Rocking to the Promised Land in a Long White Cadillac Additional discographical (usually original label, year of release), biographical information was added by Lawrence Azrin. Also, check out the links at your leisure.
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* - Brenston was the saxophone player in the combo 'Ike Turner's Kings Of Rhythm', who actually recorded this. It was billed as "Jackie Brenston" by Chess, because Brenston was the lead singer on this. AS you can IMAGINE, Ike Turner was NOT pleased with this billing - LsA // Often cited as one of the very 1st "Rock N' Roll" recordings; Click on Link above, left, to view the original 10" record, and also scroll down to the Comments, under "joehilllouis wrote: What was the First Rock 'n ' Roll Record?" for the story behind this recording
Time:
5:15
Artist:
Johnny Cash [Billed as 'Johnny Cash and June Cash']
* - ... to the 45-minute VHS video released in 1992 by Reverand Billy Graham's "World Wide Pictures" // Only 2,000 CDs were released, as the small label "Renaissance'", based in Brentwood, TN, shut down down two months this was 1st released. Neither the 1992 video nor the 2000 soundtrack have been release.
* - 10 months after Richard announced his retirement from rock and roll, to pursue a life in the ministry / Click the Link above, left to view the original single, with a picture sleeve.
Time:
5:22
Artist:
Little Richard [Billed on single, as 'Little Richard And His Band']
Song:
Tutti Frutti [Remake of his first hit (but 7th single total)]
"Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Songs" #43 / * - Click on Link above, left to view the album, one of the G R E A T album covers of the 1950s (or any other time ....)
* The Sonics' recording was probably based on Paul Revere And The Raiders version, which was released in March of 1964, as the B-side of their second CBS single, ' Louie - Go Home'. Though they had no national hits yet, Paul Revere And The Raiders were very popular live in the Pacific Northwest.
The original version was on the soundtrack of the 1987 film "Bull Durham". / * - yes, his LAST name; earlier they were called "Lil' Bob and the Lollipops"
The original/ English version of this album used a demo version of this song, recorded earlier in 1976 at Beaconsfield Studios in Buckinghamshire. The US version, released the following year, used the singles version. / Click the Link above, to view the original English single, with a picture sleeve.
* - Released with 'Talk Talk' as the B-side ( 'Come On In' was the original A-side); when it was 'flipped over' in Sept 1966, it started getting airplay / Click the Link above, to view the original album
Bobby Graham - drums, and Arthur Greenslade - piano; HOWEVER: Jimmy Page, in a November 2014 interview with SiriusXM's "Town Hall series", confirmed for the umpteenth time, that he did NOT play on the song, saying "Oh, CRIKEY!!! I wasn't on 'You Really Got Me,' but I did play on the Kinks' record (this debut album - he played on "I'm a Lover Not a Fighter", "I've Been Driving on Bald Mountain" and possibly "Bald Headed Woman")
2014 - NME ranked the song number 155 in a list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time" // 2020 - The album ranked at 408 on Rolling Stone's 500 "Greatest Albums of All Time"
Pete Shelley later recalled: (in Nov 1977) "We were in the Blenheim Guest House with pints of beer, sitting in the TV room half-watching the film "Guys and Dolls". One of the characters, Adelaide, is saying to Marlon Brando's character, 'Wait till you fall in love with someone you shouldn't have.' "I thought, 'fallen in love with someone you shouldn't have?' Hmm, that's good." // Their biggest (English) hit / Click on the Link above, to view the original English single, with a picture sleeve
Florida punk band founded by brothers Mike and Eddie O'Brien, initially called The Fire Ants. / Click the Link above, left to view the original single, with a picture sleeve
Rated #1 on "The Rolling Stone 100 Best Debut Albums of All Time" list in 2022. Click the Link above, left to view the original rare English single with a picture sleeve
New Orleans brass band formed by Bennie Pete, Jerome Jones and Harry Cook in 1995. Pete, co-founder and sousaphone player, died Sept 6th in New Orleans, of complications from sarcoidosis and COVID-19. He was 45. // * {Huge} hit for Marvin Gay, fall 1982
The group was often referred to as "Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers". / * - Keyboard player, best known for being in "Thunderclap Newman"; he wrote their #1! English hit 'Something In the Air' in 1969. Pre-Thunderclap Newman, he was a driver for Peter Townsend.
* lead guitarist on this album / In 2013, the English music mag NME {"New Music Express"} ranked this album #217 on their "500 Greatest Albums of All Time" list.
* - ... to the 45-minute VHS video released in 1992 by Reverand Billy Graham's "World Wide Pictures" // Only 2,000 CDs were released, as the small label "Renaissance'", based in Brentwood, TN, shut down down two months this was 1st released. Neither the 1992 video nor the 2000 soundtrack have been release.
