What is your generation

My husband met Gene Vincent. They shared a few drinks. I well remember Love is Strange! Still have a copy as a matter of fact.

There will never be another Elvis Presley! Or Fats Domino either, for that matter. The Everly Brothers were marvelous. And good gawd HOW COULD YOU FORGET THE PLATTERS!!!!

Patsy Cline. Connie Francis.

The guitar playing of Chet Atkins, the piano playing of Floyd Cramer. Santo and Johnny. Duane Eddy.

And no one remembers Hank Snow, Web Pierce, Hank Lochlin, Hank Thompson.

Slinky wrote:My husband met Gene Vincent. They shared a few drinks. I well remember Love is Strange! Still have a copy as a matter of fact.There will never be another Elvis Presley! Or Fats Domino either, for that matter. The Everly Brothers were marvelous. And good gawd HOW COULD YOU FORGET THE PLATTERS!!!!Patsy Cline. Connie Francis.The guitar playing of Chet Atkins, the piano playing of Floyd Cramer. Santo and Johnny. Duane Eddy. And no one remembers Hank Snow, Web Pierce, Hank Lochlin, Hank Thompson.

umm, I remember all these musicians/artists.............not necessary great fans of all of them, but do clearly remember them............this makes me feel *slighty old.*

elg5cats

Slinky wrote:My husband met Gene Vincent. They shared a few drinks. I well remember Love is Strange! Still have a copy as a matter of fact.

There will never be another Elvis Presley! Or Fats Domino either, for that matter. The Everly Brothers were marvelous. And good gawd HOW COULD YOU FORGET THE PLATTERS!!!!

Patsy Cline. Connie Francis.

The guitar playing of Chet Atkins, the piano playing of Floyd Cramer. Santo and Johnny. Duane Eddy.

And no one remembers Hank Snow, Web Pierce, Hank Lochlin, Hank Thompson.

Hi Slinky

It seems that Gene Vincent shared more than a few drinks in his lifetime; he never left his rock n roll roots and his music was always great.

You have to remember I was brought up in England, not the US.

I thought of the Platters, but they they were really doo-wop, which I love (The Moonglows, Little Anthony and the Imperials, The Flamingoes, The Spaniels etc) but they were really rock n roll era, rather than rock n roll. And the Girl Groups such as the Shirelles, the Crystals, the Shangri-Las, the Teddy Bears (To Know Him Is To Love Him will always be a classic); and, of course, Little Eva and Leslie Gore.

I also thought of Connie Francis, but she was really a ballad singer (still - Robot Man, Lipstick on your Collar - are two of the best female rock n roll songs ever) , and Patsy Cline was not a rock n roller (but I still have her CD's). I should have included Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers, and, of course, Johnny Burnette and the Rock n Roll Trio, with his seminal "Lonesome Train".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXNw2AE ... L&index=53

Duane Eddy was an original, although Rudy Pompilli and Francis Beecher had made instrumental rock n roll before he came along. The others you mention were not known in England at that time.

In England, for most of us kids, rock n roll came out of nowhere. We were not familiar with Rhythm & Blues or Country and Western. We only discovered them later. And the music caused a revolution in the classroom, we went from accepting authority, to questioning it, and eventually defying it.

As you can see, I could write about Rock n Roll, Rhythm & Blues and Doo-Wop all day, but as this is really a cpap forum I will reign myself in and reluctantly come to a close

cheers

Mars.

Hey, elg5cats ...

Slinky wrote:My husband met Gene Vincent. They shared a few drinks. I well remember Love is Strange! Still have a copy as a matter of fact.

There will never be another Elvis Presley! Or Fats Domino either, for that matter. The Everly Brothers were marvelous. And good gawd HOW COULD YOU FORGET THE PLATTERS!!!!

Patsy Cline. Connie Francis.

The guitar playing of Chet Atkins, the piano playing of Floyd Cramer. Santo and Johnny. Duane Eddy.

And no one remembers Hank Snow, Web Pierce, Hank Lochlin, Hank Thompson.

