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Arts > Music > Rock > 1950s-1960s > USA
Rockabilly, Boogie-Woogie, Rock ’n’ Roll
Gene Vincent and His Blue Caps. Bluejean Bop! Hollywood: Capitol, 1956. Album cover. Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (269) http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/british/images/vc269.jpg http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/british/brit-7.html
The "Chirping" Crickets. Brunswick Records, 1957. Album cover. Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress (264) http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/british/images/vc264.jpg http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/british/brit-7.html
Stray Cats USA
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2019/jul/02/
The Kingsmen USA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
https://www.npr.org/2023/10/31/
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/jan/23/
Alis Lesley USA
Unexpectedly thrust back in the spotlight … Little Richard, Alis Lesley and Eddie Cochran, arrive in Sydney, 1957, in a picture that has been used as the cover for Bob Dylan’s new book.
Photograph: Fairfax Media
Alis Lesley: the ‘female Elvis’ who takes centre stage on Bob Dylan’s new book cover G Fri 21 Oct 2022 08.00 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/oct/21/
the ‘female Elvis’
Positioned between Little Richard and Eddie Cochran is a rock’n’roll star who had a short-lived music career.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/oct/21/
Lloyd Price / "Mr. Personality" USA 1933-2021
arly rock 'n roll star and enduring maverick whose hits included such up-tempo favorites as "Lawdy Miss Clawdy," "Personality" and the semi-forbidden "Stagger Lee,"
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Lloyd Price, inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998, was among the last survivors of a post-World War II scene in New Orleans that anticipated the shifts in popular music and culture leading to the rise of rock in the mid-1950s.
Along with Fats Domino and David Bartholomew among others, Price fashioned a deep, exuberant sound around the brass and swing of New Orleans jazz and blues that placed high on R&B charts and eventually crossed over to white audiences.
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Born in Kenner, Louisiana, one of 11 siblings, Price had been singing in church and playing piano since childhood.
He was in his late teens when a local DJ's favorite catchphrase, "Lawdy Miss Clawdy," helped inspire him to write his boundary-breaking first hit, which he worked on in his mother's fried fish restaurant.
Featuring Domino's trademark piano trills, "Lawdy Miss Clawdy" hit No. 1 on the R&B charts in 1952, sold more than 1 million copies and became a rock standard, covered by Elvis Presley and Little Richard among others.
But Price would have mixed feelings about the song's broad appeal, later remembering how local officials in the Jim Crow South resisted letting both blacks and whites attend his shows.
Price was drafted and spent the mid-1950s in military service in Korea.
He began a career restart with the 1957 ballad "Just Because," and hit the top with the brassy, pop-oriented "Stagger Lee," one of the catchiest, most celebratory songs ever recorded about a barroom murder.
Written by Price, "Stagger Lee" was based on a 19th century fight between two Black men — Lee Shelton, sometimes known as Stag Lee, and Billy Lyons — that ended with Shelton shooting and killing his rival.
Their ever-changing legend was appearing in songs by the 1920s, and has inspired artists ranging from Woody Guthrie and Duke Ellington to Bob Dylan and the Clash.
https://www.npr.org/2021/05/09/
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/may/09/
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https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/08/
David Louis Bartholomew USA 1918-2019
Best known for collaborating on an extraordinary string of hits with Fats Domino between 1949 and 1963 – amassing more than one hundred entries on the pop and R&B charts during that span of time – Bartholomew was one of the primary architects of the sound now known as rock and roll.
https://www.npr.org/2019/06/23/
https://www.npr.org/2019/06/23/
Cecil James McNeely USA 1927-2018
Big Jay McNeely at the Paradiso in Amsterdam in 1988.
He had a pivotal role in establishing the saxophone — before the electric guitar supplanted it — as the featured instrument among soloists at the dawn of rock ’n’ roll.
Photograph: Frans Schellekens/Redferns, via Getty Images
Big Jay McNeely, 91, Dies; R&B’s ‘King of the Honkers’ NYT Sept. 17, 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/17/
Big Jay McNeely ('s) wailing tenor saxophone and outrageous stage antics helped define the sound and sensibility of early rock ’n’ roll
Hailed as the King of the Honkers, Mr. McNeely was at the forefront of a group of post-bop saxophonists who, in the late 1940s, abandoned the heady reveries of jazz for the more gutbucket pleasures of rhythm and blues.
