1959 Russ Conway: Roulette

Second number one of the year for Mr Conway and, truth be told, one that's not a million miles removed from the earlier 'Side Saddle', almost to the point that the reviews could be interchangeable. Except perhaps to say that I prefer 'Roulette' to the latter. It's a busier tune with all the gaiety and substance of an ice cream van jangle, albeit an ice cream van plying its trade around the dusk tinged streets of a council estate on a late October evening. In the rain.