TONY CASANOVA - BOOGIE WOOGIE FEELING

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Side A = 1. When I Say Bye Bye   2. Showdown   3. My Little Nancy   4. Yea! Yea! Come Another Day   5. The Grave   6. Boogie Woogie Feeling

Side B = 7. Diary Of High School Bride   8. Carmen Rita   9. Bossa Nova Baby   10. Here Comes That Girl Again   11. Lonely Weekends   12. Here Come The School Again

Sleazy Records / SR10-13

Fourth record issued in the TenXTen Serie by Sleazy Records. This time, the artist honoured is Tony Casanova, a singer born in Puerto Rico of real name Julio Pérez, who went to the same High School than Ritchie Valens and entered the world of Rock'n'Roll along with him.

If I'm not wrong, in this record we get all the sides released of this singer between 1958 and 1969 (both as Tony Casanova and as Tony Ray), being the quality of the songs quite uneven. My favourites are "Yea! Yea! Come Another Day", "Boogie Woogie Feeling", which in some parts reminds to me "Jailhouse Rock" (just as "My Little Nancy" reminds Johnny Burnette's "You're Sixteen") and "Diary Of High School Bride". The rest of the songs are of average quality, being the ones from his Tony Ray's period the weakest ones from my point of view (too much 60's sound for me).

The record, in beautiful blue vinyl, comes with interesting and informative sleeve notes by Aisha Khan.

And once reviewed the four records released till now in the TenXTen Serie... I wonder why the songs are not presented in chronological order?

Blue vinyl has been chosen for this record.