Forwarded from Rock History Timeline
🎸 Rock History on Weekend
🎼 Rhythm and Blues 🎸🎹🎷🥁🎺
Often abbreviated as R&B or R'n'B, Rhythm and Blues originated directly from Blues in the late 1940s thanks to the introduction of electric instruments which led most bluesmen to play their music in city venues and recording studios supported by backing bands, as opposed to their previous solitude in the fields.
Generally the bands consisted of piano, one or two guitars, bass, drums, one or more brass instruments, and background vocalists.
#RnB was the crucial connection between black and white musicians: the white 1950s teen idols, pushed by record companies and scouting agents, began to cover songs of black artists (and the other way round) and R&B hit soon the American charts: this magic mix of musicians influencing each other ended up in creating Rock'n'Roll ! ❤️🔥
R&B legacy is so important if one thinks that a decade later many UK major bands such as The Rolling Stones, The Animals, Yardbirds, Led Zeppelin... all started as Rhythm and Blues bands!
🎼 Rhythm and Blues 🎸🎹🎷🥁🎺
Often abbreviated as R&B or R'n'B, Rhythm and Blues originated directly from Blues in the late 1940s thanks to the introduction of electric instruments which led most bluesmen to play their music in city venues and recording studios supported by backing bands, as opposed to their previous solitude in the fields.
Generally the bands consisted of piano, one or two guitars, bass, drums, one or more brass instruments, and background vocalists.
#RnB was the crucial connection between black and white musicians: the white 1950s teen idols, pushed by record companies and scouting agents, began to cover songs of black artists (and the other way round) and R&B hit soon the American charts: this magic mix of musicians influencing each other ended up in creating Rock'n'Roll ! ❤️🔥
R&B legacy is so important if one thinks that a decade later many UK major bands such as The Rolling Stones, The Animals, Yardbirds, Led Zeppelin... all started as Rhythm and Blues bands!
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Forwarded from Rock History Timeline
🎸 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
🎼 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
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Forwarded from Albums Released Today
📌30 November 1982
Michael Jackson
📀 Thriller
#Pop #Rock #Funk #RnB
40 years ago Michael Jackson from Gary, Indiana, #USA, released his 6th studio album entitled Thriller.
Only the best selling album of all time.
Producer #QuincyJones called prominent musicians, arrangers, sound engineers, programmers, videomakers, actors to record this album as the perfect mix of Pop and Rock, most notably:
#PaulMcCartney (vocals on "The Girl Is Mine"), #EddieVanHalen (legendary 👉 guitar solo on "Beat It"), #VincentPrice (legendary voiceover on "Thriller"), percussionist #PaulinhoDaCosta, vocalist #JamesIngram, keyboardist #GregPhilliganes plus all members of #Toto who released their 👉 most succesful album earlier that year.
#MichaelJackson - vocals, arrangements, programming
#30November
🎧Listen to Thriller 👉 here
Michael Jackson
📀 Thriller
#Pop #Rock #Funk #RnB
40 years ago Michael Jackson from Gary, Indiana, #USA, released his 6th studio album entitled Thriller.
Only the best selling album of all time.
Producer #QuincyJones called prominent musicians, arrangers, sound engineers, programmers, videomakers, actors to record this album as the perfect mix of Pop and Rock, most notably:
#PaulMcCartney (vocals on "The Girl Is Mine"), #EddieVanHalen (legendary 👉 guitar solo on "Beat It"), #VincentPrice (legendary voiceover on "Thriller"), percussionist #PaulinhoDaCosta, vocalist #JamesIngram, keyboardist #GregPhilliganes plus all members of #Toto who released their 👉 most succesful album earlier that year.
#MichaelJackson - vocals, arrangements, programming
#30November
🎧Listen to Thriller 👉 here
Forwarded from Rock History Timeline
📌17 April 1964
Rolling Stones
📀 Rolling Stones
#RockBlues #RnB #RocknRoll
60 years ago the Rolling Stones from London, #UK released their self-titled debut album.
