This song flipped me. What a surprise, I thought I owned every 50' & 60's song ever made, including ones which were pulled off the market. Two (2) Steamer Trunks full. Thanks for sharing this great song and making me wiser at age 79.
An exciting Rock ‘n’ Roll song by legendary singer Eddie Cochran, one of the great pioneers of R&R, whom I know for a long time, but this song I never heard before. The dancing scene is also fascinating, especially actress Janet Leigh, looks like R&R, but is in fact jitterbug. I checked it out, it comes from the Jerry Lewis/Dean Martin movie “Living it up” from 1954, but the original music is not R&R , but swing. R&R had its peak in 1956, with movies like “Rock around the Clock” which became a craze.
You picked an awful early date for the peak of Rock and Roll, maybe you mean in the movies or something. In 1956, Rock and Roll was just getting started, and most of the great R'nR tunes of the first generation stuff hadn't even been released yet. A lot of people make a case for the first generation stuff winding down around 59-60, with Eddie Cochrans' death, Elvis in the army (and then in the lamest movies) Chuck Berry in jail and Little Richard in the pulpit. There were a few dark years,maybe 59-63, with all the fake stars coming out of Philadelphia, but then it came back bigger than ever with the Beatles and all the bands they inspired, and is still going strong for many people.
@@seancurran6727And Buddy, Ritchie and the Big Bopper in the cemetery, Alan Freed facing charges of payola and Jerry Lee Lewis ostracized from the recording industry for his marriage.
Sacré Jerry RIP tu as versé une bonne partie de mon enfance docteur Jekyll et Mister Hyde la transformation mort de rire Michel Leeb c'en est bien inspirée de tes grimaces et ton jeux de scène encore bravo pour la danse avec la fameuse machine à écrire déjà on parle de Plaza sur les humoristes aujourd'hui ça avait bien commencé depuis plusieurs décennies
Oh yeah Jerry was really a rocker that guy was multi-talented he can play instruments dance sing to Comedy he was just a fantastic guy all the way around they don't make them like that anymore
Eddie Cochran is the KING of modern Rock who has given impetus to new harmonies. Unfortunately its existence was suddenly cut short. Greetings. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-88C9-qPXdNQ.html *SUMMERTIME BLUES* Gretsch Guitar Solo Version by *Eddie Cochran*
The movie clips are from the 1954 Paramount movie "Living It Up" with Martin & Lewis and actress Janet Leigh. Sheree North is the dancer with Jerry. Obviously this is before Eddie Cochran came on the scene, but it's used quite well.
What a great video!! Thanks ' sef kicken ' for the info about the name of the film etc. Jerry Lewis may be jitter buggin but the other dancers are doing all manner of early 1950's dances (straight from the orig. black dance halls, the dive bars and the speakeasy's etc!!!).
Talk about gusto. According to my album "The Hollywood Sessions" (1985), liner notes (on my Rockstar LP) by Derek Glenister (Aug 1985), it was a guy named Maurice McCall, manager at Biff's Restaurant, close to Gold Star Studios where Eddie & his friends had their hamburgers, either before or after a session. He (Maurice) brough, during the latter part of 1959, some of his compositions to let Ed look over them. On one occassion he pick his gtr and run through a number for Edddie to hear. Maurice even accompanied Ed to Gold Star for a session. Ed agreed to record 4 of his songs "Jelly Bean", "Don't Bye, Bye Baby Me" (have no clue what happened to the other 2 songs) Different versions of these 2 songs have survived from from this session - I think I have them all. Different versions/takes have it all, chatter with other muscians, studio engineer Larry Levine et al. Terrific stuff. It was the sleuths from Rockstar that at last found them. Btw, Maurice remember that "Eddie was crazy about hamburgers" Anyway, these 2, and different takes, are GOLD.
Hi Joe. I can't in this very moment recall exactly what take you allude to of "Jelly Bean" Hmm...so you met Derek Glenister. I assume you live in UK. I live in Sweden so no Derek here. Serrial # 16942, yep. I know I love Eddie's fat sound from his beautiful kelly green - color not green, actually amber red.. Have no clue why it was called kelly g... (might allude to some Irish ancestry byword, otherwise it beats me) - Gretsch. Yep, those Rockstar Records LPs...I have them all. They never relerased any singles but EPs and I have 8 of them. Wish I bought every one at that time but missed some because... Have no idea. Probably too sloppy though I knew already in the 80s they were pure gold.
