Gene Vincent & His Blue Caps - Bluejean Bop! [Bonus Tracks]

Gene Vincent & His Blue Caps' debut album, Bluejean Bop!, was rushed out in August 1956 just after his first and biggest single, "Be-Bop-A-Lula," had peaked in the Top Ten. The speed with which it had been assembled was apparent in the song selection. Vincent and Tex Davis had penned "Be-Bop-A-Lula" (or obtained it, anyway), but the songwriters turned up, together or in combination with others, on only four tracks of the LP (which did not feature the hit, an oversight corrected by the 2002 reissue), the title song, "Who Slapped JohnNULL," "Jumps, Giggles and Shouts," and "Bop Street." Augmenting the original material were some surprising covers, including the 1951 Frankie Laine hit "Jezebel," the 1920s Tin Pan Alley standards "Ain't She Sweet" and "Wedding Bells (Are Breaking Up That Old Gang of Mine)," the 1947 Roy Acuff country hit "Waltz of the Wind," Hoagy Carmichael's 1931 composition "Lazy River," and the Ziegfeld Follies song "Peg o' My Heart" from 1913. Read More