Skiffle

A mid- to late 1950s British version of American Rockabilly, Skiffle also incorporated American front porch folk music and jug-band corn. Lonnie Donegan's version of "Rock Island Line" was the biggest hit of the genre. The pre-Beatles group the Quarrymen (started by John Lennon) began as a Skiffle band, but skifflemania just never took hold in the United States. Essentially nonexistent as a contemporary form, regional artists occasionally attempt Skiffle revival acts, and box sets and CD collections are available of some of the bigger proponents of late '50s Skiffle such as Donegan and the Vipers.