Hi again Joe. Been thinking of Eddie's Gretsch. It's long been taken for granted that Eddie purchased Gary Lambert's 6120, which he, Lambert, was given as a loaner until his Gretsch Country Club model was complete (he had ordered it from the Bell Gardens Music Center 1955). Sure Lambert's borrowed Gretsch was amber red BUT had a natural aluminum Bigsby with a black logo area - Eddie's famous gtr, however, had a gold-anodized aluminium Bigsby tremelo. Ed bought it for $385, brand new in '55. Pretty expensive but the 6120 was the stuff of which dreams were made. Ed made modifications, like he earlier converted the single cutaway Gibson from acoustic to electric, including changing the front pickup from a DeArmond to a Gibson P90 to achieve a mellower sound. Ed was faschinated with the sound of some of the smooth players, particulary the silky, triad harmonies of Johnny Smith. The factory Gretsch had a very brittle, very bright timbre. Though the highs were astounding on the gtr, Ed wanted the mellow Gibson L5 sound. Ed also obscured the Chet Atkins signature, 1st with tape, then permanently with sandpaper, and he added a homemade strap, originally crafted for him for his Gibson by Guybo's mother. But I guess you know most of this...or maybe not. Btw, last time in Britain, back in 1995, I went by Chippenham, this was before that memorial stone. I tell you that I had a terrifying feeling standing there. Then we, me and gf, went into a pub and I asked a couple of guys if they ever heard about Eddie Cochran. I think one said, "Hmmm, wasn't that a rocker who got killed many years ago?" I nodded, but they had no idea it was at this very spot, NOT the pub, but the road. So I ask you, is Eddie still known around in UK or not? I think those months in 1960 made him the most known rocker in UK vs any other country though I assume still very few vs the number of people living in UK have the slightest idea who he was. Even worse here. Sure, we have groups on FB... and that's good. Funny when I went to Minnesota, 2006 (one of many trips to US) where I have relatives and I wanted to visit Albert Lea, the town where Eddie was born in 1938, my 'cousin' checked and checked on her lap and nada came up. She had spelled it as Albert Lee! No wonder there was a problem. But I learnt them a thing or two about Eddie. Take care/Roland.
When I was a kid here in the States there was a television commercial offering an record album of R&R classics that played the opening of Eddie's, Nervous Breakdown, but it wasn't until I saw the Stray Cats in '82 that I came to appreciate his genius as well as that of Gene Vincent. From the beginning of my love for Rock in '70-'71 I would read the liner notes and see who wrote what songs. Foghat's first album introduced me to Chuck Berry and Willie Dixon and the Dead did a ton of covers that expanded my awareness. the problem back then, of course, was that there really wasn't any way to dig deeper. Today there's so much stuff available at our finger tips, that kids aren't going to take the time or make the effort to check things out. Hell, I'm sixty and I'm still learning about the forerunners of Rock's musical heritage. I was lucky to go to boarding school with kids from all over the country so I was exposed to all kinds of music there. So now we have a couple of generations of Americans who think Rock was invented by Led Zeppelin and never heard of the old time rockers, blues artists and country musicians that influenced virtually everything we hear today. Example, mention Ike Turner. Do they know he was a musical genius and recorded, arguably, the first Rock & Roll record? No, all they know is that he beat his wife, if they've even heard of him at all. Poor kids (50 and under) just don't know what they're missing. I realize a lot of artists had to travel to the UK and Europe where they were much more appreciated than they were here. I find your question to be interesting. In the Kinks song, Top of the Pops, you can here someone in the background asking about their influences. Curious if they still care. By the way, Brian Setzer does a searing rendition of Nervous Breakdown. Check it out.
@@cooldaddy2877 The thing is that Eddie wrote most of his songs and played on all of them. In order to have a song, you also have to write it. Elvis never released a fully original song in his 20+ year career. Eddie was also one of the first people to use overdubs, distortion, and multitrack recording. The only thing that Elvis really did for the genre was popularize it.
This is America when its young people had energy ,before the thugs , the dumbing down and all cultures are equal ,before the present that we are living in ,
This is not America; it's a film clip from a movie. You're comment makes no sense unless it's meant to be a parody of some old racist geezer whining about some mythical golden age
Thnks anyone want to say how Grt this Cochran cut is?instead of going on about dopey jerry lewis,think Larry Williams had this song? in the can unreleased.
Just a bit of useful info. I was born in the County of Somerset in the Uk,in the late 60s. Poor Eddie was pronounced dead in the same hospital that i was born in, the City of Bath. St Martins Hospital. Google Eddie's death. 1960.
At 18 my wife had the same looks legs and figure as Sheree. Boy was i glad she did not wear dresses like that .i was in enough arguments with guys when she didnt.lol.
I would try to find "Eddie Cochran Guitar picker - rare recordings" double CD box Castle Music ( British) CMXBX1452 I think the bar code is 5050749414526.
@@vintagebrew1057 Not Liberty but LONDON records division of Decca at fault in the uk. Sad to say Decca never really got Rock n Roll. EMI only took over in 1962.
