first mature rock'n'roll lyrics

Subject: first mature rock'n'roll lyrics
From: gloopy
Date: 06 Dec 01 - 07:41 AM

We all know that before Bob Dylan came along all Rock'n'roll sang about was girls&boys, cars, purple people eaters, blue suede shoes, but mostly rock'n'roll. Any nominations for early rock'n'roll songs with,let us say, a broader outlook? some starters: Too much monkey business (Still very teen age) Some Place Green (this may have passed for r'n'r, its unlikely to have passed as folk) lemon tree (ditto) Memphis Tennessee (maybe)

Subject: RE: first mature rock'n'roll lyrics
From: fat B****rd
Date: 06 Dec 01 - 04:33 PM

Summertime Blues anybody ?????

Subject: RE: first mature rock'n'roll lyrics
From: Arbuthnot
Date: 06 Dec 01 - 04:51 PM

Bo Diddeley - Before you accuse me, Nursery Rhyme, and the utterly immortal Reach for the Sky. Randy Newman's SImon Smith and the amazing Dancing Bear. Riot in Cell Block No.9 (Lieber/Stoller), 1954, The Robins - that early enough for you?

Subject: RE: first mature rock'n'roll lyrics
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 06 Dec 01 - 05:09 PM

Want obscure, do you? How About Troubles Are Not At End, by the Penguins. I heard someone sing that at a coffee house, passing it off as a blues. Depends of course on how you define Rock and Roll.

Jerry

Subject: RE: first mature rock'n'roll lyrics
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 06 Dec 01 - 05:18 PM

Wake up little Suzy - our reputations are shot.....

LTS

Subject: RE: first mature rock'n'roll lyrics
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 06 Dec 01 - 05:26 PM

Sweet Little Sixteen... Chuck Berry

Mature subject matter, first song about groupies that I know of.

Hound Dog, Especially Big Momma Thornton's version.

It would depends also on where you draw the line between Rock and Roll and Blues.

Subject: RE: first mature rock'n'roll lyrics
From: 53
Date: 06 Dec 01 - 06:35 PM

BEATLES, MAN BEATLES, YOU SHOULD KNOW THAT, EVERTHING BEFORE THAT WAS JUST PLAYING AT IT, BEATLES MAN, BEATLES. BOB

Subject: RE: first mature rock'n'roll lyrics
From: 53
Date: 06 Dec 01 - 10:45 PM

COME ON YOU GUYS, NOW SHOW US YOUR ROCK AND ROLL SPIRIT. BOB

Subject: RE: first mature rock'n'roll lyrics
From: Joe Offer
Date: 06 Dec 01 - 10:51 PM

In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida, of course....

Subject: RE: first mature rock'n'roll lyrics
From: 53
Date: 06 Dec 01 - 10:54 PM

ALL RIGHT JOE THAT'S A GREAT ONE. BOB

Subject: RE: first mature rock'n'roll lyrics
From: ddw
Date: 06 Dec 01 - 10:57 PM

The Beatles?! They didn't do mature R'n'R, they just took the good old stuff, mixed it with Pablum and spoonfed it to the bubblegum set of the day. On the days I'll admit they wrote one or two good songs among them — I mean, "Yellow Submarine" or "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" and all the stuff they brought back from whatever La-La land they inhabited could hardly quality — they were way past R'n'R and into something that resembled it only in that it used the same musical scales.

I thought this thread was about music.....

david

Subject: RE: first mature rock'n'roll lyrics
From: Amos
Date: 06 Dec 01 - 11:10 PM

Green Door, Honeycomb, Hernando's Hideaway, You Butterfly, This Old House, Hot Diggety Dog Diggety....oh, and the real soupy ones like Love Forever True and Anastasia....

Subject: RE: first mature rock'n'roll lyrics
From: Bert
Date: 06 Dec 01 - 11:41 PM

How far back do you wanna go? 'Move it on over' is fairly mature even though it is humorous. Came out in 1948.