"Ida Red," before "Maybelline"
We all know that the country tune Ida Red became Chuck Berry's Maybelline in 1955. But it had made previous stops along the way--for example, as the melody for Eddie Kirk and Cliffie Stone's 1951 Freight Train Breakdown. Is this gem of a performance Western Swing? Rockabilly? Country jazz? (Or a combination of the three?) To use the UFO-documentary cliche: you decide. sharity via : Music You (Possibly) Won't Hear Anyplace Else
can i get a woooo woooooo / yeah baby, thats what im talking about wooooooooooo woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
scroll down (im not hotlinkin) for this elvis/junior parker mash up:
Only problem is, Elvis' record was swiped from Love My Baby, the flip side of Little Junior Parker's Mystery Train. Nothing uncanny about that, I'm afraid. (Tip for aspiring pop-musicologists: when researching, always listen to both sides of a record.)
And, here, I've interspersed the two recordings--Elvis' 1955 Mystery Train, recorded at Sun, and its, um, inspiration: Little Junior Parker's 1953 Love My Baby, recorded at Sun. If the result is rock-sacrilegious... oh, well.
and also check into "crescent city" precursor to folsom prison blues a little further down the page
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- bill 6-08-2005 12:09 am
can i get a woooo woooooo / yeah baby, thats what im talking about wooooooooooo woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
- bill 6-08-2005 12:11 am [add a comment]
scroll down (im not hotlinkin) for this elvis/junior parker mash up:
and also check into "crescent city" precursor to folsom prison blues a little further down the page
- bill 6-08-2005 12:33 am [add a comment]