quarta-feira, agosto 16, 2023
Elvis Presley morreu há 46 anos...
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Marcadores: blues, Can't Help Falling In Love, country, Elvis Presley, gospel, música, pop, Rhythm and Blues, Rock 'n' roll, rockabilly
quinta-feira, julho 06, 2023
Bill Haley nasceu há 98 anos
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Marcadores: Bill Haley, Bill Haley and His Comets, country, música, Rock, Rock and Roll, Rock Around the Clock, rockabilly
segunda-feira, maio 15, 2023
June Carter Cash morreu há vinte anos...
June Carter Cash (born Valerie June Carter; Maces Spring, Virginia, June 23, 1929 – Nashville, Tennessee, May 15, 2003) was an American singer, songwriter and dancer. A five-time Grammy award-winner, she was a member of the Carter Family and the second wife of singer Johnny Cash. Prior to her marriage to Cash, she was professionally known as June Carter and occasionally was still credited as such after her marriage (as well as on songwriting credits predating it). She played guitar, banjo, harmonica, and autoharp, and acted in several films and television shows. Carter Cash won five Grammy Awards and was inducted into the Christian Music Hall of Fame in 2009.
June Carter Cash was born Valerie June Carter in Maces Spring, Virginia, to Maybelle (née Addington) and Ezra Carter. Her parents were country music performers and she performed with the Carter Family from the age of 10, in 1939. In March 1943, when the Carter Family trio stopped recording together at the end of the WBT contract, Maybelle Carter, with encouragement from her husband Ezra, formed "Mother Maybelle and the Carter Sisters" with her daughters, Helen, Anita, and June. The new group first aired on radio station WRNL in Richmond, Virginia, on June 1. Doc (Addington) and Carl (McConnell) - Maybelle's brother and cousin, respectively, known as "The Virginia Boys", joined them in late 1945. June, then 16, was a co-announcer with Ken Allyn and did the commercials on the radio shows for Red Star Flour, Martha White, and Thalhimers Department Store, just to name a few. For the next year, the Carters and Doc and Carl did show dates within driving range of Richmond, through Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, and Pennsylvania. She attended John Marshall High School during this period.[4] June later said she had to work harder at her music than her sisters, but she had her own special talent —comedy.[5] A highlight of the road shows was her "Aunt Polly" comedy routine. With her thin and lanky frame, June Carter often played a comedic foil during the group's performances alongside other Opry stars Faron Young and Webb Pierce. Carl McConnell wrote in his memoirs that June was "a natural-born clown, if there ever was one". Decades later, Carter revived Aunt Polly for the 1976 TV series Johnny Cash & Friends.
After Doc and Carl dropped out of the music business in late 1946, Maybelle and her daughters moved to Sunshine Sue Workman's "Old Dominion Barn Dance" on the WRVA Richmond station. After a while there, they moved to WNOX in Knoxville, Tennessee, where they met Chet Atkins with Homer and Jethro.
In 1949, Mother Maybelle and the Carter Sisters, with their lead guitarist, Atkins, were living in Springfield, Missouri, and performing regularly at KWTO. Ezra "Eck" Carter, Maybelle's husband and manager of the group, declined numerous offers from the Grand Ole Opry to move the act to Nashville, Tennessee, because the Opry would not permit Atkins to accompany the group onstage. Atkins' reputation as a guitar player had begun to spread, and studio musicians were fearful that he would displace them as a 'first-call' player if he came to Nashville. Finally, in 1950, Opry management relented and the group, along with Atkins, became part of the Opry company. Here the family befriended Hank Williams and Elvis Presley (to whom they were distantly related), and June met Johnny Cash.
June and her sisters, with mother Maybelle and aunt Sara joining in from time to time, reclaimed the name "The Carter Family" for their act during the 1960s and '70s.
