词条 | Good Rocking Tonight |
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| name = Good Rocking Tonight | cover = | alt = | type = single | artist = Roy Brown | album = | released = 1947 | format = | recorded = June 1947 | studio = | venue = | genre = Jump blues | length = | label = | writer = Roy Brown | producer = | prev_title = | prev_year = | next_title = | next_year = }} "Good Rocking Tonight" was originally a jump blues song released in 1947 by its writer, Roy Brown[1] and was covered by many recording artists. The song includes the memorable refrain, "Well I heard the news, there's good rocking tonight!" The song anticipated elements of rock and roll music.[2] Original songBrown had first offered his song to Wynonie Harris, who turned it down. He then approached Cecil Gant later that night, but after hearing Brown sing, Gant made a 2:30 AM phone call to Jules Braun, the president of DeLuxe Records. After Brown sang his song over the phone, Braun asked Brown to sing it a second time. He then told Gant, "Give him fifty dollars and don't let him out of your sight."[3] Five weeks later, Brown recorded the song for DeLuxe Records. Only after Brown's record had gained traction in New Orleans did Harris decide to cover it. Harris' version was even more energetic than Brown's original version, featuring black gospel style handclapping. This may have contributed to the composition's greater success on the national R&B chart. Brown's original recording hit #13 of the Billboard R&B chart, but Harris' record became a #1 R&B hit and remained on the chart for half a year.[4] Brown's single would re-enter the chart in 1949, peaking at #11. Harris had a reputation for carousing, and sometimes forgot lyrics. His "Good Rockin'" recording session largely followed Brown's original lyrics, but by the end, he replaced the last section with a series of raucous "hoy hoy hoy!" interjections, a commonly used expression in jump blues tunes of the time, going back to 1945's "The Honeydripper" by Joe Liggins.[5] The song is a primer of sorts on the popular black music of the era, making lyrical reference to Sweet Lorraine, Sioux City Sue, Sweet Georgia Brown, Caldonia, Elder Brown, and Deacon Jones. All of these characters had figured prominently in previous hit songs. The song has also been credited with being the most successful record to that point to use the word "rock" not as a euphemism for sex, but as a descriptive for the musical style, a connection which would become even clearer in 1954 when a version of "Good Rockin' Tonight" became Elvis Presley's second-ever single. While Brown missed out on the biggest hit version of his song, its success kicked off his own career, which included two #1 R&B hits. In 1949, he released "Rockin' at Midnight", a sequel to "Good Rockin' Tonight." It reached #2 on the R&B chart, where it remained for a month.[6] Elvis Presley version{{Infobox song| name = Good Rockin' Tonight | cover = Good Rockin Tonight Elvis Presley.jpg | alt = | border = yes | type = single | artist = Elvis Presley | album = | B-side = I Don't Care If the Sun Don't Shine | released = {{Start date|1954|09|22}} | format = 10-inch and 7-inch singles | recorded = September 10, 1954[7] | studio = | venue = | genre = Rockabilly | length = {{Duration|m=2|s=14}} | label = Sun | writer = Roy Brown | producer = Sam Phillips | prev_title = That's All Right | prev_year = 1954 | next_title = You're a Heartbreaker | next_year = 1954 }} In 1954, "Good Rockin' Tonight" was the second Sun Records release by Elvis Presley, along with "I Don't Care if the Sun Don't Shine" on the flip side.[8][9] Presley and his bandmates hewed closer to the original Roy Brown version, but omitted the lyrics' by-then-dated roster of names in favor of a simpler, more energetic "We're gonna rock, rock, rock!" Described as "a flat-out rocker" country radio programmers blanched, and older audiences were somewhat mystified. A live show broadcast from Houston DJ Bill Collie's club documented that the crowd "barely responded" to the song. "Blue Moon of Kentucky", the uptempo version of the Bill Monroe classic, has "the fans go stark raving nuts with joy". Both sides of this second record featuring "Elvis Presley, Scotty and Bill" "stiffed".