Good Rockin' Tonight Sun Records and the Birth of Rock 'N' Roll (Paperback)
| Author: Colin/ Hawkins Escott |
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Publish Date: 4/10/2007
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| Elvis Presley. Jerry Lee Lewis. Johnny Cash. Carl Perkins. Roy Orbison. All got their start in a little recording studio in Memphis called Sun Records.Good Rockin' Tonight is the story, in words and hundreds of photos of Sun Records and its founder, producer Sam Phillips. "From Sun-rise to Sun-set . . . the last word on the first great rock 'n' roll record label".--Rolling Stone. |
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Memphis, Tennessee. The early 1950s. The Mississippi rolls by, and there's a train in the night. Down on Beale Street there's hard-edged blues, on the outskirts of town they're pickin' hillbilly boogie. At Sam Phillips' Sun Records studio on Union Avenue, there's something different going on. "Shake it, baby, shake it!" "Go, cat, go!" "We're gonna rock..." This is where rock 'n' roll was born-the record company that launched Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, and Carl Perkins. The label that brought the world, "Blue Suede Shoes," "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On," "Breathless," "I Walk the Line," "Mystery Train," "Baby, Let's Play House,' "Good Rockin' Tonight." Good Rockin Tonight is the history, in words and over 240 photographs, of Sam Phillips' legendary storefront studio, from the early days with primal blues artists like Howlin' Wolf and B.B. King to the long nights in the studio with Elvis and Jerry Lee. As colorful and energetic as the music itself, it's a one-of-a-kind book for anyone who wants to know where it all started. |
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In the early 1950s, Memphis, Tennessee was an afterthought in the world of commercial recording, then dominated by studios in New York and Los Angeles. This situation was radically altered in 1953, when Elvis Presley walked into the city's Sun Studios, encountered producer Sam Phillips, and subsequently developed and recorded the first rock & roll single, "That's All Right." The story of how this epoch-making event came about, the musical alchemy that led to it, and its aftermath, is meticulously assembled by Colin Escott and Martin Hawkins in their history of the record label, GOOD ROCKIN' TONIGHT. With much fascinating background information and impeccable scholarship, they reconstruct the birth pangs of rock & roll with its attendant cast of characters, including Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, and of course Sam Phillips himself. In presenting such momentous events as a jam session featuring Presley, Lewis, and Carl Perkins, and the recording of Presley's first single and his subsequent first interview, the authors humanize and demystify a story that's often caught up in its own mythology.
In the early 1950s, Memphis, Tennessee was an afterthought in the world of commercial recording, then dominated by studios in New York and Los Angeles. This situation was radically altered in 1953, when Elvis Presley walked into the city's Sun Studios, encountered producer Sam Phillips, and subsequently developed and recorded the first rock & roll single, "That's All Right." The story of how this epoch-making event came about, the musical alchemy that led to it, and its aftermath, is meticulously assembled by Colin Escott and Martin Hawkins in their history of the record label, GOOD ROCKIN' TONIGHT. With much fascinating background information and impeccable scholarship, they reconstruct the birth pangs of rock & roll with its attendant cast of characters, including Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, and of course Sam Phillips himself. In presenting such momentous events as a jam session featuring Presley, Lewis, and Carl Perkins, and the recording of Presley's first single and his subsequent first interview, the authors humanize and demystify a story that's often caught up in its own mythology.
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