"Roll Over Beethoven" is a 1956 song written by #ChuckBerry, originally released on #ChessRecords, with "Drifting Heart" as the #Bside. The lyrics of the song mention #rockAndRoll and the desire for #rhythmAndBlues to be as respected as #classicalMusic. The song has been #covered by many other artists, including the #RollingStones and #theBeatles (both in 1963). Rolling Stone magazine ranked it number 97 on its 2004 list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frVqITAPXCo
#chessrecords
"Roll Over Beethoven" is a 1956 song written by #ChuckBerry, originally released on #ChessRecords, with "Drifting Heart" as the #Bside. The lyrics of the song mention #rockAndRoll and the desire for #rhythmAndBlues to be as respected as #classicalMusic. The song has been #covered by many other artists, including the #RollingStones and #theBeatles (both in 1963). Rolling Stone magazine ranked it number 97 on its 2004 list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sagmwSY-ZEY
"Roll Over Beethoven" is a 1956 song written by #ChuckBerry, originally released on #ChessRecords, with "Drifting Heart" as the #Bside. The lyrics of the song mention #rockAndRoll and the desire for #rhythmAndBlues to be as respected as #classicalMusic. The song has been #covered by many other artists, including the #RollingStones and #theBeatles (both in 1963). Rolling Stone magazine ranked it number 97 on its 2004 list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sagmwSY-ZEY
"Hoochie Coochie Man" (originally titled "I'm Your Hoochie Cooche Man") is a #bluesStandard written by #WillieDixon and first recorded by #MuddyWaters in 1954. The song makes reference to #hoodoo folk magic elements and makes novel use of a #stoptime musical arrangement. It became one of Waters' most popular and identifiable songs and helped secure Dixon's role as #ChessRecords' chief songwriter. The song is a classic of #ChicagoBlues.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIxFr2HMx6Y
"Roll Over Beethoven" is a 1956 song written by #ChuckBerry, originally released on #ChessRecords, with "Drifting Heart" as the #Bside. The lyrics of the song mention #rockAndRoll and the desire for #rhythmAndBlues to be as respected as #classicalMusic. The song has been #covered by many other artists, including the #RollingStones and #TheBeatles (both in 1963). Rolling Stone magazine ranked it number 97 on its 2004 list of the #500GreatestSongsOfAllTime.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvcROx4cxng
You tell 'em Wolf ! 🐺💈
#howlinwolf #chesterburnett #blues #rhythmandblues #chessrecords #illustration #comic #ink #hippies
Howlin' Wolf appreciation post. 🐺🎸
#howlinwolf #chesterburnett #blues #rhythmandblues #chessrecords #chicagoblues #illustration #comic #ink
RIP Sugar Pie DeSanto
I'm a little late to the memorial, time having been consumed by holiday travel, and then news of wildfires sweeping areas I just returned from, but just saw notice that at the end of the past year, we lost #SugarPieDeSanto
I was lucky I had the fortunate opportunity to see her perform memorable sets live a couple times earlier in this century in #SanFrancisco , and despite her age, she was still feisty, acrobatically bawdy & hilarious.
A relative of fellow #ChessRecords recording artist Etta James, and part Filipino (born Umpeylia Marsema Balinton ) ... , she was perhaps less renowned, but certainly worth checking out for any fans of authentic old school #RhythmandBlues music.
"I was one of the toughest women you would find, and a big mouth, and I didn’t take anything from no one,” she said in an interview in the 2011 book “Flying Saucers Rock ’n’ Roll: Conversations With Unjustly Obscure Rock ’n’ Soul Eccentrics”
I recall in more recent times, her being burned out in a 2006 fire that swept the apt building where she lived in #Oakland, and killed her husband.
But she was a tough cookie and soldiered on for many more years ...stay safe out there folks...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/26/arts/music/sugar-pie-desanto-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.pk4.vem5.yVNsGkJu6sLE&smid=url-share #SharedLink #FreeLink #NYTimes #BluesMusic
Face B : pour des vocalises rockab 🎙️
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jMaC6TbIUU
#Rockabilly
#BillyBarrix
#ChessRecords
#Contrebasse #DoubleBass
Face A : pour du hoquet rockab ce week-end, sur l'air de "Baby, Let's Play House"
"Run Rudolph Run" is a #ChristmasSong written by #ChuckBerry but credited to #JohnnyMarks and M. Brodie due to Marks's trademark on the character of #RudolphTheRedNosedReindeer. It was published by St. Nicholas Music (#ASCAP) and was first recorded by Berry in 1958, released as a single on #ChessRecords. It has since been covered by numerous other artists, sometimes with the title "Run Run Rudolph".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dafn020Q52k
"Run Rudolph Run" is a #ChristmasSong written by #ChuckBerry but credited to #JohnnyMarks and M. Brodie due to Marks's trademark on the character of #RudolphTheRedNosedReindeer. It was published by St. Nicholas Music (#ASCAP) and was first recorded by Berry in 1958, released as a single on #ChessRecords. It has since been covered by numerous other artists, sometimes with the title "Run Run Rudolph". The song is a 12-bar blues, musically similar to Berry's popular.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amk7AiEI43I
"School Days" (also known as #SchoolDayRingRingGoesTheBell) is a #rockandroll song written and recorded by #ChuckBerry and released by #ChessRecords as a #single in March 1957 and on the LP #AfterSchoolSession two months later. It is one of his best-known songs and is often considered a rock-and-roll anthem. The last verse of the song contains the lyrics "Hail, hail rock.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ECqL51SRUk
"School Days" (also known as #SchoolDayRingRingGoesTheBell) is a #rockandroll song written and recorded by #ChuckBerry and released by #ChessRecords as a #single in March 1957 and on the LP #AfterSchoolSession two months later. It is one of his best-known songs and is often considered a rock-and-roll anthem. The last verse of the song contains the lyrics "Hail, hail rock.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHG5-GxI_Es
This #ThursdayFiveList is about #TheMagic
-- Sorry I could have added Chappell Roan, Lizzy Grant or even Dua Lipa --
1/ Mr. Magic - Rappin' With Mr. Magic (1980, 🇺🇸) : https://youtu.be/y6oq70QpFfk?feature=shared
Even Nas on his Illmatic album said "I got to have it, I miss Mr. Magic"
2/ The Sharks - Sideshow Freak (1996, 🇬🇧) : https://youtu.be/jiGY_ExPi5k?feature=shared
"I'm a sideshow freak...with a bad attitude !"
