I remember watching my dad dance around with my mom to this, when I was three. He had the record on that big combination stereo TV console that I wish we still had. I think it might be in what had been my mom's parents house, last I played a record on it. I couldn't get over how good that turntable sounded, and how nice the speakers sounded, as an adult. It was as though it was hidden away seeming to be a fancy telephone table. I had never raised the top and looked over into the record player part before, myself, until I was twenty something. I think that is the happiest I saw my parents look when they were dancing around to that song.
Great video, thanks Warren! I couldn't agree more about going back to the roots - I grew up with the blues rock artists of the late 60s, particularly from Britain, and from interviews with them learnt that they were inspired by American blues artists from the 1950s. The name Chess Records kept cropping up . . . when I was 17 I finally got a bunch of albums from Chess in Chicago and for the first time heard those 50s records, Muddy Waters, Little Walter, Howlin Wolf, Bo Diddley, Chuck Berrry . . . It truly changed my life and has inspired me ever since
The history of rock has so many interesting paths and roots. Really interesting to see the tracks that date back to so long, a time where some music hasn't even been discovered on a large scale just yet.
Hi Warren, thank you for another great video! I am going to study the original lyrics for "Shake, Rattle, & Roll" to figure out all the innuendos! SUGGESTION: How about a video on one of the classic and iconic songs of the 1960s.."Downtown" by Petula Clark? This is still a greatly loved song! It was part of the British invasion in 1964 and it is a rare song whose lyrics are not about "love" per say. The influence of rock/pop can be heard in it. Also, Petula Clark is iconic in her own right. I hope you will consider it!
Another incredibly interesting episode. It’s great that the early days of Rock ‘n’ Roll are getting some love. My mum and dad used to dance the jive very well together to rock n roll around the Chichester area.
The blues and rhythm and blues were great influences on the music of the 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s. Around the beginning of the 90s, Hip Hop became the main influence on popular music and still is today.
And hip hop was influenced from toasting on early reggae songs. Jungle and drum and bass owe its inception to rock and roll with the amen break, I love it all🎉
Awesome as always Warren and so true about further from the source = dilution -- I realize early Animals is one step removed but to this day when I hear Eric Burdon sing Boom Boom (et al) its power is *all* *still* *there* (of course John Lee Hooker's isn't shabby either) -- if you want to keep with early-ish R&B/R&R that might be one to do.
Thank you for another marvellous video! I know this would be a mammoth topic but I would actually love to hear more about how musical principles from R&B/early rock and roll are still used to create hits today, with some examples. If that makes sense! 😄
Excellent Warren. Do one on Buddy Holly and Engineer/Producer Norman Petty. Petty was an innovative Engineer, had his studio in Clovis, NM, which is where Roy Orbison began his recordings. Billy Stull caught the recording bug from Petty, who later developed the Masterpiece Analog Mastering System with audio engineering icon Rupert Neve. Petty had a tile chamber set up in an attic across the road from his studio, with mic placements along the length of it, maybe had a large spring in there too, Echo/Rvb used on Peggy Sue etc. Buddy Holly was influenced by the Black Rthm & Blues, they used to sit and listen to radio channles out of Shreveport, Louisiana. Buddy loved Bo Diddley, Chuck B, Hank Ballard and other great artists in those genres/styles. Buddy Holly was one of the 1st to use FX in a studio recording, outwith Les Paul. Petty had him play on a session using his Lesley Speaker with Buddy's Strat, creating a Chorus effect. Buddy started producing others before he died, Waylon Jennings being the 1st, signed to Buddy's new label & Publishing companies ( Prism/Taupe). Also planned to open a Pressing Plant in his hometown of Lubbock, TX. He was 22 years old ! Norman was exceptional, had an amazing studio, far more advance than Memphis (Sun) Amazing what they did back then, and those old recordings still hold weight today
Three more early rock and roll records "Rock It For Me", by Chick Webb with Ella Fitzgerald (1937), "Rock And Roll" Doles Dickens (1949), and of course "My Daddy Rocks Me With One Steady Roll", by Trixie Smith, going all the way back to 1922. You might have mentioned "Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee" , by Sticks McGee And His Buddies, an influential song in the development of both rock and roll, and Atlantic Records expansion into R&B.
