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 […]