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Various - The Hillbillies: Vol.1, The Hillbillies - They Tried To Rock (CD)

1-CD Digipak (4-plated) with 72-page booklet, 31 tracks. Total playing time approx. 73 minutes.

Try to imagine it. You're an established country musician. You've got a career. You're writing songs, recording songs, selling records. Everything is just humming along and then all of a sudden  – there's this whole new style. You don't particularly like it. But people are starting to ask for it at your appearances. It's cutting into your record sales. What are you going to do?

You listen to it. You're starting to get pressure from your record label – maybe it's worth trying just for the hell of it. You're a little older than most of the kids who are doing this stuff, but so what? If you have a receding hairline nobody's gonna see it over the radio.

These crazy rock 'n' roll records are selling in the millions. That's a lot of money and a whole new audience. You don't want to miss out on that. You don't want this train to go by without you getting on board. You can always get off again if you don't like it.

Or try to imagine this. You're a young country musician and you hear some new sounds, perhaps on the radio, that grab your attention. They're exciting – maybe you can find some like-minded musicians out there and work some of these new sounds into your own style.

On two volumes of 'They Tried To Rock' you will hear music with these and other stories behind it. We have collected a variety of examples of country musicians making the transition into rock 'n' roll. Some were very successful; others were less so. The results are all fascinating: the story of a genre struggling to hold its own against enormous forces of change in the 1950s. Traditional American music battling against stylistic and economic pressures that threatened to engulf it. Country musicians wondered, "Do we fight it or join it?" They did both as the new music began to spread. Here's some of what happened.

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Various - They Tried To Rock - Vol.1, The Hillbillies - They Tried To Rock (CD) CD 1
01 Teen Age Boogie Pierce, Webb
02 You’re Humbuggin' Me Frizzell, Lefty
03 I Gotta Know Jackson, Wanda
04 How Come It Jones, George 'Thumper'
05 Have You Heard The News Davis, Link
06 Let The Teardrops Fall Cline, Patsy
07 Tennessee Rock 'n' Roll Helms, Bobby
08 Honey Love Carlisles, The
09 Blue Suede Shoes King, Pee Wee
10 You Can’t Make Love To Somebody (alt 1) Perkins, Carl
11 Goodnight, Sweetheart, Goodnight Johnnie & Jack
12 Go Boy Go Smith, Carl
13 Maybellene Robbins, Marty
14 Rock The Joint Haley, Bill
15 Burn That Candle Arthur, Charline
16 You’re My Baby (Little Woolly Booger) (undubbed demo) Cash, Johnny
17 Rockin' With Red Dickens, Little Jimmy
18 Red Hen Hop Louvin Brothers
19 Onie’s Bop Wheeler, Onie
20 Vibratin' Regan, Keray
21 Little Lovin' Roman, Mimi
22 You’re There McDonald, Skeets
23 Sh-Boom (Life Could Be A Dream) Williamson, Bobby
24 I’m Coming Home Horton, Johnny
25 Finger Poppin’ Time (overdubbed version) Stanley Brothers
26 Ten Cats Down (alt) Miller Sisters
27 Hep Cat Baby Arnold, Eddy
28 Hot And Cold Rainwater, Marvin
29 Hey Little Dreamboat Maddox, Rose
30 Rock Of Gibraltar Penny, Hank
31 One Night Hansard, Kirk
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They Tried To Rock

Part 1 & 2 - The Hillbillies

THEY TRIED TO ROCK Try to imagine it. You're an established country musician. You've got a career. You're writing songs, recording songs, selling re- cords. Everything is just humming along and then all of a sudden – there's this whole new style. You don't particularly like it. But people are starting to ask for it at your appearances. It's cutting into your record sales. What are you going to do? You listen to it. You're starting to get pressure from your record label – maybe it's worth trying just for the hell of it. You're a little older than most of the kids who are doing this stuff, but so what? If you have a receding hairline nobody's gonna see it over the radio. These crazy rock 'n' roll records are selling in the millions. That's a lot of money and a whole new audience. You don't want to miss out on that. You don't want this train to go by without you getting on board. You can always get off again if you don't like it.

Or try to imagine this. You're a young country musician and you hear some new sounds, perhaps on the radio, that grab your attention. They're exciting – maybe you can find some like-minded musicians out there and work some of these new sounds into your own style. On two volumes of 'They Tried To Rock' you will hear music with these and other stories behind it. We have collected a variety of examples of country musicians making the transition into rock 'n' roll. Some were very successful; others were less so. The re- sults are all fascinating: the story of a genre struggling to hold its own against enormous forces of change in the 1950s. Tradi- tional American music battling against stylistic and economic pressures that threatened to engulf it. Country musicians wondered, "Do we fight it or join it?" They did both as the new music began to spread. Here's some of what happened.

 

Part 3 & 4 - The Popsters

Volumes 3 and 4 follow the early struggle by Popsters, including Frank Sinatra, Doris Day, the Mills Brothers, Perry Como and Law- rence Welk, who tried to come to terms with rock 'n' roll's challenge to traditional pop music. This took place during the early to mid-1950s, before anybody knew whether it was just a fad that would blow over or something that truly threatened to re- volutionize popular music.

Many Popsters hated it and privately made fun of it, while at the same time they saw their record sales plummet and their radio play and personal appearances affected. Popsters were faced with the same career-altering choice that affected the Hill- billies in Volumes 1 and 2: Do we fight 'em or join 'em?

Some Popsters were equipped to adapt and did a fine job of it. Others, weren't and didn't. For the first time, BEAR FAMILY has col- lected some vintage performances by Popsters who tried their best to pass themselves off as rockers. Many of these tracks – by both the famous and the not-so-famous – have become quite rare. You'll marvel at how good some of them were. Others may draw a well-deserved snicker after all these years. But good or bad, they all remind us just how potent a force rock & roll was in the early days, and how even well-established Popsters believed they had to change to survive. 

 

They Tried To Rock

Read more at: https://www.bear-family.com/bear-family/rock-n-roll-series/they-tried-to-rock/
Copyright © Bear Family Records

 

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Various - They Tried To Rock - Vol.1, The Hillbillies - They Tried To Rock (CD) CD 1
01 Teen Age Boogie
02 You’re Humbuggin' Me
03 I Gotta Know
04 How Come It
05 Have You Heard The News
06 Let The Teardrops Fall
07 Tennessee Rock 'n' Roll
08 Honey Love
09 Blue Suede Shoes
10 You Can’t Make Love To Somebody (alt 1)
11 Goodnight, Sweetheart, Goodnight
12 Go Boy Go
13 Maybellene
14 Rock The Joint
15 Burn That Candle
16 You’re My Baby (Little Woolly Booger) (undubbed demo)
17 Rockin' With Red
18 Red Hen Hop
19 Onie’s Bop
20 Vibratin'
21 Little Lovin'
22 You’re There
23 Sh-Boom (Life Could Be A Dream)
24 I’m Coming Home
25 Finger Poppin’ Time (overdubbed version)
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