I have a playlist for mornings that need a little extra something, it's full of Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis and Chuck Berry and it ends with Big Joe Turner"s Shake Rattle and roll. Perfection!
I was at a show in Los Angeles nightclub The Music Machine there to see the one and only Etta James, this was the early 80's. There in the audience was non other than Big Joe Turner. I had the opportunity too take a photo with him and meet the Legend!
Kansas City is an underrated music scene. In fact the whole south central area of the US is underrated (Kansas City, St. Louis,Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Dallas). Charlie Parker, Count Basie, Charlie Christian, Leadbelly, Chuck Berry, Woodie Guthrie and the list goes on from this fertile region.
Nice one Warren. Your passion for the roots of RnR is undeniable. In the way that the source of a major river is always fascinating to track back to a mountain stream, tracing back to the origins of RnR is equally rewarding. All music is connected. The iconic guitar lick in Jonny B Goode was a direct lift from Louis Jordan - Ain’t That Just Like A Woman (1946). For those in doubt listen to it please check it out...
Great video, well researched & presented with such enthusiasm! Just wanted to add another element to the roots of rock & the boogie-woogie piano style that some say dates back to 1870’s in eastern Texas!! Yeah, you can’t have R&B without boogie!
This is a thorough & well done breakdown on this classic. Thanks for putting it together. Being a deranged, twisted 70s kid with a deranged, twisted 60s big brother and raised by a similar 30s dad, I knew about the sexual innuendo. But your updates to it all, plus the production background ... that was an education to me. After all, I'm just a one-eyed cat myself. Mahalo...
Know what? There ARE plenty of wonderful innovative musicians out there struggling to be noticed. We all know that innovation is NOT what the current industry wants so I think it would be really cool to have a segment called "Artists Who Are Changing Music" and bring to light these wonderful musicians who are trying to make a difference. Bands like Polyphia, Guthrie Govan and Aqua Sonic are artists that come to my mind. Blue Man Group deserves a good segment as well.
'Move it On Over' by Hank Williams in 1947 is said to be great contender for an early Rock 'n' Roll record -- the similarity between that and 'Rock Around the Clock' is pretty significant. But to me, the real beginnings of Rock n' Roll is where the white country music and the black rhythm and blues came together, specifically Elvis Presley doing those R&B songs at Sun Studios in 1954 and also Chuck Berry coming up with 'Maybelline' -- a blues song with a decidedly 2/4 country feel. Once that cross-pollination occurred, you had something new.
YES. THANK YOU FOR YOUR HONESTY AND FORTHRIGHTNESS REGARDING THE REAL ORIGIN OF THESE GREAT MUSICAL GENRES WHICH ARE THE BLACK AMERICAN PEOPLE WHO BOTH CREATED AND INNOVATED THEM. PEACE. TIM KIMBROUGH GOSPEL ORGAN PIANO LESSONS AND BOOKS OF MARYLAND
I've heard this song my whole life and never thought of the one eyed cat line in that way. I always just thought of it like all the stray, alley, and mean eyed cats in music of that era. Tough street characters you don't want to tangle with.
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As always, another excellent video, Warren. Thank you!! And perhaps a classic doo-wop song (like The Chords’ Sh-Boom) would make a good next installment. Cheers:)
I interviewed Cesar Rosas of Los Lobos if he ever played at the famed El Monte's American Legion the home of Rock 'n Roll and he said he played guitar for Big Joe Turner. He said he got a call if memory serves from The Midnighters manager that a guitarist was needed he then raced to El Monte. He doesn't remember how much he was paid.
