The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #95180   Message #1849830
Posted By: fumblefingers
04-Oct-06 - 01:52 AM
Thread Name: Eddie Cochran's Birthday
Subject: RE: Eddie Cochran's Birthday
I like them all. But any of them would tell you, and I've read what many of them have said, "We owe it all to Elvis."

Harold Jenkins is another one who doesn't get much credit. He didn't get anywhere until he changed his name to Conway Twitty. I have a couple of his original rockabilly tracks from 1950.

Nobody mentioned Bill Haley. "Rock around the clock" is sometimes mentioned as the first rock and roll song.

By the time Chubby Checker came along in the sixties, rock and roll had changed and I lost interest. I went back to my country roots.