While June Carter Cash may be best known for singing and songwriting, she was also an author, dancer, actress, comedian, philanthropist, and humanitarian.[6] Director Elia Kazan saw her perform at the Grand Ole Opry in 1955 and encouraged her to study acting. She studied with Lee Strasberg and Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York. Her acting roles included Mrs. "Momma" Dewey in Robert Duvall's 1998 movie The Apostle, Sister Ruth, wife to Johnny Cash's character Kid Cole, on Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (1993–97), and Clarise on Gunsmoke in 1957. She was notable as Mayhayley Lancaster playing alongside husband Cash in the 1983 television movie Murder in Coweta County. June was also Momma James in The Last Days of Frank and Jesse James. She also acted in occasional comedy skits for various Johnny Cash TV programs.
As a singer, she had both a solo career and a career singing with first her family and later her husband. As a solo artist, she became somewhat successful with upbeat country tunes of the 1950s such as "Jukebox Blues" and, with her exaggerated breaths, the comedic hit "No Swallerin' Place" by Frank Loesser. June also recorded "The Heel" in the 1960s along with many other songs.
In the early 1960s, June Carter wrote the song "Ring of Fire", which later went on to be a hit for her future husband, Johnny Cash. She co-wrote the song with fellow songwriter Merle Kilgore. June wrote the lyrics about her relationship with Johnny Cash and she offered the song to her sister Anita Carter, who was the first singer to record the song. In 1963, Johnny recorded the song with the Carter Family singing backup, and added mariachi horns. The song became a number-one hit and went on to become one of the most recognizable songs in the world of country music. In her autobiography, “I Walked the Line”, Johnny's first wife Vivian Cash disputes the myth that June Carter co-wrote the song, "Ring of Fire". Vivian relates the story that Johnny told her in 1963 that he wrote the song with Merle Kilgore and Curly while fishing and that he was going to give June half credit because “She needs the money. And I like her.”
Her first notable studio performance with Johnny Cash occurred in 1964 when she duetted with Cash on "It Ain't Me Babe", a Bob Dylan composition, that was released as a single and on Cash's album Orange Blossom Special. In 1967, the two found more substantial success with their recording of "Jackson", which was followed by a collaboration album, Carryin' On with Johnny Cash and June Carter. All these releases antedated her marriage to Cash (upon which event she changed her professional name to June Carter Cash). She continued to work with Cash on record and on stage for the rest of her life, recording a number of duets with Cash for his various albums and being a regular on The Johnny Cash Show from 1969 to 1971 and on Cash's annual Christmas specials. After Carryin' On, June Carter Cash recorded one more direct collaboration album, Johnny Cash and His Woman, released in 1973, and along with her daughters was a featured vocalist on Cash's 1974 album The Junkie and the Juicehead Minus Me. She also shared sleeve credit with her husband on a 2000 small-label gospel release, Return to the Promised Land
Although she provided vocals on many recordings, and shared the billing with Cash on several album releases, June Carter Cash only recorded three solo albums during her lifetime: the first, Appalachian Pride, released in 1975, Press On (1999), and Wildwood Flower, released posthumously in 2003 and produced by her son, John Carter Cash. Appalachian Pride is the only one of the three on which Johnny Cash does not perform, while Press On is notable for featuring June Carter Cash singing her original arrangement of "Ring of Fire".
One of her final appearances was a nonspeaking/nonsinging appearance in the music video for her husband's 2003 single, "Hurt", filmed a few months before her death. One of her last known public appearances was on April 7, 2003, just over a month before her death, when she appeared on the CMT Flameworthy awards program to accept an achievement award on behalf of her husband, who was too ill to attend.
She won a Grammy award in 1999 for, Press On. Her last album, Wildwood Flower, won two additional Grammys. It contains bonus video enhancements showing extracts from the film of the recording sessions, which took place at the Carter Family estate in Hiltons, Virginia, on September 18–20, 2002. The songs on the album include "Big Yellow Peaches", "Sinking in the Lonesome Sea", "Temptation", and the trademark staple "Wildwood Flower". Due to her involvement in providing backing vocals on many of her husband's recordings, a further posthumous release occurred in 2014, when Out Among the Stars was released under Johnny Cash's name. The album consists of previously unreleased recordings from the early 1980s, including two on which June Carter Cash provides duet vocals.
