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Johnny Burnette and the Rock 'n Roll Trio is the 1956 debut album of the rockabilly band The Rock and Roll Trio, fronted by Johnny Burnette.Recorded over three separate sessions in 1956, the album includes a number of the band's singles. 2008's Icons of Rock calls the album "an all-time rockabilly classic". [2]
"Rock This Town" is the second single by American rockabilly band Stray Cats, released January 30, 1981 by Arista Records in the U.K., where it peaked at No. 9 on the Singles Chart. [3] It was taken from the band's 1981 debut album, Stray Cats. Its first US release, by EMI America, was on the June 1982 album Built for Speed.
The 1952 Bill Haley version with a different arrangement and new lyrics was covered by Ralph Marterie and Lola Ameche on Mercury Records in 1952. The Wild Angels recorded the Bill Haley version in 1979. Billy Swan and Reverend Horton Heat have also performed and recorded the Bill Haley version in 1996.
Howie achieved both national and international fame recognition, [1] for his hit 45 record, "Real Gone Daddy/This Old Bomb of Mine", released in 1957. Regarded as one of the most significant and influential Rockabilly musicians of his era, Howie's music currently resides on over 100 record compilations of the best rockabilly music ever produced ...
The song was later recorded by Ritchie Valens in 1958 and was a top 100 hit for The Beach Boys in the United States and the United Kingdom in 1968. Hickey also wrote songs for other artists, including "The Millionaire" for Jackie Wilson , "A Little Bird Told Me So" for LaVern Baker , and " Don't Let the Rain Come Down ", which was a US top ten ...
A Hall of Fame act with serious Columbia ties took top honors in our Missouri's greatest living rock star bracket.
Dorsey's death may well have prompted Paul Burlison to return to the music scene in the 1980s, first with Johnny Black and Tony Austin in a recreation of the Rock and Roll Trio. In 1997, he cut his first ever solo LP Train Kept A-Rollin on Sweetfish Records as a tribute to The Rock and Roll Trio. The LP contained eleven tracks, three of which ...
The Go Getters is a Swedish neo-rockabilly band formed in 1988 by lead singer, standup drummer, and lyricist Peter Sandberg. Other members include Johnny Andersson, and Pascal Guimbard, a founding member of the French rockabilly band The Sprites. [1] Guitarist Robin Johnson, who had joined the band in 1988 died in a motorcycle accident in 2011.