3/ Gene Chandler - I fooled you this time (1966, 🇺🇸) : https://youtu.be/YL_Hg76UESA?feature=shared
Not about a magic trick actually, but what a magic song however
4/ Judy Dyble and Andy Lewis - Northern Sky (Nick Drake's cover, 2018, 🇬🇧) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDeJho6djWU
"I never felt magic crazy as this"
5/ The Smiths - Jeane (1983, 🇬🇧) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csn0e27Wp54
"And I don't believe in magic anymore, Jeane
But I think you know
I really think you know
I think you know the truth
Jeane"
#MrMagic #TheSharks #GeneChandler #JudyDyble #AndyLewis #NickDrake #TheSmiths #ChessRecords #EarlyHipHop #Psychobilly #Soul #Folk #IndieRock
Sonny Boy Williamson, The Real Folk Blues, 1966 on Chess
This album was first released in the UK in 1965 as In Memorium, (Williamson died in May of 1965). In the US it was retitled to The Real Folk Blues and released in 1966. Later reissues have appeared with either title in different regions.
This is one of my favorite blues albums of all time – Williams is backed here by Willie Dixon, Luther Tucker, Otis Spann, Fred Bellow, Matt Murphy, […]
#1960s #1966 #1987 #ChessRecords #LutherTucker #OriginalChessMasters #OtisSpann #Reissue #RobertLockwoodJr #SonnyBoyWilliamson #vinyl #vinylcollection #vinylfinds #WillieDixon #WorcesterMA #WorcesterRecordRiot
"No Particular Place to Go" is a song by #ChuckBerry, released as a #single by #ChessRecords in May 1964 and released on the album #StLouisToLiverpool in November 1964. "No Particular Place to Go" was recorded on March 25, 1964 in #Chicago, #Illinois and features the same music as Berry's earlier hit "#SchoolDays".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fN7M2GKtgE
"Maybellene" is a #rockAndRoll song by American artist #ChuckBerry, adapted in part from the #westernSwing fiddle tune "#IdaRed". Released in 1955, Berry’s song tells the story of a #hotRod race and a broken romance, the lyrics describing a man driving a #V8 #Ford and chasing his unfaithful girlfriend in her #CadillacCoupeDeVille. It was released in July 1955 as a #single by #ChessRecords, of #ChicagoIllinois. Berry's first hit.
https://youtu.be/eE7VMVNGRNU
1000 Day Album Challenge (#40) Etta James: The Sweetest Peaches / The Chess Years (1988) [09.02.24]
when the reflection in the glass that I held to my lips now, baby / revealed the tears that was on my face, yeah
if all you know by Etta James is At Last plus a couple of other titles this is an excellent place to start. The Sweetest Peaches was either my first or second Etta James purchase. I actually might have bought this at the same time I purchased her classic studio album, Tell Mama (1968), which had been re-released the year before.
the selections on The Sweetest Peaches span her entire career (1960 - 1976) at Chicago’s legendary Chess Records, which happens to be one of the most important labels in the history of Blues, R&B, and Rock & Roll. in addition to Etta James, it was home to Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Howlin’ Wolf, Little Walter, and Willie Dixon, to name but a few.
in a review of her late-eighties record, Seven Year Itch, Robert Christgau best summed up her historical standing: “unbeknownst to white people, she was Soul Sister Number Two – more and better Top-20 R&B back when than Dionne Warwick, Martha Reeves, Tina Turner, Carla Thomas, Irma Thomas, any black woman besides Soul Sister Number One and Diana Ross, who belongs to pop.” (https://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/cgv1088-88.php)
by my count, other than At Last, which dare I say is overplayed, there are six essential songs that I would rather not live without – All I Could Do is Cry, Something’s Got A Hold On Me, Baby, What You Want Me To Do (Live), In The Basement (with Sugar Pie DeSanto), Tell Mama, and I’d Rather Go Blind, which is one of those songs that I’ve been known to play over and over.
#1000DayAlbumChallenge #EttaJames #TheSweetestPeaches #ChessRecords #IdRatherGoBlind
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