
Dirk B. wrote:wolfgangguhl wrote:What own songs? Jerry Lee Lewis IS a cover artist, even though the greatest in the world, who makes ALL songs his OWN. I never grow tired of hearing "Roll Over Beethoven", to me maybe the greatest song in Rock'n'Roll history and Jerry plays a unique version every time.
Whatever, he has recorded so many great songs that his set list could be the most exciting one in the world every time he plays. Sadly it is not.
The ideal "own song" to start with would be "Lewis Boogie". Another one would be "Breathless", though for whatever reason Jerry doesn't like the song. Or "GBOF" as opener - why not? Fats Domino also started many concerts with "I'm Walkin' . Or maybe start with "WLSGO" and finish with "GBOF". Okay, to be precise, "WLSGO" is not a JLL original, but nobody would say "listen, he does a Big Maybelle" number, while "ROB" is deeply associated with Chuck Berry. I'm tired of "Roll Over Beethoven"...
P.S.: "High School Confidential" would be a fine opener, too....
peterchecksfield wrote:
Incidentally I think 'Roll Over Beethoven' is more strongly associated with The Beatles than anyone (certainly they sold more copies of the song than anyone else).
martin bates wrote:peterchecksfield wrote:
Incidentally I think 'Roll Over Beethoven' is more strongly associated with The Beatles than anyone (certainly they sold more copies of the song than anyone else).
.......it was on their 2nd album - but I've never heard anyone refer to it as a Beatles song. Was it a US single ? - certainly not over here.
Martin.
peterchecksfield wrote:martin bates wrote:peterchecksfield wrote:
Incidentally I think 'Roll Over Beethoven' is more strongly associated with The Beatles than anyone (certainly they sold more copies of the song than anyone else).
.......it was on their 2nd album - but I've never heard anyone refer to it as a Beatles song. Was it a US single ? - certainly not over here.
Martin.
I've heard Chuck Berry refer to it as a Beatles song (got it on DVD in fact!).
bailbath wrote:I thought it was a E.L.O song!
peterchecksfield wrote:bailbath wrote:I thought it was a E.L.O song!
Exactly Ian!
I think it depends what generation the person is from. For instance I first heard 'Heartbeat' by Showaddywaddy (also 'Three Steps To Heaven' etc), yet people a little younger would associate the song with Nick Berry, 'The Locomotion' with Kylie Minogue, etc.
I agree that 'Roll Over Beethoven' isn't regarded as a "Beatles song" quite as much as some of their other covers though ('Twist & Shout', 'Money', 'Please Mr Postman', etc).
Tony Papard wrote:peterchecksfield wrote:bailbath wrote:I thought it was a E.L.O song!
Exactly Ian!
I think it depends what generation the person is from. For instance I first heard 'Heartbeat' by Showaddywaddy (also 'Three Steps To Heaven' etc), yet people a little younger would associate the song with Nick Berry, 'The Locomotion' with Kylie Minogue, etc.
I agree that 'Roll Over Beethoven' isn't regarded as a "Beatles song" quite as much as some of their other covers though ('Twist & Shout', 'Money', 'Please Mr Postman', etc).
This was one of the main reason Rockers in the 1960s hated the British Mod groups like The Beatles. Mods of the day were discovering for the first time songs like 'Long Tall Sally', and I remember an argument in the musical press because they thought it was a Beatles' original, along with 'Honey Don't', 'Dizzy Miss Lizzy' and other rock'n'roll numbers.
As Rockers saw it at the time, the Mod groups were ruining American rock'n'roll songs and the Mod fans thought they were new songs. In retrospect it brought about a mini-revival of interest in the careers of rockers like Little Richard, Carl Perkins, Larry Williams, etc. who originally recorded these songs, culminating in Brian Epstein, manager of The Beatles, putting Fats Domino, Little Richard, Chuck Berry and possibly other rockers on at his Saville Theater in London.
martin bates wrote:It probably depends how interested in the 'music' people at the time were; I was a young Beatles fan in the early sixties, & in all the mags & interviews etc they would always rave about Carl Perkins & the others; the Stones were the same with Muddy Waters/Howlin Wolf etc; I thought it great that Lennon-McCartney wrote their own songs -but was always aware that Honey Don't was Carl Perkins, or indeed that I Wanna Be Your Man was the Stones. Even the ELO version, fondly remembered here, was widely reported at the time as the 'old Chuck Berry song' . Those 60s groups did help with the renewed interest in the older artists; Later on people like Roy Wood (California Man) tended to do a kind of 50s thing, without really acknowledging it. Jeff Lynne (ELO) was in The Move with Wood, who also reworked classical music into songs like Night of Fear.For those who don't remember it (or care to), ELOs R.O.B began with a classical intro, rudely interrupted by the rousing guitar intro. ......a similar device was used in one of those JLL tribute singles ..."look what Jerry Lee done to me" - or whatever it's called.
Martin.
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