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When others get it wrong – bopping

While not being too restrictive in our views and in the process snuffing individuality, we’ve got to highlight when something concerning our lifestyle, attire, music and dance is misrepresented, and not too put too fine a word on it debased. Today it’s the turn of the bop and specifically the teddy-boy bop of the 1960s, […]

Hepsters

The Hepsters – not to be confused with modern Hipsters – were associated with jazz, both musicians and fans. It is worth noting, too, that Gillespie had already gained a measure of stardom at a time when Parker’s following was limited to musicians and other insiders; Parker was not even mentioned in a silly 1948 […]

Babs Gonzales, the hepster from ‘Oo-poo-pa-doo’

Babs Gonzales (1919-80) Bab’s Three Bips and a Bop (1946-49) recorded the earliest version of ‘oop-pop-a-da’ for Blue Note in 1947 (made famous later by Dizzy Gillespie). ‘Professor Bop’ 1949 & ‘be-bop Santa Claus’ 1954 (by Lloyd Williams) Babs Gonzales was a featured artist in Alan Freed’s ‘Rock’n’roll Ball’ held at the Saint Nicholas Arena, […]

1991 The Firebirds in concert

This is not a music site for rock’n’roll, there are plenty of those, but every now and then a performance or an interesting video clip deserves its place. This goes for this excellent performance from 1991 by the Firebirds, a group hailing from Bristol (it was released as a video in 1992). The concert took […]

‘Rock’n’roll’ – ‘rockabilly’ – ‘rhythm’n’blues’ : a rant about musical terminology

In 1976 when I got into the music – a tender 12 year-old – it was ‘rock’n’roll’. As a late 70s ted in the music’s revival in Britain I was still into ‘rock’n’roll’, at the dawn of the 1980s when I got my first drape jacket I continued to love ‘rock’n’roll’, and now, approaching my […]

1994 ‘Tear it Up! The Rockabilly Documentary’

As short as it is, this short 18-minute documentary from 1994 by Greg Wolske of Columbus (Ohio), is the best introduction to rockabilly music around. Rather than the planned film, this is a taster of a more ambitious project which has not yet – it would seem – been completed. This taster contains some testimonies […]

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  • Hank C. Burnette (1944-)
  • 2024 Juan J. C.’s rock’n’roll factory
  • 2023 ‘This train’ by Alan Power and the Aftershocks
  • Jewish ‘Teds’ bopping (2021 upload)
  • 1958 The hand jive
  • 1970s Flying Saucers’ performances
  • 1965 ‘jan pehchan ho’ Mohammed Rafi
  • 1976-85 Les Alligators
  • 2015 ‘Rockabilly lovers’ cartoon clip
  • Gene Vincent tribute performances
  • When others get it wrong – bopping
  • Hepsters
  • Babs Gonzales, the hepster from ‘Oo-poo-pa-doo’
  • 1991 The Firebirds in concert
  • ‘Rock’n’roll’ – ‘rockabilly’ – ‘rhythm’n’blues’ : a rant about musical terminology
  • 1994 ‘Tear it Up! The Rockabilly Documentary’
  • The rockin’ sax
  • 1959 ‘Six O’Clock Rock’ Aussie rock’n’roll tv show
  • Lightning Recorders studio, Berlin – another perfect recreated 50s recording studio
  • 1981 Jack Good’s ‘Let’s Rock!’ – 3rd series
  • 1980 ‘(Jack Good’s) Oh Boy!’ – 2nd series
  • 1979 ‘(Jack Good’s) Oh Boy!’ – 1st series
  • 50s Swedish rock’n’rollers’ performances
  • Sugar Ray’s – a perfect modern recreation of a 1950s recording studio
  • The rock’n’roll ‘barking’ sax
  • 50s rock’n’roll dancing USA
  • Thrashabilly
  • The Blue Cats (Blue Cat Trio)
  • 2019 ‘Dandilicious’
  • 1970s, 1980s Later Vince Taylor performances
  • 2018 Johnny and the Timebombs
  • early 60s Vince Taylor performances
  • Cringeworthy rock’n’roll moments
  • early 60s Chats Sauvages performances
  • 50s performances of Cliff Richards and the Shadows
  • The ‘mystery black buskin’ boppin’ ted’
  • 2018 Ted shows Americans how we bop
  • Whiskey A-Go-Go
  • 1955 Babs Gonzales, be-boppin’ poet present at the dawn of rock’n’roll
  • Gil Brady and other 1950s jitterbugging stars
  • Cat talk
  • 1956 Steve Allen’s ‘be-bop-a-lula’ skit
  • 50s performances of original pieces by ‘unknowns’
  • 50s performances of Fats Domino
  • 50s performances of Jerry Lee Lewis
  • 50s performances of Eddie Cochran
  • 50s performances of Bill Haley and his Comets
  • 50s performances of Little Richard
  • Fun YouTube clips of rock’n’roll songs
  • 50s performances of Gene Vincent
  • 50s performances of Johnny Burnette, Conway Twitty, Ronnie Hawkins and Jack Scott
  • 50s performances of Carl Perkins
  • 1953 ‘Glory in the Flower’, James Dean and Bill Haley share a bill
  • 50s performances of Elvis Presley
  • 50s performances of Chuck Berry
  • Les Paul (1915–2009), creator of the rock’n’roll sound in the late 1940s
  • 1950s Rock’n’roll films
  • 1961 French rock’n’twist
  • 1960-61 Johnny, Eddy and Dick, the French favourites
  • 1959 The twist and other dance crazes
  • 1958 The stroll and the madison
  • 1954 Alan Freed and rock’n’roll
  • Scopitones
  • Jukeboxes
  • Last song of the rock’n’roll era
  • Acrobatic rock’n’roll
  • Origin and meaning: jive and jitterbug
  • Origin and meaning: rockabilly
  • Origin and meaning: rock’n’roll
  • Origin and meaning: bop
  • Jiving
  • Randy Richter – doyen of the authentic 50s rockabilly and rock’n’roll guitar sound
  • Great French rock’n’roll covers
  • Book reviews: Sun records & Sonny Burgess
  • Speeded-up rock’n’roll recordings of the 50s

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