Rockabilly

The Rockabilly (is written also " Rock'n'roll-HAVe-Billy") or Hillbilly Rock is in an original manner a form of American musical expression which was born in the first half of the Fifties and which can be summarized in the following terms borrowed from Michel Rose: “Kind of Rock'n'roll' white Roll, typically Southerner and rural, born in Memphis in 1954. On the one hand influenced by the ancestral shapes of country musics & Western then called Hillbilly, and the black Blues as well as the northerner Rock' roll of Bill Halley. ”

The rockabilly is a mixture of Rock, of Blues, " gospel" and of hillbilly music . The “hillbilly music” ( hillbilly is an American term meaning “country bumpkin”, “bumpkin” or “idiot”, used pejoratively to appoint the farmers of the mountains of the south of the United States), is a manner of qualifying the traditional rural music American, played to dance.

A group of rockabilly generally includes/understands a singer, a electric Guitare, a battery (often reduced to a clear Caisse and a Cymbale), and a Contrebasse played in Pizzicato. The words often refer to the cars or the female relations. The artists of the revival of the rockabilly tend to adopt a clothing and a scenic attitude characteristics: hairstyle “banana”, leather jackets black, etc

Launched by Elvis Presley with her individual That' S All Right Mama (produced by Sun Records) in 1954 which saw n°1 in the United States 50 years after (billboard source); The rockabilly is in the beginning the work of small labels independent such as Sun Records (label of the producer Sam Phillip). Sam Phillips started by recording artists of blues such as B B King or Howlin' Wolf. It is after the success of Elvis that it starts to record other singers of Rockabilly we can quote Carl Perkins (Blue Sweden shoes, Honey Don' T, Baby trying to Be my baby, Your true coils…); Roy Orbison (Rockhouse, Ooby dooby, Domino, Problem child…); Warren Smith (Ubangui stomp, Uranium rock'n'roll…); Billy Lee Riley (Flying saucers rock'n'roll roll, Red hot…), Jack Earls (Let' S bop.), The singer Barbarra Pittman (I need has man…), then singers of Rock'n'roll roll like Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Mann and Charlie Rich. Other labels also marked the history of the rockabilly like Météor and King with the exeptionnels recordings of Charlie Feathers (One hand loose…) and Mac Curtis (Grandaddys Rockin…), Starday records with Benny Joy (Crash landing the Party…) Sony Fisher (Rockin Daddy…) George Jones (White lightning, Rock'n'roll it…) There were also majors as CBS who knew to record artists of great talent like Sid King and five string (I like it…), Johnny Horton (Honky tonk man,…), Ersel Hickey (Goin' down that road…) the Hakes kids (Rockaway rock'n'roll, Hot Rod…) and especially the savage Ronnie Self-service (Bop has lena…), Mgm with Andy Starr (Rockin, rollin' stone…) Marvin Rainwater (Roving rambler…) and Decca and Brunswick records with first faces (rockabilly) of Buddy Holly (Rockin' around with olie vee, Blue days black nights… before it makes only rock'n'roll roll), Johnny Carroll and the Hot rock'n'rolls (Crazy crazy lovin', Hot rock'n'roll…) Roy Hall (Diggin' that boogy…) Terry Noland (Ten little women, Hypnotized…) and especially legendary recordings of the trio rock'n'roll roll of Johnny Burnette (Tear it up, Rockabilly boogy, You' Re undecided, Lonesome train, Train kept has rollin', baby babe). Certain labels specialized in the blues and rhythm and blues also have had artists of rockabilly of large talents Chess Records with Dale Hawkins (Suzie Q, Tornado, Little Pig…) Rusty York (Sugaree…) and Bobby Sisco (Go go go…). Rockabilly is a term often galvaudé employed wrongly and through indicating the rock'n'roll of the years 1950, but it is about a very precise musical style which he is some times difficult to distinguish compared to work from certain singers from white rock'n'roll roll like Jack Scott or Gene Summers.

Bill Halley launched the rock' roll in particular with titles like Rock this joint (1951), crazy man crazy , n°12 in the United States in 1952, and especially Gock around the clock recorded in 1954 and popularized in 1955 with film “Graine of violence”; moreover, the title was n°1 in the United States and in Great Britain, but it is true that Elvis returned this style of famous music in the world while being the principal vector about it.

This musical genre quickly evolved to other forms of rock'n'roll to disappear almost completely since 1958.

