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01-27-2014, 05:20 AM | #12 (permalink) |
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My absolute all time favorite rockabilly song is the Sun Records issue of Boppin' the Blues by Carl Perkins. I saw him live around 25 years ago and he blew my mind.
_________________________ Another classic is Eddie Cochran's Summertime Blues. I love the guys who hand clap along with his songs. I wonder if hand clappers had a lot of groupies back in the good old days. ______________________________ File under sexually repressed teenagers. Check out this wild & wooly rendition of The Train Kept-A-Rollin' by Johnny Burnette. This film segment was condemned by the Legion of Decency in the 1950s for "suggestive costumes" and "lust inducing dancing."
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There are two types of music: the first type is the blues and the second type is all the other stuff. Townes Van Zandt Last edited by Gavin B.; 01-27-2014 at 05:30 AM. |
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Gene Vincent also had a couple of Blue Caps whose role seemed to be mostly to clap along and hoot and holler. One of them, Tommy Facenda, had a hit later with "High School U.S.A." (actually, 28 hits, since he cut custom versions for high schools in cities across the country). ______________________________ Quote:
Fun to watch, but not exactly an accurate historical document. Last edited by Rick360; 01-27-2014 at 12:36 PM. |
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Imelda May - "It's Good To Be Alive" Cute video! Imelda May - "Inside Out" Seductive yet amusing. I don't know what loving someone "like a hobo" entails, and it doesn't sound altogether desirable to me, but it is odd, so the line sticks in my mind. Imelda May - "Mayhem" A solid song with great energy. This song makes me want to learn how to play the trumpet.
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07-25-2015, 01:09 PM | #18 (permalink) |
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Glad I found this thread! Rockabilly doesn get nearly enough attention as a genre. I stumbled across these Finnish guys on accident when I was listening to the Collins Kids...
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* * * My current favorite rockabilly musician is Lance Lipinsky, a great pianist and singer (and guitarist) who plays and sings with incredible ease, charisma, and humor. He's a phenomenal performer. We saw Lance Lipinsky performing as Jerry Lee Lewis earlier this month in the musical "Million Dollar Quartet" in Chicago, where he has played the role for 5 1/2 years with his final performance in just a few days. I'm glad we saw him while we could! His own band is called "Lance Lipinsky and the Lovers," with which he plays oldies and his own songs. Lance Lipinsky - Live in Canada Here he is playing mostly Jerry Lee Lewis songs in a great performance. He looks like he really loves what he does and his enthusiasm is contagious! Lance's website offers a thorough and fascinating biography with darling footage from his childhood musical endeavors: lovers While growing up, Lance didn't know about the rockabilly subculture that has been alive and well, apparently, all these years since the 1950s and '60s, so once he discovered it, he must have been elated to have found his musical home. Quoting from his bio: "What made this new discovery of the Rockabilly sub culture even more exciting was that the community was made up of predominantly younger people. This wasn't the same audience of old timers in a smokey casino that Lance was use to. This was a real, critical music scene full of younger people, an almost secret society of new fans of an art form thought to be extinct." Here are some more good quotes from the bio: Quote:
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