Sam Phillips was a white man who genuinely love black music and in 1950 he opened the Memphis Recording Studio. There blues legends B.B. King, Howling' Wolf and Elmore James made some of their first recordings. After first leasing recordings to other labels Phillips began his own label Sun Records in 1952. Phillips often said "If I could only find a white man who had the Negro sound and the Negro feel, I could make a million dollars".
July 5, 1954 was a warm summer night in Memphis, Tennessee. Scotty Moore and Bill Black were recording that night at the Sun Records. According to Scotty Moore "we were taking a break, I don't know, we were having Cokes and coffee, and all of a sudden Elvis was singing a song, jumping around and acting the fool, and then Bill picked up the bass and he began acting the fool, too, and you know, I started playing with them. Sam had the door to the control room open- I don't know, he was either editing some tape or doing something - and he stuck his head out and said, "What are you doing?" and we said, "We don't know." "Well back up," he said "try to find a place to start and do it again'"
Rockabilly was invented that night in Memphis. It's rough southern edges were an exciting contrast to the group oriented rhythm and blues produced in the Northern cities. Fading from the scene by the late nineteen fifties, Rockabilly for many remained the "purest" form of rock and roll. Though it only last a few brief years it provided a crucial sound, image and rebellious spirit for rock's initial wave.
Left to right - Paul Burlison, Johnny Burnette, and Dorsey Burnette
With lead guitarist Paul Burlison, and brother Dorsey, Johnny Burnette founded the pioneering, but largely overlooked rockabilly group the Johnny Burnette Rock 'n' Roll Trio in the early 50s. although they never enjoyed national acclaim, the group produced some of the wildest rockabilly of the era.
Paul Burlison was born February 4, 1929. At age ten he was inspired and taught by a black man a finger picking down home style of blues. Each day Burlison would wait from this man, whose name he never knew to pass home from work.
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After his discharge from the Navy, Burlison played with Clyde Leoppard and the Snearly Ranch Boys and was on the radio in 1949 with Don Paul. He met the Burnettes about 1949 through their mutual interest in boxing.
That year he would join the Shelby Follin Band, and for a few months he and bandmate Smokey Joe Baugh performed with Howlin' Wolf on radio KWEM in West Memphis, Arkansas. Burlinson played with Follin until 1954.
Johnny Burnette and his brother, Dorsey were from Memphis and loved boxing almost as much as they loved singing. When they were unable to make a living from boxing they formed a trio with Paul Burlison while still in high school. In 1952 all three worked as electricians for the Crown Electric Company, which later hired a truck driver named Elvis Presley. Officially formed in 1953, the trio auditioned for Sam Phillips's Sun Records following the local success of Presley's "That's All Right". Although they weren't signed, they perservered. Hard work led them to the Hideway Club in Middleton, Tennessee where they became regulars.They played there with Doc (Junius P.) McQueen band from 1954 to February 1956. Their first record, "You're Undecided" was a country song on the Von label from Bonneville, MS, almost a year before the first Elvis single
Janis Martin was a unique figure in the history of rockabilly -- there were other women working in that male-dominated field , but Janis Martin was the one dubbed "The Female Elvis Presley" by RCA, reportedly with the approval of Col. Tom Parker. She had too many strikes against her for a lasting career, but she was good and she left behind the records to prove it.
Janis Martin was born in Sutherlin, Virginia March 27 1940. With a stage mother on one side and a father and uncle who were amateur musicians on the other, Martin was practically predestined for a performing career. She was playing and singing before age five. By six, she'd mastered chords on her junior-sized guitar and was singing in a style influenced by Eddy Arnold and Hank Williams. Martin became a fixture in local talent contests and won all of them. Martin was playing and singing on the WDVA Barndance out of Virginia by age 11. By her mid-teens, she'd appeared alongside the likes of Ernest Tubb, the Carter Family, Sonny James, and Jean Shepard.
From the Barndance, she traveled with Glen Thompson's band for two years and then went on the road with Jim Eanes, a former Starday recording artist. In 1953, she appeared at a Tobacco Festival with Ernest Tubb and Sunshine Sue. As a result of this appearance, Janis was invited to become a regular member of the Old Dominion Barndance in Richmond, Virginia third largest in the nation, ranking only behind the Grand Old Opry and the Wheeling, West Virginia Barndance.
Her amazing amount of experience for one so young helped push her into rock & roll. It turned out that Martin had tired of country music by her mid-teens, especially the slow ballads, having been doing them for a decade. The timing was perfect, for she discovered rhythm & blues in the mid-1950s, and was soon bringing that material into her own song lists.
Ik ben Hans, en gebruik soms ook wel de schuilnaam pippop.
Ik ben een man en woon in Brisbane (australia) en mijn beroep is Gepensioneerd.
Ik ben geboren op 01/08/1947 en ben nu dus 76 jaar jong.
Mijn hobby's zijn: Music van 1940 tot 1970.
Ik ben geboren in 1947 in hoorn nh. Ik woon nu 30 jaar in australia .
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