Rockaroo! CD

Neville Taylor
Rockaroo! The (Almost) Complete Recordings 1958-1961 CD

Rockaroo! is the first ever CD collection of tracks from popular performer on 1950s British television and pioneer of UK Rhythm & Blues – Neville Taylor.
Guyana born Neville came to the UK in the 1940s, before the arrival of the ‘Windrush Generation’, but made his name in the 1950s after a few TV appearances led to a residency, with his group the Cutters, on Jack Good’s weekly music show Oh Boy!
An integral part of Good’s regular line up, the TV shows inevitably led to recording contracts and Rockaroo brings you as many of Neville’s recordings from 1957-1962 as can fit on one CD.
Throughout his recording career Neville led a double life on 45s, recording his own singles for labels like Parlophone, Decca and Oriole, and covering many hits of the day for Embassy Records under the name Hal Munro.
This disguise would have fooled nobody who knew his voice from his own records or his TV broadcasts.
All of his Embassy cuts are featured here to make this as complete a collection of his work as the running time of a compact disc permits.
Hal’s Munro's 45s were budget priced and never chart-aimed, but Neville’s were and given the high overall quality of them as displayed here – particularly the rock ‘n’ roll sides like Mercy Mercy Percy and Crazy Little Daisy and his original recording of the highly popular House Of Bamboo.
It’s very surprising that, with the quality of his releases and his TV exposure, he never scored a chart hit.