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.
