How to Tune In on Early Rock

You can hear hints of it in Southern Gospel. The beat echoes through Delta blues. Black music and country licks came together and were electrified by Sam Phillips at Sun Studios in Memphis. Rock 'n' roll was born.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• CD Changers
• CD Cleaning Fluids
• CD Cleaning Kits
• CD Scratch-repair Kits
• Blank CD-R Discs
• Car Stereo
• Car Stereo Speakers
• Portable CD Players
• Portable Stereo Players
• Stereos
• Elvis Presley CDs
• Elvis: Artist Of The Century CD Set
• Early Rock CDs

1. Seek out old recordings by Little Richard, Chuck Berry and Fats Domino, black artists with early hits covered by white singers because of social and economic prejudices.

2. Delve into the King's Court. Elvis, whose first recordings were made at Sun, is The King - the artist who packed every venue.

3. Watch "The Killer" - Jerry Lee Lewis brought unparalleled fire and passion to the music he recorded at Sun.

4. Check the earliest Sun recordings of Johnny Cash and Carl Perkins and find hard-driving rockabilly anthems.

5. Look at the Lubbock, Texas connection.

6. Read about Buddy Holly, dead at 23 in an airplane crash. His influence is heard in such diverse genres as early Beatles recordings and modern-day country music.

7. Follow the career of Waylon Jennings from Lubbock to Nashville and back to Texas.

8. Listen to Roy Orbison, another Lubbock musician, whose haunting voice ranged across four octaves to etch "Pretty Woman" and "Crying" on the national psyche.

9. Tune in to Bill Haley and His Comets, who first put rock 'n' roll on the Hit Parade with "Rock Around the Clock."

10. Turn the calendar back to 1956-57 and see rock music take over the nation and roll around the world. Elvis' "Don't Be Cruel," Fats Domino's "Blueberry Hill," Jerry Lee Lewis' "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On," Little Richard's "Lucille," and Buddy Holly's "That'll Be the Day" all hit the charts.

11. Top off your collection with artists like the Everly Brothers, Duane Eddy, Gene Vincent, Eddie Cochran, and Freddie Cannon.

Tips & Warnings

• Carl Perkins was seriously injured in an automobile accident shortly after releasing "Don't You Step on My Blue Suede Shoes" and wasn't able to capitalize on its success.
• Don McLean's fascinating recording "American Pie" is a musical lament about the death of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson, in an airplane crash.
• The classic television show, "American Bandstand," premiered in 1957.
• Many of the old 78, 45 and 33 rpm recordings can be expensive collector's items. Digitally remastered CDs are a good choice for listening to the music as it was recorded. The discography of nearly every early rock artist is now available on CD.
• The second wave of artists - Pat Boone, Ricky Nelson, Brenda Lee, Frankie Avalon, Paul Anka, Connie Francis and others - seem tame when compared to the duck-tailed bad boys who rocked onto the scene in the mid-1950s.

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