The rockabilly had a renewal of popularity in the Seventies with the label of Californian Ronnie Weiser Rollin' rock'n'roll, which made re-record geniuses of the style like Ray Campi (Play cool it…) Johnny Carroll or Mac Curtis, one also owes him two LPs of great quality of a Californian group Ravenna and the Magnetics, but also into Large bertagne with the music of the teddy servant boys which adapted the American rockabilly years 1950 with groups like Crazy Cavan and the Rhythm rockers (Teddy Jive, Trouble, My little sisters gotta motorbike and Teddy servant boy boogy…) Riot Rockers, Little tina and Flight 56, Matchbox (Rockabilly rebels…, and the Jets (James dean….). The Years 1980 with groups like the Stray Cats, Blue Cats, Polecats or Blasters and which was at the origin of a revival rockabilly, prepared by the English groups previously named, but also by the group New Yorkais The Cramps which took again many titles of rockabilly repertory of Charlie Feathers, Ronnie Dawson or Whithey Pullen. In France, let us quote for examples the groups of the label of Jackie Chalard the Alligators Jezebel Rock, TeenKat' S, Victor Leed and Chris Evans and that of the label of Jerry Dixie (the SAVAS) with the Rock'n'roll roll gang, Texas Pharaoes, Gene Everett, and Boppin' Cats. The Nineties will be also important for the style with groups as varied as Wildfire Willie and the ramblers, Oakie Dookies, Tin star trio, or The Avengers. End of the year 90 and the beginning of the year 2000 will be a return to the authentic sound with the recordings of groups on the labels like Tail records and Lenox records, quote French Don Cavalli and the two timers, German Spo dee O dee, but as Spanish Tennesse servant boys and the savages Hi winders (though more white rock'n'roll as Rockabilly), Ervin Travis recognized today by all the rockabilly medium.

On this subject, in France, it is inter alia possible to refer to the following works:

- Herzaft, Gerald, 1984, " Country Music" , What I Know No 2134, P.U.F., Paris, to forget a pseudo-specialist very quickly

- Rose, Michel, 1986, “the encyclopedia of Country and Rockabilly”, ED. Jacques Grancher (already referred to above)

- Rose, Michel, 1981, “Pioneers of Rock' Roll" , Albin Michel/ROCK & FOLK, Paris

- Herzhaft, Gerard and Brémond, Jacques, 1999, " Guide of Country Music and Folk" , Beech. G. Herzhaft, like is not mentioned higher, a pseudo specialist but an excellent expert of the North-American popular musics. Its guide contains a very good article on the rockabilly and of interesting references discographics.

Singers or groups having begun their career in the Fifties

  • Art Adams
  • Chuck Berry Black rock'n'roll roll
  • Bob & The Rockabillies
  • Big Bopper white Rock'n'roll roll
  • Eddie Jump
  • Sony Burgess
  • Dorsey Burnette
  • Johnny Burnette
  • Patsy Cline
  • Ray Campi
  • OJ Ass Campbell female Rock'n'roll roll white
  • Bill Carlisle Hillbilly
  • Johnny Carroll
  • Joey Castle
  • Eddie Cochran white Rock'n'roll roll
  • Jackie Lee Cochran
  • Johnny Cash, put aside 4 to 5 titles of sun, it is pure country music
  • Billie Davis
  • Jimmy Dee
  • Everly Brothers, Teen rock'n'roll
  • Charlie Feathers
  • Narvel Felts
  • Sony Fisher
  • Eddie Fontaine white Rock roll with some faces rockabilly
  • Glen Glenn
  • Bill Halley Jump
  • Buddy Holly Surtout of the rock'n'roll roll
  • Dale Hawkins
  • Gordon Curtis
  • Wanda Jackson the queen of rockabilly
  • Jerry Lee Lewis Rock'n'roll roll
  • Bob Luman Rather of the white rock'n'roll roll
  • Ricky Nelson At the beginning of excellent face of rock'n'roll roll to see rockabilly, but starting from the 4th LP passes rather to the teenrock
  • Kenny Parchman
  • Carl Perkins
  • Elvis Presley From 1956 (signature at RCA) devotes to the Rock'n'roll roll of which it becomes King
  • Vern Pullens
  • Charlie Rich
  • The Rock'n'roll-HAVe-Teens Rock group roll of Casters records which will be made known by the extraordinary one " Woo Hoo"
  • Marty Robbins Which will carry out titles of rockabilly in the style of Presley at Sun
  • Billy Lee Riley
  • Jack Scott It will carry out great classics of the white Rock'n'roll roll like Geraldine, The way I walk, Leroy… on the label Carlton
  • Ronnie Self
  • Gene Summers * Andy Starr
  • Big Joe Turner Precursory of the rock'n'roll roll with its excellent jump blues like Corrine corrina, Shake rattle and roll…
  • Hayden Thompson
  • Bobby Lee Trammell
  • Conway Twitty, it will make a title rockabilly style of Johnny Burnette trio (Long black train) then of exellents albums of pure white rock'n'roll roll (some times in the style of Elvis RCA) as from the 1960 ' S it devotes more to the country music
  • Gene Vincent Réalisera out some of most beautiful the part of the white Rock'n'roll roll of the fifties with titles like (Dance to the bop, Lotta lovin', Bop Jeans, Cruisin', Race with the devil….) and its méga tube the ballade Bebop rock'n'roll has lula.
  • Warren Smith
  • Malcolm Yelvington
  • The Hakes Kids
  • Danny Dean
  • Danny Dean and the Homewreckers

