Roy Brown - Good Rockin' Tonight 1947

[CoryCat1965]

Song WAS written by Roy brown

[TPBXDRicky420]

Great!

[BigRedDog71]

awesome no dislikes

[rockinron40]

Wynonie Harris recorded a more rock'n'roll sounding version of this song a year earlier in 1946 and it's here on youtube too,check it out!

[EbonyBunny1]

@rockinron40 No. This is the original from 1947. Roy Brown wrote and first recorded this song. Wynonie Harris' version is from 1948 & is a cover.

[1954771]

This version is more boogie woogie - Elvis's rockabilly,they're just different.

There's nothing blues in the lyrics-it's too upbeat.

[dru42or3]

@1954771 IT'S CALLED JUMP BLUES. IT'S STILL A BLUES PROGRESSION JUST JUMPED UP RHYTHM. 1-4-1-2-5-1 IT'S A SCHMOOSED UP BLUES

[rockabillygone]

Flat out great stuff!

[MusicMadGuy2010]

Wasn't there talk of dj Alan Freed coining the phrase 'Rock & Roll' ?, I don't know, I just heard that somewhere...

[2nl5]

@MusicMad Alan Freed may of been the 1st white guy to say it on the radio,over all don't think so. The term means sex been in the black community for very long time.

[AllBobsAllTheTime]

@2nl5 Great point - that's probably one of the reasons why rock & roll music scared the hell out of a lot of older blacks in the 50s and many black artists shied away from using the term to describe their tunes.

[EbonyBunny1]

@2nl5 The term is from the mid 1800's & had nothing to do with sex. It was a nautical term when the seas were rough on the Atlantic Ocean & the "Rocking and Rolling" of the ship. That's where you get things like rocking chair from. By the early 1900's the term started being used in black literature & songs as a euphemism for sex. By the late '20's early '30's the term started to mean fast dancing. But it was Allen Freed, in the early '50's, who first used the term to describe music.

[tumadrewey123]

the pioneer of rock and roll!

[ownaylah1]

i thought he says daddy's gonna rock it tonight, but any ways, great song and version xx

[MAGICO240]

Elvis version is another song,H e could have claimed autorship.

[cobdog455]

gotta love the classics

[EXIDEBANDENGLAND]

when you listen to modern metal bands and at concerts everyone goes round shouting rock n roll i bet most of them have never heard this

[kylewitherspoon]

This is the first reference to sex in Music, and the origin of the term Rock N Roll....

[1337DiscGolf]

@kylewitherspoon Definitely not the first reference to sex, some of the women hired to sing blues sang of some pretty raunchy stuff. Also, the first time the term Rock n Roll was used was not in this. The Boswell sisters coined the phrase while playing on cruise ships, referring to the motion of the sea and the boat. Ella Fitzgerald was the first to actually use the term Rock n Roll to describe a style of music, who greatly admired the Boswell's. Just a brief history! :)

[kylewitherspoon]

@1337DiscGolf Didn't know that..I stand corrected

[trtomthedrummer2]

@kylewitherspoon I think you better hit the books and do your homework...this is definitely neither the first reference to sex in music nor the origin of the term Rock & Roll!

[TheDJGrandPa]

@kylewitherspoon Hahahahaha, get outta here, like right now.

[sphillipsize]

You are so correct!

[wkunzelman1]

He makes a reference to another song by himself called "Mighty, Mighty Man."

[lNHUMANE]

@wkunzelman1 "mighty, mighty man" is heard in a lot of his songs.

[electrohippy68]

excellent!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Andrew0you0tube]

No)))

[TheGreatCommie]

@Andrew0you0tube yes, its blues, but rock n' roll started out of the blues

[Andrew0you0tube]

Classic Rock-n-roll!!!

[alteredoptions]

@Andrew0you0tube this is blues...

[bario12349]

Oh come on guys. Elvis was practically a blues singer, in his own way of course. Besides nobody can ever top the original anything. EVER

[30powerbmwe]

@bario12349 Actually, ELVIS and his band were a three piece rockabilly band and ROY BROWN is and always will be rythem and blues

[busessuck1]

I'd like to think that when you people get too old to use youtube most people will start to forget about Elvis and appreciate the original performers more... all thanks to the democratic power of youtube and shit

[54markl]

It says 1946. This has to be the first rock 'n roll record ever, the very beginning. If this is the beginning, rock'n roll is now more than fifty years old! He's not doing too bad for an old guy. It's still going strong, no end in sight. Thanks, Roy Brown, for starting one of the biggest things in the world. It really will stand!

