https://youtu.be/ZgdufzXvjqw
I have lots of stories to tell, being around music all my life and starting with this one.
If you have time read and then watch. it will bring back memories, if you were there.
I was in 6th grade and walking home with a classmate (Fred Kohler) and he tells me there is a new guy singing a new music called rock and roll and is getting very popular in the South, but a lot of parents do not like his moves or the music. Fred says his brother has the brand new record and the first one that his guy (Elvis Presley) recorded and is a big hit mostly in the South..1954.."That's All Right" and "Blue Moon Of Kentucky" R & R style..
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We never had a record player at our house so I didn't even know how to use one. He tells me to put it on the record player while he gets us each a pop to drink...I tried to put it on, pressed too hard and broke the record in half!!. So the first record by Elvis Presley I broke in half and didn't hear it that day.
Might have been an omen in a way...Later years I started a rock and roll band, sang some of his songs and then got into radio and played his hit records.
In a strange way a sort of pay back. Oh yes... Living in Iron Mountain at that time the first rock and roll movie came out a couple of years later. Friday night all us teens went to the Braumart Theater on Friday nights.
The movie "Rock Around the Clock" was showing. We were all fascinated by the singers and groups...great variety…We felt that we finally had a music we could call our own so we stayed after the show and talked about the singers and the music.
Of course life was not perfect but very simple and in some ways we were very naïve.....Hard to keep up with the changes that seem to happen every day.
I know you will like it..Some day I will write a book or memoir about this..
Take care and long live Rock and Roll.
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We never had a record player at our house so I didn't even know how to use one. He tells me to put it on the record player while he gets us each a pop to drink...I tried to put it on, pressed too hard and broke the record in half!!. So the first record by Elvis Presley I broke in half and didn't hear it that day.
Might have been an omen in a way...Later years I started a rock and roll band, sang some of his songs and then got into radio and played his hit records.
In a strange way a sort of pay back. Oh yes... Living in Iron Mountain at that time the first rock and roll movie came out a couple of years later. Friday night all us teens went to the Braumart Theater on Friday nights.
The movie "Rock Around the Clock" was showing. We were all fascinated by the singers and groups...great variety…We felt that we finally had a music we could call our own so we stayed after the show and talked about the singers and the music.
Of course life was not perfect but very simple and in some ways we were very naïve.....Hard to keep up with the changes that seem to happen every day.
I know you will like it..Some day I will write a book or memoir about this..
Take care and long live Rock and Roll.
Joe.
PS..The adults said it would soon die in just a few years. We are still waiting.
