I'm just a lonely and a lonesome traveller

Continuing my trip back through the 1958 album charts.

28/09/58 : Lonnie - Lonnie Donegan


We've skipped over five weeks to get here and we've actually got some items of interest to discuss before we get. In the intervening period, we finally saw a different album at the top - obviously it was Elvis, before he handed it over to South Pacific for a SEVENTY ONE week run at the top. Yes, it was at #1 for all of '59. The other thing to note is that we've dropped to a chart of only five albums, which probably means that our time in '58 is not far off coming to an end. But before that, we've got at least one more album to experience - I'm expecting to quite enjoy this.

Yeah, it's not bad at all - it feels historically significant combining elements of blues, gospel and folk music in skiffle. It blends nicely with what Elvis was doing at the time - you can hear they share similar roots but are heading in slightly different directions.

We're at #5 in the charts this week on his last week of a thirteen week run with it having peaked at #3 for four weeks. The rest of the top five (eg the entire chart) were Elvis, Frank, My Fair Lady and South Pacific - this section is going to be both short and remarkably similar for the rest of the year, isn't it? And Wikipedia has nothing on the album but his entry (which is lengthy and quite interesting - he's very highly regarded by a lot of people) tells us this is his second album (after Showcase).

"Customers also listened to" Joe Brown and a load of other Lonnie D albums - I imagine there's not a huge variety across them but they're fun enough to listen to, although I don't imagine I'll ever come back to this one. 

10/08/58 - Disappointing dated
09/11/58 - Such a lovely voice

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