Okay, okay, cousin needs tunes for New Year's Eve.
The roots of rock, the manic songs made from after WWII to Elvis, hit the note
for me. I love this stuff.
This clip is of Wanda Jackson on Jubilee USA (originally, Ozark Jubilee), a late Fifties TV show that did much to introduce this kind of music to the rest of the country. If Brown Eyes was too country for you, try the more mainstream Let's Have a Party, which was a hit in the early Sixties.
Big Joe Turner – Feelin’ Happy. His voice had everything in it: big band, blues, country shouting, rock music.
Louis Jordan - Choo choo ch'boogie. A man that could find a groove and go.
Wynonie Harris - Good Rockin Tonight. When Elvis hit big, Harris, Mr. Blues, retired, figuring that teenagers would not connect with his music.
The Clovers - Bring Me Love. They proved doo-wop with an edge was not only possible but natural.
Billy Ward & The Dominoes - Sixty Minute Man & its answer song Can't Do Sixty No More. Yow, dirty blues still not ready for the mainstream.
Hank Ballard & The Midnighters - Let's Go, Let's Go, Let's Go. It's got a country gait till that guitar burns down the barn.
Screamin' Jay Hawkins - Little Demon. Does the skull have a blunt? This has got to have the most compelling chorus I've heard in a long time. One probably doesn't have to cut deals with Extra-mundane Forces to make music like this. But it helps.
Johnny Ace - Never Let Me Go. He is unjustly forgotten nowadays.
Roy Hall - Dig Everybody Dig That Boogie. Country and blues had a baby and they named it rock and roll.
Merrill Moore - House of Blue Lights. Boogie woogie, country swing, call it what you will cousin.
This clip is of Wanda Jackson on Jubilee USA (originally, Ozark Jubilee), a late Fifties TV show that did much to introduce this kind of music to the rest of the country. If Brown Eyes was too country for you, try the more mainstream Let's Have a Party, which was a hit in the early Sixties.
Big Joe Turner – Feelin’ Happy. His voice had everything in it: big band, blues, country shouting, rock music.
Louis Jordan - Choo choo ch'boogie. A man that could find a groove and go.
Wynonie Harris - Good Rockin Tonight. When Elvis hit big, Harris, Mr. Blues, retired, figuring that teenagers would not connect with his music.
The Clovers - Bring Me Love. They proved doo-wop with an edge was not only possible but natural.
Billy Ward & The Dominoes - Sixty Minute Man & its answer song Can't Do Sixty No More. Yow, dirty blues still not ready for the mainstream.
Hank Ballard & The Midnighters - Let's Go, Let's Go, Let's Go. It's got a country gait till that guitar burns down the barn.
Screamin' Jay Hawkins - Little Demon. Does the skull have a blunt? This has got to have the most compelling chorus I've heard in a long time. One probably doesn't have to cut deals with Extra-mundane Forces to make music like this. But it helps.
Johnny Ace - Never Let Me Go. He is unjustly forgotten nowadays.
Roy Hall - Dig Everybody Dig That Boogie. Country and blues had a baby and they named it rock and roll.
Merrill Moore - House of Blue Lights. Boogie woogie, country swing, call it what you will cousin.
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