[78-L] name that era

[Royal Pemberton]

And there are those who'd say that for rock and roll music there was a kind
of black hole between 1959 and 1964, after Holly/Valens/Big Bopper's plane
crash and before the Beatles....


On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 6:27 PM, Joe Scott <joenscott at mail.com> wrote:

> Elvis singing "Love Me Tender" off-pitch saved the world from Eddy Howard
> singing on-pitch.
> Joseph Scott
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> I received another "bouncing" email. I thought perhaps I had been dropped
> because my tastes are too bland ;-) -----Original Message----- From: Joe
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> popular tunes of the year per Billboard: 1955 Perez Prado "Cherry Pink And
> Apple Blossom White" 1957 Elvis Presley "All Shook Up" (numbers two through
> four by Pat Boone, Diamonds, Tab Hunter) 1959 Johnny Horton "The Battle Of
> New Orleans" 1961 Bobby Lewis "Tossin' And Turnin'" 1963 Jimmy Gilmer and
> the Fireballs "Sugar Shack" 1965 Sam The Sham And The Pharoahs "Wooly
> Bully" 1967 Lulu "To Sir With Love" (numbers two through four by Box Tops,
> Bobby Gentry, Association; Beatles "Penny Lane" was number fifty-five) 1969
> Archies "Sugar Sugar" 1971 Three Dog Night "Joy To The World" 1973 Tony
> Orlando and Dawn "Tie A Yellow Ribbon..." 1975 Captain and Tenille "Love
> Will Keep Us Together" 1977 Ro
>  d Stewart "Tonight's The Night" (numbers two through four by Andy Gibb,
> Emotions, Streisand) We can listen to Jerry Lee Lewis and Led Zeppelin now
> as much as we want if we want, but... In Billboard's four top 100 listings
> of 1956 through 1959, Elvis Presley had a total of 19 tunes (some of them
> slow ballads -- btw the formula going on with "Love Me Tender," "I Want You
> I Need You I Love You" and "Loving You" was no more interesting than Pat
> Boone, was it?), Chuck Berry had 4, Little Richard had 3, Carl Perkins had
> 1, Eddie Cochran had 1. They were popular, but not representative of how
> most music of the era sounded. Joseph Scott
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