MUS 505 Lecture Notes - Chubby Checker, The Loco-Motion, Rockabilly
30 Mar 2014
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Everything that has led up to rock and roll music played a major influence on the genre itself. Came from a religious background in the deep south in the mississippi delta region. Hound dog 1953: recorded in 1953, rural blues electric guitar, hand clapping on beats 2 and 4, tom-tom, 12 bar blues, with a few extra beats like rural blues. Blues based rock and roll which he mixed with hillbilly influences. Born poor in tulepo, mississippi: moved to memphis, tennessee a teenager, his adaptation of blues singing style is quite natural to him. Elvis is supposed to be that white guy that the mainstream white community is accepting of with mississippi musical and dancing style that the hip youngsters of the day were interested in and were into. Elvis did a cover of hound dog and that"s when it went big, it went beyond the black community"s race record labels so it became very widespread because big mama.
