they call this category ROCK & POP…
I’m like Dr. Hook…Rock and Roll
Get Yo picture On the Cover of the Stone…
Is Rock and Roll really gone?
And when did it pack up and leave?
ISAWMARTY…I don’t listen to they radio…they won’t play me…so I don’t play them!
"I like that old time rocknroll . . . ." It’ll never be gone!
I wanted to ask if anyone knew specific artist names or songs that influenced The Beatles sound.
I know for a fact that Paul and John were both influenced heavily by classical musical because their songs have bits and pieces of them and also they’ve sited composers like Bach (for Blackbird).
So I was just wondering if we can compose a list of all the known influences of The Beatles to better understand why this band was so amazing.
Thanks everyone.
Bob Dylan, Elvis Presley, Little Richard, Buddy Holly, and Chuck Berry.
I’m really into The Answer at the moment (currently supporting AC/DC) and bands like Black Stone Cherry, Shinedown, etc. Really want to build up a playlist of hard hitting Rock n Roll Songs, got a bit of Led Zep in there too. Any suggestions would be great.
By the ways I like everything from the 60’s until today so go crazy, just as long as it’s hard and you can head bang to it!
Actually ignore the head banging bit, probably does limit some very good songs i.e. Free – All Right Now, Sabbath etc
Hmm certainly limited the list with the head banging, here’s some off the top of my head.
Black Sabbath
Dio
Alice Cooper
Ozzy Osbourne
Danzig
Turbonegro
Van Halen
If you hadn’t said head banging, that would be a much more fruitful list, but those are still some damn good bands!
EDIT: Now I have no restriction of what bands to recommend, here’s where I really kick in.
The Rolling Stones
Jethro Tull
The Allman Brothers Band
The Doors
Grateful Dead
Janis Joplin
Aerosmith
Johnny Thunders
New York Dolls
Thin Lizzy
Jimi Hendrix
Jerry Garcia
I’ll stop here because I don’t know how many characters I have left for this edit.
It’s a 70’s rock and roll song where they quickly give a sing a bunch of stuff … I believe is a bunch of things from TV shows. I know that’s not a lot to go on. I heard it recently on the radio and I missed the name and the artist.
"We Didn’t Start The Fire" by Billy Joel?
I’m doing an assessment and want to know what techniques rock and roll singers use, descriptive words as to what rock singing sounds like. developments in rock singing etc. The history of rock and rock singing is basically what i’m after. If anybody could get back to me tonight that would be great
john lennon voice is the best description of rock and roll
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i forgot the name but i know they had albums devoted to specific rock artists
the vitamin string quartet 
i thought i was the only one that knew about them :O
Playing electric guitar and singing don’t seem to be a problem – but when I’m playing electric bass I cannot sing a lot of songs. It seems that a lot of times bass playing counters what’s being sung or comes in timing that just doesn’t mesh with singing. Songs like "Stray Cat Strut" with an even beat and the words sung on each beat are fairly easy to sing and play bass on at the same time. Do you have any suggestions for other Rock & Roll songs that I can learn to sing and play bass at the same time? Thanks.
Try The Cars, which I found easy. Pink Floyd – Run Like Hell is easy. Punk like Sex Pistols or Ramones. Try something where the bass has a steady pace, quarter notes or 8th notes. You might even want to try to keep up with the changes on the bass without playing the counter just to learn the song. Once you have the lyrics down or the bass line down then learn the other part. I had to do that with Another Brick on the Wall.
This is referring to the the youth of the 1950s+. I have always wondered why society was so bad in their eyes that they became rebels and turned to drugs and rock an roll. (Not that there is anything wrong with rock and roll, i’m just curious)
- to themojoman – you did not answer the question. Don’t waste my time. This question is about rock and roll not drugs.
Before ROCK & ROLL the music was all BROADWAY MUSICAL STUFF and a young person couldn’t identify with it. I mean WHO CAN’T IDENTIFY with something like SWEET LITTLE SIXTEEN or ROCKET 88 or LITTLE GTO ETC ETC who could identify with say FRANK SINATRA singing in a suit and tie or TONY BENNETT. NOT EVERYONE WHO LOVES R&R "TURNED TO DRUGS".
ok i am big fan of the rock and roll sound that alan freed had named, I have the Mr. rock and roll movie from 1999, I also have many others like the buddy holly story, great balls of fire, labamba, Elvis the miniseries, walk the line. I also have last man standing, the concert jerry lee did. i was wondering if anyone could tell me how many other movies there are on the 50s rockers, I hope to put on a dance this summer and i want to get a scence of the music and the people that played it. i just found beyond the sea, the bobby darin movie, but are there any other movies like this?
