Liz Winquest May 27, 2011 3rd hour Elvis Presley’s Rise to Fame This project gave me the opportunity to research the rise to fame of the legend of rock and roll, Elvis Presley. Elvis Presley has always captured my attention with his music, his handsome looks, and his famous dancing. Before this project I knew a lot on Elvis Presley but after this project I learned so much more about his journey and how he became the legend he is today. When Elvis Presley was born on January 8th, 1955 he suffered the loss of his twin brother at birth. Elvis would live his life feeling guilty for the loss of his brother and some of his music reflected that.
Elvis Aaron Presleya (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977) was one of the most popular American singers of the 20th century. A cultural icon, he is widely known by the single name Elvis. He is often referred to as the "King of Rock and Roll" or simply "the King". Born in Tupelo, Mississippi, Presley moved to Memphis, Tennessee, with his family at the age of 13. He began his career there in 1954, working with Sun Records owner Sam Phillips, who wanted to bring the sound of African American music to a wider audience.
Adds Isaac, “We’ll always be a bit rootsy ‘cause it’s in the Oklahoma soil (the state is also home to artists like Bob Wills, Woody Guthrie and the versatile Leon Russell), but what we’ve never stopped aspiring to is the great songwriters and performers who struck a chord with us first, that early rock ‘n’ rock roll and soul music from Chuck Berry to Otis Redding. We’ve rediscovered that aspiration on this record. There’s a little more swing and a little more
I never knew that so many bands were formed during this era and that each one had very talented musicians from all walks of life. I enjoyed reading about Lester Young whose father was a minstrel-show musician. Lester Young played with Walter Page’s “Blue Devils” and “The Bennie Moten-George Lee Band”. Some of Young’s idols growing up were Frankie Trumbauer and Bix Beiderbecke. Lester Young joined the Fletcher Henderson orchestra to replace Coleman Hawkins but didn’t stay very long due to his lack of loud, resonant, and vibrato-laden tone that Hawkins displayed as referred to on (p.265).
Playing many a Songwriters Night in Nashville, hung out with many a great writer and singer, Whom many have gone on to become mega stars. To drop just one name, Tim McGraw. Adam also befriended some of nashville and Country Music most legendary names. Waylon Jennings, George Jones, David Allan Coe, Merle Haggard, John Anderson and Willie Nelson. having a powerful connection to those men helped alot.
At an early age he got married to a Virginia Travis who was 16 at the time. Virginia and their first born son passed away during childbirth. “It all started because of Johnson's uncanny mastery of the guitar. A small-boned man with long, slightly webbed fingers, Johnson earned respect and kept fights at bay with his astonishing musicianship. Johnson may have had eidetic memory for music -- the ability to hear and then recall music with unusual precision.
Frank is sure that Mac is the serial killer and declares that he is going to torture Mac. However, Dennis and Dee think that Mac isn't smart enough to be the serial killer. After leaving the bar, Frank and Charlie follow Mac trying to figure out what he's been up to. It turns out that Mac has been visiting Carmen the Tranny. The two of them are dating, but no one knows yet.
He learned to play with his teeth because he saw other people doing it and he did not want to be upstaged. His first recording was in 1964 with the Isley brothers on a single called “Testify.” Early in 1966 Jimi Hendrix met Linda Keith in a club on Broadway on 53rd Street. She told him about a man named Chas Chandler who was looking for talent to manage and produce. Chandler helped Jimi form a new band called The Jimi Hendrix Experience. They played together until 1969 when bass player Noel Redding left the band.
The two jammed at lunch time scaring fellow guitarists with their loud and heavy sounds before a guy called Hugh Tanner was seen carrying around part of a flying V guitar at school. Phantom Lord was born with Hugh on guitar, Mulligan on drums and James singing plus playing guitar. The group went through a few bass players until graduation when James moved back to Downey.Back in Downey, James moved into a house owned by Ron McGovney's parents that was slated for demolition due to an expressway expansion. It was the perfect place for James and Ron to crash, rehearse and jam. James talked Ron into taking up bass, Phantom Lord was no more and the third band under Hetfield's leadership.
As it did with my mom and dad, even with their disparate early influences. They probably both took to the brand of early rock that was closest to their "roots" but I'm guessing my mom, even with her southern roots and my grandma's racism, went from rockabilly, with its southern roots to Little Richard, with its southern r&b/gospel roots, quite easily and loved rock n roll until she died.