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By: The Aged P » Blog Archive » Chill Out On Some Greats From The Golden Age Of Modern Jazz

Mon, 09 Aug 2010 12:23:23 +0000

[…] and then a university student in the 1950s my first love was for the rawness and energy of rock & roll I found that sometimes it felt important to lay back with music that was a little more reflective […]

By: Ron

Ron — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 23:13:45 +0000

Great memories, I too was there,in High School in Scotland, and used to play my 78 rpm Elvis Presley on a Wind up Gramaphone,still have the record today.remember playing Rock Around the Clock at Class Dances,used to have a Tony Curtis Hair style,with a DA,at the back.those were the daze.

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By: terry

terry — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 03:15:32 +0000

Thanks Old Man,

I have an old man–been married 41 years and we’ve got the same memories-on the same planet with you Old Man!

By: Jack Price

Jack Price — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 01:17:21 +0000

There may be in fact a parallel universe made of 2 Aged P’s…one in England, the other in West Texas, each who has earnestly and enthusiatically educated a younger generation having abolutely no idea from whence their music came. Elvis came to my little town (twice) in 1956, saw Chuch Berry (57) at the local civic auditorium and nearly jumped out of my 15 year old skin with drum riff that was the opening of “Blackboard Jungle.” My wife has not aged either and I still, for some strange reason, have dark brown hair. Go figure.

By: Bill Henslee

Bill Henslee — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 00:57:39 +0000

I don’t know about England, but in Texas we were listening to R&B radio and going to R&B reviews to see Berry, Frogman Henry, Little Richard, Big Mama Thornton, Ruth Brown, Bo Diddley, and a host of trios and quartets.

You might be interested to know that Presley absorbed that same sound in Memphis and “Hound Dog” was a remake of Big Mama’s original of four years before.

The move into the crossover market by the R&B performers was, however, due to the emergence of Rock& Roll which took the R&B beat and added a little southern Country sound.

I was there too. And still have a lot of those R&B 45s I collected later.