Arthur Crudup - That's All Right (original version)

[aceshighsays]

this is great

[54markl]

Awesome!

[richardmbowman]

THIS was the song that "launched" the rock and roll movement. And it was only an accident that Elvis recorded it and Sam Phillips heard and released it in 1954. History was made. I say an accident, because (legend has it) Phillips had once said "If I could find a white boy who could sing "black", I'd make a million bucks." He obviously found what he was lookin' for.

[SolidOptic]

The Father of Rock 'N Roll

[35BluesMan]

I'M FROM FOREST( SAME PLACE AS "BIG BOY" CRUDUP). ELVIS DID HIS THING AND BIG BOY CRUDUP KNEW HE WASN'T GONNA RECEIVE ROYALTIES. I DON'T THINK HE LOST ANY SLEEP OVER IT. THIS IS ROOTS MUSIC AND ALL THE COMMENTS ARE ABOUT RACISM. JUST ENJOY THE MUSIC AND MOVE ON PEOPLE.

[Moviefan137]

The comment below mine is bullshit, Elvis was big because he had talent, not because he was white. Racism was indeed live and well in America during his career, and remains so today in America which among western countries has a poor record of equality and respect. Maybe someday people will stop basing someone's success or lack of it on race, sex or religion, although I suspect that day will be the last day.

[Isoms]

@ahmidi74 What are you talking about? I'm a fucking bad ass! I'd take every brotha in Harlem and straight fuck them up. I ain't scared! You can have some too bitch. You mad that Elvis is more famous than you? Yeah, I think so. By the way, when I say nigger, thousands tremble on the inside, that's how fucking scary I am.

[chriscopter]

@Isoms ... we don't need you on the face of this earth...please just vanish...........

[Isoms]

@oldmusicguykc

and just to troll you even more, the past tense of spit is spat, idiot.

[Isoms]

@oldmusicguykc

You bitter old man. If you're such an "adult" get off of youtube, quit arguing with kids and grow the fuck up. Bitch faggot nigger cock. Yeah, that was just for your family. Tell 'em I said FUCK YOU.

[ahmidis74]

@Isoms Hey Brave boy, go to Harlem and hold up a sign of what you wrote. Stop hiding at your keyboard thnking you saying 'Nigger' will scare anybody. You're more of a loser than Elvis. At least he stole in front of the whole world. And stole he did. Go sit on a toilet and drop dead the way he did. Ya dumb punk!

[Isoms]

@oldmusicguykc

First, lol at your name. Second, you call me out for talking like that on a public site? You may want to actually read what you posted and then tell me who sounded worse. Also, just because I disagree with you on musical opinions, I'm not the cause of the country being and debt. Those who have to state they're tough usually aren't and Elvis is still greater than Crudup. You let me know when Crudup reaches over a million in record sales and people actually know who he is.

[Isoms]

Stupid motherfuckers...I bet $50 bucks you'd of never known about this song if Elvis hadn't covered it. Get real, Elvis dominates this guy and you're just trying to be difficult.

[oldmusicguykc]

Interesting...what whore spit you out on the sidewalk and left you there for retards to raise? Is that an appropriate way to talk on a public website? Its ignorant little fucks like you that are ruining this country with your towering arrogance, only surpassed by your ignorance. Sure hope I pass and hear you talking like that around my family....BEEP LIGHTS OUT dude!

If you knew even one thing about music you'd know Elvis would not have existed were in not for guys like Crudup, & HE SAID SO

[OmarGudmunds]

There's no reason to bitch Elvis for covering this tune..We all know Crudup wrote it and originally recorded it, but Elvis made it famous..Crudup was a favourite to Elvis and to return the favour Elvis made 3 of his songs that´s alright, my baby left me and so glad you're mine famous. If Elvis hadn't recorded it, it wouldn´t have become famous and Crudup would never have gotten any attention what so ever and y'all would probably not know him today. Anyway..nice to hear such an essential song :)

[tataso]

Great !!

[GrandMattster007]

Crudup over Elvis, any day.

[apataye]

For people out there interested in enjoying music, rather than having arguments: if u like this song make sure to listen to CANNED HEAT´S cover. Of course, being as hardcore blues fans as they were, they properly credited Crudup, so i´m sure he, at least, got some royalties from there. The song appears in their 1970 LP "FUTURE BLUES" and -in my not so humble opinion- is much more interesting, not to mention innovative!, than Elvis version. PEACE & BLUES!!

[SuperBillythepoet]

another bluesman who didn't got the respect he deserves... Fuck Elvis, he never wrote a fuckin' song... Arthur Crudup did, and now he's layin' in his grave like an unknown artist from the 40's... History is a bitch!

