Get outta that bed, wash your face and hands ...
(Big) Joe Turner (1954)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9wT...
Black #JumpBlues turned into #RocknRoll and this record - helped a bit by #AtlanticRecords - accelerated that process with a vengeance - #RocknRollCLASSIC
Oh well, I'm the type of guy who will never settle down ...
Dion (1961)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbYa...
Undoubtedly his best rocker, 'but you know, "The Wanderer" is really a sad song. A lot of guys don't understand that' (Dion's own words acc. to Wiki) - #RocknRollCLASSIC
Lucille, you won't do your sister's will ...
Little Richard (1957)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ydB...
Hit #1 in the US #R&BChart, #27 in the #Hot100 and #10 in the UK - #RocknRollCLASSIC
Train I ride
Sixteen coaches long ...
Jerry Lee
Live, no date but many, many years ago!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrBI...
Jerry on strat (YES, guitar) and #KennethLovelace (his usual lead guitar man) on "rock and roll fiddle" - and the music doesn't kick off till approx 1:45 in - #RocknRollCLASSIC
Dum, deedle dee dum dum
Little girl, where did you come from ...
Larry Williams (1959)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZA4...
One of the most inventive of the rockers - this was more akin to dance oriented soul which was yet to come - could be why the Stones covered it - #RocknRollCLASSIC
Gather round me buddies
Hold your glasses high
And drink to a fool ...
Sanford Clark (1956)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynwb...
His debut disc and by far, his biggest hit, #7 in the #Hot100 - #LeeHazlewood written (under a pseudonym) - #AlCasey on guitar - #RocknRollCLASSIC
Way down in a country town one day
A little old country band began to play ...
The Johnny Otis Show (1958)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYLe...
One of the better efforts to capitalise on the #DiddleySound - this was the follow-up to #WillieAndTheHandJive - #RocknRollCLASSIC
I'm honking my horn would you let me pass
I've gotta hurry up 'cause I'm running out of gas ...
Bo Diddley
Live on #HollywoodAGoGo
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kLF...
Apparently it's on #LetMePass (1965) but not knowing the album I can't vouch for that - great sound though - #RocknRollCLASSIC
Whoah, John Henry he was a steel-driving man
Jerry Lee (1960)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjAS...
Yes, it is the song you're thinking of and it starts off near conventionally but by a 1/3 in it's turned into a soul stomper complete with horns not unlike #Stax of several years later - #RocknRollCLASSIC
#MyTrueLove could well appear later in the #RocknRollCLASSIC series since it's a prime example of a #Rockaballad
I know a boy who was never blue
Now he lives in Cellblock Two ...
Jack Scott (1958)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlTq...
This was the A side and was plugged - nowt happened until someone flipped the plugging with the result that the B side, #MyTrueLove, became a big hit - #RocknRollCLASSIC
Well I heard John say, "Man, she's my gal" ...
Gene Vincent
From his debut LP #BluejeanBop (1956)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8Wd...
Content of LP was evenly split between ballads/standards and rockers but the latter were all great - this is an example - #CliffGallup on guitar - #RocknRollCLASSIC
Well now, they call my baby Patty
But her real name, her real name, her real name was Linda Lu ...
Ray Sharpe (1959)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4SP...
Hit #46 in the Billboard #Hot100 but flopped in the UK -produced and co-written by #LeeHazlewood - #RocknRollCLASSIC
Long distance information, give me Memphis Tennessee ...
Chuck Berry (1959)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LMl...
Another flip but it has one of the most famous first lines ever - and you don't discover who he's singing to until the final verse - I was sold on this from first listen - #RocknRollCLASSIC
You're gonna say you've missed me
You're gonna say you'll kiss me
You're gonna say you'll love me ...
Buddy Holly (1958)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXw3...
By this time Buddy had worked through #Rockabilly and come up with his own #BuddyHollyRock - #RocknRollCLASSIC
Send me some lovin'
Send it, I pray ...
Little Richard (1957)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vo2R...
Flip to another cracker, #Lucille - cut in #NewOrleans - a classic slow rocker and one that a horde of later #SwampPop artists would take on board - #RocknRollCLASSIC
I saw her standin' on the corner
A yellow ribbon in her hair ...
The Coasters (1957)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRdR...
Written by #LeiberandStoller + #DocPomus, produced by #LeiberandStoller but sung by the immortal #Coasters - #DooWopCLASSIC #RocknRollCLASSIC
... She's sure fine lookin' man
She's somethin' else!
Eddie Cochran (1959)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCDO...
Eddie was among the very best white rockers and one who, like Holly, died too far early - this track is up there with his very best - #RocknRollCLASSIC
I got lumps in my throat when I saw her coming down the aisle ...
Chuck Berry (1959)
Uploader has used the scene from #Go,Johnny,Go! (1959)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyp1...
Another flip (to #AlmostGrown) but Chuck in his pomp turned out great track after great track - #RocknRollCLASSIC
They call, they call me the fat man
'Cause I weigh two hundred pounds ...
Fats Domino (1950)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIz1...
His first single (or, officially its flip) - who said rock and roll started in the mid '50's? - #RocknRollCLASSIC #NewOrleansCLASSIC
Well, the news of the saucer been a-flyin' around ...
Billy Riley
And His Little Green Men (1957)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GDh...
... #JerryLee on piano, #RolandJanes (Jerry's guitar man) on guitar - #Sun #RockabillyCRACKER #RocknRollCLASSIC
Gonna tell everybody 'bout Judas ...
Little Richard (1962)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSfj...
During a religious phase, the not-so-little fellow cut a gospel number but #BumpsBlackwell, the man behind his Speciality rockers was hired as producer - the end result sounded like another #RocknRollCLASSIC
Keep a knockin' but you can't come in ...
Don & Phil
#TheEverlyBrothers (1958)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0BT...
The #LittleRichard '57 version of the song was a kind of trad/arr - the Evs took the same song and created very much their own version which was a #RocknRollCLASSIC in its own right
Goodbye, Joe, we gotta go, down the bayou ...
Jerry Lee
From his first LP #JerryLeeLewis (1958)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmL9...
Yup, the #HankWilliams song: not a rocker, you say? Just take a listen and see what you think - #RocknRollCLASSIC
I got a brand new baby and I feel so good ...
Don & Phil (1958 and a flipside)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMzG...
Written by #RoyOrbison and, amazingly - for Orby - it's cheerful(!) - the A side was "All I Have To Do Is Dream" - #RocknRollCLASSIC
The night was black, rain fallin' down
Looked for my baby, she's nowhere around ...
Jody Reynolds (1958)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aORD...
Don't know how you'd classify this one but #RocknRollCLASSIC sums it up quite nicely - 'twas the debut disc from #OneHitWonder boy Jody
While I was down in Tennessee ...
Andre Williams (1956)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0kr...
Written and recorded by Zephire Andre Williams who was, arguably, the father of #Rap - the record got to #9 in the #R&BChart in '57 (and spawned a cover from #SirDoug) - #RocknRollCLASSIC
Well, who's that guy you've been seein' most every day?
Jerry Lee Lewis And His Pumping Piano
(1958 and that's the original record credit)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nz28...
Song from the great #CharlieRich but delivery from #TheKiller - #RocknRollCLASSIC
Well now, they call my baby Patty
But her real name, her real name, her real name was Linda Lu
Ray Sharpe (1959)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4SP...
Produced by #LeeHazlewood with #DuaneEddy & #AlCasey on guitar - hit '46 in the #Hot100 but did zilch in the UK - #RocknRollClassic #TexasToons
