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

[Erwin Kluwer]

to me rock n roll is almost more informed an attitude then a pure musical
style;;

and there was only ONE who had it ALL together in summer of 1954 (the
clothes,good looks,  the attitude, the moves, that NEW sound...a band
sound  new so cool, streamlined..

Elvis is man who started it..


On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 6:46 PM, eugene hayhoe <jazzme48912 at yahoo.com>wrote:

> And then, of course, going back to Sun, there are the numerous pre-Presley
> Sun sides that were templates for late '60s 'blues/rock' like James
> Cotton's Cotton Crop Blues, Wolf's How Many More Years? and numerous of
> Junior Parker's Sun recordings to name just a few.   From what I've read,
> Hendrix's use of the name  'the Blue Flames' was in direct homage to Parker
> and his records.
>
>
> I'd also say 'let's not forget the Ravens' when it comes to 'r&b/country
> crossover.'
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQACHFa3SBU
> Rooster
>
>
> --------------------------------------------
> On Tue, 3/18/14, Joe Scott <joenscott at mail.com> wrote:
>
>  Subject: Re: [78-L] Rock & Roll rising (was: Escott, was Arnold Covey)
>  To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>  Date: Tuesday, March 18, 2014, 12:06 PM
>
>   ----- Original Message -----
>  From: eugene hayhoe
>  Sent: 03/17/14 05:53 PM
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>  Subject: Re: [78-L] Rock & Roll rising (was: Escott, was
>  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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