Carter was married three times and had one child with each husband. All three of her children went on to have successful careers in country music. She was married first to country singer Carl Smith from July 9, 1952, until their divorce in 1956. Together, they wrote "Time's A-Wastin". They had a daughter, Rebecca Carlene Smith, professionally known as Carlene Carter, a country musician. June's second marriage was to Edwin "Rip" Nix, a former football player and police officer on November 11, 1957. They had a daughter, Rosie Nix Adams, on July 13, 1958. The couple divorced in 1966. Rosie was a country/rock singer. On October 24, 2003, Rosie, aged 45, died from accidental carbon monoxide poisoning. She and bluegrass musician Jimmy Campbell were on a school bus, which had been converted for travel. Several propane heaters were being used to heat the bus.
Carter and the entire Carter Family had performed with Johnny Cash for a number of years. In 1968, Cash proposed to Carter during a live performance at the London Ice House in London, Ontario. They married on March 1 in Franklin, Kentucky, and remained married until her death in May 2003, just four months before Cash died. The couple's son, John Carter Cash, is a musician, songwriter, and producer.
She also gained four stepdaughters from her third husband’s previous marriage to Vivian Liberto; including Cindy and Rosanne.
Carter's distant cousin, the 39th U.S. president Jimmy Carter, became closely acquainted with Cash and Carter and maintained their friendship throughout their lifetimes. In a June 1977 speech, Jimmy Carter acknowledged that June Carter was his distant cousin.
Carter was a longtime supporter of SOS Children's Villages. In 1974, the Cashes donated money to help build a village near their home in Barrett Town, Jamaica, which they visited frequently, playing the guitar and singing songs to the children in the village.
June Carter Cash also had close relationships with a number of entertainers, including Audrey Williams, James Dean, Patsy Cline, Loretta Lynn, Jessi Colter, Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson, Elvis Presley, Robert Duvall and Roy Orbison.
Postado por Fernando Martins às 20:00 0 bocas
Marcadores: Americana, Appalachian, country, country folk, folk, gospel, Johnny Cash, June Carter Cash, música, rockabilly
segunda-feira, maio 08, 2023
Ricky Nelson nasceu há 83 anos...
Postado por Fernando Martins às 08:30 0 bocas
Marcadores: actor, cinema, country, folk, música, pop, Ricky Nelson, Rock, rockabilly, Young World
domingo, abril 23, 2023
Roy Orbison nasceu há 87 anos...
Postado por Fernando Martins às 08:07 0 bocas
Marcadores: música, pop, Rock, Rock and Roll, rockabilly, Roy Orbison, The Big O, You Got it
Música adequada à data...
Postado por Pedro Luna às 00:08 0 bocas
Marcadores: música, pop, Pretty Woman, Rock, Rock and Roll, rockabilly, Roy Orbison, The Big O
domingo, abril 09, 2023
Carl Perkins nasceu há noventa e um anos...
Carl Lee Perkins (Tiptonville, 9 de abril de 1932 - Jackson, 19 de janeiro de 1998) foi um cantor norte-americano de rockabilly. Foi considerado o 88º melhor guitarrista de todos os tempos pela revista norte-americana Rolling Stone.
Postado por Fernando Martins às 09:10 0 bocas
Marcadores: Blue Suede Shoes, Carl Perkins, música, rockabilly
sábado, março 25, 2023
Johnny Burnette nasceu há 89 anos...
Postado por Fernando Martins às 08:09 0 bocas
Marcadores: Johnny Burnette, música, Rock and Roll, rockabilly, You're Sixteen
segunda-feira, março 20, 2023
Jerry Reed nasceu há 86 anos...
Postado por Fernando Martins às 08:06 0 bocas
Marcadores: actor, country, country rock, East Bound and Down, Jerry Reed, música, Outlaw country, Rock and Roll, rockabilly, swamp rock, truck-driving country
sábado, fevereiro 11, 2023
Gene Vincent, pioneiro do rock e do rockabilly precocemente desaparecido, nasceu há 88 anos...
Ian Dury paid tribute with the 1976 song "Sweet Gene Vincent".
Robert Gordon paid tribute with the song "The Catman" on his Rock Billy Boogie album.
French rock n' roller Eddy Mitchell paid homage with the 1979 song "Good Bye Gene Vincent".