Hey Warren, having an absolute marvelous day here. Just having watched the video; very well done and quite interesting. I'm writing this from my recording studio where several times, when not otherwise busy, I have kicked back and listened to a particular record from stem to stern. You mentioned at the end - interest in any suggestions anyone may have in regards for music for you to have a look at? I'm sure you are familiar so I will simply say "amarok". Thanks again for all you do and keep up the reat work. Jim Fidler
I remember a few of the customers talking to Joe Turner at Albert's Hall in Toronto when the issue of how artists were treated by the TOBA and the record companies. I made a dumb comment so he corrected me. He noted that the Tough On Black Asses, which was another name for the Theatre Owners Booking Association, had little to do with race because most of the owners were black, and they cared a lot more about green than either black or white. He also blamed himself and Atlantic for underperforming in comparison to Bill Haley. Haley cleaned up the lyrics to be popular with white audiences. Joe Turner told us how Mowtown was so paranoid about it that they had their talent take elocution lessons and were taught how to walk, talk, and move to make audiences more comfortable.
Aint no rock'n'roll without a risky lyric these fool dont know what there are talking about at the big records companie I dont care about it for an alternate version , I WANT THE BIG JOE TURNERS VERSION and thats all I care , F*** THE WIDE AUDIENCE
Goree Carter Rockawhile. Predates Chuck Berry. Sister Rosetta had distortion...way early, no question. Maybe Saint James Infirmary Blues for the backups, the phrasing madness...the band Rocks even slow...dynamic perfection no compression, mindblowing. To me Cab Calloway gave us a lot even David Lee Roth rips him.
A FAVORITE ROCK & ROLL SONG I SANG THIS SONG FOR 55 YEARS GOOGLE MY NAME WITH THIS SONG GIVE ME A P 90 AND A HARVARD AMP I ENJOYED YOUR PRESENTATION OF THIS GROUNDBREAKING SONG CARLOS GUITARLOS 90042 USA
What other song(s) do you think CHANGED music? Comment down below!
Man in the box by Alice in chains! It was basically the first popular grunge song
And hellzaboppin you seen it?
I think it freed up dance to symbiotically affect bands tempo and raucousness.
You know, I never know what changed music until you share. Ha. It sounds so naive but it is true. Just teach me and I will listen.
The Kinks See My Friends
The Animals House of the Rising Sun
Mamas and Papas California Dreaming
Born To Run certainly changed everything. For many of us, not for the better.
(:
Absolutely love this song, so influential
I remember watching my dad dance around with my mom to this, when I was three. He had the record on that big combination stereo TV console that I wish we still had. I think it might be in what had been my mom's parents house, last I played a record on it. I couldn't get over how good that turntable sounded, and how nice the speakers sounded, as an adult. It was as though it was hidden away seeming to be a fancy telephone table. I had never raised the top and looked over into the record player part before, myself, until I was twenty something. I think that is the happiest I saw my parents look when they were dancing around to that song.
That’s a wonderful memory Audrey! Thanks ever so much for sharing!
Great video, thanks Warren! I couldn't agree more about going back to the roots - I grew up with the blues rock artists of the late 60s, particularly from Britain, and from interviews with them learnt that they were inspired by American blues artists from the 1950s. The name Chess Records kept cropping up . . . when I was 17 I finally got a bunch of albums from Chess in Chicago and for the first time heard those 50s records, Muddy Waters, Little Walter, Howlin Wolf, Bo Diddley, Chuck Berrry . . . It truly changed my life and has inspired me ever since
Thanks ever so much Willem! I really appreciate your insight.
The history of rock has so many interesting paths and roots. Really interesting to see the tracks that date back to so long, a time where some music hasn't even been discovered on a large scale just yet.
Thanks ever so much RC32! I really appreciate your support!
Hi Warren, thank you for another great video! I am going to study the original lyrics for "Shake, Rattle, & Roll" to figure out all the innuendos! SUGGESTION: How about a video on one of the classic and iconic songs of the 1960s.."Downtown" by Petula Clark? This is still a greatly loved song! It was part of the British invasion in 1964 and it is a rare song whose lyrics are not about "love" per say. The influence of rock/pop can be heard in it. Also, Petula Clark is iconic in her own right. I hope you will consider it!
Great suggestion! Thanks for watching!
