SQUEEZE - "Cool For Cats" (1979)

 

"Cool For Cats" is considered to be the first UK rock and roll TV series. It aired from 1956 to 1959.

 The show was only fifteen minutes long and you can watch a couple of the episodes right

HERE! 

The show was hosted by Kent Walton and they played records while The Dougie Squires Dancers danced around.

These two shows featured music by Mike Preston, The Hi-Lo's, The Kirby Stone Four, Bud and his Buddies, Paul Anka, and Connie Francis, who just recently passed away at the age of 87. In my humble opinion, most of it cannot be considered rock and roll.

 

In 1979 the band Squeeze released an album called "Cool For Cats," and the title song went to number two in the UK. It was lost on American audiences, and had no success at all in the U.S.

According to the main vocalist in the band, Glenn Tilbrook, "Cool for Cats" was written about the social scene the band experienced in their youth, and the title was based on the aforementioned TV show "Cool For Cats."

The title song was one of the rare instances that the other vocalist in the band, Chris Difford, sang lead.

 

 SQUEEZE - "Cool For Cats"