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Damn, I want this girl on my limbo team!  I like her playing, but her music doesn't seem to vary much.  I'd like to see her play with other musicians.

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one of my favourite bands THIN LIZZY

 

just love this track

mindblowing

 

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words cannot describe just how brilliant this band was

 

 

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A cute animation  :D Edited August 7, 2018 by Condensation

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVFgMNclzcw :ph34r:

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Still never gets old 

 

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Not quite a one hit wonder...can a band have a half a hit wonder?  Anyway, the bright acoustic guitar sound is very appealing and the whole song goes earworm very quickly.  This was popular on alternative radio back around '95.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jU5Xq-ItWxQ

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so damn good

 

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This is Cat Stevens first-ish musical offering as Yusuf Islam.  This was released around 2006.

 

It has a great transition/build to the chorus between 0:45 and 1:08; a tasty instrumental downturn bridge at 1:37 to the full chorus at 1:56.  The song continues as a layering build-up, complete with the backup chics, to 3:58 where it hits a velvet brick wall transition into a very evocative acoustic outro.

 

Cat Stevens was superstar of the late 60s early 70s then disappeared into Islam for decades...musically tragic.  Who knows what kind of wonderful music he might have created...at least he found himself I guess.  I always felt the same kind of loss you feel when an artist dies and you know their future music will never come into existence.  At least we hear from him again even though all of his new stuff is either blatantly religious or has heavy religious overtones.  Much of it is a re-hash of his old stuff at best or is bland and insipid at worst.  This one song shines and reminds me of the old Cat.  It is a re-hash of a song from his Foreigner album but this  re-do is much better. 

 

Recently he has started to sing his older catalog again, but he's an old guy now and just can't pull off the intensity of his original offerings.  Resurfacing after 30 years in the 00's, he got inducted into the Rock Hall of Fame in 2014...a testimony to how dynamic his music once was.

 

Edited August 8, 2018 by ByeByeBye

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this is the song and brilliant dance routine that started popular music into the big time it is today

remember as a child seeing this for the first time and was just blown away

still good today as it ever was

 

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this is the song and brilliant dance routine that started popular music into the big time it is today

remember as a child seeing this for the first time and was just blown away

still good today as it ever was

Your post got me wondering what was the very first Rock & Roll song?  I've always liked the big bands of the 40's Swing era.  A very great number of these big band tunes are Rock & Roll (IMHO) even though they seldom are called Rock & Roll.  The World War II guys were Rockin' before the post-war 50's when the established birth of Rock & Roll is usually designated in most peoples minds.

 

Even back in the 20's and probably earlier I think Rock was around.  I had an original pressing of Louis Armstrong doing West End Blues which was the first improvisational blues ever recorded.  It is definitely a blues piece but you can hear lots of Proto-Rock elements in it.  It's kinda hard to tell what went on before the 20s since there were no recordings and only sheet music, but blues, gospel, country and western, and even folk music all had Proto-Rock elements.  Even back into the early 1800s lots of sea shanties had a distinct rock-ish sound.  To me though, the Mother (and Father) of Rock & Roll is Boogie-Woogie which goes all the way back into the 1870s.  Early 1900's Boogie-Woogie sounds totally like Rock & Roll.  The earliest recording I could find on YouTube is from Pinetop Smith in 1928 and by sound alone, this is certainly Rock & Roll.  There is another incredible video posted of a collection of Boogie-Woogie recordings from 1922 to 1935.  Are they Rock & Roll?...pretty much, from my point of view anyway.

 

I digress.  So, what was the first real Rock & Roll song?  It's all kind of fuzzy for a solid definition, but to me the first R&R song that can't be denied is from 1935...Henry Allen And His Orchestra - Get Rhythm In Your Feet.  Part of the lyrics say (1:26), "If Satan starts to hound you, Commence to rock and roll / Get rhythm in your feet..."  Listening to the song, it is very very easy to imagine an updated version fitting in on YouTube or being looped by some clever young aspiring rock star.  It's Rock and Roll for sure.

 

There is another earlier contender that also fits the bill from 1934 and is titled "Rock And Roll" performed by The Boswell Sisters and is complete with a dance number.  They use the term as a double entendra.  One meaning is the original nautical origin of the phrase...like the ocean rolling and rocking you as boat would pitch and yaw...the other meaning might very well refer to the horizontal bop done in bedrooms around the world where you rock and roll with your sweetie (wink wink, nudge nudge).  

 

 

Louis Armstrong - West End Blues (1928)

 

To me though, the Mother (and Father) of Rock & Roll is Boogie-Woogie which goes all the way back into the 1870s.  Early 1900's Boogie-Woogie sounds totally like Rock & Roll.  The earliest recording I could find on YouTube is from Pinetop Smith in 1928 and by sound alone, this is certainly Rock & Roll.  There is another incredible video posted of a collection of Boogie-Woogie recordings from 1922 to 1935.  Are they Rock & Roll?...pretty much, from my point of view anyway.

