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Topic: 50's/60's Rock N Roll on Steel |
Jeremy DeHart
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Posted 22 Oct 2019 6:12 am |
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So in my opinion there are but a few examples of instrumental Rock N' Roll with Steel guitar starting with Santo and Johnny naturally. I wanted to list out some that I have found here in hopes that someone can turn me on to other examples. (I'm only including one track per band etc)Here we go:
Santo and Johnny - All Night Diner - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fxTpl3v6Yg
The Goldtones - Strike - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXyL0S44QhI&
Ivan Ward and the Swingsters - The Clique - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kR0cF2QfQzc&
I know there have to be more examples than this! Or was it that Santo and Johnny just had the whole market wrapped up? Seems impossible to me. |
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Erv Niehaus
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Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 22 Oct 2019 7:13 am
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Bill Haley and the Comets started out with a steel guitar in the band.
I don't know if they did any instrumentals, though.
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Glenn Wilde
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California, USA
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Posted 22 Oct 2019 9:08 am
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Bill Haley and the Comets started out with a steel guitar in the band.
I don't know if they did any instrumentals, though.
Erv |
That's just who came to my mind. I love the atomic steel fills on Thirteen Women. |
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Landon Jarrel
From:
Space
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Posted 22 Oct 2019 9:14 am
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Billy Williamson was Bill Haley's steel player from around 1948 till 1962.
He did this instrumental: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2scVXrV4YA
On the material the band recorded on Essex Records in the early 50s, first as Bill Haley and the Saddlemen and then Bill Haley with Haley's Comets, Billy has a noticable Speedy West influence with Doo-Ahh effects left and right. He used C6 for certain and I think E13 on the other neck of his Gibsons, but I am not sure.
Here's a song from 1960 where Billy takes a solo, which was rare for him after 1954. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGi6RyqK2pk
The reason Bill kept the steel in the band for so long is that it added the element of a horn section to the sound. One of Billy's trademark effects was to do single-note bar slams and shivers. |
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Jack Hanson
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San Luis Valley, USA
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Jeremy DeHart
From:
North Carolina, USA
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Posted 22 Oct 2019 10:21 am
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| Excellent! Didn't realize Bill Haley had steel for that long. And Louis Jordan sounds awesome! |
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K Maul
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Hadley, NY/Hobe Sound, FL
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Posted 22 Oct 2019 10:35 am
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Brenda Lee had more than one hot tune with steel guitar!
https://youtu.be/D7ADmyIOf0I
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K Maul
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Hadley, NY/Hobe Sound, FL
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Posted 22 Oct 2019 10:41 am
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Jimmy Dickens 1958. Harold Bradley and Buddy Emmons rocked it.
https://youtu.be/vD4babegA7U
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Kris Youngsteadt
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Illinois, USA
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Nic Neufeld
From:
Kansas City, Missouri
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Posted 22 Oct 2019 12:54 pm
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Steve Howe with Yes was my intro to the instrument. Vastly different style of how I ended up playing steel guitar (eventually) though!
Santo and Johnny are some of my favorites outside of Hawaiian...I love their cover of the doowop tune "A Thousand Miles Away", very Sleep Walk influenced but you can't really blame them when they've got a winning formula...
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Jeff Mead
From:
London, England
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Posted 23 Oct 2019 1:03 am
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Nice looking Rickenbacker in this clip. |
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Jeremy DeHart
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North Carolina, USA
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North Carolina, USA
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