And don't forget T. Rex and the Stegosaurs, The Four Triceratops, Sly and the Family Pterodactyls, and the cutting-edge hip-hop artist Velocirap(tor),with his Grammy Award-winning "Bite Yoass":

"I mebbe small but I shurbee fass
So you betta run now
Cuz I bite yoass.

I don' like broccoli and I shure hate leeks
Jus gimme dat butt
Cuz I shure love cheeks.

A big ol' rump it be shure to las'
So stick it out now
Cuz I bite yoass."

(Copyright© Velocirap (ASCAP) 25,000,000 BC)

Muffy

mars wrote:I will reign myself in and reluctantly come to a close

cheers

Mars.

Ah Mars, it really is not for me to comment on other people's typos, but I really couldn't resist this one from one brought up in England...
Do you realize that one of the ways of resisting the reign of the British mandate was to sing "G-d shave the king"? People can't be reined in I guess...

O.

ozij wrote:

mars wrote:I will reign myself in and reluctantly come to a close

cheers

Mars.

Ah Mars, it really is not for me to comment on other people's typos, but I really couldn't resist this one from one brought up in England...
Do you realize that one of the ways of resisting the reign of the British mandate was to sing "G-d shave the king"? People can't be reined in I guess...

O.

You know, Ozij, I knew something was wrong with that word.

But I knew it wasn't rain, and although I thought of horses, I just was not able to follow that thought through.

Well, I haven't recovered from brain frazzle just yet, still some way to go. But this is typical of how I used to be. I would get so far with my thinking, and then it would stop, and go onto something else. I did put the coffee in the fridge the other day, and thought I was starting to go backwards.

So thank you Ozij, anybody who reads my posts knows that I try to get my spelling right (I have the advantage of using both English and American spelling).

They say that recovery is a life-time journey - I really wish they were wrong.

cheers

Mars

PS I remember now. I had pressed submit instead of preview, and instead of deleting it I was busily trying to correct it, and at the same time missed Slinky's posting, which otherwise would have gone in the right place just after elg5cats.

So I really messed up. Sorry Slinky.

Muffy wrote:...

Great, nostalgic thread.

RipVW wrote:I thought my generation invented rock & roll--the baby boomers!

Although I'm a baby boomer, I have to also disagree - baby boomers were too young to have 'invented' rock and roll, although we may have picked it up and run with it perhaps!

And yes, I remember most of the above too! Great walk down memory lane, Mars.

Rooster wrote:Hey Slinky,

No doubt the two best country songs ever recorded are

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVEdYYMlOJ4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ki2daAPp_k

Get with it.

Just went back & played those two links, Rooster. Never heard them before. The first, Far Away Eyes, is a hoot. Thanks for that, quite a surprise!

grandmma wrote:

Rooster wrote:Hey Slinky,

No doubt the two best country songs ever recorded are

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVEdYYMlOJ4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ki2daAPp_k

Get with it.

Just went back & played those two links, Rooster. Never heard them before. The first, Far Away Eyes, is a hoot. Thanks for that, quite a surprise!

I figured you would like Mick.

Eh, rock n roll was getting too rocky for me by the time you boomers started being music fans. I don't know most of the ones you are mentioning. I'd switched to country when they came along in self-defense from the ROCK.

Rooster wrote: I figured you would like Mick.

Good one.

Not normally my cup of tea, but actually that song makes me think, maybe.....

Since this thread got off onto music - How to measure apnea http://kristianconnor.blogspot.com/2010 ... apnea.html

mars wrote: . . . In England, for most of us kids, rock n roll came out of nowhere. We were not familiar with Rhythm & Blues or Country and Western. We only discovered them later. . . .

I think you UK people understsand that history better than most of us Americans do. And I enjoyed your posts here very much, Mars, as usual. Even your extremely rare typos are witty, as ozij pointed out.

As an amateur singer-songwriter myself, I tend to lean toward the folksong side of things. But I do still enjoy the history of Rock and Roll, even though it was before my time and I do my best not to be accused of it directly . . .

http://www.jamendo.com/en/track/513389