Here are a few 1950’s movies you did not have listed:
6.5 SPECIAL 1957 U.K. film. Quirky rock n roll film. The Six-Five Special was a British teenage music TV show that was expanded upon in this film to include 16 well known performers and…
ALL THIS AND WORLD WAR II 1976 U.S. film. It’s a Reich ‘n’ Roll movie featuring dancing Nazis and music by John Lennon and Paul McCartney! What can you say about a film that combines real life footage…
AMERICAN HOT WAX 1978 U.S. film. Excellent tribute to 1950s doo wop and rock n roll and the important contribution of disc jockey Alan Freed…
AMOR A RITMO DE GO-GO 1966 MX. film. The Mexican "Rocanrolero Phenomenon" (Mexico’s Rock n Roll movement) of the 50s & 60s gave birth to great rock n roll garage bands and teenage films. Amor A Ritmo De Go-Go is set in the top Mexican Go-Go clubs of the 1960s…
AND THE BEAT GOES ON 1999 U.S. film. The Sonny and Cher Story is a fun and entertaining window into the mod, pop and rock n roll world of the 1960s…
BLUES FOR LOVERS (a.k.a. BALLAD IN BLUE) 1966 U.K. film. Ray Charles stars as himself in this interesting drama with tons of concert performance footage. "I Gotta Woman," "What’d I Say," "Hit The Road Jack," "Hallelujah I Love Her So," "Let The Good Times Roll," and many more…
BATTLE OF THE MODS (a.k.a. CRAZY BABY) 1966 IT. & GER. film. Liverpool mods and rockers slug it out! Cool 1960s Euro-beat garage-punk-pop. Cool looking chicks shake their bodies wildly…
BE MY GUEST 1965 U.K. film. Follow-up to, "Live It Up." Jerry Lee Lewis, the Nashville Teens, the Zephyrs, Kenny and the Wranglers, the Niteshades…
BECAUSE THEY’RE YOUNG 1960 U.S. film. Blackboard Jungle-style drama. Dick Clark takes on a JD with a switchblade…
BIG BEAT, THE 1957 U.S. film. Color. Fats Domino, The Del-Vikings, the Diamonds and more! Terrific Doo Wop! A record company executive’s son starts a rockin’ subsidiary label…
BIRTH OF THE BEATLES 1979 U.S. film. Filmed in Liverpool. Follows the band from beginnings in Liverpool to Hamburg to America. Large focus of film is on the days is Hamburg and Stu Sutcliffe…
BOP GIRL GOES CALYPSO (a.k.a. BOP GIRL) 1957 U.S. film. Two great rhythm & blues songs from black vocal group, The Titans! Also, the Mary Kaye Trio, the Goofers, the Lord Flea Calypsonians, and the Cubanos…
CALYPSO HEAT WAVE 1957 U.S. film. A jukebox mobster forces his way into a record company. The Treniers wail on "Rock Joe" and "Day Old Bread and Canned Beans"…
CARNIVAL ROCK 1957 U.S. film. Outstanding 1950s rock and roll, rockabilly and doo wop by Bob Luman and his Shadows, David Houston, the Platters and the Blockbusters…
C’MON LET’S LIVE A LITTLE 1967 U.S. film. Very rare rock n roll movie starring Bobby Vee and Jackie De Shannon! Terrific 60s go-go scenes and rock n roll! Tons of songs…
DATELINE DIAMONDS 1966 U.K. film. Screaming fans charge the Small Faces who just made the US charts! Music by Small Faces, The Chantelles, Mark Richardson, Kiki Dee, Rey Antob and the Pro Form(cool Merseybeat sounds)…
DAVID CASSIDY STORY, THE U.S. film. "C’mon Get Happy!" David gives a no holds barred interview to Rolling Stone magazine that becomes the beginning of the end of the Partridge Family…
DON’T KNOCK THE ROCK 1956 U.S. film. Alan Freed, Alan Dale, Little Richard and the Upsetters, Bill Haley and his Comets, the Treniers, Dave Appell and more! Classic 1950s rock and roll film…
DON’T KNOCK THE TWIST 1962 U.S. film. Chubby Checker, the Dovells, the Carroll Brothers, Dee Dee Sharp, Gene Chandler and more. Lots of Tikis. Great music! Classic twist film…
DUKE WORE JEANS, THE 1958 U.K. film. Tommy sings: "It’s All Happening," "What Do You Do?," "Happy Guitar," " May I Call You Princess?," "Photograph My Baby," "Gotta Let Your Hair Down," "Thanks A Lot, I’ve Had a Ball" and "Family Tree"…
EXPRESSO BONGO 1959 U.K. film. Cliff Richard is discovered in a coffee bar. Cliff Richard and the Shadows in the best British rock and roll film of the fifties…
FINDERS KEEPERS 1966 U.K. film. Cliff Richard and the Shadows star in this rock n roll comedy. Music and lyrics by the Shadows. Songs include: "Finders Keepers," "My Way," "Paella," "Fiesta," "Time Drags By."
