[FairfieldLife] RE: Rock - where did it all start?

[cardemaister]

I'd say rock'n roll (Elvis, Bill Haley, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee 
Lewis...) is a combination, sort of, of country music and Chicago blues.  

YMMV, as always...

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Rock - where did it all start?

[Bhairitu]

I neglected to mention that the alleged boogie-woogie player was 
supposedly playing straight 8ths style in the 1920s way before anything 
called rock 'n roll.


On 03/07/2014 01:14 PM, cardemais...@yahoo.com wrote:


I'd say rock'n roll (Elvis, Bill Haley, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, 
Jerry Lee Lewis...) is a combination, sort of, of country music and 
Chicago blues.


YMMV, as always...

Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Rock - where did it all start?

[Pundit Sir]

Little Richard

Good Golly Miss Molly - Muhammad Ali's 50th Birthday
http://youtu.be/AK_jm3Hz1Wk

The Girl Can't Help It - Live
http://youtu.be/oqz6Y9aHGIQ

Rolling Stone ranked the album Here's Little Richard number fifty on the
500 Greatest Albums of All Time; ranked Penniman number eight on the list
of 100 Greatest Artists of All Time; three of Penniman's recordings, The
Girl Can't Help It, Long Tall Sally and Tutti Frutti, are listed in
500 Greatest Songs of All Time; and the song Good Golly,
Miss Molly listed on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that
Shaped Rock and Roll.

'Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm and Blues and the Southern Dream of Freedom'
by Peter Guralnick
Back Bay Books, 1999


On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 3:14 PM, cardemais...@yahoo.com wrote:



 I'd say rock'n roll (Elvis, Bill Haley, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry
 Lee Lewis...) is a combination, sort of, of country music and Chicago blues.


 YMMV, as always...