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Rockabilly Groups
The Style and the Music
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Even if you�ve never
heard of rockabilly, rockabilly groups are easy to spot.
The music, as well as the clothing and hairstyle, are all very
distinct. Rockabilly groups
can be spotted from a mile away with their pompadour hair and creeper
shoes.
You�ll notice the unique musical
style right away. Singers
yelp, gulp, and stutter through their songs, backed by an elemental but
strong beat. Rockabilly
groups sing about cars, about girls, about aliens, or about anything else
that comes to mind. There are
no rules and no holds barred for a rockabilly groups when it comes to song
writing. Whatever inspires you to get up and holler to a beat that
blends rhythm and blues with basic country is acceptable.
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Sam Phillips of Sun Records
recorded Elvis Presley, Scotty Moore, and Bill Black on July 5, 1954, when
they were �taking a break� from their recording sessions in Memphis.
The trio started playing around, with Moore saying that Elvis was
jumping around and singing. Phillips overheard their monkeying around and asked them to
start again for the record. This
began the era of the rockabilly groups that, though short lived, sparked
an interest in rock and roll that is still alive today.
Rockabilly groups came back into
the spotlight in the 1980�s, with The Stray Cats. Mimicking the 1950�s rockabilly style of hair and clothing,
they brought back to life the look of the rockabilly groups and reinvented
the crazy sound of rockabilly music.
Rockabilly groups aren�t seen as often today as
they were in the 1950�s; the true form of the music and style passed on
right along with Buddy Holly in the infamous plane crash of 1959, but the
spirit lives on with many rockabilly groupss today who credit the 1950�s
idols that sparked a movement and created a genre.
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