The Rock 'n' Roll Trio - Lonesome Train

[suiceyedshift]

Is that Alan Freed introducing them?

[BasslappinMama]

Don't think so, Otis. This guy is left handed, Bill Black wasn't.

[zappasmoon]

man this was when music was real

[h6425]

taken from the movie rock rock rock

[MrGotsquashed]

@h6425 THANKS!

[kerjan1]

the king

[Exakta66]

Cool...:)

[roundman53]

I got to know Paul Burlison very well!!! A great man and guitarist!

[hornetobiker]

Biker music.

[jaromir1942]

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[jaromir1942]

Johnny Burnette and his Rock and Roll Trio and their great hit Lonesome Train

in the shot from movie Rock,Rock,Rock.Johnny is one of my best favourites of

Rock and Roll Stars.It is a pity,that tragic died so young.He had would be

second Elvis.Jaromír 68 years from Prague

[hornetobiker]

@jaromir1942 Maybe he died right on time?

[julces1943]

@jaromir1942 I´m julces1943 from Argentina.I´m 68 too. The only song I knew from Johnny Burnette was All by miself, now, thanks to You Tube I´m listening his brilliant production. By the way, I still dance Lonesome train in places where my wife and I go to dance. We call them "milongas"

[bartlettohio]

Just for your information...a mint copy of The Rock n Roll Trio album is worth about 15,000 bucks today....

[clawawhile1]

paul burlison is the king of rockabilly guitar!! and I love gallup and scotty but hes just the master xxx

[whest]

@clawawhile1 Paul Burlison is not playing here-he is just miming to the record.

The guitar you are hearing is actually played by Grady Martin.

[hepcat50s]

RAW N WILD ROCKABILLY!!

[MrELVIS2]

HI,Super super super,pozdrawiam MrElvis2 (POLAND) :):):)

[dburlison1]

@backthisway..On the Trio's classic.."Train Kept Rollin" there are actually two guitars..easy to pick up..P. Burlison was playing the fuzz/distortion octaves, as he did on "Honey Hush"..who played the leads on the rest of the Nashville cuts I don't think anyone can say for sure..

[kerjan1]

pure

[TheSnidge]

Guitar on this tune also 'Honey Hush' 'Train Kept 'a 'Rollin' ect ect is 100% Grady Martin,don't believe otherwise!

[dburlison1]

@TheSnidge GM's own web pages say his first distortion/fuzz tone was in 1961-Marty Robbins-"Don't Worry".. nothing like the trio's..Name one song where GM created the Fuzz tone octaves.. as on Train kept Rollin- Honey Hush..when P. Burlison was not in the studio.before or after...Also you can hear two guitars on both those classics if you listen closely..

[TheSnidge]

@dburlison1 There is one guitar on Honey Hush and Grady Martin is playing it.

He used the same pattern on I'm Coming Home by Johnny Horton-check the intro.

Also Everybodys Trying to Be My Baby by York Brothers.

I don't know why you keep on about Marty Robbins-thats fuzz tone-the Burnette records just have a distortion on one string.

[dburlison1]

@TheSnidge I guess you were there in 1956...I'm sorry but you and I know that GM never produced the unique fuzz/ distortion found on the trio's records,.. He tryed on M. Robbins-Don't Worry..Ck out Johnny Carrol's..WilD Wild Women and Crazy Crazy Loving ..to hear what GM rockabilly gutar sounded like w/out P. Burlison

[TheSnidge]

@dburlison1 The Johnny Carroll stuff on YouTube is not with Grady-it's live with some kid on guitar.

We can hear Paul Burlison on live Tear It Up and Ted Mack.

I can sign my name on a Picasso but its still a Picasso.

Grady Martin played on them records.

[dburlison1]

@TheSnidge There is a couple of youtube submissions of Johnny Carrol's "records" Wild, Wild Women" Crazzy Crazy Loving..All featuring grady Martins 1956 rockabilly licks without the trio..just listen to them all..same guitar licks

[dkfelix]

@dburlison1 Listen to Don Woody's "Barking Up the Wrong Tree", "Morse Code", "Make Like a Rock'n'Roll" Bobby Helm's "Tennessee Rock 'n' Roll" and Ronnie Self's "Pretty Bad Blues"you will find the same tone as on the Burnette recordings from Nashville. Did your father play on them too?

The mentoined Marty Robbins recording is a whole different form of fuzz

I respect your father especially on the live audio clips but I don't think he did the recordings - here's how to play "Train kept "

[dburlison1]

@dkfelix My dad P. Burlison in 1956 played on one album..The Rock and Rol Trio's Classic cut in NY and Nashville..The producer,(including Owen Bradley Nashville)and publisher noted this on the album credits..Note that the songsyou mentioned(Don Woody) were recorded after the trio's summer of 1956 cut.

The issue is that GM never produced the Fuzz/distortion unique to the trio's sound..not before or after..GM webpages say 1961 M Robbins was GM's first fuzz.. nothing like the trio's..

[dkfelix]

@dburlison1 You are just repeating, what you wrote previous. and not really answering Credits are not always credible and you still haven't convinced me, from what you write here.

[backthisway]

@dburlison1 album credits were wrong .. simple as that. It is very obvous which tracks are GM and even which parts .. i can play them too ... I will list them if anyone wants track by track .. second by second ... along with comparative recordings from Grady and the slew foot five and live TV with red Foley a few years before Johnny Burnette entered the studio ... there is no room for much discussion as to which gtr player is which .. it is easy to identify.

