Posted on 05/27/2013 4:16:24 PM PDT by a fool in paradise
The man who knew how to ride a bass!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYIE5lkjXAo
And here are the Beatles at the BEEB covering Clarabella by three founding Comets (as the Jodimars)
“In 1954, the band followed with Shake, Rattle and Roll....”
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I was a teenager quietly listening to Stan Getz, when that unidentified noise came over the AM radio waves.
I thought WTF do we have here? And ever since that time America’s quality of music slowly degenerated.
After he quit, he and the other Jodimars taught their replacements (including the Saddlemen’s original bassist) how to do the stage show.
Well, the jazzmen were junkies and adulterers. The folk singers were pinko communists. The poster idols were limp wristed swishers. And Sintra and other crooners worked for organized crime.
How Much Is That Doggie In The Window wasn't much to write home about either.
Ah, so you were the one burning devil’s rock and roll records at the time!
Before Elvis, but about the time of the Burnette Brothers Trio.
“Well, the jazzmen were junkies and adulterers. The folk singers were pinko communists. The poster idols were limp wristed swishers. And Sintra and other crooners worked for organized crime.”
And Liberace....nuff said.
RIP.
“Damn kids and their rock and roll.”
You can add Johnny Ray, "the Prince of Wails."
Stan Getz in the early to mid-1950's? You must have been a hard-core cool-jazz aficionado. One would think that in those days, he would have been hard to find on AM radio.
Actually, Johnnie Ray was considered a precursor of rock and roll.
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