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Rockabilly radio, playing the likes of Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, Carl Perkins, early Roy Orbison, Johnny Cash, and even tracks by Ricky Nelson or Jerry Lee Lewis, may not be the most mainstream radio today.  However, without the influences of these popular artists from the 1950’s, rock and roll would not be what it is today.

Rockabilly radio pays tribute to these icons by continuing to play their tracks today.  The first rockabilly tracks ever recorded were in July of 1954.  Elvis Presley was in a recording studio in Memphis with Scotty Moore and Bill Black, playing for Sun Records.  On a break, Presley apparently began singing and “jumping around”, and the others joined in the fun, beginning to fool around with their instruments.  Sam Phillips of Sun Records overheard the cacophony and insisted they start over so that he could record them.

  

Rockabilly Radio can be hard to find  There is huge need for more Rockabilly Radio

 

Rockabilly radio was born that day.  Other artists followed, with Carl Perkins recording Blue Suede Shoes, often referred to as the defining song of rockabilly radio.  Buddy Holly, one of rockabilly’s most well-known artists, took the style to a new level, adding a bit of flavor from south of the border.  This artist, hailing from Lubbock, Texas, changed the face of popular music in his brief lifetime.  When it was cut short by a plane crash that ended his life, as well as that of Ritchie Valens and the “Big Bopper”, before their time in 1959, rockabilly radio suffered a great loss.

Since then, rockabilly radio has had contributions from the likes of The Stray Cats and The Brian Setzer Orchestra.  New artists, like The Meteors, have blended rockabilly with the British punk sound to create an entirely new genre of music called psychobilly.  Rockabilly radio lives on, if you just flip the stations and listen carefully.

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