GET YOURSELF A COLLEGE GIRL 1964 U.S. film. Rock n roll from the Animals, the Dave Clark Five, and the Standells! Also, Freddie Bell and the Bellboys, the Jimmy Smith Trio, Stan Getz and Astrud Gilberto perform, "The Girl From Ipanema"…
GHOST OF DRAGSTRIP HOLLOW (a.k.a. HAUNTED HOT ROD) 1959 U.S. film. Semi-sequel to "Hot Rod Gang". One of the most "fun" of the 1950s teen movies! Rockin’ tunes by The Renegades (featuring Bruce Johnston and Sandy Nelson!) Cool teen lingo! "He’s got static in his attic!"…
GIRL CAN’T HELP IT, THE 1956 U.S. film. Color. Sex, gangsters and fabulous rockin’ 1950s rock and roll. Little Richard, Gene Vincent, Eddie Cochran, Fats Domino, The Treniers, Eddie Fontaine, Johnny Olenn, Nino Tempo, The Platters…
GO, JOHNNY GO! 1959 U.S. film. Chuck Berry, Ritchie Valens, Eddie Cochran, the Cadillacs, Jackie Wilson, the Flamingos and many others. Fantastic 1950s rock and roll!…
HEY LET’S TWIST 1961 U.S. film. Joey Dee and The Starlighters, Jo-Ann Campbell, Teddy Randazzo. The Twist goes Italian at the Peppermint Lounge! Songs include: "Hey, Let’s Twist," "Round and Round," "Let Me Teach You How To Twist," "Roly Poly," "Peppermint Twist," and many more!…
JAMBOREE! (a.k.a. DISC JOCKEY JAMBOREE) 1957 U.S. film. Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Lewis Lymon and Teenchords, Fats Domino, Jimmy Bowen, Buddy Knox, Charlie Gracie, Frankie Avalon, Count Basie, Rocco and the Saints and many more. Lots of US disc jockeys…
JOVENES Y REBELDES (BILL HALEY AND THE COMETS) 1962 MEX film. Cool Mexican JD film featuring Bill Haley and the Comets! Mexican juvenile delinquents. A big breasted sex pot sings “Fever.” Bill Haley and the Comets perform “Shake Rattle and Roll” and…
LET THE GOOD TIMES ROLL 1973 U.S. film. Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, The Five Satins, Bill Haley and The Comets, Bo Diddley, Danny and The Juniors, The Shirelles, Chubby Checker…
MRS. BROWN, YOU’VE GOT A LOVELY DAUGHTER 1968 U.K. film. Stars Herman’s Hermits! The group sings nine songs including the title track and "There’s A Kind Of Hush." Lots of teeth and hair!…
OUT OF SIGHT 1966 U.S. film. Spoof on The Man From U.N.C.L.E. Great 60s artists and songs include Gary Lewis and the Playboys, Dobie Gray, the Turtles, the Astronauts, the Knickerbockers, Freddie and the Dreamers. Follow up film to "Beach Ball"…
RICKY NELSON ORIGINAL TEEN IDOL 1999 U.S. film. Surprisingly very good biopic on Ricky Nelson. Captures Ricky’s rockabilly beginnings with cool scenes featuring the Collins Kids, Johnny and Dorsey Burnette, James Burton, and of course, Elvis…
i think it’s rough that there isn’t much rock music on mainstream tv and radio……
kids now are listening to metallica and guns and roses, and it’s really weird.
one of the only rock bands doing anything is green day, and they’re amazingly popular, but they’re not really all that good.
personally, i like a few rock bands like metric, the libertines, and the hives, but none of them are very popular.
i say all this because at some point kids might be listening to what their parents were listening to, and that’s just wrong and we can’t have that.
Your question sounds thought out, but I don’t get your last paragraph. Do you really think the popular music of today is better or smarter than music from the past? (Perhaps you are young). Kids listening to classic rock or music from the past have simply discovered the better stuff. They are bored with today’s silliness. Where do you think today’s best performers get their influence from? (The performers who get their influence from each other sound the silliest, and will be forgotten.)
There IS good music today, but it is not the majority. A great deal of today’s pop/rock/rap will NOT be enjoying continued airplay 30-plus years from now because it is the musical equivalent of junk food. Not meaning to offend any fans of today’s popular music, but look back later and the truth will be revealed.
As for "that’s just wrong",..listen to some of what you hear today. Some stuff is so ugly and so silly that they would have been called "novelty songs" (jokes) in the past (when singers could also write,.. and could play their own musical instruments without the aid of studio tricks and computer software).
Ultimately, taste is individual. If it moves you, enjoy it. If it’s really dumb, enjoy the music and take the lyrics very lightly.
P.S. "Gillian", below, is right about the flock thing. Many tend to like what they are "supposed" to like.