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Good Rockin' Tonight: Sun Records and the Birth of Rock 'n' Roll

Good Rockin' Tonight: Sun Records and the Birth of Rock 'n' Roll

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Availability:In StockContributor:Colin Escott, Martin HawkinsPublish date:1992-07-15Pages:288
Language:EnglishPublisher:St. Martin's GriffinISBN-13:9780312081997ISBN-10:312081995UPC:9780312081997Book Category:MusicBook Subcategory:History & Criticism, Genres & StylesBook Topic:RockSize:9.01 x 7.03 x 0.75 inchesWeight:1.0913Product ID:SC02954V0K

Good Rockin' Tonight: Sun Records and the Birth of Rock 'n' Roll

Memphis, Tennessee. The early 1950s. The Mississippi rolls by, and there's a train in the night. Down on Beale Street there's hard-edged blues, on the outskirts of town they're pickin' hillbilly boogie.

At Sam Phillips' Sun Records studio on Union Avenue, there's something different going on. "Shake it, baby, shake it!" "Go, cat, go!" "We're gonna rock..."

This is where rock 'n' roll was born-the...
Language:EnglishPublisher:St. Martin's GriffinISBN-13:9780312081997ISBN-10:312081995UPC:9780312081997Book Category:MusicBook Subcategory:History & Criticism, Genres & StylesBook Topic:RockSize:9.01 x 7.03 x 0.75 inchesWeight:1.0913Product ID:SC02954V0K

Colin Escott and Martin Hawkins have conducted twenty years of research on Sun Records as catalog and reissue specialists. Escott lives in Toronto, Hawkins in London.


Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin

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