Artist: Eddie Fontaine
Author: Eddie Fontaine/Cirino Colacrai/Diane Charlotte Lampert/Jack Cleveland
Label: Sunbeam
Year: 1958
Real name: Eddie Reardon, rockabilly singer from Queens, NY. Got a part in rock 'n roll film The Girl Can't Help It and was Fonzie's father in tv-series Happy Days. A new version on Argo charted briefly.
Covers:
Beatles [BBC recording; vocal: George]
Billy Fury [as Nothin' Shakin']
Amos Milburn's (1950s) is a different song. So is Ain't Nothin' Shakin' (But The Leaves) by Dallas Frazier/A.L. Owens, first recorded by Connie Smith ('66 - RCA) and covered by George Jones ('66), Dallas Frazier ('67), Billy Crash Craddock (top 10 C&W in '72) and Commander Cody ('70s). Then there's still another Ain't Nothing Shakin', by Jess & Mae Robinson, first cut by Johnny Otis ('50) and covered by Rod Piazza & The Mighty Flyers ('04).
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)