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may 21, 1955
Chuck Berry records his first single, "Maybellene," at Chess Records in Chicago.
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Lecture 3: Chuck Berry performing his 1955 hit “Maybellene” for a captive French audience in 1958. From St. Louis, Missouri, Chuck Berry (1926-2017) was in his late twenties when he scored his first big hit in 1955. “Maybellene” was followed by by “Roll Over, Beethoven” (1956), “Rock and Roll Music” (1957), and “Johnny B. Goode” (1958). Chuck Berry was one of the most succcessful recording acts of Chicago’s Chess Records in the 1950s. Incidentally, famous disc jockey Alan Freed received co-writing credit on the song, as a form of Payola. Freed had nothing to do with writing the song, of course, but in the early wheeling-and-dealing days of rock ‘n’ roll, that was just part of the business.
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Chuck Berry - Maybellene (live 1958)
Chuck Berry – Maybellene (live 1958)
21 May 1955, Chuck Berry recorded ‘Maybellene’ at Universal Recording Studios, Chicago, Illinois. The song adapted in part from the Western swing fiddle tune ‘Ida Red’ is said to be one of the first rock and roll songs. The track became Berry’s debut single release in July of this year where it peaked at No.5 on the US chart. https://youtu.be/v124f0i0Xh4
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These were shared by Penny on her Instagram (@penelope.hanson) about 2 hours ago. Natalie and Taylor didn't share anything yet. That is Maybellene!
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#taylor hanson#wilhelmina hanson#ezra hanson#natalie hanson#maybellene hanson#indiana hanson#viggo hanson#penny hanson#river hanson#hanson#hanson family
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#taylor hanson#penny hanson#penelope hanson#viggo hanson#wilhelmina hanson#natalie hanson#indianna hanson#indy hanson#maybellene hanson
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Been listening to so much doo wop lately that listening to chuck berry seriously makes me feel like I’m hearing rock music for the first time. And let me tell you something. It rocks
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feel like I had a shitload of anxiety today and couldn't calm down so I'm gonna have a beer and blast 1950s/1960s oldies and just be happy
#my boyfriends back and youre gonna be in trouble#maybellene why cant you be true oh maybellene#bo diddley bo diddley have you heard#well cmon lets go lets go lets go little darling
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Today In History
Chuck Berry was born in St Louis, Missouri, on this date October 18, 1926.
Songwriter and guitarist the ‘Father of Rock and Roll’, Chuck Berry refined and developed rhythm and blues into the major elements that made rock and roll distinctive, with songs such as “Maybellene” (1955), “Roll Over Beethoven” (1956), “Rock and Roll Music” (1957) and “Johnny B. Goode” (1958).
Berry became one of the most influential figures in the history of rock music.
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Chuck Berry (1926-2017) solo
Songs: "Roll Over Beethoven," "Maybellene"
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Mick Jones (1955-) The Clash - lead guitar
Songs: "Train In Vain," "I'm Not Down"
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Dickey Betts
Guitarist, singer and founding member of the Allman Brothers Band best known for writing their 1973 hit Ramblin’ Man
Dickey Betts, who has died aged 80, was a founder member of the Allman Brothers Band, one of the most influential US “southern rock” groups of the 1970s. The hard-living outfit blazed out of Jacksonville, Florida, in 1969 with a mix of rock, blues, country and jazz that defined the genre, also influencing artists such as Lynyrd Skynyrd, ZZ Top, the Black Crowes and Kid Rock. They scored several platinum and gold albums and were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
Although the six-piece band was ostensibly led by the blond- haired Allman brothers, Duane and Gregg (guitar and keyboards/vocals respectively), as joint lead guitarist, singer and main songwriter Betts played a crucial role. A larger than life character with his cowboy hats, long moustache and gunslinger good looks, Betts wrote many of the band’s best loved songs, including Jessica, Blue Sky and the 1973 US No 2 smash Ramblin’ Man, inspired by life on the road.
The signature duelling of Betts’s and Duane Allman’s lead guitars rewrote the rule book of how twin guitarists play together - previously one had played lead and the other rhythm. The band’s huge fanbase included President Jimmy Carter, and in 2020 Betts even received the rare accolade of a mention in a Bob Dylan song, when Murder Most Foul contained the line “Play Oscar Peterson, play Stan Getz/Play Blue Sky, play Dickey Betts.”
He was also the inspiration for the rock star character played by Billy Crudup in the former rock journalist Cameron Crowe’s film Almost Famous (2000), the director having been drawn to Betts’s aura of “possible danger and playful recklessness behind his eyes”.
Betts was born in West Palm Beach, Florida, one of the three children of Harold, a carpenter, and his wife, Sarah (nee Brinson), who wrote poetry and played the cornet in a Salvation Army band. Although his father was also a keen fiddler, Dickey’s first instrument was the ukelele, which he started playing aged five, later graduating to the mandolin and the banjo.
