What the CD-booklet says:
Before he had to do National Service Normie Rowe experienced two cyclonic years of unprecedented popularity. One of the very few Australian-born beat era sensations during the mid '60s, he was the original King of Pop, bursting to prominence in 1965 with "It ain't necessarily so", a surprising Porgy and Bess cover. Together with the Easybeats, Normie became one of the hottest teen sensations Australia had ever seen, generating truly astounding hysteria from coast to coast. In the second half of 1965 Normie had four smash hits, including number one "Shakin' all over", which charted for 28 weeks and sold almost 100,000 copies.
What I think of this song:
Shakin' all over is not really a very original song. It is one of these early sixties songs that everybody seems to have recorded, and most versions are interchangeable. This version by Normie Rowe and the Playboys is a very decent one. Especially the breaks and the squeaking and whining sixties guitars are extremely nice. It's all very sixties indeed, and for me that is not a bad characteristic.
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