...Is one of the tunes on the double disc, ROOTS OF ROCK AND ROLL(the picture has not directly to do with the discs...), performed by Peggy Lee with band. Like the other recordings here, they are from the late forties, still also the days of radio. Absolutely not video. Happy days o no... MTV.
Mix of styles; always a bit swingy, morely than the most pure vintage blues moaning Some tunes got even larger reputation later fx through
Elvis Presley (
That´s allright mama - Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup,
Good Rockin Tonight - Wynonie Harris) ),
Gene Vincent (
Rocky Road Blues - Bill Monroe),
the Rolling Stones (
Route 66 - Nat King Cole,
Down the road apiece - Amos Milburn),
Fats Domino (
Blueberry Hill - Gene Autrey).
And of course,
Guitar Boogie (1945) by Arthur Smith is probably one of the most imitated popular music plectrum guitar solos ever. I mean the 12 first bars ...
Oh yeah, gosh, twin beepers, holy cow... I forget, that was before the later, poor, Smoke on the Water - riff.
Otherwise, Arthur surely was inspired by all the pianoboogie, well known earlier. Boogie-titles were common these days.
disc one
Caldonia - LOUIS JORDAN 1945
Hillybilly Boogie - DELOMORE BROTHERS 1946
Chicken Sack Boogie - AMOS MILBURN 1947
I want my Fanny Brown - WYNONIE HARRIS 1948
Red Hot blues - T.J.FOWLER 1948
Dog House Boogie - HAWKSHAW HAWKINS 1948
Roy Brown Boogie - ROY BROWN 1947
Rocky Road Blues - BILL MONROE 1946
Milton´s Boogie - 1945
Guitar Boogie - ARTHUR SMITH 1945
Down in the Groovy - LONNIE LYONS 1948
Drinkin wine Spoo-Dee-O-Dee - STICKS MCGHEE 1947
Barnyard Boogie - LOUIS JORDAN 1947
My buckets got a hole in it - TEXAS TYLER 1947
Beef Stew - HAL SINGER 1948
49 Women - PEE WEE KING 1947
The Honeydripper - JOE LIGGINS 1945
Blueberry Hill - GENE AUTREY 1940
Move it on over - HANK WILLIAMS 1947
E Ramble - BIG JIM DE NOONE 1947
Route 66 - NAT KING COLE 1946
47th Jive - JUNE RICHMOND WITH ANDY KIRK 1941
The Washboard special - JIMYY LIGGINS 1947
This Train - SISTER ROSETTA THORPE 1947
disc two
Good Rockin Tonight - WYNONIE HARRIS 1947
Oakie Boogie - JOHNNIE TYLER 1947
Choo Choo Ch´Boogie - LOUIS JORDAN 1946
Smoke!Smoke!Smoke! - TEX WILLIAMS 1947
The Twister - PAUL WILLIAMS 1948
That´s All Right - ARTHUR CRUDUP 1946
Hole in the wall tonight - ALBINIA JONES 1948
Down the road apiece - AMOS MILBURN 1946
Everything´s movin to fast - PEGGY LEE 1946
Bartender Boogie - JACK MCVEA 1945
Your hands ain´t clean - PAUL GAYTEN 1947
Boogie Woogie Baby - DELMORE BROTHERS 1946
Here´s a little girl - BLUE LU BARKER 1948
T-Bone Boogie - T-BONE WALKER 1945
Shoot the Moon - MOON MULLIGAN 1946
Cow Cow Boogie - ELLA MAC MORSE WITH FREDDIE STACK 1942
Boogie Woogie on a Saturday Night - FIVE RED CAPS 1942
Be-Baba-Ueba - HELEN HUMES 1946
Cincinnatti Lou - MERLE TRAVIS 1943
Hamp´s Boogie Woogie - LIONEL HAMPTON 1943
Mama don´t allow - JULIA LEE 1947
Oklahoma Stomp - SPADE COOLEY 1946
Ten Gallon Boogie - PEE WEE KING 1947
Big Fat Mama - ROY MILTON 1947
Some of that mentioned swing was represented on the early (sixties) albums by the Rolling Stones, the takes with guitarist Brian Jones are among them I like the most.
Now we live 2009. It´s fantastic.
I´ve only seen these guitars on pictures...
