Friendly Warning # 1:Multi-Chapter Test (# 4)

Covers most of Chapters 8 & 9(and maybe a small part of 10?)

(see Review Sheets for specifics)

Thursday, 23 April 2015

Friendly Warning # 2

Final ExamThursday, 30 April 2015

1:00 pm – 3:50 pmComprehensive

“Study Session” for reviewing your own tests TBA (28 Apr ‘15?)

Chapter 8

“Rock Around the Clock” :Rock ‘n Roll, 1954-59

Alan Freed (1921-1965)

The Official Alan Freed Website

Other DJs

Gene Nobles

WLAC(Nashville)

Hoss Allen

“Dr. Hepcat” (Lavada Durst)

KVET (Austin, TX)

“Dr. Daddy-O” (Vernon

Winslow)(New Orleans)

Dewey Phillips (1926-1968)

• WHBQ – Memphis (560 AM)- local, 5,000-watt station

• Leading Memphis DJ (1949-58)

• “speed-crazed hillbilly” - alcohol, painkillers, amphetamines

• Played all styles – country, R&B, boogie woogie, jazz, etc.

• 1st DJ to play (& interview) Elvis

• Replaced by “Top 40” format

• DEWEY PHILLIPS - AT WHBQ HOSTING RED HOT & BLUE IN MEMPHIS

Antoine “Fats” Domino (b. 1928)• New Orleans pianist & band leader

• Top R & B performer

• Also “crossover” hits on Pop Charts

• “The Fat Man” (1949 regional hit): Fats Domino - The Fat Man + lyrics – YouTube

• “Ain’t That A Shame” (1955 R&B # 1, Pop # 10): Fats Domino Ain't That A Shame - YouTube

• “Blueberry Hill” (1956 R&B # 1, Pop # 2): Fats Domino - Blueberry Hill - 1956 - 45 RPM - YouTube

Chuck Berry (b. 1926)

• St. Louis Guitarist• Chess Records• Songs for Teenagers• “Maybelline”

(1955, Pop # 5, R&B, # 1)YouTube - Chuck Berry – Maybelline (Textbook, 255-8)

• “Roll Over Beethoven”(1956, Pop # 29, R&B # 2) : Roll Over Beethoven - Chuck Berry LIVE – YouTube (live)

• “Johnny B. Good”(1958, Pop # 8, R&B #1): Chuck Berry - Johnny B. Goode - YouTube

“Little Richard” [Penniman]• b. 1932, Macon, GA• Religious Family• Leading Showman• “Tutti Frutti” :

YouTube - Little Richard, Tutti Frutti(1955 Pop # 17, R&B # 2)

• “Long Tall Sally” :Little Richard - "Long Tall Sally" ... 1956(1956 Pop # 6, R&B # 1) (text book, 261)

• “Lucille” : Lucille(1956 Pop # 21, R&B # 1)

• “Good Golly Miss Molly” : Little Richard - Good Golly Miss Molly (Lyrics) High Quality – YouTube

(1958 Pop # 10, R&B # 4)

Bill Haley (1925-1981)• Philadelphia DJ• “Saddlemen” (country band)• “Comets” (from 1952 on)• “Shake, Rattle and Roll” :

Shake, Rattle and Roll - Bill Haley and his Comets

(1954 cover, Pop # 7, UK hit)• “Rock Around the Clock”

YouTube - Bill Haley - Rock Around The Clock (1956) (1954 B-side release, not a success)

• “Rock Around the Clock” used in Blackboard Jungle ( Pop # 1, 1955)

• “See You Later Alligator” YouTube - Swing Dancing to Bill Haley and the Comets (1956)

Covers (textbook, p. 247-252)

• “Shake, Rattle & Roll”- Big Joe Turner (R&B # 1, Pop #22) : Shake, Rattle, & Roll- Joe Turner – YouTube- Bill Haley and the Comets (Pop # 7) : Shake, Rattle and Roll - Bill Haley and his Comets

• “Sh-Boom”- The Chords (R&B # 2, Pop # 5) : The Chords - Sh Boom- The Crewcuts (Pop # 1) : The Crew Cuts - Sh-Boom - YouTube

• “Mystery Train”- Junior Parker : Little Junior Parker - Mystery Train- Elvis Presley (C&W # 11) : ELVIS PRESLEY//Mystery Train - YouTube

White Covers

• R & B hits (Independent Labels) “covered” by Major labels (White Performers)

• “pretested” = less commercial risk• Lyrics often toned down

(sexual references made less explicit)• Recorded sound “improved” (cleaned up)• Who wins and who gets ripped off?

Difference in payments(flat fee [usually for Black performers]vs. per unit royalty [White performers])

Sun Records (Memphis)

Elvis Presley, Bill Black, Scotty Moore, Sam Phillips (owner)

Sam Phillips, owner/producer

Elvis Aaron Presley (1935-1977)• b. Tupelo, MS (poor white rural)

• Wide range of musical influences

• 1948 – to Memphis

• 1953 – 1st time at Sun Studios

• 1954 – demos for Phillips(“That’s All Right Mama” / “Blue Moon of Kentucky”)

• Public performances

• 1955 - Col. Tom Parker, manager

• Contract sold to RCA

• TV – 1956

• 1958-60 – into Army

Louisiana Hayride

• Elvis Presley. I Got A Woman.Louisiana Hayride Archives 1954-1956.Remastered.2011 . – YouTube

• Elvis Presley. Tweedle Dee.Louisiana Hayride Archives 1954-1956.Remastered.2011 . – YouTube

• Elvis Presley. Maybellene . ( Tunzi Remix ).Louisiana Hayride Archives 1954-1956.Remastered.2011 . - YouTube

Elvis on Television

• Jan-Feb ’56: Stage Show (CBS)- Variety show hosted by Dorsey Brothers- No special interest or reaction

• Milton Berle Show (1948-56) (“Mr. Television”) - 3 Apr ’56 (on Battleship USS Hancock)- 5 June ’56 : Elvis Presley - Hound Dog (1956) HD 0815007

• “Elvis the pelvis” – panned by critics as obscene

Elvis on Television (part 2)• The Steve Allen Show

- Sunday night variety (competitor to Ed Sullivan)- 1 July ’56 : “Hound Dog” : ELVIS PRESLEY on THE STEVE ALLEN SHOW 1956 "Hound Dog"

• Ed Sullivan Show- The Leading TV Variety Show- 9 Sept ’56 : "ELVIS DEBUTS ON TELEVISION" - (September 9, 1956) - 28 Oct ’56 : ELVIS PRESLEY "Hound Dog" on The Ed Sullivan Show - YouTube- 6 Jan ’57 : ELVIS PRESLEY "Don't Be Cruel" on The Ed Sullivan Show – YouTube(text book LG, p. 264-6)

Elvis Presley – Singer/Personality• No Original Material• Eclectic vocal style• Stage presence & overt

sexuality – “Elvis the Pelvis”• Universal appeal (all charts)• Examples

- (1st rec. 1954) : Elvis Presley - That's Alright Mama[cf. Crudup 1946 original : Arthur Crudup - That's All Right (original version) – YouTube]

- (1957) YouTube - Elvis Presley - Jailhouse Rock (Music Video)

- (1957 movie) YouTube - Elvis Presley - Love Me Tender (End Scene)

- (RCA rec.) Love Me Tender Elvis Presley original 1956 - YouTube