It just blows my mind how long ago this was, in 30 years these recordings will be 100 years old. But I'm still a kid living in the eighties. 😂
Yes, that's incredible
Another incredibly interesting episode. It’s great that the early days of Rock ‘n’ Roll are getting some love. My mum and dad used to dance the jive very well together to rock n roll around the Chichester area.
Thanks ever so much! Glad you enjoyed it
This was incredible. It's a song that somehow I knew when I was a kid 30 years ago but never realised ANY of this - the influence, the cuts, wow.
Thanks ever so much Lee!
Man that's a classic. One of those songs that will get everyone's foot tapping at least and will live for all time Cheers great video
Thanks Joey! Yes, such an amazing song!
such a classic and such an important tune!
Thanks ever so much Conor! Yes, agreed!
Thoroughly enjoyed Caitlin‘s appearance in this video!
Agreed!
The blues and rhythm and blues were great influences on the music of the 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s. Around the beginning of the 90s, Hip Hop became the main influence on popular music and still is today.
And hip hop was influenced from toasting on early reggae songs. Jungle and drum and bass owe its inception to rock and roll with the amen break, I love it all🎉
@@Reggi_SampleNope. Early MCs were rapping over funk, soul, and disco records. Herc himself has admitted that.
Thanks ever so much Larry! I really appreciate it
Yes, it's all important abEEku Reacts!
Its a great documentary about music history. Super informative and enjoyable to watch. I really enjoyed it. Greetings from Germany
Thanks ever so much Matthias!
at last more songs that changed music. the best stuff one RUclips to my test.
Thanks ever so much! This is so much fun to do!
Thanks for an amazing summary. The base of our music!
Thanks! Glad you like it!
Awesome as always Warren and so true about further from the source = dilution -- I realize early Animals is one step removed but to this day when I hear Eric Burdon sing Boom Boom (et al) its power is *all* *still* *there* (of course John Lee Hooker's isn't shabby either) -- if you want to keep with early-ish R&B/R&R that might be one to do.
Thanks ever so much for your great comment!
Thank you for another marvellous video! I know this would be a mammoth topic but I would actually love to hear more about how musical principles from R&B/early rock and roll are still used to create hits today, with some examples. If that makes sense! 😄
That's a very interesting idea indeed! Thanks ever so much for sharing!
Excellent Warren. Do one on Buddy Holly and Engineer/Producer Norman Petty. Petty was an innovative Engineer, had his studio in Clovis, NM, which is where Roy Orbison began his recordings. Billy Stull caught the recording bug from Petty, who later developed the Masterpiece Analog Mastering System with audio engineering icon Rupert Neve. Petty had a tile chamber set up in an attic across the road from his studio, with mic placements along the length of it, maybe had a large spring in there too, Echo/Rvb used on Peggy Sue etc. Buddy Holly was influenced by the Black Rthm & Blues, they used to sit and listen to radio channles out of Shreveport, Louisiana. Buddy loved Bo Diddley, Chuck B, Hank Ballard and other great artists in those genres/styles. Buddy Holly was one of the 1st to use FX in a studio recording, outwith Les Paul. Petty had him play on a session using his Lesley Speaker with Buddy's Strat, creating a Chorus effect. Buddy started producing others before he died, Waylon Jennings being the 1st, signed to Buddy's new label & Publishing companies ( Prism/Taupe). Also planned to open a Pressing Plant in his hometown of Lubbock, TX. He was 22 years old ! Norman was exceptional, had an amazing studio, far more advance than Memphis (Sun) Amazing what they did back then, and those old recordings still hold weight today
Three more early rock and roll records "Rock It For Me", by Chick Webb with Ella Fitzgerald (1937), "Rock And Roll" Doles Dickens (1949), and of course "My Daddy Rocks Me With One Steady Roll", by Trixie Smith, going all the way back to 1922. You might have mentioned "Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee" , by Sticks McGee And His Buddies, an influential song in the development of both rock and roll, and Atlantic Records expansion into R&B.
