The pieces here are originals, except for Cole Porter's It's All Right With Me, and the style is mostly polyrhythmic contemporary swing, though the sharpness of this young band springs plenty of surprises.
Triggered by compassion, the band sprung into action, using its existing resources and infrastructure.
And across the rest of the UK, bands sprang up.
Bands sprang up from Belfast (Them, with Van Morrison) to St. Albans (the Zombies), with more inventive artists arriving to keep the syles moving forward, including the Small Faces, the Move, the Creation, the Troggs, Donovan, the Walker Brothers, and John's Children.
For six years, everything he recorded became a hit, and, as songs like Lost John, Bring A Little Water Sylvie, Cumberland Gap and Grand Coolie Dam followed each other into the bestseller charts, do-it-yourself skiffle bands sprang up across the country attempting to imitate his style.
Literally MILLIONS of lo-fi bands sprang from bongs overnight.
Beginning with the Clash, the Slits and the Buzzcocks, punk bands sprung up everywhere.
And then, like a rubber band springing back into shape, the attitudes largely revert to their old patterns; the cataclysm seems to have little lasting influence.
As soon as he issues a command, the band springs into action, exploding into a frenzy of bright noise or collapsing into a ballad or swiftly scaling the peaks of an ascending chord pattern.
