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2007-01-28 09:43:05 · 7 answers · asked by ? 6 in Entertainment & Music Music

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IT WOULD HAVE TO BE THESE FELLOWS:


Scotty Moore and Bill Black were the musicians who backed Elvis and they were members of a band called the Starlite Wranglers. They regularly played on weekends at the Bon Air club on Summer Avenue in east Memphis.

Winfield Scott "Scotty" Moore III (born December 27, 1931 near Gadsden, Tennessee) is a legendary American guitarist and member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He is best known for his backing of Elvis Presley in the first part of his career, between 1954 and the beginning of Elvis' Hollywood years.

Scotty Moore learned to play the guitar from family and friends at eight years of age. Although underaged when he enlisted, Moore served in the United States Navy between 1948 and 1952.
Moore's early background was in jazz and country music. A fan of guitarist Chet Atkins, Moore led a group called the "Starlite Wranglers" before Sam Phillips at Sun Records put him together with then teenage Elvis Presley. In 1954, Moore and double bassist Bill Black accompanied Elvis on what was going to be the first legendary Presley hit, the Sun Studios session cut of "That's All Right (Mama)", a recording regarded as a seminal event in rock and roll history. Elvis, Black and Scotty Moore then formed the "Blue Moon Boys". They were later joined by drummer D.J. Fontana. Beginning in July of 1954, the "Blue Moon Boys" toured and recorded throughout the American South and as Presley's popularity rose, they toured the United States and made appearances in various Presley television shows and motion pictures.
Moore played on many of Presley's most famous recordings including "Good Rockin' Tonight", "Baby Let's Play House", "Heartbreak Hotel", "Mystery Train", "Hound Dog", "Too Much" and "Jailhouse Rock", with the backing group The Jordanaires.
In the 1960s, Moore released a solo album called The Guitar That Changed the World. He performed on the NBC television special called Elvis Presley's '68 Comeback Special.
While with Presley, Moore initially played a Gibson ES-295, before switching to a Gibson L5 and subsequently a Gibson Super 400.

For his pioneering contribution, Moore has been recognized by the Rockabilly Hall of Fame. In 2000, he was also inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

William "Bill" Patton Black, Jr. (September 17, 1926 – October 21, 1965) was an American musician.

Born in Memphis, Tennessee. In July of 1954, Bill Black played bass ('slapped/rockabilly' upright double) with guitarist Scotty Moore while Elvis Presley sang "That's All Right (Mama)" in a Sun Studios session in Memphis that is considered a seminal event in the history of Rock and Roll.
Bill would go on to play double bass on early Presley recordings including "Good Rockin' Tonight", "Heartbreak Hotel", "Baby Let's Play House", "Mystery Train", "That's All Right", "Hound Dog",and eventually became one of the first bass players to utilize the electric bass in popular music on "Jailhouse Rock" in the late 1950's.
Bill continued to work with Presley until 1958, leaving his band in large part due to disputes over financial terms. Bill and guitarist Scotty Moore had taken one-quarter of the royalties at the outset of Presley's career, but even after Presley had rocketed to stardom with RCA starting in 1956, they were on a mere 200 dollars/week wage.
Although guitarist Scotty Moore would eventually work with Presley again, Bill never did, joining a Memphis group that evolved into Bill Black's Combo in 1959. Their instrumental "Smokie," released late that year, made the Top Ten.
Bill Black's Combo stuck to the formula of "Smokie" for many of their subsequent singles: a basic shuffle beat, simple bluesy R&B riffs, and some rinky-dink organ and smoky saxophone lines on top. They weren't too imaginative, but they were quite successful, placing eight singles in the Top 40 between 1959 and 1962, including "White Silver Sands," "Josephine," "Don't Be Cruel," "Blue Tango," and "Hearts of Stone." Their sales were greatly boosted by the suitability of their instrumental rock for background music at bars, clubs, and diners, with many of their discs placed in jukeboxes.

Bill died of a brain tumor in 1965 at the age of thirty-nine and is buried in "Forest Hill Cemetery" in Memphis, Tennessee.

2007-01-28 09:56:01 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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2016-03-29 06:52:50 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Rock Around the Clock" is a rock n' roll song from 1952, written by Max C. Freedman and James E. Myers (the latter under the pseudonym "Jimmy De Knight"). Although first recorded by Sonny Dae & the Knights, the more famous version by Bill Haley & His Comets is not, strictly speaking, a cover version, as Myers claimed the song had been written specifically for Haley, but for various reasons Haley was unable to record it himself until 1954. Although probably not the first rock and roll record (according to some musical historians, that honor belongs to Haley's cover version of the 1951 rhythm and blues hit, "Rocket 88"), it is the first recording to be universally acknowledged as a rock and roll record. It is considered by many to be the song that put rock and roll on the map in America and around the world. The lyrics were based on numerous blues tunes boasting of 24-hour-long romantic prowess (the term rock initially having had a sexual meaning), but in Haley's hands they took on a more innocent teenage atmosphere of dancing all night long.

2007-01-28 09:46:47 · answer #3 · answered by Haley 3 · 0 0

Bill Haley and the Comets.
He is on Television tonight in "Rock around the Clock' 1957

Sme say Buddy Holly and the crickets.

2007-01-28 09:46:44 · answer #4 · answered by Jimfix 5 · 0 0

Bill Haley and the Comets was the first I can remember

2007-01-28 09:48:52 · answer #5 · answered by Marvin R 7 · 0 0

Bill Haley and the Comets.

2007-01-28 09:45:49 · answer #6 · answered by John G 4 · 0 0

What do you mean? I guess it is Bill Haley and the Comets according to what everyone here said.

2007-01-28 09:51:45 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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