[78-L] huge snare backbeat 1945 at Viennese Ball 2014

[Erwin Kluwer]

if i have to suggest a real early Rock 'Roll contender it would be Blind
Lemon' s Long Lonesome Blues / I Got the Blues from 1926.... Both sides
rock!

Erwin

On Saturday, March 22, 2014, Joe Scott <joenscott at mail.com> wrote:

> The closest thing to an out-and-out rock and roll sound I know of before
> 1946 would be beginning at 3:28 here:
> Happy Go Lucky / Opus Two (Buddy Johnson) -- The Lindy Monsters at 2014
> Stanford Viennese Ball <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeGd3O1pU9Q> Happy
> Go Lucky / Opus Two (Buddy Johnson) -- The Lindy Monsters at 2014 Stanford
> Viennese Ball <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeGd3O1pU9Q&lang=en>
> That was recorded by Buddy Johnson in November 1945. That was one of the
> tunes Buddy's band was playing at the Savoy in NY that year, too. As of
> 1945 sax and piano like that (which is sax and piano like 1957) were
> already common, and using backbeat that prominently for that much of a
> blues tune extremely, extremely uncommon (but Lionel Hampton was doing it
> in Oakland in 1944).
> Joseph Scott
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