Molly-O/You Are My Sunshine/Like Rock/Beatnik Fly/The Kid/Bye Bye Blackbird/Traffic Jam/Teensville Tonight/ Mister Irving/Sheba/Tom’s Tune/Corn Pone
The early 1960s were a relatively short lived golden era for guitar instrumentals. After six UK top twenty entries in two years, by the end of 1961 the hits had dried up for Johnny & The Hurricanes. The Big Sound includes the UK top ten hit single Beatnik Fly. (UK:14)
“Hurricanes' albums are the lost gems of instrumental surf music. They sounded distinctive, played fast and generated very excited rhythms and hooky riffs. It's a pure fun to listen to it these days and relive the nostalgic, but powerful feelings of 50/60s rock 'n' roll madness.”
“The late ‘50s, early ‘60s were the golden era for rock ‘n’ roll instrumentals and Johnny & The Hurricanes were at the forefront of the boom, enjoying widespread international popularity with the unmistakable sound on Johnny Paris’s rasping sax and Paul Tesluks’s searing Hammond organ.”
“The band enjoyed several hits, led by distinctive organ melodies and funked up by sax, guitar and jumping drums.”
“One of the early pioneers of rock instrumentals.”
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