Rockabilly
Mix
of Rythm & Blues, Country and Western, this genre had as beginers
names like Carl Perkns and Bill Haley and the Comets. In 1955, Bill Haley
recorded the single (We're gonna) Rock Around the Clock, which sold more
than 22 million copies in the USA and introduced the boys of those years
to the allucinant rythm of original Rock and Roll. It was the birthday
of Rock and Roll. Rockabilly is a tender nickname which even today is
given to the idolls of the good and old Rock and Roll. It is like to say
"Route Rock". Other names from this period msut be remembered
such as Ricky
Nelson, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, The Everly Brothers,
Chuck Berry, Eddie Cochran, Buddy Holly and Gene Vincent.
Tehre are some Rockabilly bands use to mix elements of other genres like
Punk - creating the so-called Psychobilly, which is very well represented
by The Cramps.
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