Singers or formations appeared in the Sixties, seventy and four twenties

Psychobilly

At the end of the Years 1970, the The Meteors invent the Psychobilly - kind of rockabilly survitaminé which dissociates rockabilly in particular by its cinematographic approach (words in connection with films of series Z where the maniacs have the good share). This group involved behind him plethora of groups of psychobilly (such as Guana Batz, Demented Are Go!, Krewmen, Nekromantix, Mad Sin have not to forget groups like the sharks, the quakes or in the hexagon, the Banane metalik…) and the great hours of the London club the Klub Foot made.

Groups or singers of the years four twenty ten and two thousand

  • Atomic Boogie Band (Finland)
  • Blinkit
  • Bo Porter & The Dixie Rockits (United Kingdom)
  • Marco Di Maggio (Italy)
  • Mars Attacks (Swiss)
  • Darrel Higham (United Kingdom)
  • Hometown Ganblers (Belgium)
  • Big Sandy (the USA)
  • The Barnshakers (Finland)
  • High Noon (the USA)
  • Hick-O-Rhythm (Germany)
  • Eyeballin' Torpedoes (Sweden)
  • Jumcats (Denmark)
  • The Houserockers (United Kingdom)
  • Spo-Dee-O-Dee (Germany)
  • Superbus (Jennifer Ayache) (France)
  • Robert Lavoie and Cat Scat Band (Canada)
And much of other originating in the most various countries… The creep show

Groups or French singers of the years four twenties

  • Alligators
  • the Pirates Rather of the revival rock'n'roll of the Sixties Frenchwoman
  • the Vagrants Rather of the revival rock'n'roll of the Sixties Frenchwoman
  • Jezebel Rock'n'roll
  • Thierry Coz
  • Victor Leed
  • Rockin' Rebels
  • Teen Kats
  • Chris Evans
  • The Crazy Rockets, also under Gerard & His Brothers-in-law
  • Jimmy Glass of bier
  • Jerry Dixie
  • Jacky Guérard
  • the Suits
  • the Jackals De Béthune
  • Claudia Colonna & Her Cheetahs
  • Jackie Chalard

Groups or French singers of the years four twenty ten

  • Ervin Travis
  • The Hot Rock'n'rolls
  • The red cabs
One can add the pioneers of the rockabilly ignored general public like Eddie Bond, Charlie Feathers, Johnny Carrol, Benny Jones, Janis Martin (Female Elvis), the Collin Kids, Warren Smith, Ray Smith, Carl Mann, and of people like Rory Justice, Cari Lee,…, which are the changing of today, in short one could quote hundreds of them.

