Cherry Wainer – Wait For It, Baby!

Hotwired, minuscule glamourpuss CHERRY WAINER was famous for her appearances on Jack Good’s “Oh Boy!” and “Boy Meets Girls” as the Hammond queen in Lord Rockingham’s XI, gurning ferociously at the TV cameras every week.

Hailing from South Africa, she was based in the UK between 1955 and 1963, during which she proved to be a chameleon figure, able to move easily between the Variety circuit and Rock & Roll.

Between 1958-61 she cut a half-dozen or so singles, an EP and an LP, across the musical genres.

This compilation anthologises those sides, the first time that these recordings have been thus compiled.

Also included are a quartet of bonus tracks; one from a rare-as-hens-teeth South African R&R LP; a live clip from “Oh Boy”; and a pair of Rockingham B-sides on which Cherry’s Hammond can be heard to fine effect.

1. CERVEZA
2. ITCHY TWITCHY FEELING
3. VALENCIA
4. BLUE CHA CHA
5. TOM THUMB’S TUNE
6. THE HAPPY ORGAN
7. SPANISH MARCHING SONG
8. THE SONG OF LOTUS LEE
9. ICED COFFEE
10. SATURDAY NIGHT IN TIA JUANA
11. I’LL WALK THE LINE
12. HAPPY LIKE A BELL (Ding Dong)
13. MONEY (That’s What I Want)
14. RED RIVER ROCK
15. SLEEP WALK
16. IT HAPPENED IN MONTEREY
17. LES PATINEURS (The Skaters’ Waltz)
18. WHIFFENPOOF SONG
19. HI LILLI, HI LO
20. VILIA
21. TOGETHER
22. CRUISING DOWN THE RIVER
23. I’LL BE WITH YOU IN APPLE BLOSSOM TIME
24. MARCHETA
25. CHARMAINE
26. MISTAKES
27. LOVELIEST NIGHT OF THE YEAR

Bonus Tracks

28. OOBY DOOBY
29. WAIT FOR IT, BABY! (live)
30. LORD ROCKINGHAM’S XI • FRIED ONIONS
31. LORD ROCKINGHAM’S XI • LADY ROCKINGHAM, I PRESUME?