[78-L] Escott, was Arnold Covey

[eugene hayhoe]

Reminds me of listening to Wild Bill Moore with and without & T. J. Fowler  this very afternoon, ''we're gonna rock, we're gonna roll...''



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On Thu, 3/6/14, Joe Scott <joenscott at mail.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [78-L] Escott, was Arnold Covey
 To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
 Date: Thursday, March 6, 2014, 6:33 PM
 
 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
 To: 78-L Mail List
 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 own
  ed 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[....] >
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