioneer, performs 'The Golden Vanity' and 'My Old Man's a Dustman' on Pye in the late 1950s; 'My Old Man's a Dustman' became one of his signature tunes and a hit.AI summary
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- AThe Grand Coulee Dam
- BNobody Loves Like an Irishman
Lonnie Donegan on Nixa, performing 'The Grand Coulee Dam' and 'Nobody Loves Like an Irishman' — the British skiffle pioneer and one of the first UK rock and pop stars.AI summary
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- ATom Dooley
- BRock o' My Soul
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- AWhen the Sun goes down
- BMidnight Special
Lonnie Donegan, the British skiffle pioneer, recorded these early blues numbers for Nixa, a small independent British label of the early 1950s.AI summary