The album's release followed Steele's swift rise to fame as a teen idol widely considered Britain's first rock and roll star, and the success of his UK Singles Chart number one "Singing the Blues".

[1][3] On shore leave in summer 1956, Hicks formed a loose band, the Cavemen, with Soho bohemians Lionel Bart and Mike Pratt.

[2] In September 1956, Kennedy and Parnes arranged an elaborate publicity stunt which had Steele perform at a staged debutante ball populated by models and actresses posing as aristocracy.

[11] The song, a humorous rock and roll composition written by Steele with Bart and Pratt, was a number 13 hit on the UK Singles Chart in November 1956.

[26] According to a contemporary write-up by Wendy Newlands of Westminster and Pimlico News, the resultant album's live status "means a great deal more than merely being a recording direct from the stage.

[29] A review of an appearance at the Embassy Theatre, Peterborough on 11 February 1957 noted "each time he made a movement the girls screamed; a flick of the wrist sent them hysterical as they clapped and stamped on and off the beat.

[3] He considered "a good third" of his live set at this time to be country music, commenting "believing the drums accentuated the second and fourth beat of the bar, the fans assumed it was rock and roll.

[3] "Razzle-Dazzle", written by Jesse Stone, had been a 1956 hit for Bill Haley & His Comets, while "Giddy Up a Ding-Dong" was originally recorded by Freddie Bell and the Bellboys, who toured the UK with Steele in May 1957.

Bob Dawbarn of Melody Maker, then largely a jazz-oriented publication, commented "from a musical point of view everything is wrong - pitching, tempo, timing of entries and diction".

[38] Writing under his pseudonym Disker in the Liverpool Echo, Tony Barrow described Steele as "full of life" and noted that the entertainer "never seems embarrassed by the most hard-boiled audiences", but opined "apart from his exuberance he has nothing.