Back In the Day, 1976

Flying Saucers

Planet of the Drapes

(Nevis)

As a mid-1970s Southend-On-Sea Essex teenager too young for club admittance, future Rockats bassist Smutty Smiff was so enthralled by the Teddy Boy thrashings that emanated from nightspots that he slouched in outer shadows and dug the big beat. The Flying Saucers, fronted by singer Sandy Ford, bopped among the rebellious subgenre's topmost representatives and surely echoed in young Smutty's world. The pomped and sideburned combo's spirited preservation of cult-cherished fashions won a loyal international fanbase. Honking saxophone and 88s-run-loose augmented a line-up that paid febrile homage to vintage stylings - not in fond reminiscence, but as stalwart knights asserting Rockabilly's strapping relevance in days when Punk loomed.

In 1990, Netherlands label Rockhouse reissued Planet Of the Drapes in CD format. Nevis did likewise in 2003. And today, Sandy Ford leads an altered Flying Saucers configuration.

Recommended: "The Ballad of Johnny Reb," "Cat Talkin'," "Let's Rock the Town," "Grandpaw's a Crazy Cat For Sure," "My Babe," "Be Bop Boogie Girl," "Diggin' the Boogie," "Sugaree," "Oakie Boogie," "Rock With Me Sugar," "Wildcat," "Rocky Road Blues," "Adam and Eve," "Alabama Shake"

Video: "Grandpaw's a Crazy Cat For Sure"

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