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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 Around the Clock : The Record that Started the Rock Revolution. Backbeat Books, 2005. Ford, Peter. "Rock Around the Clock and Me" (Goldmine and Now Dig This magazines, 2004; online version) Frazer-Harrison, Alex. "Rock Around the Clock: A Tribute" (Rockabilly Hall of Fame website Archived April 30, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, 1999–2004).
One of the first written uses of the term rockabilly was in a press release describing Gene Vincent's "Be-Bop-A-Lula". [120] Three weeks later, it was also used in a June 23, 1956, Billboard review of Ruckus Tyler's "Rock Town Rock". [121] The first record to contain the word rockabilly in a song title was "Rock a Billy Gal", issued in November ...
"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 song was later given away and became a rockabilly hit for Roy Orbison. [1] Penner also had been a singer, guitar player, and recording artist. In 1956, Penner switched from country music to rock and roll. That same year, he and Wade Moore (born November 15, 1934, in Amarillo, Texas) formed a duo and recorded for Sun Records. The duo was ...
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Two years later, Bill Haley and the Saddlemen had already achieved some success with their cover of Jackie Brenston's "Rocket 88", but were looking for another hit. They were persuaded by their producer, Essex Records owner Dave Miller, to cover "Rock The Joint" - a song which, like "Rocket 88", had already been successful with R&B audiences ...