Lyr Add: The Rock and Roll Waltz (Kay Starr)

Subject: Lyr Add: THE ROCK AND ROLL WALTZ
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 15 Jun 04 - 03:00 AM

Rock and Roll Waltz

- Artist: Kay Starr
- allegedly # 16 song of the 1955-1959 rock era
- # 1 for 6 weeks in 1956
- Words by Roy Alfred and Music by Shorty Allen


One night I was late, came home from a date
Slipped out of my shoes at the door
Then from the front room, I heard a jump tune
I looked in and here's what I saw

There in the night what a wonderful scene
Mom was dancing with Dad to my record machine
And while they danced, only one thing was wrong
They were trying to waltz to a rock and roll song!

a-one, two, and then rock
a-one, two, and then roll
They did the rock and roll waltz
a-rock, two, three, a-roll, two, three
It looked so cute to me
I love the rock and roll waltz

a-one, two, and then rock
a-one, two, and then roll
a-one, two, and then jump
It's good for your soul
It's old but it's new
Let's do the rock and roll waltz

There in the night what a wonderful scene
Mom was dancing with Dad to my record machine
And while they danced, only one thing was wrong
They were trying to waltz to a rock and roll song!

a-one, two, and then rock
a-one, two, and then roll
a-one, two, and then jump
It's good for your soul
It's old but it's new
Let's do the rock and roll waltz
Let's do the rock and roll waltz



A really nice midi is at
http://www.mamarocks.com/rock_and_roll_waltz.htm

You can usually organise to transcribe (for study purposes only) a sheet music version from a MIDI file...

Robin

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The Rock and Roll Waltz
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 15 Jun 04 - 03:12 AM

A further Google search reveals several sites with Country or Line Dance Steps to this Song.

Robin

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The Rock and Roll Waltz
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 15 Jun 04 - 07:18 AM

WHY ?

eric

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The Rock and Roll Waltz
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 15 Jun 04 - 09:11 AM

Because they CAN, I suppose... :-)

I would prefer to hear this tune rather than 'Achy-Breaky-Heart', anyway...

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The Rock and Roll Waltz
From: GUEST,Lindswidder
Date: 15 Jun 04 - 06:25 PM

not a folk song, and has no business to be here

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The Rock and Roll Waltz
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 15 Jun 04 - 08:51 PM

It's 50 years old, and the folk still like it - even written a 'folk dance' to it... :-)

Robin

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The Rock and Roll Waltz
From: Snuffy
Date: 16 Jun 04 - 09:32 AM

not a folk song, and has no business to be here

Same apply to other even more modern stuff by people making money from writing songs like Dylan, Bogle, Rogers, etc, etc?

Your folk is what you want it to be, and mine is what I want it to be - only folk-nazis have no business to be here

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The Rock and Roll Waltz
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 16 Jun 04 - 09:56 AM

All songs [ except rap crap ] are proper here.
eric

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The Rock and Roll Waltz
From: MMario
Date: 16 Jun 04 - 10:04 AM

I'd say it is an example of an art song that may well pass into the folk song catagory - it is a singable song that people tend to learn

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The Rock and Roll Waltz
From: Tracey Dragonsfriend
Date: 16 Jun 04 - 10:42 AM

The blues (which I believe is where Mudcat started, and they were surely the folk songs of their day?) gave us rock & roll, gave us modern rock, gave us... and so on! Everything grows into everything else...

Cheers
Tracey Dragonsfriend
Scorch's Pyrography