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In April and May 1956, the Rock and Roll Trio played on Ted Mack's TV talent show in New York City. They won all three times and guaranteed them a finalist position in the September supershow. [33] Gene Vincent and His Blue Caps' recording of "Be-Bop-A-Lula" was released on June 2, 1956, backed by "Woman Love". Within twenty-one days it sold ...
Campi was born in New York City in April 1934 and lived in Yonkers, New York during his earliest years. After his family moved to Austin, Texas in 1944, Campi began a lifetime of performing and recording music in numerous genres, including Rockabilly, Folk, Country, and Rock And Roll as well as Rockabilly.
Because of his rising popularity on the radio, he got a recording contract with Tetra Records in New York City. [2] With his band members, Cat Gibson and Ted Barton, henceforth calling themselves The Rockabillies, Flagg recorded his first record in 1956, Howie Stange.
Heavy Trash is an American rockabilly band based in New York City, formed by Jon Spencer of The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion and Matt Verta-Ray (formerly of New York bands Madder Rose and Speedball Baby).
Bands should be notable and linked to their articles which lists their New York origins in the lead. References should be provided for any new entries on this list. Bands may be temporarily red-linked (while an article is developed) as long as the reference establishes that the band is notable and from New York.
The origins of rock and roll are complex.Rock and roll emerged as a defined musical style in the United States in the early to mid-1950s. It derived most directly from the rhythm and blues music of the 1940s, [1] which itself developed from earlier blues, the beat-heavy jump blues, boogie woogie, up-tempo jazz, and swing music.
This 1971 glam rock ballad supposedly originated as a parody of Frank Sinatra's "My Way" but ... chords on a keyboard in the pair's New York City apartment. The song explores themes of isolation ...
DJ Kool Herc credited with helping originate hip hop music in the Bronx, New York City, in the 1970s. Hip hop was a cultural movement that began in Bronx in the early 1970s, consisting of four elements. Two of them, rapping and DJing, make up hip hop music. These two elements were imported from Jamaica by DJ Kool Herc.