I must say that YouTube is helping to make my "Rhetoric of Rock Music" course more enjoyable this semester. This week in class we've been talking about some of the rhythym and blues artists that really were the founding fathers and mothers of rock and roll. Most of them were performing and recording well before Elvis Presley or Bill Hailey and the Comets, and include
the great Louis Jordan
Big Joe Turner
Ruth Brown
Louis Prima
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Check out the box set, The Okeh Rhythm and Blues Story, 1949-1957. Might be out of print, but it's a goldmine.
I missed this from a few days ago.
Being a huge Louis Prima fan I'd say that the best rhetoric of rock n roll statement comes from a tune he did with Sam Butera and The Witnesses called:
"There'll Be No Next Time"
:-)
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