[78-L] Escott, was Arnold Covey

[Joe Scott]

I wish Escott were enough of an expert on early rock and roll and/or forthright enough that the existence of 1949 recordings such as "Rock The Joint"* by Jimmy Preston, "Hole In The Wall" by Albennie Jones, "Rock That Boogie" by Jimmy Smith, and "Boogie At Midnight" by Roy Brown, which all sound similar to each other because they were all part of a new fad sound, before Sun existed, a sound that Billboard was calling "rockers" before Sun existed, would prevent him from coauthoring a book called _Good Rockin' Tonight: Sun Records And The Birth Of Rock 'N' Roll_. The idea that Sun Records had something to do with the birth of rock and roll sells great and is completely false.

Joseph Scott

*The first record Escott ever owned was the London LP _Rock The Joint_ by Bill Haley.
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Subject: Re: [78-L] Lester Young - or Arnold Corey?

[...] Colin Escott, who's authoritative knowledge of country and early rock&roll is unquestionable, was associated with the most incredible liner note howler I've ever known, not once but twice. In his first book on Sun records, he printed an extremely unlikely explanation about Eddie Hill's record "The Hot Guitar", then many years later, a Mercury box set he produced carried a different but equally preposterous explanation. Yet he's undoubtedly expert[....]