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The summer of '57 was a blistering time for primal rock 'n roll. At a million places like South Jersey's Avalon Ballroom (admission: 25 cents), kids worked up a sweet sweat jitterbugging to Bobby Day's "Rockin' Robin," Elvis' "All Shook Up," Ray Charles's "Talkin' 'Bout You," the...
Black and white did mingle in the studio, not physically but in their overlapping styles and choice of material. Turner's piano work, backing Jackie Brenston on Phillips's first hit, "Rocket '88'," has some of the boogie-woogie triplets, rolling rhythm down low and bang-it-till-it-breaks...
Sun artists often covered one another's songs, at Phillips' encouragement: He owned the catalogue. He also took droit de seigneur on certain compositions. Somehow, between Little Junior's initial recording of "Mystery Train" and Elvis' remake, Phillips had become the song's co-author. (Presley took instruction from the...
But for me the summer of '57 belonged to Jerry Lee Lewis and "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On." Sun had issued his rendition of the song (written by Dave Williams and Roy Hall, a.k.a Sonny David) in the spring, but it started soaring after Lewis's July 28th appearance on...
And if Elvis sent the Romanovs scurrying from the Winter Palace, Jerry Lee was Lenin triumphant - the shock of the new suddenly sitting, smirking, raving on the old throne. Except JLL sat on a piano stool. Sat at the beginning, anyway. Then the fingers at the ends of those long...