Good rocking tonight
| Good rocking tonight | |
|---|---|
| Roy Brown | |
| publication | 1947 |
| Genre (s) | Rhythm and blues , jump blues , rockabilly |
| Author (s) | Roy Brown |
| Cover versions | |
| 1948 | Wynonie Harris |
| 1952 | Carl Perkins |
| 1954 | Elvis Presley |
| 1959 | Pat Boone |
Good Rocking Tonight (also known as Good Rockin 'Tonight ) is a jump blues song written and recorded by Roy Brown in 1947 . There are numerous cover versions of this piece.
General
Roy Brown originally offered the song to Wynonie Harris , who declined the piece. So Brown recorded the song with the Bob Ogden Orchestra himself, which was released in 1947 on DeLuxe Records (DeLuxe 1093) and became a respectable hit. Brown's version of the song peaked at number 11 on Billboard magazine's R&B charts . After this success, Harris recognized the piece's potential and took it up. Its version (King 4210) reached number 1 on the Billboard R&B charts and stayed there for half a year.
Harris' version largely stuck to the text of the original, only in the last verse Harris replaced the text with the exclamations "hoy, hoy, hoy" - a phrase that appeared in some jump blues of the time. Musically, he changed the piece to a more rocky version and gave future music researchers work to determine whether this recording would be the first rock 'n' roll song. One critic writes of Harris' version, probably a little too enthusiastically: This is probably the most important recording in the history of rock and roll. Without this record, rock and roll probably never would have happened. ("This is probably the most important recording in the history of rock and roll. Without this recording, rock and roll would probably never have happened.")
Elvis Presley's cover version
Good Rockin 'Tonight ( I Don't Care if the Sun Don't Shine as B-side) was Elvis Presley's second single for Sun Records in Memphis. Presley and his band closely followed the original version. Although the single did not hit the Billboard charts, it became another minor hit for Presley in Memphis and the southern United States.
Other covers
Carl Perkins recorded his previously unpublished version in 1952. Bruce Springsteen commonly used the song as the opening number on his 1978 Darkness Tour . Also on the River Tour 1981 the song was sometimes on the setlist. There is a hard rock version of the song by Montrose . The curious cover versions also include the version sung in Spanish by the Mexican band Los Teen Tops from the early 1960s ( Buen rock esta noche ). The Honeydrippers (with Jeff Beck and Robert Plant ) recorded the song in the 1980s under the title Rockin 'at Midnight . Paul McCartney released a version of the song in 1991 on his album Unplugged (The Official Bootleg) . The Doors covered the piece as Good Rockin ' on Full Circle in 1972 .
Others
The English broadcaster Radio Caroline has a weekly rock 'n' roll program called Good Rocking Tonight . The Canadian television station CBC Television broadcast a music show under this title between the early 1980s and 1993. Also, Good Rockin 'Tonight title of an English rock' n 'roll show by Lee Jackson and Mark Keeley. The song title also bears a television documentary by Bruce Sinofsky on Sun Records (2001).
Web links
- Tobias Marx: Good Rockin 'Tonight . In: Song Lexicon . Retrieved July 28, 2014.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Brown's inclusion first entered the charts under catalog number DeLuxe 1093 in June 1948, and reached number 13; in April 1949, the title was placed in the charts again with catalog number 3093 and reached number 11. Whitburn, Joel: The Billboard Book of Top 40 R&B and Hip-Hop Hits . New York: Billboard Books, 2006, p. 71.
- ^ Whitburn, Joel: The Billboard Book of Top 40 R&B and Hip-Hop Hits . New York: Billboard Books, 2006, p. 234.
- ↑ http://www.hoyhoy.com/artists/wynonie.htm
- ↑ Early, historical recordings by rockabilly pioneer Carl Perkins discovered after 70 years (English) , August 2, 2019
- ↑ Barker, Derek: Liner notes for Bruce Springsteen's Jukebox: The Songs that Inspired the Man [CD]
- ↑ Good Rockin 'Tonight Radio Caroline ( Memento of the original from March 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Good Rockin 'Tonight
- ↑ IMDB