Labels and distributers of discs specialized in Rockabilly and Rock' Roll

Germany :
  • Bear Family Records: P.O. Box 1154 D-27727 Hambergen

Internet site: http://www.bear-family.de (a luxurious catalog publishes)

Brazil

  • Thirteen Records - http://www.13records.cjb.net

Spain :

  • El Toro Records, P.O. Box 122, Badalona 089010 Barcelona
Internet site: http://www.eltororecords.com

Finland

  • Goofin' Records, P.O. Boxes 63,01601 Vantaa, Finland

Internet site: http://www.goofinrecords.com - E-mail: info@goofinrecords.com

  • Jungle Records: http://www.junglerecords.fi/

  • Empire Records, PO Boxes 41,33721 Tampere

France :

  • Happy Big Records: http://www.bigbeatrecords.tm.fr
- E-mail: bigbeatrecords@wanadoo.fr

Management and recruitment of groups: Philippe Fessard 01 64 94 52 36 E-mail: phis.records@liberty.fr

  • Magic Records, Mam Productions, B.P.11, 37541, Holy the Cyr-on-Loire Cedex

- Internet site: http://www.magic-records.com

the United Kingdom :

  • Raucous Records, 8 Oxford Street Leucester LE1 5XZ

Internet site: http://surf.to/raucous

  • Rockstar Records, PO Box Woodford Green, Essex, 1G8 OEH

  • Nervous Records: http://www.nervous.co.uk

  • Southern Rock'n'roll: http://www.southernrock.co.uk/

  • Jungle Records: http://www.jungle-records.net/

  • Pollytone Records: PO Box 124, Ruislip, Middx, HA4 9BB, the United Kingdom

Internet site: http://www.pollyton.demon.co.uk E-mail: val@pollytone.demon.co.uk

  • Fury Records, 8 Newell Road, Ringstead, Northants NN14 4EP, the United Kingdom

Web site: http://www.fury-records.com/ - e-mail: info@fury-records.com

  • Ace Records Ltd, 42-50 Steele Road, London NW10 7AS the United Kingdom

Web site: http://www.acerecords.co.uk

  • Golly Gee Records: http://www.gollygeerecords.com/

  • Stomper Time Records, P.O. Box 109, Hedge End, Hampshire SO30 2ZY

Internet site: http://www.Stompertime.com/

  • Rhythm Bomb LTD London

Internet site: http://rhythmbomb.com

  • Krypton Records

the Netherlands

  • Rockhouse Records, Pampuslaan 67,1382 JM Weesp, Holland

Internet site: http://www.musicmailexpress.com (protected payment) Tel.: + 31 (0) 294 4605438/460549 Faxes: + 31 (0) 294 460547 - E-mail: info@cdexpress.com

Sweden :

  • Tail Records, Bäckalckevägen 11,553 13 Jönköping 11, Sweden
Telephone: + 46 (0) 36.121.396 Faxes: + 46 (0) 36.714.910

Internet site: http://www.tailrec.com/ (publishes in particular the albums of Eva Eastwood, Jack Baymoore and Jess Al Tuscan & The Starliters)

  • Enviken Records, Box 8, S-790 Enviken, Sweden

Internet site: http://www.envikenrecords.com

the USA :

  • HMG/Hight Thunders Records 220 4th Street, # 101 Oakland, CA 04607

Internet site: http://www.hightone.com

  • Hep Cat Records, PO Boxes 1108 Orange, Ca 92856, the USA

Web site: http://www.hepcatrecords.com/scstrorel/ E-mail: customerservice@hepcatrecords.com

New address: http://www.hepcatdistribution.com

  • St.George Records

PO Box 331, Downers Grove Illinois the 60515 USA http://www.Stgeorgerecords.com

  • Star Thunders Records, PO Boxes 191533 San Francisco, Ca, 94119

Web site: http://www.startonerecords.com/default.htm E-mail: star_tone@yahoo.com

  • The Rock'n'roll-HAVe-Billy Company Records: http://www.rock-a-billyrecords.com/

  • Dionysus Records, P.O. Box 1975, Burbank, CA 91507

  • Collectable Records Inc, PO Boxes 35 Narberth, Pa 19072

  • Rollin' Rock'n'roll Records, Ronny Weiser, 2460 Casey Drive, Las Vegas, NV 89120, the USA

Tel. 702.739 6213 Faxes: 702.739 6218 - E-mail: rockronny@aol.com or rockabillyron@yahoo.com

  • Rounder Corp Records. , One Street Camp - Cambridge, Massachusetts, the 02140 USA

