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Rock Around the Clock – 1950′s MusicI was in San Diego recovering from Polilo when this song hit the charts. It was one of the first, if not the first, rock n roll song at the start of the rock n roll era that would change music forever. What is the first rock n roll song you remember hearing? 5 comments to Rock Around the Clock – 1950′s Music |
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Gosh! What is the first ‘rock’n roll song I heard. That’s a hard one. Perhaps it was Bill Haley’s “Rock Around the Clock” or maybe it was “Green Door” (Jim Lowe). That song really caught my ear. I’m still an old ‘rock n roll’ sort of guy. My wife and I play it all the time.
About a week and a half ago, while on a bus traveling near Heathrow Airport, the song “C’mon Everybody” played on the bus’s radio. I told our English tour guide, she was 29 years old, that the singer of the song (Eddie Cochran) had died in a taxi cab near here in 1960. (Gene Vincent was seriously hurt in same wreck).
I’m a history nut also! Drives my kids and wife crazy! HA! Maybe that’s why were all so compatible!
Well Anyways! I was reading the blog where Sondra mentioned the Alhambra Theater. It never fails that when I hear Eddie Cochran’s song “Sittin’ in the Balcony” that I don’t think of all the kids back then…Sondra, Mike, Larry, Arlene, Cheryl, Buzz, Bob, Penny, VICKI, etc..
There is so many songs that I constantly relate to so many different times and people, especially to those back in the old Saigon Days .
“Oh and that’s when I woke up, and I’m sorry I did, for I dreamed I….”lol
P.S. Bob, I never knew you had Polio. Oh, besides Bo Diddley, I also remember you when I hear “Kansas City”. Larry is “Rebel-’Rouser”. Gosh, I think I have one for everyone. Oh MiMi, I have several! lol
“Oh and that’s when I woke up, and I’m sorry I did, for I dreamed I….” … I was in Hillbilly Heaven … lol
Yep, Frank I had polio. Got it when dad was stationed at Barstow, CA with the USMC … then spent 6 months in the hospital in San Diego, CA … then was told by the head doctor that within in another 6 months “you’ll never walk again” … my reply to him was … “I’M GONNA WALK!!! … YOU CAN’T STOP ME!!!” … LOL … he was a bit shocked at my response .. lol .. anyway, I then spend the next 2 years or so, as a out patient getting physical therapy treatments at 6:00 a.m. every morning .. and getting picked on by the kids a school .. lol … by the way, way back then .. what they called physical therapy treatments was more like what one would invision being tortured in a Medival Dungeon on the RACK … lol … but, it worked and I was finally able to walk again with no serious after effects .. etc .. Then once I was recovered … The school bully and his side kick GOT THERE’s for all the times they picked on me while I was unable to defend myself … lol … I got the ‘side kick’ on a Sunday during a street football game … then Monday at school his buddy the school Bully came after … He didn’t know what hit him after I kicked the S**T out of him … lol … those 2 never messed with me after that … lol … funny how 2+ years of built up ‘revenge anger’ gives one super human strength … lol
Frank … songs for MiMi … lol … that one about a ‘yellow poka dot bikini’ comes to mind … lol …
Frank what does .. “A white sport coat and a pink carnation” remind you of ….
Laterssss MAN .. I’m in my Cadallic with the top rolled down … motavating over the hill … look’n for Lawdy Miss Clawdy .. yeah, I been search’n every night and day … I gonna find her … Be-Bop-A-Lula there’s a Whole Lot of Shakin’ Going On Blueberry Hill … Great Balls Of Fire … Peggy Sue… You’re So Fine …LOL ha ha ha hahahaa
“Run, Bob, Run”!!! Lol
Love You Man! Thanks for doing this! Frank
but lay off of my blue suede shoes!
Do you remember when I first met you. You were at the Haznam’s house and we talked about Conway Twitty’s song Danny Boy, it was playing on the?
Oh yes, “yellow poka dot bikini “ is certainly MiMi ….and Pete S. looking at her! I certainly never did! lol
Yeppers I remember when we met over at Haznam’s house. All us kids used to hang out there in that little room off to the side of the main house … they had it set up as a place for us to hang out … we used to listen to records and talk and clown around there … plotting our next Saigon Adventure .. lol
LOL @ you never looking at MiMi … lol … guess you was BLIND then … ahhahhaahaa
Bob