Johnny Burnette - Rock-a-billy Boogie

1957

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• Johnny
• Burnette
• Rock-a-billy
• Boogie

[EbonyBunny1]

@motorvating People, in the south where the song was played, thought he was saying Rockabilly and not Rock Billy. Because it was a sound never heard before, people started using the title of this song to describe other songs, written after this one that had the same type of sound. Had this song been recorded in 1953 when it was written, the history of music would be different today. 

[EbonyBunny1]

@motorvating But Rock and Roll was never used to describe music, until around late 1954 early 1955 when Alan Freed first used the term Rock and Roll to describe music. So how can the Rock in Rockabilly come from a word not yet used to describe music. Like I said the first recorded time the term Rockabilly was used was after this song was written in 1953, a title from their kids Rocky & Billy Burnett. But because it was only played and not recorded on a record.

[EbonyBunny1]

@motorvating And it was in 1954, not 1953, when Bill Flag started using the term Rockabilly. It is widely accepted, but incorrect , that the term comes from Rock + Hillbilly. First of all, prior to 1955, Rock was never used to describe music. Rock and Roll was a term first used in the 1800's by sailors to describe the ship on rough seas. By the 1920's it was a euphemism in the black community for sex. By the 1930's it was used to describe dancing.

[EbonyBunny1]

@1950sRockabilly No it does not, that is a myth, the term comes from this song. The first use of the term Rockabilly started right after this song was written in '53. Because of the fact is was sung locally for 4 yrs before being recorded, people thought he was saying rockabilly and not rock billy. The title of this video the up loader said Rock-a-billy Boogie even though the tile is Rock Billy Boogie. 60 yrs later people still incorrectly call this song Rockabilly Boogie.

[1950sRockabilly]

@EbonyBunny1 It comes from Hillbilly and Rock n Roll. Rockabilly = a Hillbilly singer playing rock, because all Rockabilly singers started with Country music.

[motorvating]

@EbonyBunny1

Not true.

Bill flag is known to have used the term Rockabilly in 1953, but it is accepted the term was already in use. Rock bill Boogie was about Billy and Dorsey's sons.

[EbonyBunny1]

@Ezdduf4kuZ Also, it is from this song that the term Rockabilly comes from. It is actually miss named, because the true title of the song is Rock Billy Boogie, but because of how it sounds when he sings it, it sounds like he is saying Rockabilly and not Rock Billy.

[EbonyBunny1]

@Ezdduf4kuZ This is the original version, and they wrote the song. The song was actually written and performed locally from 1953, but not recorded until 1957. Had this song been recorded in 1953, the history of music would have changed, because it is truly this song that is the birth of R&R, but because it wasn't recorded when it was written, the song went down in history as just another Rockabilly song that all but rockabilly fans have forgotten.

[bettieboutique]

Love this song, brb, dancing my ass off... ;)

[TheAmargao]

Best rockabilly band ever