[78-L] Escott, was Arnold Covey

[Erwin Kluwer]

What a nonsense to indentify some jump blues records as true Rock ' n Roll
and dismiss Sun records seminal place in creating the genre ... Talking
about ignorance!!!!



On Thursday, March 6, 2014, Joe Scott <joenscott at mail.com> wrote:

> 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.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: warren moorman
> Sent: 03/06/14 09:50 AM
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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[....]
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