skiffle

How To Use skiffle In A Sentence

• Well, I was in this little skiffle group, you know, just me and some fellows on the street. DESPERADOES
• Without Elvis, we might all be listening to jazz or skiffle.
• But knowing that it does adds meaning and weight to each moment, especially when John discovers his idol, Elvis Presley, his fledgling "skiffle" band embarks on its first performances and John is introduced to two promising young musicians named Paul and George. Jonathan Kim: ReThink Review: Nowhere Boy -- On His 70th Birthday, Lennon as a Lad
• Rockabilly and doo-wop provide the sturdy structures, with a nod to the skiffle of the Quarrymen as he sings "Long, long lost John" over the fade of "I'm Losing You", in a deliberate echo of Lonnie Donegan's version of a song borrowed from Woody Guthrie. The legacy of John Lennon
• For good measure there is even a prefatory skiffle session and musical interludes by Grant Olding. One Man, Two Guvnors - review
• It's a shame that TV channels keep on making reality shows following Paris Hilton around or scripting the lives of the young and dumb for our amusement when they could be catch a psychedelic hippy skiffle group as they surf a drug- and BBQ chicken-powered wave across America. Internet picks of the week
• Country blues groups in the pre-war American south were sometimes described as skiffle acts, but it was Glasgow-born Lonnie Donegan who popularised the idea of making music with improvised instruments such as a washboard and tea-chest bass in the mid-50s. Lonnie Donegan brings the skiffle craze
• A skiffle group is never gonna happen ever again.
• Jazzers detested the skifflers, who tended to look down their tea-chest basses at the folkies, often with good reason. Times, Sunday Times
• The first scene sees friends sipping coffee and discussing the skiffle craze that is sweeping Britain.