Web site: http://www.rounder.com

Magazines and fanzines specialized in the rockabilly

  • Germany : Rock'n'roll & Roll Magazine: in German

Mad Jump House” c/o Olaf Haspel, Steigertweg 25,97084 Würzburg Reverside Junior” - Contact: Carsten Bieler with masterjb@t-online.de
  • Spain : “Rock'n'roll Therapy Magazine”, c/o El Toro Records, Carlo Diaz, P.O. Box 122, Badalona, 08910 Barcelona (Tel./Fax: + 34 3.460 0324)
  • Finland : Happy Big (partly in Finnish and English)/PL 25,33710, Tampere, Finland
  • France : On the road of Memphis, Association Roads off Rock'n'roll, 658 Avenue Joseph Amouroux, 47000 Agen E-mail: routedurock@countryfr.com
  • Lets play has range, c/o Blandre Romain, 82 rue Rabelais 57200 Sarreguemines Fax: (0033) 03.87.95.68 .70
  • Krueger News: 41 rue Amiral Courbet, 35000 Rennes
  • Juke Box Magazine, 32 boulevard de Vaugirard, 75015 Paris (re-examined monthly) Tel.: (33) 01.43.35.52 .52 Faxes: (33) 01.43.35.52 .53 - Director: Jacques Leblanc
  • Rock'n'roll re-examined, 12 rue Didot, Apt.47, 75014 Paris: contact: http://www.countryfr.com/rock50/
  • Association " Sound off the Fitties" , 9 rue Lavoisier, 29480 Le Relecq-Kerkuon
  • the United Kingdom : Southern Rock'n'roll: 12 numbers 10 pounds. To write with PO Box 58, Waterlooville PO7 8YP. Tel.: + 44 (0) 23 9225 1958
  • Rock Around: monthly magazine of 16 pages. Annual subscription 6 dollars Addresses: Tony Brown, 154D Kinsston Road, Hants PO2 7PD
  • Rocket: published by Dave Razorback. To write with 114a Elm Lane, Sheffield, S5 7TW, G.B
  • Velvet Collar: to write to 145 Colindale Avenue, Colindale, London NW9 9YP, G.B
  • Purely Rockin: P.O. Box 2716, Bournemouth, BH9 3YW
  • The Hillbilly Researcher - 20 Silkstream Road, Burnt Oak, Edgware, Middx, HA8 0DA, the United Kingdom
  • Now Dig This - 69 Quarry Lane, South Shields, the Tyne & Wear, NE34 7NW, the United Kingdom

  • Sweden : American Music Magazine, Bo Berglind, Kungsgatan 1, SE-432 40 Varberg (in English)

  • U.S.A “Rhythm and Roots Review” - 3 US dollars for a copy. To write in 360A W Merrick Road, Box 296, Valley Stream, NY 11580, the USA (5 dollars apart from the United States)

  • Blue Sweden News”, Box 25E Duval, WA 98019, the USA
Subscription: Domestic $ 14 bulk email; $ 18 first class Canada: $ 18 - Europe & South America: $ 22 air; $ 19 surface Japan: $ 25 air, $ 21 surface Australia: $ 25 air; $ 21 surface Sample copies: ourside the USA $ 7.00 Internet site: http://members.aol.com/shakinboss/index.htm
  • Could Yer Cat Clothes One - P.O.Box 50039, Phoe, nix, AZ 85076-0039 the USA - Phon: /Fax: 1-602-839-8068
  • Kicks Magazine - PO.Box 646, Cooper Station, New York, NY the 10003 USA - Phon: 1-718-789-4438 - Fax: 1-718-398-9215
  • The Grindstone”

Radios diffusing of the rockabilly

  • Radio Caroline: (ex-station pirates offshore oil rig English which diffuses now on the satellite) " Good Rockin' Tonight" by the DJ Dell Richardson - every Tuesday of 18:00 at 21 local times - (Satellite Astra 1 G: 11876 GHz - horizontal Polarization - 19.2 degrees -)

Addresses: Radio Caroline, 426 Archway Road, Highgale, London, N6 4JH United Kingdom E-mail: piratecaroline@cs.com Internet site: http://www.caroline.rockers.co.uk/

  • radio rockabilly: on Internet (www.rockabillyradio.net) Diffuses artists of all the times, pioneers of the Fifties with the contemporaries, 24:00 on 24,7j on 7.

United Kingdom : Staffords 106.7 MHz (9:00 with 11:00 pm Wednesdays Roland Smith & Ryan Mark) 1, Goal News, Goal Road, Stafford, ST16 3AN

France : TSF 89 (Paris region) on 89 MHz (time nonknown)

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