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[Alan]

These Elvis impressionist competitions reminded me of the fifties when R n R hit the old borough. One memory is of Rock Around the Clock showing at the Savoy and the ushers going demented trying to stop the jiving in the aisles.

I was still at school so couldn't afford all the drain-pipe pants, string tie, brothel-creeper suede shoes and draped jacket gear but improvised with a jacket too big for me and powder-blue jeans. The catholic church youth club at the top of the Green was the in-place for the latest rock and roll music

[brunty]

i remember going to school with a bill haley kiss curl at one time there was about 20 lads in class with em, wish i could have one now.

[Griffin]

Alan, on Sep 22 2007, 10:06 PM, said:

The catholic church youth club at the top of the Green was the in-place for the latest rock and roll music

This was a surprise. My mother was working at the church (St. Thomas of Canterbury) as a sort of second housekeeper at this time (the main housekeeper lived in). I would have been quite small, and spent a lot of time there. I remember that the parish priest, Father Jackson, was not averse to rock and roll, and had several Elvis Presley records in the house. I would have had little exposure to what went on in the youth club until, in the early sixties, Father Twomey, the curate, tried to persuade me to join it. I was not a youth club person, but joined the men's club in about 1970 to play snooker. That occupied premises upstairs in the parish hall, with the youth club underneath.

[gypsygeoff]

I was too young to remember the advent of rock and roll,however my first initiation to music came from our next door neighbour(she the best legs on Rainhill)In the form of Saturday club at 11am on the Light prigramme.