Name: The Finger of Suspicion
Brand: Dickie Valentine

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

JASMCD2733

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Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2022-03-11

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

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Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

604988273328

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2 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Dickie Valentine

Genre GB

Easy Listening / Exotica

Label GB

Jasmine

In 1982 the Jasmine Label was created producing LPs and Cassettes. The new label initially focused on licensed Jazz and Personality recordings. Later in 1985 Jasmine successfully launched its Country & Western catalogue. 1990 saw the release of Jasmine’s first CDs.
Appears also on labels as: JASMINE only and as a company (with manufacturing and distribution roles).

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Historical perspective is rarely kind to British singers of the immediate pre-R&amp;R era, and Dickie Valentine, aka "The Forgotten Teen Idol", is very much a case in point, yet he was effectively the UK's first Pop idol, with a massive teenage fan base, worshipped by them in the same way that Tommy Steele would be idolised by his legion of teenagers, just a few years later.

He amassed fifteen UK chart records between 1952-59, with a further nine titles listed in Hits That Missed... The UK Bubbling Under Chart, 1954-61. This compilation presents the very best of his singles releases between 1950-61, variously for Decca, Melodisc and Pye.

Included are his two UK No.1s, "Finger Of Suspicion" and "Christmas Alphabet", alongside all his other hits, near-misses, a few that got away, and a genuine rarity in the shape of a cancelled A-side from 1958.

This is the first time that this body of work has been thus compiled and several of these sides are collector's rarities, difficult to find elsewhere on CD.

The Finger of Suspicion

Music GB