How could a song with these lyrics not be on the list of the best ever? Perhaps some of the younger visitors to the site aren’t familiar with them, so...
Category - Early Rock
Yesterday was the 54th anniversary of the plane crash that took the lives of Buddy Holly, The Big Booper and Richie Valens. Here is the entire story at...
Elvis Presley was born on this day in 1935. I would provide some background on Elvis, but there just isn’t anything on the Internet about the guy...
Dolores Williams, aka LaVern Baker (with several name stops along the way, including “Little Miss Sharecropper”) became the second woman inducted...
A nice story at Wenatchee World – in Washington State – about 20-year-old Dustin Hays. His dad gave him a partial collection of 45s from Julian Records, an old...
Little Richard entered a New Orleans recording studio to begin two days of recording. Things were not going well and during a break, Richard and his producer;...
The Troggs’ Wild Thing was at the top of the charts on this day in 1966. Some people, however, may prefer Mr. Hendrix’s version. The song actually...
The passing last week of Andy Griffith led Phil Arnold, who runs ElvisBlog, to post an item on the links between the two icons. He described an appearance of...
The shows Elvis in relaxed mode during his 1968 comeback. The guitarist is Scotty Moore. Here is a nice bio and a version of Long Tall Sally from 1956. Peter...
From a review in the Boston Globe of the Beach Boys concert Tuesday night at the Bank of America Pavilion in Boston: It’s a relief to report that the Beach...