In the process he played a pivotal role in establishing the saxophone — before the electric guitar supplanted it — as the featured instrument among soloists at the dawn of rock ’n’ roll.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/17/
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/17/
Lawrencine May Collins / Lorrie Collins USA 1942-2018
Lorrie Collins (...) along with Wanda Jackson and Brenda Lee was one of the most dynamic female rockabilly stars of the 1950s
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Ms. Collins was the winner of talent contests in her native Oklahoma when she was 8, and by the time she turned 12 she was appearing onstage with her brother, a guitar prodigy who sang high harmonies above her declamatory lead vocals.
They dressed in flashy Western wear, and Larry, two years Lorrie’s junior, played a double-necked electric guitar and hopped around onstage.
The duo’s visually captivating performances were well suited to television variety shows.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/08/
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/08/
"Fats" Domino USA 1928-2017
Fats Domino, left, with Dave Bartholomew, who co-wrote and produced many of Mr. Domino’s hits.
Photograph: Charles L. Franck/Franck Bertacci Photograph Collection, Historic New Orleans Collection, via PBS
‘The Big Beat’ Celebrates Fats Domino, Rock’s Reclusive Giant NYT By ALAN LIGHT FEB. 23, 2016
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/24/
Antoine Dominique Domino Jr. / "Fats" Domino USA 1928-2017
New Orleans piano legend
Best known for classics including “Ain’t That a Shame,” “I’m Walkin” and “Blueberry Hill,” Antoine Domino Jr., known as Fats, has put up staggering statistics:
He has sold more than 60 million records and, between 1950 and 1963, he made Billboard’s pop chart 63 times and its R&B chart 59 times — more hit records than Mr. Berry, Little Richard and Buddy Holly combined.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/24/
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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/25/
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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/27/
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https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/oct/25/
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http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/10/25/
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/oct/25/
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/09/
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/24/
New Orleans, USA > J & M Recording Studio
Cosimo Vincent Matassa 1926-2014
studio that helped jump-start rock ’n’ roll by recording early hits by the likes of Fats Domino and Little Richard
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/14/arts/music/
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/14/
Paul Revere USA 1938-2014
(born Paul Revere Dick)
keyboardist who founded Paul Revere & the Raiders, a band whose Top 10 hits were staples of 1960s AM radio
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/06/
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/06/
Paul O. W. Tanner USA 1917-2013
former trombonist for the Glenn Miller Ochestra who played an unlikely role in the history of rock ’n’ roll when, using a device he helped invent, he performed the famous electronic accompaniment on the Beach Boys’ signature recording “Good Vibrations”
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/09/
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/09/
William Everett Strange USA 1930-2012
prolific Los Angeles session guitarist who recorded with Elvis Presley, Nat King Cole and the Beach Boys, wrote a No. 1 single for Chubby Checker and arranged Nancy Sinatra’s No. 1 pop hit “These Boots Are Made for Walkin’”
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/25/
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/25/
Estelle Bennett 1941-2009
singer with the influential 1960s girl group the Ronettes http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/feb/16/estelle-bennett-obituary
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/feb/16/
Les Paul (Lester William Polsfuss) USA 1915-2009
guitarist and inventor
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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/10/nyregion/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/aug/13/obituary-les-paul
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/aug/13/guitar-hero-les-paul-die
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/jul/24/popandrock
Bo Diddley 1928-2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/03/arts/music/03diddley.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/jun/02/popandrock2
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jun/02/usa.musicnews
Carl Lee Perkins 1932-1998
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Bill Haley 1925-1981
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/may/22/
http://www.npr.org/2000/07/01/
Elvis Aaron Presley USA 1935-1977
Vincent Eugene Craddock / Gene Vincent USA 1935-1971
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00hmc6w
Jessie Mae Robinson USA 1918-1966
https://www.npr.org/2019/01/31/
John Joseph "Johnny" Burnette USA 1934-1964
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Burnette
Ray Edward 'Eddie' Cochran USA 1938-1960
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Cochran
Charles Hardin Holley / Buddy Holly USA 1936-1959
https://www.theguardian.com/music/buddy-holly
https://www.npr.org/2019/02/03/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/dec/03/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/gallery/2009/feb/02/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/3/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/witness/february/3/
launch of Oh Boy! September 1958
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2008/sep/26/
Joe Willie Perkins 1913-2011
boogie-woogie piano player who worked in Muddy Waters’s last great band and was among the last surviving members of the first generation of Delta bluesmen
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/22/
boogie-woogie > Louis Jordan's single, "Let the Good Times Roll" 1946
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/dec21.html
Blues / Rock'n Roll > Chess Records Leonard and Phil Chess's legendary Chicago label
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/nov/06/
rockabilly > Wanda Jackson
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/23/
rock'n'roll pioneers
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