 

Pinetop Smith - Pinetop's Boogie Woogie (1928)  ...Tell me this isn't Rock & Roll

 

The Greatest Boogie Woogie Songs of All Time - part one (1922-1935)

List of the very short clips: 

1922

The Fives (Hersal Thomas)

 

1923

Golden West Blues (Jesse Crump)

Blues Mixture (Lemuel Fowler)

The Rocks (George W. Thomas)

The Weary Blues (Clarence Williams)

Chime Blues (Fletcher Henderson)

 

1924-

Chicago Stomps (Jimmy Blythe)

Armour Avenue Struggle (Jimmy Blythe)

 

1925-

Sunshine Special (Sodarisa Miller with Jimmy Blythe)

Suitcase Blues (Hersal Thomas)

 

1926

5th Street Blues (Cow Cow Davenport)

Mr. Freddie Blues (Jimmy Blythe)

 

1927

Honky Tonk Train Blues (Meade Lux Lewis)

 

1928

Cow Cow Blues (Cow Cow Davenport)

Pine Top's Boogie Woogie (Pinetop Smith)

Pinetop's Blues (Pinetop Smith)

Five O'Clock Blues Jimmy Blythe)

State Street Jive (Cow Cow Davenport)

 

1929

Pitchin' Boogie (Will Ezell)

Stomp 'Em Down to the Bricks (Henry Brown)

Henry Brown Blues (Henry Brown)

Chimes Blues (Cow Cow Davenport)

Wilkins Street Stomp (Speckled Red)

Head Rag Hop (Romeo Nelson)

Gettin' Dirty Just Shakin' That Thing (Romeo Nelson)

Indiana Avenue Stomp (Montana Taylor)

Playing the Dozen (Will Ezell)

Jump Steady Blues (Pinetop Smith)

Dearborn Street Breakdown (Charles Avery)

Fat Fanny Stomp (Jim Clarke)

The Dirty Dozen (Speckled Red)

Hastings Street (Charlie Spand)

Detroit Rocks (Montana Taylor)

Slow and Easy Blues (Jimmy Yancey)

 

1930

Chain 'Em Down (Blind Leroy Garnett)

Fanny Lee Blues (Westley Wallace)

No. 29 (Westley Wallace)

Boot That Thing (Roosevelt Sykes)

 

1932

Pratt City Blues (Jabo Williams)

Jab Blues (Jabo Williams)

 

1933

Piano Stomp (Walter Roland)

Jookit Jookit (Walter Roland)

Devil's Island Gin Blues (Roosevelt Sykes)

 

1934

Black Gal What Makes Your Head So Hard? (Joe Pullum)

Alligator Crawl (Fats Waller)

Barrel House Woman (Leroy Carr)

 

1935

Strut That Thing (Cripple Clarence Lofton)

Boogie Woogie (Cleo Brown)

 

 

I digress.  So, what was the first real Rock & Roll song?  It's all kind of fuzzy for a solid deffinition, but to me the first R&R song that can't be denide is from 1935...Henry Allen And His Orchestra - Get Rhythm In Your Feet.  Part of the lyrics say (1:26), "If Satan starts to hound you, Commence to rock and roll / Get rhythm in your feet..."  Listening to the song, it is very very easy to imagine an updated version fitting in on YouTube or being looped by some clever young aspiring rock star.  It's Rock and Roll for sure.

 

Henry Allen And His Orchestra - Get Rhythm In Your Feet (1935)

 

There is another earlier contender that also fits the bill from 1934 and is titled "Rock And Roll" performed by The Boswell Sisters and is complete with a dance number.  They use the term as a double entendre.  One meaning is the original nautical origin of the phrase...like the ocean rolling and rocking you as boat would pitch and yaw...the other meaning might very well refer to the horizontal bop done in bedrooms around the world where you rock and roll with your sweetie (wink wink, nudge nudge).  

 

The Boswell Sisters - Rock And Roll (1934) (movie clip with dance number...check the seasick chics..cute)

 

The Boswell Sisters - Rock And Roll    This is a much cleaner audio file with music only (the scat intro is easier to hear)

 

So in conclusion, I'm gonna choose Pinetop Smith - Pinetop's Boogie Woogie (1928) as the first recorded Rock & Roll tune.  What do you think?

 

Edited August 9, 2018 by ByeByeBye

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this song by ike turner is regarded by many people as the first true rock and roll record

 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcihcYEOeic

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Senpai  :wub:

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Bon Jovi   :wub:

 

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SCORE!  While looking at early Rock & Roll, I saw the name of an artist I knew very well as one of the contenders for the first Rock & Roll song...Wynonie Harris with his 1948 release of "Good Rockin' Tonight".  I'd never heard this song but I have always loved Wynonie's song "Blood Shot Eyes" from 1951 and in fact I've been looking for a cover version of it by a very obscure band from 1971 called Lucifer.  

 

I've done dozens of internet searches of over the years and have never come up with anything other than text referances and a couple of jpgs of the album cover.  I had the album as a kid and really liked it...Blood Shot Eyes being by far my favorite song on the whole album. Just for grins, I tried a YouTube search for "Bloodshot Eyes Lucifer" and there it was!!!!!!!  It's even an acceptable recording!  I am so stoked...I've been trying to find this song for almost 40 years!!!!  ...And I found it just a few minutes ago!

 

So here is another contender for the first Rock & Roll song:  Wynonie Harris - Good Rockin' Tonight (1948)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHebMwznM5c 

 

Here is Wynonie Harris singing Blood Shot Eyes from 1951.  Actually I'm so used to this version that I may like it better than the Lucifer cover that I've searched for so long.

 

 

And here it is...drum roll please!...a pursuit of 40 years, culminating in one lucky search today.  YEAH!  Lucifer - Bloodshot Eyes (1971)  Check out the Glenn Miller medley mash up around 2:15 and again at 4:15. It's a goofy song, but hey, I was a kid :)

 

 

...just a pic of the album cover

Edited August 10, 2018 by ByeByeBye

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For the nolifers Tankers covering their 24x7 shifts. Ok pros, is summer, stand up and shake ur boots for 3 minutes (if u can).  :lol:

Buh, until next time, bye.