🎼23 March 1956. The revolution started here. Elvis Presley releases his first and eponymous album which goes straight up to #1 in the Billboard sales! It was the first time ever a Rock'n'Roll album peaked the USA charts. 🤟🎸🔝
Rock'n'Roll as a music genre was already around before that, thanks to artists such as #LittleRichard, #ChuckBerry, #MuddyWaters, #GeneVincent, #BillHaley, #BuddyHolly and many more... but problably the new born "industry" needed and was eagerly waiting for a white, unspoiled, handsome and heterosexual guy to take rock'n'roll out of its niche and make it explode 💣💥 🔥
Elvis was everything perfect and met all the expectations for that moment, the boy all girls wanted, the son-in-law all mothers wanted, plus he was a really nice person and a natural born showman. He soon became The King of Rock'n Roll and the first international Rockstar!
I post a video of him on The Ed Sullivan Show some months later: USA (and the world) had never witnessed such a delirium in a live national TV program, we can hardly hear the music (Hound Dog from his first album) under the screams 😳📣🗣
#MusicHistory #ElvisPresley #23March

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNYWl13IWhY

🎼5 June 1956. 65 years ago 😳 Be-Bop-A-Lula is released by Gene Vincent.
If we all come from somewhere... we all Rockers come from there! 🤟
P.S. if you look at the audience at the end of this video, the 2 guitarists 🎸 seem to come from another planet 🌎😁
#Bebopalula #GeneVincent #MusicHistory #5June

https://youtu.be/vDU9FP5_B2M

🎸 Rock History on Weekend

🎼 The "Rockabillies": Eddie Cochran
(October 3, 1938 - April 17, 1960)
Genres: #Rockabilly #RocknRoll #RnB

"Sometimes I wonder what I'm a-gonna do
'Cause there ain't no cure for the summertime blues."
#EddieCochran

One of the most influential early Rockabilly singers - songwriters. His most famous hits "Twenty Flight Rock", "Summertime Blues", "C'mon Everybody" and "Somethin' Else" became favorite standards for so many future rock and punk bands, from #TheWho to #SexPistols, from #BlueCheer to #StrayCats.

Gone too soon at 21 😔 in a car accident when in England on tour with his friend and fellow rockabilly hero #GeneVincent.

🎧Listen to Eddie Cochran's best 👉 here

🎸 Rock History on Weekend

🎼 The "Rockabillies": Be-Bop-a-Lula
Genres: #Rockabilly #RocknRoll

"I hope my fans remember my name is Gene Vincent and not Gene Autry*"
#GeneVincent
(February 11, 1935 – October 12, 1971)

* Popular American Western actor at the time

Guess he succeeded in being remembered, since he penned and performed in 1956
the most known and representative song of an entire music genre: #BeBopALula 👍🔥