Still rocking 60 years later..
Posted on 09/03/2015 6:33:24 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Dont bogart that joint...
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Keflavik had F89 Scorpions when my dad was there. Said they had to do FOD all the time because the wind would blow so hard that it blew lava rocks onto the runways and the F89s had low intakes making them more susceptible to damage.
He liked Iceland though. Said it was the only place he had been that had a lot of men tall as him. (6’5”).
Thanks for the link, I do know the Cramps have a big connection to that music too, I think some call it “psychobilly”, “Goo Goo Muck” is a good song performed by the Cramps and I believe it was done previously, so they reached into the Oldies Archives. The videos are a bit suggestive but that is a good song.
Ghost Highway, current rockabilly band did “Black Slacks” by the Sparkletones, Sparkletones were a Carolinas Rockabilly outfit of the 1950s, I think one of their leaders recently passed away.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPh081g7z_k
So, they are reviving rockabilly.
Ervin “Gene Vincent” Travis and the New Virginians: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZamked-efA I don’t know if they are American or French, I know the Rebel Flag gets flown around over there and like Gene Vincent, he leans into the microphone, Ervin Travis has come down with lyme disease.
Anyway, on Gene Vincent, Vincent was in the Navy and suffered a back injury or leg injury and this is why Vincent would lean into the microphone when he sang. I think I have all of these details correct.
Maybe the Cramps wrote Goo Goo Muck, apologies to all if I stated they did not. Good song.
Still rocking 60 years later..
Rockabilly never really went away. In some parts of the South it carried on while some of the former hitmakers were persuaded to go country.
Jerry Lee Lewis staged his comeback in the 1960s in England with rockabilly.
The ‘rockers’ rejected the changing sounds of the 60s (and scuffled with the mods).
Ronny Weiser, a Jewish immigrant to California, essentially re-established upright bass rockabilly with his stable of artists (old and new) at Rollin’ Rock Records beginning in the early 70s. He’s now in Vegas.
He didn’t dig hippie music.
Here’s a recent interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z1YzBKuS8M
And here is song from a recording session (whole album) they did in 24 hours (Johnny Carroll from the 1950s Dallas film, Rock Baby Rock It) in 1978.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrW3ivKZf8w
The London Rock and Roll Show (1972 concert film from Wembley)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXffes502Ig
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Goo Goo Muck was a cover, but Lux and Ivy had a way of mashing up two or more songs (a lyric here, a guitar riff from there, or combining two songs into one).
There is an extensive library (14+ volumes) of songs they either name checked (recommended) in interviews or borrowed from...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6-2BA6AuXk
I certainly agree, Rockabilly did not die and it has had it’s proponents in the ‘70s, ‘80s, ‘90s and until now. Definitely did not die, it may have gone out of the mainstream public eye.
Also, a bit of the Bakersfield sound among all of the others.
Wally Lewis.
And then, one has Wanda Jackson, the Queen of Rockabilly obviously.
Sparkle Moore only sang a few songs and did not make a full career of it but is one of Rockabilly’s great female singers, out of Omaha: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HHGfPg-obA
I’m not wired for sound, just going off the top here.
And all of this meshes a bit with the Teddy Boys sound from England which is mentioned in the article in the OP.
So, I’ll stop there. Because truly, there are zillions of rockabilly songs out there.
That Bernie Baxter makes a living out of going to rockabilly festivals, as she appears like Betty Page, old cars, all kinds of things go on at those.
But I definitely like Ghost Highway, Stray Cats are who is famous but I don’t think they are actually the best, good nonetheless.
Johnny Burnette, more great music, really defined it for me when I first heard it, Rockabilly Boogie, Train Kept a Runnin’, what a tragic end he had.
Tihuya Cats out of Spain are awesome:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBs9OItEqgw&index=3&list=PLogRs19EytXlGbsJVUausnwED4SaMf2Y4
There is some Hispanic out of SoCal, Pepe, I can’t remember him, more decent stuff. Has been fairly successful for a long career expanding back to the ‘80s,
Robert Gordon, great stuff...
But a big shout to Jack Scott, Gospel here doing “Roll Jordan Roll” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVSfF_q4Otg
I definitely think there has been a revival and mainly in Europe because those are where all of the acts are going and long time legends of rockabilly.
Marvin Rainwater may have been rockabilly, his song “Gonna Find Me A Bluebird” may be more of a country song at that, but that is some great song. And check all of the other renditions.
But to me, 1950s music was largely just great music, many of the artists, doo wop and so on.
And tell me, what kind of women had tattoos in the 40’s and 50’s?
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