He was at West Gate elementary school when he wrote his first song, Seven Years With Pamela, about his sister. He then attended various West Palm Beach schools until seventh grade, dropping out of high school when he was 16, by which time his pursuits included carpentry, hunting and listening to the Grand Ole Opry on the family radio.
Hearing Chuck Berry’s Maybellene in his mid-teens prompted another switch of instrument, as he “started realising that girls like guitars”. He dropped out of high school aged 16 to tour the US with a travelling circus in his first band, the Swinging Saints, but was playing in Second Coming with the bassist Berry Oakley when Duane Allman invited both men to join his new group.
The lineup was completed by the drummer Butch Trucks and – unusually in white-dominated 60s southern rock - a black second drummer, James Lee Johnson, who had previously played with Otis Redding and Percy Sledge.
Although sales of their first two albums were sluggish, Duane Allman’s appearance on Eric Clapton’s 1970 album Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs – which included the classic hit Layla – boosted the heavy-touring Allman Brothers Band’s rising profile. Their 1971 live album At Fillmore East sold 1m copies.
After Duane Allman and Oakley were killed in motorcycle accidents in 1971 and 1972 respectively, Betts led a rejigged lineup. The 1973 album Brothers and Sisters – featuring Ramblin’ Man and the instrumental Jessica, later the theme to the television motoring show Top Gear – topped the US charts for five weeks, while 1975’s Win, Lose Or Draw went into the Top five. By then the band were succumbing to a familiar music industry cocktail of success, drugs, alcohol and feuding.
Betts and Gregg Allman both made solo albums, before Betts felt betrayed when the latter testified against the band’s road manager in a 1976 drugs case and refused to work with him again. Nevertheless, they regrouped in 1978, splitting again in 1982.
A second comeback in 1989 proved more enduring, although in 2000 Betts was fired over his drinking. That third spell in the band had been dogged by alcohol and drug abuse, lawsuits and arrests, and in 1996 he was charged with aggravated domestic assault after pointing a handgun at his fifth wife, Donna (nee Stearns), whom he had married in 1989. The charges were dropped after Betts agreed to enter rehab.
In his later years he returned with his own Dickey Betts Band and played in the band Great Southern with his son Duane. True to his ramblin’ man credentials, he remained on the road to the last, even after brain surgery following a 2018 fall at home, and he released live albums well into his 70s.
He is survived by Donna and his children, Kimberly, Christy, Jessica and Duane.
🔔 Forrest Richard Betts, musician, singer and songwriter, born 12 December 1943; died 18 April 2024
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David Robert Jones aka David Bowie torments the expander. London, 1955.
That's when rock and roll appeared
#david bowie#vintage photography#music#my music#music love#musica#history music#rock music#rock#rock photography#1955#music story#Spotify#rare photos
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Chuck Berry
On this day in 1958 Chuck Berry recorded "Johnny B. Goode".
Arguably Berry's greatest artistic triumph and one of the most widely known rock songs in the history of the genre. Vocally, the song is delivered with the same breathless urgency as “Maybellene,” with Berry only pausing for breath at the end of each lengthy line. The song's three verses spin a thinly disguised autobiographical tale about a “country boy” from “close to New Orleans” who could “play a guitar like ringing a bell,” itself perhaps a reference to the guitar introduction to “School Day,” which was intended to mimic a school bell. According to Berry, the “‘Johnny’ in the song is more or less myself”; certainly, the third verse, inspired according to Berry by his own mother's prediction about his musical career, is Berry's story set to music. And, in case we miss the autobiographical point, Berry adds the extra “e” to the protagonist's name to remind his listeners of the street in St. Louis where he was born. The song also had another meaning for Berry and Johnnie Johnson. Berry has admitted that the he “wrote it intending it to be a song for Johnnie Johnson,” as the title, according to the pianist, came from when we used to tour….
A lot of times after we'd get finished with a show, I'd go out to the clubs and sit in with the local groups…. The problem was, we had a schedule to keep, and I'd get caught up playin' and drinkin'. By the time I finally dragged on in, the rest of the bands would be gone! A couple of times I had to call Chess and have them wire me some money so I could get on a bus and catch up with them. I'd get there just in time for the show and Chuck would be shakin' his head askin' me, “Why can't you just be good, Johnnie? Stay with us.”
Pegg, Bruce. Brown Eyed Handsome Man: The Life and Hard Times of Chuck Berry Taylor and Francis.
Photo: Michael Ochs Archives
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Chuck Berry - Maybellene (live 1958)
Chuck Berry – Maybellene (live 1958)
21 May 1955, Chuck Berry recorded ‘Maybellene’ at Universal Recording Studios, Chicago, Illinois. The song adapted in part from the Western swing fiddle tune ‘Ida Red’ is said to be one of the first rock and roll songs. The track became Berry’s debut single release in July of this year where it peaked at No.5 on the US chart. https://youtu.be/v124f0i0Xh4
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Diana's caption on her Facebook: "Two year olds out on an adventure! Quincy and Maybellene are in “twin mode”❤️ Adorable ❤️"
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