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-THE THREE R’S OF ROCK N’
ROLL: LESSON #2 by
Gary Tate: Listen up class! Skool may be out but getting the hang of the 3R's, raunchiness, rebelliousness, and rawness--is a year round assignment.
Libraries can’t learn you nothing! Books won’t cut it for you! Work ain’t
where it’s at! Just keep your mind frazzled,
steal somebody’s girl, sleep allday, and keep your bacon shakin’.
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1· Pee Wee Crayton (Mp3-Do Unto Others)
Pee Wee used diplomacy, to make it through
school. But let his guitar do the talkin' most times! |
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2· Du-Droppers (Mp3-Get Lost)
A 1952 serious dissing of some chick, loaded
with mockery, sarcasm and scorn. Trash talkin'! |
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3· Big Al Downing & The Poe Cats
(Mp3-Oh Babe!)
Little
Richard-like vocals married up with Chuck Berry style guitar. 1958 was a good
year! |
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4· Hank Ballard & The Midnighters (Mp3-Rock Granny
Roll)
Another convincing R&B blaster from 1958. This time by a
Founding Father of Rock n' Roll! |
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5· Five Royales (Mp3-Tell
The Truth)
Johnny Tanner could sing the phone book and
make it sound authoritative. Again
1958. |
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6· Roy Brown (Mp3-Letter
From Home)
The cuckolded boyfriend who twigs to being a sap. It’s
captured in this rousing Jump Blues. |
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7· Johnny Burnette (Mp3-Train
Kept A Rollin’)
Rare when the cover version surpassed the original (Tiny
Bradshaw). Paul Burleson’s awesome! |
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8· Kip
Tyler & The Flips (Mp3-She Got Eyes)
From1957, including Sandy “Teen Beat” Nelson
on drums and future Beach Boy Bruce Johnston. |
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9·
Bill Haley & His Comets (Mp3-Real Rock
Drive)
Another classy relic from Mr.
Rock n' Roll--circa 1954.
Real gone lyrics, rockin'steel, driving beat! |
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X· Charlie
Feathers (Mp3-Jungle
Fever)
The Father of Primeval Rockabilly, who somehow
got lost
in the shuffle, though he had the talent. |
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