[jazzmicke]

Roy Brown wrote and recorded the song in late 1947. It was first offered to Wynonie Harris who'd turned it down. But when he realised Roy had some sucess on the local R&B-charts, Wynonie recorded and released his version, which did much better than Roy's original. Roy Brown also did a more electric rocking version in the mid/late 1950's.

[ginger1959able]

Till he was made bankrupt by the irs Roy,s biggest source of income was royalties from Elvis,s cover of this check out him out doing Rockabilly Hip Shakin Baby on Imperial written by the Burnette Brothers.

[MrGreglaw]

Great version! Was this the first version ever recorded??

[jpsmart59]

Rock 'n' roll was born from black musicians and gospel and R&B were the influences of it. In fact, rock 'n' roll was another for R&B. But white artists

like Elvis made it seem like they invented it and Bill Haley & The Comets,

Buddy Holly, but no, they didn't event it or the Beatles.

[MVillani1985]

@jpsmart59 Actually, Elvis himself acknowledged that he didn't invent it. He said in an interview that rock and roll was around a good while before him. Overall it's a good point, rock and roll was invented in the mid to late 40s by black musicians mixing jump blues with gospel and some of their own energy. But rock and roll was an evolution, both the black, white, Hispanic, etc performers had a hand in its evolution.

[thisgalaintdancinmr]

:-) used to play elvis version as a little girl and now glad to find the other, older ones.

Thank You for uploading!

[alsgil]

This song really was reccorded in 1947 by DeLuxe records..

[mustangboy66]

Just listen to it a and enjoy it, or don't. We can't possibly know what dead people's thoughts were, only our own.

[MVillani1985]

This song I consider the first rock and roll song ever made.

[lucieppe]

Elvis version is more ... rocky... Can't compare the two version. Both are fine.

[angelratziel666]

@lucieppe elvis version as been recorded 10 years later

[rbound827]

@lucieppe Because Elvis added his Hillbilly influence to it, which is why it's called Rockabilly

[NoVARon2]

Roy offered to Wynonie before recording it himself. Not sure of I would call Wynonie's rendition definitive, but was also a great one.

[nealfoster]

great original - definitive version is by Wynonie Harris, check it out

[collareddove7]

I like it more than Elvis's version. :3

[barbequebobmaglinte]

Roy Brown is absolutely essential listening when it comes to Jump blues.

[MAGICO240]

Elvis version was rock and roll, this version is jazz.

[withoutremorse]

@MAGICO240 No, this is rhythm & blues, foo'

[MrBluesrules]

So, Rock N Roll goes way way way way back even before Justin?

[sopaman1234]

@MrBluesrules jajajajajaja i hope that's just a joke!!!

[TheYamome]

Not the Elvis version, w00t!

[kevlar21059]

good artists borrow,great artists steal, re :EA Presley

[godsangelfella]

@kevlar21059

uuhhh i think picasso was the one to say that...wasnt it?

[kevlar21059]

@godsangelfella It's possible,I heard it in the film "Soul Men" from the gangsta rapper character "The Court Jester".

[thebluesrevival]

@kevlar21059 Come on. Presley had the utmost respect for the blues and r&b greats, and he was sharply aware of the fact that he was being made an icon instead of the musicians he admired. What should be recognized as the true crime is that the record and publishing companies withheld royalties from the original songwriters, something that was out of Elvis' hands.

[kevlar21059]

@thebluesrevival You're correct,if it wasn't for Mr. Presley,I probably would not have heard of these blues cats.

[TheStrainers]

@kevlar21059 well put man.

[TheStrainers]

@thebluesrevival thank you for saying the truth

[henley65]

@thebluesrevival Agreed! 100%

[teddibearsworld]

@kevlar21059 Read a little. You might learn a bit about what you're talking about.

[jmacbops]

No disrespect to Wynonie Harris (who did a great cover) but there's nothing like the original. Roy Brown will always be a mighty, mighty man.

[funkstagazza]

its sad people forget where it all started you rockin fans.

[dru42or3]

THE ORIGINAL ROCK AND ROLL! Sue City Sue!

[xSirFarisx]

d_(^_^)_b Thumbs Up for the upload

[chronicebonics]

Thanks for the upload.