JASMINE RECORDS

Otis,Johnny Show Blues Twist Hand Jive Cha Cha Cha & All The Hits CD1. That's Your Last Boogie - Joe Swift W/ Johnny Otis ; His Orchestra 2. Double Crossing Blues - Johnny Otis Quintette W/ the...

The Paris Sisters are chiefly remembered for their winsome, million-selling 'I Love How You Love Me', one of Phil Spector's early freelance productions, in 1961. However, they were already a hugely...

Patience & Prudence, aged just fourteen and eleven respectively, were the daughters of Mark McIntyre, the noted pianist, bandleader, arranger and composer, and Frank Sinatra's former West Coast...

By far the outstanding female British Blues/R&B/Jazz singer of her era, former Belfast art teacher Ottilie Patterson sang with Chris Barber's band between 1955-73 and recorded prolifically as both a...

By far the outstanding, most powerful female British Blues/R&B?singer of her era, former Belfast art teacher Ottilie Patterson sang with Chris Barber's band between 1955-73. Although the slight,...

LES PAUL & MARY FORD's impact and influence was immeasurable, not merely as singers and musicians but for their recording, mixing and studio practices, notably overdubbing, tape delay, phasing and...

The Paulette Sisters were among the most prolific of all the singing sisters of the 1940's, 50's and early 60's, recordings dozens of singles for such major labels as Decca, Columbia and Capitol, yet...

THE HOLLYWOOD ARGYLES were archetypical One Hit Wonders, topping the US charts in 1960 with the multi-million selling, worldwide hit 'Alley-Oop', but never quite being able to get a follow-up hit...

To most people, the name Trevor Peacock is probably synonymous with Jim Trott in "The Vicar Of Dibley". But in the late 50s / early 60s he was a Rock & Roll scriptwriter (TV shows like "6-5 Special",...

Saxman/bandleader Mike Pedicin, from Philadelphia, was one of the pioneers of "House Rock", the musical hybrid which incorporated Swing, R&B and Hillbilly into an exciting new, danceable format in...

Only a couple of years before he found himself destined to be forever typecast as the chilling, psychopathic killer Norman Bates in the controversial Alfred Hitchcock movie "Psycho", Anthony Perkins...

PETE KELLY'S BLUES - directed by and starring Jack 'Dragnet' Webb, in the title role - was an unusually ambitious 1955 movie, a film noir crime musical. It famously featured Peggy Lee (who was Oscar...