Rockabilly

Almost everyone knows who the ‘King of Rock and Roll’ is. Elvis Presley was a singer who gained his fame in the 1950’s. He started his singing career in Memphis, Tennessee in 1954 at the legendary Sun Records, where other famous artists started off like Johnny Cash. In 1955, his contract was sold to RCA Records and the next year his career began to knock it out of the park. In 1958, Elvis joined the military and he ended up getting discharged in 1960 then he went back to singing. Elvis met his demise

An earlier reference to rock ‘n’ roll music was called, rockabilly. Rockabilly was a combination of country and jazz music. Traditional Appalachian folk and gospel music influence the term rockabilly. Other important music that influences the term rockabilly was music such as western swing, boogie woogie, honky tonk (Rock ‘n’ Roll). These influence on rock music primarily originated in the south. Rock ‘n’

predominately black artists and fused black and white music together with a strong rockabilly backbeat as heard in Young Jessie “Hit Git & Split”. In contrast the second generation consisted of mainly white artists who had grown up listening to the first generation of rock and roll, including Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, Wanda Jackson and The Everly Brothers. In 1956 Gene Vincent’s “Be-Bop-a-Lula” captured the quintessential rockabilly of rock and roll along with Elvis Presley’s “Don’t Be Cruel”. By reaching

that had me laughing all the way to the closing credits. The film appeared to be marketed toward the female audience since that is who mainly comprised the theater, possibly because of a young Johnny Depp playing the bay boy lead role. The greaser/rockabilly stereotypes of being loud, rowdy, womanizing, brash, disrespectful, and obnoxious are all used during the film but many are disproven as the movie proceeds. Cry-Baby Walker, played by Johnny Depp, shows the outside world that he is a rough and tumble

In the following decade of the 1960s Rock n’ Roll music became more accepted and began to evolve from the Rockabilly sound audiences have grown to know before to a freer sound. However, the 1960s was also the time of the infamous saying “Sex, Drugs, and Rock n’ Roll” became the reality of the newly found style of music. Rock music found its self in its own category and dominated in the popular music scene and with that many new styles of rock emerged. Such as: surf, psychedelic, hard rock, and

Elvis Presley, the King of Rock and Roll, once said  “Truth is like the sun, you can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t goin away”. Which I didn’t understand at first but after learning more about Elvis, his quote made much more sense, that the truth will always be there even after a lie is told.  Elvis Presley left this world with a huge impact on society, with new artist coming up & the way he danced by moving his hips even influenced people these days.        Elvis Aaron Presley was born in

After coming home from a long tour in Alaska with her band Rosie and the Screamers, Flores wanted to quit music altogether, despite her growing success. “They broke me; I didn’t like the men I was working with; they treated me so poorly, stuff I don’t wish to talk about.” Although she could not imagine trying to find a new path, the burnout was insurmountable, so she came back to LA and worked in a kitchen making sandwiches. The act of doing something different helped her to refocus. Apparently,

Rock Around the Clock by Bill Haley & His Comets, since it was one of the top songs during the 1950s. Some elements of the song is the genre, tempo, mood, dynamic, the structure, and instrumentation. The genre of this piece is rock and roll and rockabilly. This genre was typical of this time period of the 50s. The tempo of this piece seems to be fast but steady and its dynamics are a mixture of loud but soft. When I listen to the song my mood is upbeat and it makes me want to get up and dance. Rock

Elvis Presley, also known as the king of Rock ‘n’ roll, once said “Rock ‘n’ roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can 't help but move to it. That 's what happens to me. I can 't help it.” The genre of Rock ‘n’ roll has been a part of the world since the early 1940’s. According to "Just a Half a Mile from the Mississippi Bridge": The Mississippi River Valley Origins of Rock ‘n’ Roll, this genre was born in the Mississippi River Valley and moved up and down its course, including its tributaries

In college, he studied film and went to grad school on an open media degree. Here, he studied everything from jazz guitar, art, and even magic. When he wasn't busy studying, his down time consisted of listening to classic rock and roll and post-rockabilly. It was here that McPherson began to craft his musical identity and sought out to change the way rock is played. JD MCPHERSON PRESERVES THE OLD IN A NEW WAY McPherson isn't trying to re-write the book on rock. He knows the music so well and understands