[78-L] Rock & Roll rising (was: Escott, was Arnold Covey)

[eugene hayhoe]

Joe, I'm aware that Syd Nathan 'did it in both directions,' country acts covering blues/r&b hits, r&b artists covering country. 'If one audience bought it, why wouldn't the other?' A carry over from the days when 'it was the song that was a hit, and many artists had their own version.' 



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On Tue, 3/18/14, Joe Scott <joenscott at mail.com> wrote:

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 Date: Tuesday, March 18, 2014, 12:06 PM
 
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 Arnold Covey)
 
 Country's here, so is Wynonie - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xR_A4Su-TrI Hank Penny's
 Bloodshot EyesFrom a few years after their formation on,
 King assigned songs they controlled to artists without
 worrying about the origins of the songs (for financial
 reasons), which is something Louis Jordan had not been
 worrying about for years too. But there was rarely much
 "hillbilly" about the performances by the black artists in
 those situations during that period (as an aside, imo even
 Otis Blackwell's conscious attempts to sound somewhat
 hillbilly about '52 didn't sound all that
 hillbilly).Paralleling Cary's point that if a hillbilly band
 added a saxophonist, that's a clue they were interested in
 R&B, when a black band added hillbilly-associated
 instrumentation that was a clue they were interested in
 hillbilly music, e.g. steel guitar on Buddy Lucas's
 "Undecided" in about '51 -- but that approach was very rare
 in black music during '45-'49. E.g. there were tons of
 blacks who rememb
  ered how to play the fiddle as of the late '40s and the
 opportunity to do so on R&B records was almost zero, in
 contrast to greater use of fiddle back when Big Joe Williams
 began recording and earlier. Roy Milton recorded a nice
 "Along The Navajo Trail" in actual hillbillyish style
 (unlike e.g. Wynonie imo) in about '47, Specialty didn't
 bother to put it out at the time.Joseph Scott
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