[10] The song was used for the biopic Elvis, which starred Jonathan Rhys-Meyers as Presley; it was used for a montage sequence where he is performing at the Louisiana Hayride in 1954. {{Certification Table Top}}{{Certification Table Entry|region=United States|type=single|title=Good Rocking Tonight|artist=Elvis Presley|award=Gold|relyear=1954|certyear=2005|autocat=yes}}{{Certification Table Bottom|nosales=yes|nounspecified=yes}}Personnel
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References1. ^{{cite book|first=Nick|last=Tosches|title=Country: The Twisted Roots of Rock 'n' Roll|publisher=Da Capo Press|location=Boston, Massachusetts|date=1996|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VpeGEPCKsesC&pg=RA1-PA51&dq=%22Good+Rocking+Tonight%22+1947+%22Roy+Brown%22|ISBN=9780786750986|page=51}} {{Elvis Presley singles}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Good Rocking Tonight}}2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.hoyhoy.com/dawn_of_rock.htm |title=Morgan Wright's HoyHoy.com: The Dawn of Rock 'n Roll |publisher=Hoyhoy.com |date=May 2, 1954 |accessdate=March 4, 2012}} 3. ^{{cite book|first=Preston|last=Lauterbach|title=The Chitlin' Circuit and the Road to Rock N Roll|publisher=W.W. Norton|location=New York City|date=2012|ISBN=978-0393342949|pages=142-143}} 4. ^{{cite book |title= Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004|last=Whitburn |first=Joel |authorlink=Joel Whitburn |year=2004 |publisher=Record Research |page=246}} 5. ^{{cite book |first=Joel|last=Whitburn|authorlink=Joel Whitburn|title= Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004 |date=2004 |publisher=Record Research |page=349}} 6. ^Roy Brown's "Good Rockin' Tonight" Retrieved July 2, 2012. 7. ^{{cite book | last=Jorgensen | first=Ernst | title=Elvis Presley: A Life in Music |date=July 1998 | publisher=St. Martin's Press | location=New York | isbn=0-312-18572-3 | oclc=38168234}} 8. ^{{cite web |url=http://rcs-discography.com/rcs/artists/p/pres1000.htm |title=Archived copy |accessdate=July 22, 2012 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://archive.is/20120722101250/http://rcs-discography.com/rcs/artists/p/pres1000.htm |archivedate=July 22, 2012 |df= }} 9. ^{{cite book|first1=Gary|last1=Dowell|first2=Isaiah|last2=Evans|first3=James L.|last3=Halperin|first4=Kim|last4=Jones|title=Heritage Music and Entertainment Dallas Signature Auction Catalog #634|publisher=Heritage Capital Corporation|location=Dallas, Texas|date=2006|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9OULdq5clMEC&pg=PA167&dq=%22Good+Rocking+Tonight%22+%22Elvis%22|ISBN=978-1599670812|page=167}} 10. ^{{cite book|first1=Ken|last1=Burke|first2=Dan|last2=Griffin|title=The Blue Moon Boys - The Story of Elvis Presley's Band|publisher=Chicago Review Press|location=Chicago, Illinois|date=2006|pages=45-46|ISBN=1-55652-614-8}} 11. ^Barker, Derek (2009). Liner notes to Bruce Springsteen's Jukebox: The Songs that Inspired the Man [CD]. Chrome Dreams. 12. ^Jerry Lee Lewis, The 20 Most Requested Retrieved July 1, 2012. 20 : 1947 songs|1948 singles|1954 singles|Elvis Presley songs|Paul McCartney songs|Bruce Springsteen songs|Gene Summers songs|Ricky Nelson songs|Pat Boone songs|James Brown songs|Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen songs|Jerry Lee Lewis songs|Song recordings produced by Sam Phillips|Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs number-one singles|Rockabilly songs|American songs|Little Willie Littlefield songs|Atlantic Records singles|Sun Records singles|Songs written by Roy Brown (blues musician) |
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