[les555qq]

@toysrusbaby you are pretty angry, over useless things, who cares, shit is shit to you, like a child, my daddy is better than yours, ok, enjoy what ever it is you got, caring about two dead men, who care nothing on you

[les555qq]

@toysrusbaby recording technology, advertising, radio play were different when these songs were recorded, the old styles capture the music world at that time, there were no raging fans to market to. Of course Elvis has surpassed, he wasn't farm labouring half the time, it was a different time, it's like a Hollywood remake of Planet of the apes, made millions, yet the original can't be found in any DVD store, no modern tech used, so people think it is boring. Remakes just mark social change

[ledorat1]

i saw him at a concert supporting junior wells with buddy guy, when you see the original mona lisa and not the printed tee towel you know what I mean, there are so many wannabees it sucks

[TheDJGrandPa]

ffs people, don't blame Elvis for people not getting their money, blame Cournel Parker, Elvis just covered the songs he loved.

[OpakeArawra2]

@toysrusbaby the funny thing is i hadn't even called you a racist yet. but, i guess, if you're afraid of being called one there must be a reason for that, eh?

views and sales do not make music good, "toysrusbaby", and if you can't get that through your racist face then you're beyond any form of hope.

[SwingtoBop]

@OpakeArawra2 No point in arguing. You know the truth!

[nonogag]

It's a scandal , Leiber and stroller are 2 stoler , shame on them.

[patrickwwallace]

aha, I see everyone here seems to be jealous that Elvis had much more charisma and performace AND vocal ability than any 'black artists' he covered songs from.

[BlacknesUnforgivable]

@patrickwwallace rofl @ vocal ability

what a joke

[tantrumzthedon]

@patrickwwallace It was only cause he was white that he was famous thats a fact  chuck berry and little richard sang 10 times better than him and created their own material but yet elvis who copied all his early stuff is called the king of rock and roll. Please do not dispute the face HE ONLY WAS BIG CAUSE HE WAS WHITE !!!!!

[Underground906]

@tantrumzthedon Why don't you bitter, racism black haters just fuck off? Only cos he was white, etc. He liked and got into the genre of black music. That's not allowed. There has to always be segregation? He was blacklisted from radios for a while, but he obviously could sing and had charisma and appealed to women. Chuck and Little Richard didn't have that. Blacks will never get over their racism and prejudice towards 'The White Man'. Elvis improved on this song. He was actually decent.

[neoexotica]

@tantrumzthedon He was big because he was an amazing charismatic performer with a good voice and a ridiculously attractive stage presence. Shit Elvis would have made it even if he was Korean.

[OpakeArawra2]

@toysrusbaby it was recorded in 194fucking6 dude. holy shit this shit's so much better than any song elvis ever done.

[JAKESVINTAGECLASSICS]

NA NA elvis is the one that we all wanna here but we thank you arthur for writing the song

[McClaudioMacau]

A versão original com Arthur 'Big Boy' Crudup. Ele foi um dos negros que inventou o rock (os negros chamavam r&b, mas era feito pros negros), ao lado de Ike Turner, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Fats Domino etc. Os garotos brancos apenas os imitaram: em tese nada mudou. O que mudou: o comportamento da sociedade branca ianque (jovem) ao ter acesso sem censura à música crua dos pretos dos guetos e das race records. Mas, esses negros só foram reconhecidos depois da Invasão Inglesa, nos anos 1960.

[misterdirtyknees]

Enough already with this whole Elvis argument. Elvis didn't rip off anybody. He respected and praised the original blues guys. Just like the later white groups like the Stones & Beatles. They toured with and hailed black groups and blues singers whose songs they did. Music is for everybody to take what came from before and do your own thing with it.That's how rock was invented.

[fallofthefleshgod]

I was born in the hospital that he died in. My dad got me into his music at a very early age. He is buried not far from where me and my friends would jam all the time. I would go visit him often.

[hapzap13]

PERFECT.

[TheSkarocker56]

Elvis was a fat muppet!!!

[grabar20]

@TheSkarocker56 And you are a TIT.........

[TheSkarocker56]

@grabar20 No mate, the tit ain't me....the tits are Elvis fans...The Arthur Crudup version is from the Soul. admittedly, Elvis was a better looking guy...Maybe that's what you're into!!!

[mikexlong]

elvis' version has nothing on the original. crying shame so little ppl have heard this.

[WhiteTigersDream]

Thank God For Elvis! Otherwise we never would have heard all this great music!

[howlingsandy]

Arthur Crudup's consistent rock beat originals (in addition to his fine classic blues songs ever-covered by so many) and (the rock) covered by Presley (and some black artists not considered rockers, always) opened the door for more strident black rockers i.e. Chuck Berry, Little Richard, etc.

