Artist: Vince Taylor & The Playboys
Author: Vince Taylor
Label: Parlophone
Year: 1959
Englishman who made a career in France. B-side of Pledging My Love. With Joe Moretti on guitar, the same as in Johnny Kidd's famous Shakin' All Over.
Covers:
Renegades [as Cadillac; influential arrangement; n°2 Finland]
Downliners Sect [idem]
Shamrocks [idem; hit Sweden & Fr]
Hep Stars [idem; n°1 Sweden]
Maskers [covered the Renegades arrangement under the original title; in '64 as ZZ & De Maskers they cut an own instrumental composition Cadillac (B-side of Spanish Tears)]
Liquorice John Death [alias Procol Harum]
Milkshakes [with Billy Childish, who re-recorded it with The Dear Watsons]
Mostly credited to Brown/Gibson/Johnson/Mallett, the four Renegades. Vince Taylor started taking legal action while most of these mid sixties covers had become hits.
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Arnold Rypens
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