Eddie Pequenino, a rock'n'roll hurricane from Argentina

Eddie Pequenino explains how rock'n'roll has arrived to stay in Argentina & the world - in this April 1957 magazine article for 'Cantando'. Pequenino says rock wasn't actually 'new' being preceded by the blues and the boogie plus the jitterbug as a dance format. 

Eddie Pequenino plays his horn at LR4.

Rockin' n' rollin' at Radio Splendid. 

Eddie Pequenino, Mr. Roll & his Rocks at LR4, Radio Splendid. 

Eddie Pequenino talks to magazine 'Cantando' in October 1957. 

Bill Haley sends Eddie Pequenino a letter saying how much he likes the Argentine musician. Haley tells of his plan to visit South America but he wasn't sure when that would come to fruition. This was reported by 'Cantando' in December 1957. Less than a year later Bill Haley & His Comets would visit Argentina and meet Pequenino in person.

'Frankenstein Rock', Pequenino's greatest hit in Brazil.

78 rpm recorded at Orfeo, in Buenos Aires; released by RGE.

Eddie Pequenino, seus Rockers & Los Hi-Fi's. 1. 'Frankenstein Rock'; 2.'Cielito Rock'; 3. 'When'; 4. 'Do be do be do'; 5. 'Shy'; 6. 'Original Dixieland one-step'; 7. 'Who, why, when, what'. B-side: 1. 'Betty Lou got a new pair of shoes'; 2. 'Harvey's got a girl friend'; 4. 'That's a plenty'; 5. 'Come prima'; 6. 'Ida, sweet as apple cider'; 7. 'El Rancho rock'.

The liner-notes of Eddie Pequenino's 'Viva as férias' (XRLP-6.041) - his first album released in Brazil by independent label RGE didn't say much about him. Boni, the writer, blabbers about what 'férias' (vacations) mean as if nobody in the world knew it. That's typical Brazilian journalism: to expand about nothing! The only information Boni brings to the fore is: 'Eddie Pequenino is considered the best foreign rock band in the USA - he is Argentine. What really matters is Pequenino is really good as a song-writer and performer... he's the best! 

This is the back-cover o 'El show de Eddie Pequenino' which became 'Viva as férias' in Brazil. 

for those kids who bought Eddie Pequenino's extended-play especially lured by 'Frankestein rock', they would never know whether Pequenino was an American act or whatever. 

'Rock Espetacular no.2' featured: 'Frankenstein rock', 'Harvey's got a girl friend', 'Cielito lindo' and 'Betty Lou got a new pair of shoes'.

'Festival de Rock' (XRLP-6040) a compilation album assembled by RGE was actually released a few days before 'Viva as férias' (XRLP-6041); it featured Eddie Pequenino's 'Frankenstein rock'; Don Taylor's cover of Lloyd Price's 'Personality'; 'Tutti frutti' with all-white-boy Pat Boone; 'Pink shoe laces' with Dodie Stevens; Brazilian rock outfit The Playing's cover of Paul Anka's 'That's love' and many others. 

The liner-notes of 'Festival do Rock' - RGE didn't seem to decide on the right title; sometimes it would print it as 'Festival DE rock', sometimes 'Festival DO rock'; well the liner-notes were vacuous and deceptive; the author didn't seem to know much about the recent history of rock'n'roll. Using bad grammar (Há dois anos atrás - is redundant and uncouth) the author says rock originates from hill-billy music, which is only partly true - Rock'n'roll is basically Rhythm'n'blues with addition of boogie, jitterbug and a little hillbilly music. 

This 10" album was released by Columbia in Brazil. It is an Eddie Pequenino recording but his name replaced by Mr. Roll and his Rocks.