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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/
how-we-made-stray-cat-strut-the-solo-must-have-taken-me-30-seconds
The Kingsmen
USA
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/jan/23/
louie-louie-ultimate-rock-rebel-anthem
Little Richard USA
1942-2020
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/
698212277/dave-bartholomew-a-father-of-rock-and-roll-dead-at-100
https://www.npr.org/2019/06/23/
698212277/dave-bartholomew-a-father-of-rock-and-roll-dead-at-100
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/
arts/music/big-jay-mcneely-dies.html
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/
arts/music/big-jay-mcneely-dies.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/17/
arts/music/big-jay-mcneely-dies.html
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
(...)
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/
obituaries/lorrie-collins-dynamic-rockabilly-singer-is-dead-at-76.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/08/
obituaries/lorrie-collins-dynamic-rockabilly-singer-is-dead-at-76.html
Antoine Dominique Domino Jr. / "Fats" Domino
USA 1928-2017

Fats Domino, left,
with Dave
Bartholomew,
who co-wrote and
produced
many of Mr. Domino’s hits.
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/
arts/music/the-big-beat-celebrates-fats-domino-rocks-reclusive-giant.html
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/
arts/music/the-big-beat-celebrates-fats-domino-rocks-reclusive-giant.html
https://www.theguardian.com/music/fats-domino
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/25/
obituaries/fats-domino-89-one-of-rock-n-rolls-first-stars-is-dead.html
http://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2017/10/28/
560379013/playlist-the-roots-and-the-reach-of-fats-domino
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/27/
travel/fats-domino-new-orleans-louisiana-music.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/27/
opinion/jon-batiste-fats-domino.html
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/oct/25/
fats-domino-giant-talent-inspired-ska-beatles-bling-89-boogie-woogie
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/25/
arts/music/fats-domino-best-songs.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/25/
obituaries/fats-domino-89-one-of-rock-n-rolls-first-stars-is-dead.html
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/10/25/
522583856/fats-domino-architect-of-rock-and-roll-dead-at-89
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/oct/25/
fats-domino-new-orleans-rock-n-roll-pioneer-dies-aged-89
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/09/
arts/music/herbert-hardesty-dead-fats-domino-saxophonist.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/24/
arts/music/the-big-beat-celebrates-fats-domino-rocks-reclusive-giant.html
Chuck Berry USA 1926-2017
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/
cosimo-matassa-whose-studio-birthed-a-rock-n-roll-sound-dies-at-88.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/14/
arts/music/cosimo-matassa-whose-studio-birthed-a-rock-n-roll-sound-dies-at-88.html
Paul Revere (born Paul Revere Dick)
USA 1938-2014
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/
arts/music/paul-revere-organist-and-namesake-of-the-raiders-dies-at-76.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/06/
arts/music/paul-revere-organist-and-namesake-of-the-raiders-dies-at-76.html
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/
arts/music/paul-tanner-musician-with-good-vibrations-dies-at-95.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/09/
arts/music/paul-tanner-musician-with-good-vibrations-dies-at-95.html
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/
arts/music/billy-strange-60s-session-guitarist-dies-at-81.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/25/
arts/music/billy-strange-60s-session-guitarist-dies-at-81.html
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/
estelle-bennett-obituary
Les Paul (Lester William Polsfuss)
USA 1915-2009
guitarist and inventor
http://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/les-paul
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/10/nyregion/
guitar-hero-les-pauls-groundbreaking-model-to-be-auctioned.html
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/Carl_Perkins
Bill Haley 1925-1981
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/may/22/
bill-haley-rock-around-the-clock-worlds-first-rock-anthem
http://www.npr.org/2000/07/01/
1076106/rock-around-the-clock - March 6, 2012
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/
688199494/the-women-behind-the-songs-jessie-mae-robinson
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/
690798999/buddy-hollys-classmates-remember-the-pioneer-60-years-after-the-day-the-music-di
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/dec/03/
buddy-holly-not-fade-away-review
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/gallery/2009/feb/02/
buddy-holly-50
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/3/
newsid_2802000/2802541.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/witness/february/3/
newsid_4235000/4235875.stm
launch of Oh Boy!
September 1958
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2008/sep/26/
popandrock2
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/
arts/music/pinetop-perkins-delta-boogie-woogie-master-dies-at-97.html
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/
leonard-phil-marshall-chess-records
rockabilly > Wanda Jackson
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/23/
arts/music/23wanda.html
Library of Congress > Popular Culture: from Baseball to Rock and
Roll
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/british/brit-7.html
rock'n'roll pioneers
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