MUSIC 076 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Arthur Crudup, Jerry Leiber And Mike Stoller, Big Mama Thornton
Little Richard ! ! ! Makon, GA ! !Falsetto Shout "
Pat Boone - Had many hits; mostly covers of little Richard"
# - Had mainstream pop style more like Sinatra (Frank Sinatra)"
- Perfect for white middle class"
# - took sexual innuendo out of songs, had bigger hits# "
Elvis Presley- Born in Tupelo Mississippi 1935 (farming family)"
- Moved in Memphis, in @ 13 ages"
Sam Phillips - 1950 opens “ Memphis Recording Service”"
##- mostly black blues singers"
##- 1951 records “ Rocket 88” which be licensed to chess"
##- 1952 Phillips starts “Sun Records”"
1954 - Phillips records “That’s Alright Mama”"
#- Launches Elvis’ career"
#- written by Arthur “ big boy” Crudup"
#- Flipside “Blue Mom of Kentucky”"
#- (super nice, polite)"
Colonel Tom Parker - Elvis’ manager"
1955 - Parker brokers deal with RCA records (RCA have to find the price that sun was
willing to release Elvis)"
#- Sam Phillips “sells” Elvis for $35,000 (at that time, there’s no one has contracts
that contains that much money; You can only buy Sun Records in southeast place in
US; Kind of win-win deal for both side)"
#- (Professor show a video about they are standing inside sun studio, tiny place
talking about Elvis Presley)"
#- need money to keep Sun Records going"
#- Phillips uses money to sign Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis"
#- (Elvis never wrote a song)"
1956 - Elvis Records “Heartbreak Hotel” for RCA (90% of American had heard about it"
#- #1 pop, #1 C&W, #5 R&B (impossible to happen)"
1956 - Debut on TV “Tommy-Dorsey Show” (same as big band guy)"
#- sends for his own band (call for his own band to come to LA, don’t wanna play
with Jimmy Dorsey band)"
#- gets Hollywood Screen test from this performance"
#- 8,000 protest letters"
1956 - June 5th “Milton Berle Show”"
#- “Hound Dog” (no guitar)"
#- 700,000 protest letters for “vulgar moves”"
#- Ed Sullivan, New York Daily News (I will never have that garbage on my show.
R&R is reaching the new name, the name is Elvis Presley)"
1956 - July “Steve Allen Show” (All he wanna do is humiliate Elvis Presley; He bring up
a real dog, and leave Elvis on the stage.)"
#- Tuxedo — Hound Dog (the night the show beat Ed Sullivan)"
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Sep.9th,1956 - “The Moment”"
## - “ The Big Bang of R&R”"
##83% of TV audience watch Elvis on Ed Sullivan"
##Pivotal Moment in music and US History"
##Elvis Biggest Star in America; Exposes R&R to public of large"
##“ Waist UP” Performances (The video Don’t be Cruel; The first song sang
by Elvis)"
##(Video “ready teddy” Elvis sang Little Richard’s song)"
##(Hound Dog)"
1956 - “Hound Dog” written by Jerry Leiber/ Mike Stoller"
#*Leiber/ Stoller - Premiere songwriters of early R&R"
#Wrote ”Hound Dog” for Big Mama Thornton "
#1953 R&B Hit Big Mama (#1 7weeks)"
#1956 Elvis #1 pop, #1 C&W, #1 R&B"
#(First Record in History to do so)"
Bowdlerize - Thomas Bowdler (1754-1825)"
# - English Physician"
# - Published expurgated edition of Shakespeare’s Works that He considered
more appropriate for women and children"
##(video about Elvis last song last date before military; 1957/01/06 Peace In
The Valley; in the church; A chepella)"
Weeks after getting Elvis money, Sam Phillips signs Carl Perkins"
##- “Blue Suede Shoes”# "
##- Hit on all 3 charts"
##- 1st million seller for Sun Records"
##- Elvis would cover it (#20) RCA"
Perkins in car accident, couldn’t capitalize on success. Elvis covers song to help
Perkins"
1959 - Elvis Drafted into the Army"
- Stationed in Germany"
- Parker makes Elvis record singles before he ships out - releases hem while he’s
gone"
- returns 1960## "
Sam Phillips signs Johnny Cash to Sun "
#1956 “Folsom Prison Blues”"
1957 - Cash & Perkins leave Sun for Columbia Records (Even Sun have Jonny and
Perkins, put all the money to the new guy, thought him as next Elvis. So they left)"
- Jerry Lee Lewis taking all of Phillips attention"
Myra Gale Brown - Jerry Lee marries her Dec 1957"
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## - 13 yrs old of his cousin"
## - This scandal blacklists Lewis from business and destroys his career"
Video about whole lotta Shaking going on is Jerry Lee First sing for the Sun"
Million Dollar Quartet - Dec 4th 1956"
### - Sun Studios"
Elvis, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis (They sang old church song, the disc
is rough, not clear;)"
### - sang “Just a little talk with Jesus”"
Buddy Holly - Born Charles Hardin in Lubbock, TX"
# - 7 top 40 hits"
# - That’ll Be The Day (#1 pop 1957)"
# - (His band named The Crickets)"
# - (Another youtube is about Arthur Murray Dance Party show about Buddy
Holly)"
# - (Weezer)"
Richie Valens - Born Richard Valenzuela In Los Angeles "
## - La Bamba"
1957 - Little Richard Ordained Minister (basically just give up R&R)"
1958 - Elvis Leaves for Germany (seems someone powerful make he got the number)"
1958 - Jerry Lee marries his 13 yr old cousin"
1959 - Chuck Berry tried for “transporting minor across state lines” for immoral
purposes (cant take underage Mexican girl, and for this he went to jail, and went to jail
again for tax, and went again finding 200 tapes watching women)"
1959 - Payola Scandal (Alan Freed and Dick Clark are the major two people, Alan
Freed didn’t do well but Dick was okay)"
ASCAP - Represented traditional POP"
- R&R, R&B, C&W not welcome"
# - (The American Society of Composers)"
BMI - newer, everyone welcome"
- (they every song play and every time)"
- (Broadcast Music Inc)"
Dick Clark - American Bandstand"
# - Debut - Aug. 5th 1957 Philadelphia "
Ran everyday till 1963, weekly till 1987"
Feb 3rd 1959 - The Day the Music Died (died in plane crash)"
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Document Summary
Little richard makon, ga falsetto shout. Had mainstream pop style more like sinatra (frank sinatra) Pat boone - had many hits; mostly covers of little richard. Took sexual innuendo out of songs, had bigger hits. Elvis presley- born in tupelo mississippi 1935 (farming family) Moved in memphis, in @ 13 ages. Sam phillips - 1950 opens memphis recording service . 1951 records rocket 88 which be licensed to chess. Written by arthur big boy crudup. 1955 - parker brokers deal with rca records (rca have to nd the price that sun was willing to release elvis) Sam phillips sells elvis for ,000 (at that time, there"s no one has contracts that contains that much money; you can only buy sun records in southeast place in. Us; kind of win-win deal for both side) talking about elvis presley) (professor show a video about they are standing inside sun studio, tiny place. Need money to keep sun records going.
