Bo Diddley, Checker 814. This track was recorded at Universal Recording Studio, 46 E. Walton Street, Chicago, Ill., on March 2, 1955. Big, unique, original Guitar sound, lots of tremolo and reverb, amplifier overdriven, helped by the echo chamber at Universal Studio. Influenced every Rock & Roll guitarist to this day. Ellas Otha Bates, born […]
Date: September 2, 1954 Place: Capitol Recording Studio, 5515 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, CA This 1954 Capitol 45 rpm record is a guitar instrumental featuring two ace session guitarists who worked for Capitol Records throughout the 1940s and 1950s and who appeared on hundreds of hit records released by other artists. They also made many records […]
Date: July 5, 1954. Time: Approximately 11 P.M. Recording Engineer and Producer of “That’s All Right”: Sam Phillips, age 31. Musical Performers: Elvis Presley, age 18, vocal and acoustic rhythm guitar; Scotty Moore, age 23, electric guitar; Bill Black, age 27, acoustic stand-up bass fiddle. Date: July 6, 1954. Time: Approximately 9 P.M. Recording Engineer […]
The two attached selections are the final “Early Influences” in this project. All future parts will feature what we believe to be Rock & Roll Music from 1954-1959. The Mercury 78 rpm disc was recorded at National Recorders Studio in New Orleans, LA in 1950. It features Lee Allen on Sax and Duke Burrell on […]
Here we take note of one more piano player who was not only an early influence on Rock & Roll Music in the 1950s, but also an influence on any piano player who ever heard him play. Jack Marshall was born near Holt, Alabama, in Tuscaloosa County, in the year 1930. His mother insisted that […]
Merrill Moore was born September 26, 1923, in Algona, Iowa. He learned to play the piano as a child. Moore served in the U.S. Navy during World War II. He married after the war, moved to Tucson AZ, then moved to San Diego, CA. Moore kept a day job in San Diego and played piano […]
Hank Williams Live Performances – Move It On Over, in occupied Berlin, Germany – Jambalaya, at The Grand Ole Opry, Ryman Auditorium, Nashville, before he went into the studio to record it! Rock on! Mike
Tiny Murphy was born and raised in Paducah, Kentucky. He moved to Chicago in the 1940s, worked for many years in the Chicago clubs and dance halls, and recorded for the Chicago independent record label United in the late 1940s and the early 1950s. Murphy was a very versatile guitarist who could play in any […]
The first “Southern Pacific” railroad in the U.S.A. was not the one that originated in San Francisco CA. The first “Southern Pacific” railroad originated in NE Texas, near Marshall, TX, in 1856. In that year the “Texas Western” railroad changed its name to the “Southern Pacific” railroad. This railroad was then sold to the newly […]
The tune entitled “Juke” was recorded in Chicago in May of 1952. It is a harmonica instrumental. The harmonica player is Marion Walter Jacobs, a/k/a Little Walter. The tune was produced in the Studio by Bill Putnam, who has been described as “The Father of Modern Recording”. Putnam was the first producer/audio engineer in the […]
