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Maine native and Connecticut resident Bill Flagg began using the term rockabilly for his combination of rock 'n' roll and hillbilly music as early as 1953. [55] He cut several songs for Tetra Records in 1956 and 1957. [56] "Go Cat Go" went into the National Billboard charts in 1956, and his "Guitar Rock" is cited as classic rockabilly. [55]
The Polecats played rockabilly with a "punk sense of anarchy and helped revive the genre for a new generation in the early '80s." [1] The band were first signed by the fledgling British rockabilly record label Nervous Records, [2] and recorded their first single "Rockabilly Guy" at guitarist Alan Warner's "Lane Studios" in 1979. Formerly with ...
"Let the Jukebox Keep On Playing" was a slow country ballad featuring a fiddle and steel guitar. The song was geared towards the country and western market. The flip side, "Gone, Gone, Gone", was an uptempo rockabilly song that was tailored for the new emerging genre of rock and roll.
The vi chord before the IV chord in this progression (creating I–vi–IV–V–I) is used as a means to prolong the tonic chord, as the vi or submediant chord is commonly used as a substitute for the tonic chord, and to ease the voice leading of the bass line: in a I–vi–IV–V–I progression (without any chordal inversions) the bass ...
The Fendermen toured with Johnny Cash and many others on the road across the US. William Herbert Dreger was the original producer for the Fendermen and was later replaced due to a dispute amongst the group. He was responsible for helping the two man group get off the ground and onto charts where they were praised for their musical prowess.
Smith's contribution to rockabilly music has been recognized by the Rockabilly Hall of Fame. Bob Dylan repeatedly featured Smith on his XM Satellite Radio show, Theme Time Radio Hour, playing Smith's records "Red Cadillac and a Black Moustache", "Uranium Rock", "Ubangi Stomp" and "So Long, I'm Gone". Dylan recorded a studio version of "Red ...
Written by Charles Underwood and first released on record by Warren Smith in 1956, the song did not chart, but went on to become a rockabilly standard, covered by many artists. "Ubangi Stomp" – usually Smith's recording – appears on many compilation albums, including The Sun Records Collection and The Best of Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour .
It is sometimes considered the first doo-wop or rock 'n' roll record to reach the top ten on the pop charts (as opposed to the R&B charts), as it was a top-10 hit that year for both the Chords (who first recorded the song) and the Crew-Cuts. [2] In 2004, it was ranked No. 215 on Rolling Stone's "Top 500 Best Songs of All Time". [3]