Rock'n'Roll Spectacular 2011 @ kedron Wavell



















On Sunday november 6th I went to Kedron Wavell to see the Rock'n'Roll Spectacular show to raise the money for the Endeavour Foundation and it was an FANTASTIC day which i'm sure they raised an lot of money for it. The line up of the show on that was an bit different again but it was GREAT and like Digger Revell wasn't supposed to be in the actual line up but was in the last minute but as well as Lee Conway wasn't well and Sharon Rowntree could'nt come but it was an GREAT line up anyway. The show started at 12.30pm with Graham Webb an well known Sydney radio disc jockey who worked in Brisbane in the early 60's on 4KQ as well as hosting the TV show Blind Date in the 70s' as well as founding host and producer of Sounds Unlimited and comedian Kenny bennett compering the show and Barry larter started the proceedings doing an set of Johnny O'Keefe songs, then Dennis Knight came on which he did an great set of rock pop classics and had 2 of his daughters on stage doing the back up vocals, Digger Revell came on next wearing an Elvis shirt doing an great set of rock songs including 2 of his hits back in 1963 "Over The Rainbow" and "Building Castles In the Air", Johnny Devlin came on next which he did an great set of rock classics, the Chevrolets then came on doing an great set of British 60's songs as well an 2 American and 2 AUstralian songs, the Sonics then came on doing an Great set of Shadows stuff as well as the Ventures and an Duane Eddy medley as Jim Hanson coming on doing an great Cliff Richard set and then Roland Storm was the last on doing an FANTASTIC set of rock songs including his hit Rolling With the Flow and finished off with Bye Bye Baby which the show finished at about 5.20pm as the people were getting out as there was an party going on there as well. It was an FANTASTIC show with the performers performing great and everyone was having an great time including myself and also in between sets Kenny Bennett would tell very funny jokes which cracked everyone up as well as raffles, spin the wheels and an auction. I got plenty of autographs and photos with most of the performers including Digger, Roland, Johnny Devlin, Dennis Knight and others and saw Ian Stokes, john, Kay, Pauline, Kevin, Di, Selina, Viv and Bob. An great job well done to Ian Stokes and the people who organised it and spoke with some of the artists like Roland and Dennis about coming back to Cooly Rocks On, Digger Revell about new stuff coming out which he said it will be on his website at diggerevell.com , Bob Blight of the Sonics about the Flamingoes which he told me that he will give me an copy of stuff he did with the Flamingoes an Brisbane group back in the 60's as he is going stuff from cassette to Disc and I look coming back to the Rock'n'roll spectacular show next year.
Set List on November 6th-
Barry larter-
She's my Baby
Sing
So Tough
Come On and Take My hand
Move baby Move
The Wild One
Shout
Dennis Knight-
Hey Baby
Pretty Woman
Crying
Half heaven half Heartache
American Trilogy
Digger Revell-
Ole Time Rock'n'roll
Clap Your Hands
Over the rainbow(Digger's hit in 1963)
The Wanderer
That'll Be the Day
Peggy Sue
I'm Building Castles In The Air(Digger's hit in 1963)
Stagger Lee
Shout
Johnny Devlin-
Whole Lotta Shakin Going On
Blue Suede Shoes
Be Bop A Lula
Long tall Sally
Heartbreak Hotel
Hound Dog
Runaway
Jailhouse Rock
Great Balls Of Fire
The Chevrolets-
Can't you hear My heartbeat
I'm Into Something Good
Breaking Up Is Hard to Do
Keep On Running
She's So Fine
Surf City
Hangin Five
Love Me Do
I should have Known Better
Here I go Again
The Air That I breathe
You'll Never Walk Alone
The Sonics-
Dance On
The Savage
Atlantis
Geromino
Walk Don't Run/Hawaii five O
Duane Eddy medley
Apache
with Jim hanson
The Young Ones
Do You Wanna Dance
Got A Funny Feeling
A Voice In the Wilderness
Gee Whiz it's You
I Could Easily Fall in Love With You
On the BEach
Roland Storm-
I love You because
The Birds and The Bees
One Last Kiss
Dear One
Blueberry Hill/Ain't That Ashame/I hear You Knocking
I'm Gonna Sit Down and Write Myself A Letter
Bye Bye Johnny/Maybeline/Roll Over Beethoven
Teenager In Love
Hello Josephine
Rolling With The Flow(Roland's hit in 1992)
runaway
Bye Bye Baby

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