[kiely]

damn, i would love to see/ hear this.

too bad the sound is so far outta sync it is unwatchable. this is easily corrected but someone has to care ... at least a little.

[623598]

A rockabilly classic from the father of the genre.

[dburlison1]

Johnny not singing the same audio on the video..youtube magic

[dburlison1]

Also...I challenge anyone to come up with a Grady Martin Song where he dupicated the Fuzz octaves in some of the trios greatest hits on their album...GM own webpage says his first fuzz tones were played on Marty Robbin's hit "Don't worry" listen to GM fuzz tones on Marty Robbin's 1961song..the trios album was cut in 1956..single track

[dburlison1]

The Hound Dog You Tube..By the way..where did this sound trak come from..can anyone verify it is my dad.P. Burlison and the original and not a doctored version..I never heard it before...Ck the oricanal NY recordings.."Tear it up""O baby babe"..no doubt my dad in NY...and then make your decison...

[dburlison1]

P. Burlisons son here...To say empahticlly that Grady Martin played lead on most of the trios albums is a great injustice to my father..He was playing rockabilly daily in NY(Hernry Jerome's nat'l radio show for almost a yr before the nashville session and before Nasville Knew a glue abot rackabilly.. The raw. unquie energy of the trios songs was for original rocabillies..nt nashville cats of 56..

[rivermedia]

Dang, this would be so much more enjoyable if the sound was in synch.

[wangdangdoddle]

What an absolute sensation!!!!

[OtisBlue22]

I'm pretty sure that's Bill Black's (Elvis' bass player in the 1950s) brother, Johnny Black, on the bass, replacing Dorsey Burnette after a feud between the two brothers.

[broons1892]

raw sound rockabilly grrrrrrrreat stuff

better than his sugar sweet releases

[BrentfordfanChris]

the best

[dkfelix]

I wonder, if there are any clips somewhere from the talent shows they competed in besides the one with "Hound Dog"

[harpozzz]

thank god for alan freed and the trio-dick clark would have us still listining to donny osmond and pat boone --if anyone sees dick clark tell him to kill himself greedy tasteless m.f. you suck beyond words!

[kerjan1]

The Best

[nancythetall]

I was listening to my Carl Perkins Pandora station and this song came on. His voice just knocked me on my ass!

[SecretAgentSlothman]

aw damn, it's totally ouf of synch! This is a total classic...what a shame.

[marvy1118]

nice solo

[jackvance65]

100 % pure Rockabilly

[tedygarl]

Is this Grady Martin playing the guitar and Paul Burlison who is seen on the video with his Tele?

[jamesabilly]

Grady Martin played guitar on this song & the early Burnett sides such as "Rockabilly Boogie", "Honey Hush", "Train Kept a Rollin'", etc. Paul Burlison is pictured here but they are only lip synching/pretending to play to the studio track. Burlison appeared on later cuts that The Trio recorded but the classic raunch on the early sides was compliments of Grady accompanied by his "A-Team" partners in crime Bob Moore & Buddy Harmon.

[tedygarl]

No. Exactly on these three tracks Paul Burlison played the guitar and NOT Grady Martin ;)

But Grady Martin played the guitar in songs like Lonesome Train or Please Don't Leave Me.

You can read it on the "Rockabilly Guitar Page".

[jamesabilly]

Sorry, but there is far more mis-info on this subject posted online than there is truth & you have obviously read some of it. I happen to be friends with Bob Moore(The "A-Team" bass player on these cuts) & Tal Martin(Grady Martin's son) & know what I'm talking about My Friend. Aside from that, one can use their own ear to easily identify Grady's playing if they dig a little deeper & hear his playing on earlier records that he did on his own. His style & licks are clearly present on these songs.

[dkfelix]

yes like they are on recordings made by Johnny Caroll and Don Woody among others.

[kennyboiwilliams]

@jamesabilly That is absolutely right!! Everybody out there, please just LISTEN to the sound of the guitar and the way it was picked. That aint nobody but Grady Martin!

Grady Martin played lead on ALL of them tracks recorded in Nashville 1956/57 engineered by Owen Bradley. I doubt that Burlison was ever present during the sessions and also I believe that Martin even dubbed the second guitar. There was and will be only one guy with that sound.

[backthisway]

NO .. that is incorrect ... those 3 tracks mentioned were NOT Burlison .. they wre Grady Martin .. Bob Moore was the bass player .. he is still alive and his wife has his session diaries .. it was Bob and Grady.

[ThingintheAttic]

Yes tedygarl, it is widely agreed that Burlisson did not play on very many of Johnny Burnett's recordings, although he was happy to take the credit for many many years.

Grady Martin played this track, and many others

[dkfelix]

Yess!

[tedygarl]

i like Johnny's way of singing. He really rocks

[californiasweet]

these guys really rock`s

[CHELSAMANDER]

what a babe

[freddysouth]

one of my preferit rockabilly singers!

[nicomocoroa]

gebial, que ritmo por dios

[rockabillybaby4]

gotta love em!!

[krijnvannoordwijk]

Yeah nice. But could you please sync it?

[anitadavideduo]

Johnny Burnette's Rock 'n' Roll Trio!!!!!!!

We love them!!!

[cathodeangel]

One of my all-time favourtie rockabilly songs.

[ElComadreja777]

A real shame they aren't well remembered these days.

[F7CKFROG]

very nice