Big john little and the hot toddies   twist front

$150.00

Big John Little and the Hot Toddies - Twist

Format: LP
Label: Métro M 9002
Year: 1962
Origin: Niagara Falls, Ontario, 🇨🇦
Genre: rockabilly, rock and roll, twist
Keyword: 
Value of Original Title: $150.00
Make Inquiry/purchase: email ryder@robertwilliston.com
Release Type: Albums
Websites:  No
Playlist: Ontario, Beautiful Black Canadians, Rockabilly & Early Cdn R&R, 1960's

Tracks

Side 1

Track Name
Let's Twist It
Every Sunday Morning
Whole Lot Of Twistin'
Mojo
Country Boy's Blues
Look Out

Side 2

Track Name
Early in the Morning
Heart Beat
My Twisting Gal
Hold On
Blues Twist
Big John's Twist

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Big john little and the hot toddies   twist back

Big John Little and the Hot Toddies - Twist BACK

Big john little and the hot toddies   twist front

Twist

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Information/Write-up

Big John Little & The Rockers were based in the Niagara Falls, ON area. By March, 1959 they became The Hot Toddies who immortalized the classic hit single: “Rockin’ Crickets” (which climbed to #57 on the Billboard charts and apparently was one of Jimi Hendrix’s favourite records!). The racially integrated line-up consisted of: Big John Little on vocals & guitar, Bill Parnell, Dennis Lynne on drums, Billy Cardner on bass and Pierre Lévesque from Sherbrooke, QC on organ. As The Hot Toddies, they cut several singles released on both sides of the Canada-US border, with the band touring from Cleveland, OH to the Atlantic coast. They criss-crossed Ontario and Quebec, playing from Val D’Or to Gaspe, during which time that Big John even taught himself to speak French. By early 1962, they were back in Montreal, hanging out and playing at The Esquire Show Bar & Rockhead’s Paradise while recording their sole LP. Released in March 1962 at the height of the twist boom on the budget Montreal label Metro (a subsidiary of Trans Canada Records), the album would also see a second repackaging in 1964 on Rusticana as Big John & The Beetlers at the outbreak of Beatlemania. The LP cover shows a picture of Big John Little laying down with Denny Fox at far left, and left to right: Richard Jordan, Billy Cardner and Pierre Lévesque.
-Alexander Taylor

Big John Little: rhythm guitar, vocals
Bill Pernell: sax
Billy Cardner: bass
Dennis Lynne: drums
Pierre Lévesque: organ

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