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Folks, I love my Music and can't leave it alone. Being from Memphis, Tn.,
I love the old rock and roll too. What follows are songs I loved way back then
and I still do enjoy them. I hope you do too.

Whole Lot of Shaking - Jerry Lee Lewis - vintage 1957

Gene Vincent - Be-Bop-A-Lula

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Bill Haley - Rock around the Clock - vintage 1956

Bill Haley and the Comets See ya later Alligator (1956)

Bill Haley & The Comets - Razzle Dazzle - Cute dance routine

Bill Haley - Straight Jacket, a rare instrumental with Haley and his band.

Bill Haley - Goofin Around

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If it wasn't frowned upon to use an Elvis photo here, then I woulda put
his actual Picture here instead. Don't ya just hate rules and regulations ;)

Play Elvis Presley's FIRST two hits EVER

Elvis was a new SUN Records recording Artist when he was a guest singer on Louisiana Hay Ride TV show in
1954 as he sings his first two songs that started his great fame - That's Alright Momma & Blue Moon of Kentucky.
Those two songs set the teen's on fire for more Elvis. I was there when it happened so I know that for sure.

The Official Elvis Channel on Youtube with some great music and more about Elvis.

An actual newscast of Elvis Presleys death in 1977

Elvis Presley - Hound Dog - Tupelo, Ms. Wearing his Gold Suit Coat in 1957

Tour of Elvis' Tupelo, Mississippi Birthplace (Kathie Barb has been in this home twice).

Click here to Learn how to listen to Elvis on the radio 24/7. No Joke!

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Blind or Vision impared??? Don't know but he always wore Sunshades
A really GREAT VOICE for the time

Roy Orbison - Only The Lonely

Roy Orbison - Oh, Pretty Woman

Roy Orbison - Ooby Dooby

Ferlin Husky - On the Wings of a Snow White Dove

Jim Ed Brown - Pop A Top (original version)

Jim Ed Brown & The Browns - Three Bells (Live on TV)

Johnny Russell - Rednecks, White Socks and Blue Ribbon Beer

Johnny Russell - Catfish John

Dolly Parton - 9 to 5

Ghostbusters Movie Theme Song

Fever - Peggy Lee

Ray Charles - Hit the road Jack!

Johnny Cash - One piece at a Time

Herb Alpert - Tijuana Taxi

Herb Alpert - Whipped Cream (1965)

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I really like this Buddy Holly Pix as it was shot at
the recording studio using the old mikes as he sang.

Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper and Richie Vallens died before their time
together on a airplane crash on The Day the Music Died - Feburary 3, 1959.

Buddy Holly - On the Arthur Murray Dance Party 12/29/57

Buddy Holly - At the Apollo
The group was VERY SURPRISED that Black people there liked him so much. Times
were so different back then BUT GREAT Rock & Roll Music is exactly that. Nuff Said!

Big Bopper - Chantilly Lace

La Bamba - Ritchie Valens

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Chuck Berry - Johnny B. Goode live

Chuck Berry - Maybelline

Chuck Berry - Roll over Beethoven

Johnny Horton - The Battle Of New Orleans 1959

I Wish I Was in Dixie - By ???

Crystal Gayle - Don't it make my brown eyes blue

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One great voice on this Lady with another untimely death in an airplane.

Kathie is also from Tennessee - The Tennessee Waltz - singer Patsy Cline

Patsy Cline - "Crazy" - Patsy left our world way to early Folks!

Patsy Cline - Lovesick Blues

Patsy Cline - Walkin' After Midnight

Jambalaya on the Bayou - Hank Williams Sr.

He was some singer for in time and still is via recordings.

Hank Williams Sr. - Cold, Cold Heart

Hank Williams Sr. - Hey Good Lookin

This Guy can do a job on an Acustic Gitar for sure.

"The Entertainer" played by Chet Atkins

Faron Young - Hello Walls

George Jones The race is on

Willie Nelson - On the Road Again

Johnny Paycheck - You can take this job and shove it

Ronnie Milsap live and onstage, Lost in the 50's Tonight

Barbara Mandrell - I was Country when Country wasn't Cool

Ssgt. Barry Sadler - Ballad of the Green Berets

Great Movies and songs Jerry Reed did in the 70's

Jerry Reed - Amos Moses

Jerry Reed - East Bound And Down

'Lord, Mr. Ford' (Jerry Reed)

When You're Hot You're Hot Jerry Reed

Ray Stevens - The Streak

Ray Stevens - It's me again magret!

Ahab the Arab - Ray Stevens

Chattanooga Choo Choo - Glenn Miller Orchestra
From the film "Sun Valley Serenade" (1941), featuring Glenn Miller Orchestra

Doris Day with Les Brown's Band of Renown (1944) - Sentimental Journey

Loretta Lynn performs "Coal Miner's Daughter" at the Grand Ole Opry

I was feeling a little nosey, so I thought I would look in on you
and see if you're sitting at your computer and if you're OK.
Yup, there you are and you look great! The next song is MINE.

How Much Is That Doggie In The Window - Patti Page

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Extra Link #1
Ronnie Self

Why Ronnie Self never made it as a performer is one of the great mysteries and injustices of pop music history. He had the look and the sound -- a mix of country, rockabilly, and R&B that sometimes made him sound like a white Little Richard, but mostly like the young Elvis or Carl Perkins -- and he wasn't lacking for good songs, which he mostly wrote himself. He should have been there, thought of in the same breath as Perkins or Jerry Lee Lewis; instead, he's a footnote in rock & roll history outside of Europe, where he's treated as a legend.

Ronnie Self (July 5, 1938 -- August 28, 1981) was a United States rockabilly singer and songwriter. His solo career was unsuccessful, despite being signed to contracts with Columbia and then Decca from the late 1950s through the early 1960s. His only charted single was "Bop-A-Lena"; recorded in 1957 and released in 1958, it reached #68 on the Billboard charts. His boastful country anthem "Ain't I'm a Dog" was a regional hit in the South, but failed to score nationally.

Rumoured to be the first Rock N Roll singer signed to Columbia despite the objections of the Columbia A&R performer Mitch Miller.

A talented performer and songwriter, Self's career was blighted by his severe alcoholism and erratic behavior, including incidents of violence. However, Brenda Lee's cover of his songs "I'm Sorry" and "Sweet Nothin's" became major pop classics and his country gospel song "Ain't That Beautiful Singing", recorded by Jake Hess, was awarded a Grammy for Best Sacred Performance in 1969. He died in Springfield, Missouri.

Extra Link #2
John1948's links to more good songs

PLEASE NOTE: John1948 divided his uploads between multiple channels, Bookmark this link in your browser for instant access to an index with links to all of John1948's oldies classic R&R.

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