THE COMPLETE HISTORY OF THE STRAY CATS PART ONE
Rockabilly proper started and ended in Sam Phillips’ Sun Studio in Memphis. It was a short-lived and vaguely-defined phenomenon, revolving around dirt-poor Southern white musicians trying to bop up their yodelling with some steady beats and snazzy pickin’.
THE COMPLETE HISTORY OF THE STRAY CATS PART ONE
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J. Kordosh
Rockabilly proper started and ended in Sam Phillips’ Sun Studio in Memphis. It was a short-lived and vaguely-defined phenomenon, revolving around dirt-poor Southern white musicians trying to bop up their yodelling with some steady beats and snazzy pickin’. Heroes of the bygone era included people like Carl Perkins, Johnny Burnette and Elvis Presley.
After RCA picked up on Elvis, astutely steering his career so that it would culminate with the unforgettable “Do The Clam” (Girl Happy/), everybody forgot about rockabilly except for a few harmless record collectors and even more harmless critics. Well, Ricky Nelson probably remembered, but—for all intent and Pitneys—rockabilly was quickly buried.