"uptempo" is one thing, 2/4 vs. 3/4 or 6/8 fast shuffle beat is essentially rock beat vs. blues beat. Patton did employ both rhythms. For what it's worth, I studied with Joe Morello and Howlin' Wolf. SGS

[howlingsandy]

@joenatescott there were many occasional fast seemingly 2/4 time (most fast 6/8 or 3/4 shuffle, heard by brain as 2/4) Even with earlier actual rock beat songs, i.e. Charlie Patton & various others before '41.. however it was Arthur Crudup who regularly & solidly played the rock beat & style (plus his blues classics)  EP's importance was Sam Phillips recording him and a right time. He was no Gene Vincent. Arthur's was being the prime inspiration to EP, yet deeply important nonetheless (c)SGS

[colindaleradiosutch]

YEP, THATS WERE IT ALL STARTED, THE BLUES MAN. colindaleradiosutch

[VonNashman]

At the risk of stirring controversy, "Rock 'n' Roll," at the end of the day, is just a marketing term invented in the 50's as a means to sell black music to the white masses, and the genius stroke of those cynical marketers was crediting a white musician (Elvis) with the creation of a genre that he was merely one of the less talented practitioners of...

[howlingsandy]

@VonNashman Elvis was very clear he'd "got it all from the colored people" (notably crediting Arthur Crudup) in press interviews. Hank Williams Sr. also expressed his roots as having learned blues from street musician Rufas Payne. (See "Tee Tot Song"). Ironically, while blues is of black diaspora (African aspects upon Celtic root "allowed" plantation music) Charlie Patton was 1/2 Native American and Howlin' Wolf (so influential) was 1/4 with some unique early intercultural experience (c)SGS

[w0rdisbond]

@VonNashman well it wasnt this guy, it was chuck berry, you didnt even get the right black guy!

[VonNashman]

@w0rdisbond Not sure what your point is. Chuck Berry did not invent Rock 'n' Roll, for the record. Chuck was a great songwriter, guitarist, and practitioner of a style of music that had been around for at least a decade, and in a sense much longer. This Crudup recording is from 1946, ffs! I'm not in the business of crediting one person with the invention of a style, either, as you'll see if you re-read my post.

[w0rdisbond]

@VonNashman But he did. He was the first to put it together.

[VonNashman]

@w0rdisbond ...facepalm...

[w0rdisbond]

@VonNashman bitchslap. on your mom.

[pilatunes]

@VonNashman Even the Beatles got their start doing covers of Little Richard and Chuck Berry, as did The Rolling Stones.

[busessuck1]

To be fair to elvis he enjoyed the blues he heard - him and his group were playing this for fun in the studio and the producer told them to record it just as like that

[nuf294w]

@VonNashman Yes, and how wrong they got it sometimes . . . .Pat Boone, for example.

[southwriter]

@nuf294w Pat Boone was pushed into doing rock and roll by Dot Records, who were trying to win over young buyers.

[mabonuob]

@VonNashman True: What was later known as rock & roll music was basically jump blues with more beat, or a bluesier r&b. It all began with Arthur Crudup, Big Joe Turner and Fats Domino, among others. But Elvis had a great voice; you have to give him that at least.

[VonNashman]

@mabonuob Perry Como also had a great voice. My point is about history, not singing ability, stage presence, charisma, etc.

[southwriter]

@VonNashman No one has credited Elvis with the creation of rock and roll. As a musical genre of its own, it can be traced to the '40s as jump R & B- Roy Brown, Wynonie Harris, Jimmy Preston, etc. It took a white to take the music and bump it up to be played on white stations and be accepted by a white audience. Bill Haley's cover of "Rocket 88" in 1951 and "Rock the Joint" in 1952 being the prime examples. It was a natural progression of music enhanced by power amps and electric guitars.

[VonNashman]

@southwriter Wrong. There was no progression, just Whites playing music that had been around a long time.

[southwriter]

@VonNashman No, actually, you're wrong. I've been a record collector and a music historian for over 35 years. I've written articles about music history. The music was a NATURAL PROGRESSION of things that would've happened anyway. Do you think music stays in a vaccum? Technology (radio, elecrtic records, amps, electric guitars, 33 and 45 rpms) all contributed to it. I'm currently writing a book that will prove that. I've get years of research and tons of material to back up what I say.

[VonNashman]

@southwriter Leave it to a record collector and "music historian" to know nothing about music.

[Wolf251982]

Good Stuff

[RayBeckerman]

This is awesome; thank you for posting it.

Do you know when this recording was made?

Was this from 1946?

[ShowmetheBlues]

Drums at 0.50?

[TheJuunit21]

@howlingsandy He *almost* got some back royalties. He even went up to New York and signed the papers. But then the guy came back and told him and his family that $60,000 was too much because the legal fees would add up to less than that if he chose to sue. Crudup died four years later. He always said, "I was born poor, I live poor, and I'm going to die poor." Looks like he was right.