The rockabilly band Stray Cats also paid homage to Vincent, alongside Eddie Cochran, in their single "Gene and Eddie".
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Postado por Fernando Martins às 08:08 0 bocas
Marcadores: Dance To The Bop, Gene Vincent, música, Rock, rockabilly, USA
quarta-feira, fevereiro 01, 2023
Don Everly, dos The Everly Brothers, nasceu há 86 anos
Postado por Fernando Martins às 08:06 0 bocas
Marcadores: country, Crying In the Rain, Don Everly, música, Rock, Rock and Roll, rockabilly, The Everly Brothers
quinta-feira, janeiro 19, 2023
Carl Perkins morreu há vinte e cinco anos...
Carl Lee Perkins (Tiptonville, 9 de abril de 1932 - Jackson, 19 de janeiro de 1998) foi um cantor norte-americano de rockabilly, uma mistura de rhythm and blues e country music que se desenvolveu na Sun Records, em Memphis, Tennessee, no começo dos anos 50. Foi considerado o 88º melhor guitarrista de todos os tempos pela revista norte-americana Rolling Stone.
Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:25 0 bocas
Marcadores: Blue Suede Shoes, Carl Perkins, guitarra, música, rockabilly
quarta-feira, janeiro 18, 2023
Phil Everly, o mais novo dos The Everly Brothers, nasceu há 84 anos
Postado por Fernando Martins às 08:40 0 bocas
Marcadores: All I Have To Do Is Dream, Cathy's Clown, country, música, Phil Everly, pop, Rock and Roll, rockabilly, The Everly Brothers
domingo, janeiro 08, 2023
Saudades do rei...
Postado por Pedro Luna às 08:08 0 bocas
Marcadores: cinema, country, country rock, Elvis Presley, Elvis The Pelvis, gospel, música, pop, Rock and Roll, rockabilly, rythm and blues, Suspicious Minds
Elvis Presley nasceu há 88 anos
Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:08 0 bocas
Marcadores: cinema, country, country rock, Elvis Presley, Elvis The Pelvis, gospel, Its Now or Never, música, pop, Rock and Roll, rockabilly, rythm and blues
domingo, janeiro 01, 2023
Eduardo Dussek faz hoje 68 anos
Postado por Fernando Martins às 06:08 0 bocas
Marcadores: Eduardo Dussek, MPB, música, Nostradamus, Rock da Cachorra, rockabilly
sábado, dezembro 31, 2022
Ricky Nelson morreu há 37 anos...
Postado por Fernando Martins às 00:37 0 bocas
Marcadores: actor, cinema, country, folk, Hello Mary-Lou, música, pop, Ricky Nelson, Rock, rockabilly
segunda-feira, dezembro 19, 2022
Alvin Lee nasceu há 78 anos...
Alvin Lee, born Graham Anthony Barnes (Nottingham, 19 December 1944 – Estepona, Spain, 6 March 2013) was an English singer, songwriter and guitarist. He is best known as the lead vocalist and lead guitarist of the blues rock band Ten Years After.
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Lee died on 6 March 2013 in Spain. He died from "unforeseen complications following a routine surgical procedure" to correct an atrial arrhythmia. He was 68. His former bandmates lamented his death. Leo Lyons called him "the closest thing I had to a brother", while Ric Lee (no relation) said "I don't think it's even sunk in yet as to the reality of his passing". Billboard highlighted such landmark performances as "I'm Going Home" from the Woodstock festival and his 1971 hit single "I'd Love to Change the World".
Postado por Fernando Martins às 07:08 0 bocas
Marcadores: Alvin Lee, blues, blues rock, guitarra, I'd Love to Change the World, Rock, rockabilly, Ten Years After
domingo, dezembro 11, 2022
Brenda Lee, Little Miss Dynamite, faz hoje 78 anos
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Marcadores: Brenda Lee, country, Little Miss Dynamite, música, pop, rockabilly, Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree
terça-feira, dezembro 06, 2022
Música adequada à data...
Postado por Pedro Luna às 03:40 0 bocas
Marcadores: Crying, música, pop, Rock and Roll, rockabilly, Roy Orbison, The Big O