[78-L] Escott, was Arnold Covey

[Joe Scott]

Let's take "Rock The Joint" by Jimmy Preston. In your opinion why is it not true rock and roll?

Joseph Scott
----- Original Message -----
From: Erwin Kluwer
Sent: 03/06/14 01:20 PM
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Subject: Re: [78-L] Escott, was Arnold Covey

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 > To: 78-L Mail List > 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[....] > _______________________________________________ > 78-L mailing list > 78-L at klickitat.78online.com <javascript:;> > http://klickitat.78online.com/mailman/listinfo/78-l > _______________________________________________ 78-L mailing list 78-L at klickitat.78online.com http://klickitat.78online.com/mailman/listinfo/78-l