‘honey don’t’ at the Ozark Jubilee, March 1956 (the same day’s performance of ‘blue suede shoes’ is missing) ‘blue suede shoes’ on the ‘Perry Como Show’, May 1956 ‘blue suede shoes’ on Ted Ritter’s ‘Western Ranch Party’, 1957 ‘matchbox’ on Ted Ritter’s ‘Western Ranch Party’, 1957 ‘your true love’ on Ted Ritter’s ‘Western Ranch Party’, […]
Music/Dance/Reads
1953 ‘Glory in the Flower’, James Dean and Bill Haley share a bill
OK, so you thought adding ‘rock around the clock’ to the soundtrack of the film ‘Blackboard Jungle’ in 1955 was the moment rock’n’roll musicwas first associated with juvenile delinquency? Think again, Bill Haley’s 1953 hit ‘crazy, man, crazy’ was included in a short tv-play ‘Glory in the Flower’ which featured none other than James Dean, […]
50s performances of Elvis Presley
live August 1955 live Lubbock (with Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, Buddy Holly), October 1955 ‘Heartbreak Hotel’, April 1956 ‘blue suede shoes’, April 1956 ‘blue suede shoes’, 1956 ‘money, honey’ live 1956 live in Las Vegas, 1956 ‘hound dog’, on the ‘Milton Berle Show’, June 1956 ‘hound dog’, on the ‘Milton Berle Show’, June 1956 ‘hound […]
50s performances of Chuck Berry
‘you can’t catch me’ on 1956 film ‘Rock, Rock, Rock!’ ‘oh, baby doll’ on 1957 film ‘Mister Rock and Roll’ ‘sweet little sixteen’ on Dick Clark’s Saturday Night Beech-Nut Show’. February 1958 ‘school day’ on Dick Clarke’s ‘Saturday Night Beech-Nut Show’, May 1958 ‘Johnny B Goode’ with hot orchestral arrangements on 1959 film ‘Go, Johnny, […]
Les Paul (1915–2009), creator of the rock’n’roll sound in the late 1940s
Like Crosby, Paul and Ford used the now-ubiquitous recording technique known as close miking, where the microphone is less than 6 inches (15 cm) from the singer’s mouth. This produces a more-intimate, less-reverberant sound than is heard when a singer is 1 foot (30 cm) or more from the microphone. When implemented using a pressure-gradient (uni- or bi-directional) microphone, […]