The album mainly contained cover songs (#RufusThomas, #ChuckBerry, #BobbyTroup, #JimmyReed, #WillyDixon, #SlimHarpo, #BoDiddley, #BuddyHolly, Holland-Dozier-Holland), plus the first single written by Jagger/Richards and 2 songs credited to Nanker Phelge, the collective writing pseudonym #RollingStones adopted until 1965.
In this album:
#MickJagger – vocals, tambourine, harmonica, maracas
#KeithRichards – backing vocals, lead and rhythm (6- and 12-string) guitars
#BrianJones – backing vocals, rhythm, lead and slide guitar, harmonica, tambourine whistling
#BillWyman – backing vocals, bass
#CharlieWatts – drums, handclaps
Additional musicians
#AllanClarke, #GrahamNash : backing vocals
#GenePitney – piano
#PhilSpector – percussion, maracas
#IanStewart – organ, piano
#AndrewLoogOldham – producer
#17April
🎧Listen to Rolling Stones
👉 here
Rolling Stones
📀 Rolling Stones
#RockBlues #RnB #RocknRoll
60 years ago the Rolling Stones from London, #UK released their self-titled debut album.
The album mainly contained cover songs (#RufusThomas, #ChuckBerry, #BobbyTroup, #JimmyReed, #WillyDixon, #SlimHarpo, #BoDiddley, #BuddyHolly, Holland-Dozier-Holland), plus the first single written by Jagger/Richards and 2 songs credited to Nanker Phelge, the collective writing pseudonym #RollingStones adopted until 1965.
In this album:
#MickJagger – vocals, tambourine, harmonica, maracas
#KeithRichards – backing vocals, lead and rhythm (6- and 12-string) guitars
#BrianJones – backing vocals, rhythm, lead and slide guitar, harmonica, tambourine whistling
#BillWyman – backing vocals, bass
#CharlieWatts – drums, handclaps
Additional musicians
#AllanClarke, #GrahamNash : backing vocals
#GenePitney – piano
#PhilSpector – percussion, maracas
#IanStewart – organ, piano
#AndrewLoogOldham – producer
#17April
🎧Listen to Rolling Stones
👉 here
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📀 Album of the Week
@Venice_Rocks
📌25 June 1984
Prince
📀 Purple Rain
#Rock #Pop #Funk #RnB
40 years ago Prince from Minneapolis, #USA released his 6th studio album, credited to his band Prince And The Revolution.
Purple Rain is the #Soundtrack of the film of the same name which is widely regarded as one of the best Romantic Rock Drama of all time.
The film was a massive success and the soundtrack sold 25 million worldwide, Prince highest selling album and one of the all time best selling!
Prince is the only musician in history who had number one album, single and film in America simultaneously.
And yes, masterpiece ❤️🔥
In this album:
#Prince – vocals, guitars, synthesizers, piano, keyboards, bass, drums, tambourine, producer
#BobbyZ – drums
#BrownMark – bass
#WendyMelvoin – guitar
#LisaColeman – synthesizers, co-lead vocals
#MattFink – synthesizers, piano
#Apollonia, #JillJones – co-lead vocals
#DavidColeman, #NoviNovog, #SuziKatayama – strings
#25June
🎧Listen to Purple Rain 👉 here
@Venice_Rocks
📌25 June 1984
Prince
📀 Purple Rain
#Rock #Pop #Funk #RnB
40 years ago Prince from Minneapolis, #USA released his 6th studio album, credited to his band Prince And The Revolution.
Purple Rain is the #Soundtrack of the film of the same name which is widely regarded as one of the best Romantic Rock Drama of all time.
The film was a massive success and the soundtrack sold 25 million worldwide, Prince highest selling album and one of the all time best selling!
Prince is the only musician in history who had number one album, single and film in America simultaneously.
And yes, masterpiece ❤️🔥
In this album:
#Prince – vocals, guitars, synthesizers, piano, keyboards, bass, drums, tambourine, producer
#BobbyZ – drums
#BrownMark – bass
#WendyMelvoin – guitar
#LisaColeman – synthesizers, co-lead vocals
#MattFink – synthesizers, piano
#Apollonia, #JillJones – co-lead vocals
#DavidColeman, #NoviNovog, #SuziKatayama – strings
#25June
🎧Listen to Purple Rain 👉 here
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