Big Bad Wolf on the Radio

24/09/2023

07/08/2023

All roles are advertised on the Royal Mail website where you can see a bigger breakdown of what they involve and see roles all around the country

07/08/2023

Justice at last

“I cannot express fully how it feels to be falsely convicted for perhaps the worst thing a man can be accused of”, Andy Malkinson. Photo credit: Sophia Spring.

07/08/2023

Why does she get so many haters ?

It certainly isn't a "Cruel Summer" for the folks working on Taylor Swift's tour.

03/08/2023

Join me Big Bad Wolf 🐺 On rockin50s radio Saturday 2pm till 4pm . I'll be featuring some songs from this cool band I saw last weekend . Hard to pigeon hole them . From jump jive to neo rockabilly . Great song writers and nice bunch. Besides thus all the usual roxkin music you can handle . Don't touch that dial!

Hot Boppin, Groovin' 4 piece group playing Rockin, Roots Music with a Guitar, Double Bass & Stand Up Drums

08/07/2023

Big Bad Wolf on Rockin50s radio on line today 2pm till 4pm. Don't touch that dial

03/07/2023

Every Saturday 2pm

Every Saturday 2pm on rockin50s radio on line

08/06/2023

Every Saturday 2pm on rockin50s radio on line

30/05/2023

Both Saturdays and Mondays shows up on rockin50s radio website listen again section

22/05/2023

See you all next Saturday 2pm till 4pm on rockin50s radio on line Big Bad Wolf 🐺

29/03/2023

Join me this Saturday 2pm GMT for part 2 of my look at Australia's rockin scene
Big Bad Wolf

21/03/2023

Join me on saturday 2pm when well have another fun quiz as well as a mixed bag of RnB Doo W*p Rockabilly and Instrumentals.

19/03/2023

Yesterday's 3 hour British rock n roll extravaganza is on the rockin50s Web site listen again section with all my shows

15/03/2023

https://youtu.be/mPMffdnysb4

Join me saturday 2PM for the best of British 50s RnR special

Provided to YouTube by The Orchard EnterprisesStranded in the Jungle · The Ray Ellington QuartetBorn in the U.K, Vol. 3℗ 2015 Smith & Co.Released on: 2015-05...

08/03/2023

• Who recorded Maybellene at his first Sun recording session in 1955?
Answer: Chuck Berry

• Who was the producer and owner of the legendary Sun Studios?
Answer: Sam Phillips

• What was Elvis Presley’s first movie, when he returned from the US Army in March 1960?
Answer: GI Blues

• What are the first names of the two Everly Brothers?
Answer: Don and Phil

• What was the name of Bill Haley’s backing group before they became His Comets?
Answer: The Saddlemen

• Generally considered to be the first rock’n’roll record. What was the name of the single recorded by Jackie Brenston and His Delta Cats in 1951?
Answer: Rocket 88

• Who comprised the Million Dollar Quartet, when they recorded their legendary jam session at Sun Studios on 4 December 1956?
Answer: Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis and Johnny Cash

• Who were the two singers who died alongside Buddy Holly, when their light plane crashed on 3 February 1959?
Answer: Ricthie Valens and The Big Bopper aka JP Richardson

• What was the name of Jerry Lee Lewis’s 13-year-old wife who accompanied him on his ill-fated British tour in 1958?
Answer: Myra Gale

• Which UK country did Elvis Presley stop off in, on his way back to America. Following his discharge from the US Army in Germany?
Answer: Scotland

• What was the nickname used by DJ Alan Freed at the beginning of his career?
Answer: “Moondog”

• Elvis Presley released That’s All Right as his first Sun single in July 1954. Who wrote and recorded the original version in 1946?
Answer: Arthur “Big Boy” Cruddup

• Who released the original version of Rock Around the Clock, a hit for Bill Haley and His Comets in 1955?
Answer: Sonny Dae and His Knights

• The title of Buddy Holly and the Cricket’s hit That’ll Be the Day was inspired by a line spoken in which John Wayne movie?
Answer: The Searchers

• Rock’n’Roll was kick-started around the world after it was played during the opening credits of which 1955 Glen Ford movie?
Answer: Blackboard Jungle

• Which American DJ is accredited with coining the phrase “rock’n’roll”?
Answer: Allan Freed

• Considered to be the first million dollar deal, which rock’n’roll duo signed with Warner Brothers in 1960?
Answer: The Everly Brothers

• Who was Buddy Holly’s manager? He also managed the Crickets in a separate deal.
Answer: Norman Petty

• Which rock’n’roll legend won a talent competition for a record deal with RCA in 1951? However, commercial success eluded him until after he signed with Speciality in 1955.
Answer: Little Richard

• Which country was Little Richard touring in 1957, when he discovered religion and renounced rock’n’roll?
Answer: Australia