Singer/guitarist/banjo-plucker/songwriter DICKIE BISHOP, a sideman whose name is synonymous with Chris Barber and Lonnie Donegan, should have been a contender for solo success, but seemed instead destined to a career in supporting roles.Indeed, he featured heavily on a pair of million-selling singles, Donegan’s ‘Lost John’ and Barber’s ‘Petite Fleur’.His own most well-known song, ‘No Other Baby’, was covered by The Vipers and Bobby Helms (the latter, a UK hit), while in the 1990s it was famously revived by Paul McCartney, who took it back into the UK charts.This collection comprises his four humongously-collectable solo singles from 1957/58, on which Dickie was backed by his own group, The Sidekicks, alongside a selection of his most notable appearances as a singer and/or sideman, between 1955 and 1961, recorded variously with Barber, Donegan, Johnny Duncan, Monty Sunshineand Kenny Ball.Several of Dickie’s solo sides have never previously appeared on CD, while this is the first time that his career has been thus anthologised, making for a unique, highly-desirable compilation.

• 1. Dickie Bishop & the Sidekicks - Cumberland Gap
• 2. Dickie Bishop & the Sidekicks - No Other Baby
• 3. Dickie Bishop & the Sidekicks - Please Remember Me
• 4. Dickie Bishop & the Sidekicks - the Prisoner's Song
• 5. Dickie Bishop & the Sidekicks - Skip To My Lou
• 6. Dickie Bishop & the Sidekicks - Jumpin' Judy
• 7. Dickie Bishop & the Sidekicks - They Can't Take That Away
• 8. Lonnie Donegan's Skiffle Group With Chris Barber - Midnight
• 9. Lonnie Donegan's Skiffle Group With Chris Barber - Worried
• 10. The Lonnie Donegan Skiffle Group - Lost John
• 11. The Lonnie Donegan Skiffle Group - Stewball
• 12. Lonnie Donegan Skiffle Group - Railroad Bill
• 13. Lonnie Donegan Skiffle Group - Stackalee
• 14. Lonnie Donegan Skiffle Group - the Ballad of Jesse James
• 15. Chris Barber's Jazz Band - We Shall Walk Through the Valley
• 16. The Chris Barber Skiffle Group - Can't You Line 'Em
• 17. The Chris Barber Skiffle Group - Doin' My Time
• 18. The Chris Barber Skiffle Group - Where Could I Go?
• 19. The Chris Barber Skiffle Group - Gypsy Davy
• 20. Chris Barber's Jazz Band - Petite Fleur
• 21. Lonnie Donegan & His Skiffle Group - Mule Skinner Blues (Li
• 22. Lonnie Donegan & His Skiffle Group - Precious Memories (Liv
• 23. Lonnie Donegan & His Skiffle Group - Brother Moses Smote Th
• 24. Lonnie Donegan & His Skiffle Group - Glory (Live)
• 25. Kenny Ball & His Band - Waterloo
• 26. Kenny Ball & His Band - Wabash Cannonball
• 27. Monty Sunshine's Jazz Band - South
• 28. Monty Sunshine's Jazz Band - Coney Island Washboard