I have a playlist for mornings that need a little extra something, it's full of Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis and Chuck Berry and it ends with Big Joe Turner"s Shake Rattle and roll.
Perfection!
That sounds wonderful
Check out Chuck's version of Shake, Rattle and Roll... It's the best! 😊
Muddy Waters once stated "The Blues got pregnant and gave birth to Rock and roll". Good video!
Yes, indeed Bob. The Blues Had a Baby and They Named It Rock & Roll - Muddy Waters from Hard Again.
I was at a show in Los Angeles nightclub The Music Machine there to see the one and only Etta James, this was the early 80's. There in the audience was non other than Big Joe Turner. I had the opportunity too take a photo with him and meet the Legend!
Excellent Warren!
Thanks ever so much!
Such a cool tune
Yes, amazing song!
6:54 Or “The way you wear those dresses the sun comes shining through. I can’t believe my eyes all this mess belongs to you.”
Excellent video. Thank you for this moment of history
Thanks ever so much! Glad you enjoyed it
Kansas City is an underrated music scene. In fact the whole south central area of the US is underrated (Kansas City, St. Louis,Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Dallas). Charlie Parker, Count Basie, Charlie Christian, Leadbelly, Chuck Berry, Woodie Guthrie and the list goes on from this fertile region.
Thanks ever so much for sharing!
Such an important song!
Nice one Warren. Your passion for the roots of RnR is undeniable. In the way that the source of a major river is always fascinating to track back to a mountain stream, tracing back to the origins of RnR is equally rewarding. All music is connected. The iconic guitar lick in Jonny B Goode was a direct lift from Louis Jordan - Ain’t That Just Like A Woman (1946). For those in doubt listen to it please check it out...
Great video, well researched & presented with such enthusiasm!
Just wanted to add another element to the roots of rock & the boogie-woogie piano style that some say dates back to 1870’s in eastern Texas!! Yeah, you can’t have R&B without boogie!
This is a thorough & well done breakdown on this classic. Thanks for putting it together. Being a deranged, twisted 70s kid with a deranged, twisted 60s big brother and raised by a similar 30s dad, I knew about the sexual innuendo. But your updates to it all, plus the production background ... that was an education to me. After all, I'm just a one-eyed cat myself. Mahalo...
Thanks ever so much Kilroy!
Rock'n'Roll just needed to add Chuck's guitar and Little Richard"s singing and it was ready!💪🤘😎
Know what? There ARE plenty of wonderful innovative musicians out there struggling to be noticed. We all know that innovation is NOT what the current industry wants so I think it would be really cool to have a segment called "Artists Who Are Changing Music" and bring to light these wonderful musicians who are trying to make a difference. Bands like Polyphia, Guthrie Govan and Aqua Sonic are artists that come to my mind. Blue Man Group deserves a good segment as well.
'Move it On Over' by Hank Williams in 1947 is said to be great contender for an early Rock 'n' Roll record -- the similarity between that and 'Rock Around the Clock' is pretty significant. But to me, the real beginnings of Rock n' Roll is where the white country music and the black rhythm and blues came together, specifically Elvis Presley doing those R&B songs at Sun Studios in 1954 and also Chuck Berry coming up with 'Maybelline' -- a blues song with a decidedly 2/4 country feel. Once that cross-pollination occurred, you had something new.
Thanks ever so much for sharing! I really appreciate it Jim!
YES. THANK YOU FOR YOUR HONESTY AND FORTHRIGHTNESS REGARDING THE REAL ORIGIN OF THESE GREAT MUSICAL GENRES WHICH ARE THE BLACK AMERICAN PEOPLE WHO BOTH CREATED AND INNOVATED THEM. PEACE. TIM KIMBROUGH GOSPEL ORGAN PIANO LESSONS AND BOOKS OF MARYLAND
I've heard this song my whole life and never thought of the one eyed cat line in that way. I always just thought of it like all the stray, alley, and mean eyed cats in music of that era. Tough street characters you don't want to tangle with.
Interesting! Would never have thought that Ha. Thanks for sharing
When you put this together you missed the most important song of all " Arthur Crudup - My Baby Left Me " This is the birth of Rock and Roll 1950
great as usual merci
Thanks ever so much Jef!