[howlingsandy]

@TheJuunit21 That's one of MY earlier posts. That's why I (c)SGS sign them if room. What I post is part of a couple books pending publication at this time. 

[howlingsandy]

@howlingsandy (also) very recent report says his (way down the line) estate received a 3 million dollar settlement, this is being researched, since that could much assist getting Arthur inducted into the Rock Hall as "Influence) Arthur, who was a VERY nice guy and for whom I played drums and corresponded with, deserves this honor (though considering who gets in...and who doesn't, including Hubert Sumlin and - there's a long list. ) (c)SGS

[hah13]

the originals are always the best

[pw00tang]

@OpakeArawra2 it's easy to slam artists who cover the song and to praise the original writer. The fact of the matter is that Elvis's version is simply better. Arthur is the original artist, and he sings it great, but no one could nail a cover like The King.

[almanacofsleep]

@pw00tang In your entirely objective opinion Elvis was better, an opinion that I don't share.

[nicodagger]

@OpakeArawra2 amen my brother....Elvis may have been pretty and all, but he didn't have one-hundreth the soul that Crudup has on this song, or Big Mama Thornton or any of the great ORIGINAL black artists had....pisses me the fuck off that the pretty white boy is called "King" when he wasn't King of shit..maybe King of the white boys...

[TheOnlyOneKingElvis]

@nicodagger Arthur C "Some people liked my version, some didn't; everybody liked Elvis', it was better"

[Jesusb58]

@OpakeArawra2

Well, elvis did give him credit for writing the song but i can understand your frustration with the "blanching" of Rock 'n' Roll during the 50's and the covers done by white artists that, to be honest, were not as good as the originals; but that did open the doors for black artists to get some recognition, that would have never occurred otherwise.

[bugsycline]

oh man, you're going to have to come to my channel and watch my series "The True Kings of Rock and Roll"

I love your channel!

[azodangel]

recordaba haber escuchado este tema hace muchos años y ahora se de quien es

gracias

[kaitme]

first rock and roll song i readet news:D

[brdonaldson]

Arguably the first rock and roll song ever! Read this!

newswise.com/articles/view/570­971/?sc=dwhn

[MmeLadyL]

I like this version more than the one from The King. Nice sound!

[howlingsandy]

Arthur never got ONE royalty EVER... got writer's credit ONLY and his blues covered by everyone who was anyone (rock me mama, look over y0nders wall, mean ol' frisco,etc.)  and his pioneering rock opened doors for presley, and then black rockers i.e. little richard chuck better... i will have interview published about times played drums and corresponded with him coming out next month.. will brief later cant stay on youtube just now. but one more thing HE HAS NEVER BEEN INDUCTED ROCK HALL !

[VonNashman]

@howlingsandy "The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I'm doin' now, man, for more years than I know. They played it like that in the shanties and juke joints and nobody paid it no mind 'til I goose it up. I got it from them. Down in Tupelo, Mississippi, I used to hear old Arthur Crudup bang his box the way I do now, and I said if I ever got to the place I could feel all old Arthur felt, I'd be a music man like nobody ever saw."

Charlotte Observer, June 26, 1956

[howlingsandy]

@VonNashman yep that's one of them, there were a few such interviews and comments. And it wasn't so "goosed up" at first. It was just as best a straight out cover as Presley could do, less soul and more white. That's the attention factor.. "Get me a white man can sing the Negro music with the Negro feeling and I'll be a billionaire." Sam Phillips

[Vasilouxxx]

@howlingsandy LIER! He had his own publishing company and got ALL of the royalties, stop chatting shit!

[howlingsandy]

@Vasilouxxx the only SHIT I am chatting . for this one time only .. asshole. is YOU.. you cant even SPELL liar.. so maybe you can't see the word applies to YOU. what kind of ignorant misinformed loser of an aggressive racist dipshit u must be..i played drums with Arthur and know his family.. only recently did any royalties ever reach his estate 4 generations later. I have RM50 mates there I trained with who can bring the photos letters & articles to u if u prefer.. just ask.. you dumb shit..

[Vasilouxxx]

@howlingsandy Athur Crudup music! Jeez some of you are sooooo full of crap!

[howlingsandy]

@Vasilouxxx your obsession with shit and crap is your weak way to try to find urself after whatever trashed ur sense of self.. the shit and crap is not only in ur mind it fills ur sense of being. the true meaning of head up ur ass. blabber elsewhere or blabber to the wind.. u speak farts.. sniff ur truth as the rest can smell an asshole yammering ... ur too much into it to even notice.. how sad but .. that's you.. fix urself.. that is all u get for free.. fool. SGS

[webusecom]

@howlingsandy he freaking invented it HE INVENTED ROCK N ROLL MUSIC