Muddy Waters said it best, "The blues had a baby, and they named it rock and roll."
I recently discovered your channel. I'm impressed about the quality and precision of your comments. Always with very precious infoirmation about songs, artists and interesting technical remarks. I'm searching for more in the whole channel. Suscribed right now. Awesome channel. Greetings grom Spain.
Rock & Roll (as we know it) may not have survived if it didn’t cross the big pond before making its way back home.
Thanks ever so much for sharing Mr. Jones!
The music of these early Titans is so far superior to the drivel that is played on radio today.
Hi Michael, Thanks ever so much!
Wonderful, instructive extraordinary account!!! Loved it, you did your home work props to ya!!!:-)
Thanks ever so much
Glad you enjoyed the video
As always, another excellent video, Warren. Thank you!!
And perhaps a classic doo-wop song (like The Chords’ Sh-Boom) would make a good next installment.
Cheers:)
Wonderful video!
I interviewed Cesar Rosas of Los Lobos if he ever played at the famed El Monte's American Legion the home of Rock 'n Roll and he said he played guitar for Big Joe Turner. He said he got a call if memory serves from The Midnighters manager that a guitarist was needed he then raced to El Monte. He doesn't remember how much he was paid.
Hey Warren, having an absolute marvelous day here. Just having watched the video; very well done and quite interesting. I'm writing this from my recording studio where several times, when not otherwise busy, I have kicked back and listened to a particular record from stem to stern. You mentioned at the end - interest in any suggestions anyone may have in regards for music for you to have a look at? I'm sure you are familiar so I will simply say "amarok". Thanks again for all you do and keep up the reat work. Jim Fidler
Amazing video
My first was Princes Purple Rain
but MetallicA made me become a musician
🤫 That's inofficially my favourite song. 😉
Thanks ever so much for sharing!
Great!!
Thanks ever so much
I remember a few of the customers talking to Joe Turner at Albert's Hall in Toronto when the issue of how artists were treated by the TOBA and the record companies. I made a dumb comment so he corrected me. He noted that the Tough On Black Asses, which was another name for the Theatre Owners Booking Association, had little to do with race because most of the owners were black, and they cared a lot more about green than either black or white. He also blamed himself and Atlantic for underperforming in comparison to Bill Haley. Haley cleaned up the lyrics to be popular with white audiences. Joe Turner told us how Mowtown was so paranoid about it that they had their talent take elocution lessons and were taught how to walk, talk, and move to make audiences more comfortable.
Aint no rock'n'roll without a risky lyric these fool dont know what there are talking about at the big records companie I dont care about it for an alternate version , I WANT THE BIG JOE TURNERS VERSION and thats all I care , F*** THE WIDE AUDIENCE
Goree Carter Rockawhile.
Predates Chuck Berry.
Sister Rosetta had distortion...way early, no question.
Maybe Saint James Infirmary Blues for the backups, the phrasing madness...the band Rocks even slow...dynamic perfection no compression, mindblowing.
To me Cab Calloway gave us a lot even David Lee Roth rips him.
Sister Rosetta! Yes!
Thanks Harris for sharing!
Indeed Lee!
@@leefchapman She is just so amazing i can shred..but to play like her is so hard.
'This Train' Best Clip Ever?
A FAVORITE ROCK & ROLL SONG
I SANG THIS SONG FOR 55 YEARS
GOOGLE MY NAME WITH THIS SONG
GIVE ME A P 90 AND A HARVARD AMP
I ENJOYED YOUR PRESENTATION
OF THIS GROUNDBREAKING SONG
CARLOS GUITARLOS 90042 USA
How about a review of The Velvet Underground, or Rory Gallagher.
Any song you would like to review.? Rich pickings.
Cher-Believe
It certainly changed music!!
@@Producelikeapro Definitely.
Album that changed music Marquee Moon?
In the works!
@@Producelikeapro YESS!!!
@@NewFalconerRecords thanks ever so much!