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6 unusual facts about Rollin


Johnny Burnette and the Rock 'n Roll Trio

A number of the songs are regarded as classics of the rockabilly genre, particularly the trio-penned "Tear It Up", released on single on June 5, 1956, and their definitive cover of "Train Kept A'Rollin'".

Rollin

Rollin Township, Michigan, a civil township of Lenawee County, Michigan, U.S.

Spencer Fearon

During his boxing career he was used as the model for the body graphics for popular computer game Shadowman in 1998 and appeared in acclaimed 2006 film Rollin' with the Nines.

Tiny Bradshaw

What is now Bradshaw's best known recording was "The Train Kept A-Rollin'" (1951) — not a chart hit at the time — which passed from rhythm and blues history into rock's legacy.

Train Kept A-Rollin'

Johnny Burnette and the Rock and Roll Trio recorded "The Train Kept A-Rollin'" in 1956 using a rockabilly/rock and roll arrangement.

The song is featured on three Aerosmith live compilations: Live! Bootleg (1978), Classics Live (1986), and Rockin' the Joint (2005).


Alive 1997

Alive 1997 prominently features elements of "Daftendirekt", "Da Funk", "Rollin' & Scratchin'" and "Alive" from their Homework album.

Betty Moon

Having completed her fifth album entitled “Rollin’ Revolution” she has worked with notable musicians including Kenny Aronoff, Yogi Lonich, Wes Scantlin, Glenn Milchem, Gavin Brown and Nick Milo and has contributed music for a variety of films including The Last Gasp starring Robert Patrick and Walking the Dead directed by Melanie Ansley.

Brigitte Borghese

During the seventies she had roles in several films, her first being, a part in the adult feature Je prends la chose... du bon côté!, La bonzesse, Tout le monde il en a deux, her first time working with French director Jean Rollin, the fantasy horror Tendre Dracula, with Peter Cushing and Alida Valli, ...et mourir de désir, Les petites saintes y touchent, Les bijoux de famille, Le commando des chauds lapins, and L'hippopotamours.

D.O.E.

Initially signed to Timbaland's Beat Club Records alongside rap artists Bubba Sparxxx and Attitude, D.O.E. first appeared on "Rollin" featuring Lil' Jon and produced by Timbaland.

Frances Rollin Whipper

Frances Anne Rollin Whipper (1845?-1901) was born in Charleston, South Carolina, United States.

Françoise Blanchard

Françoise worked again with Rollin in Les Trottoirs De Bangkok (The Sidewalks Of Bangkok), a film which she had a lot of fun making, and she appeared in his newest film production La Nuit Des Horloges (The Night of Clocks) opposite Ovidie.

French demonstration of 15 May 1848

The crowd then marched to the City Hall of Paris, where it proclaimed an "insurrectionary government" with Blanqui, Ledru-Rollin, Albert L'Ouvrier, Louis Blanc, Aloysius Huber, Thoré, Pierre Leroux, and Raspail to serve as ministers.

Green Lawn Abbey

Notable residents include George Karb (former Franklin County police commissioner and five-time mayor of Columbus), magician Howard Thurston, Charles Foster Johnson (first real estate tycoon in the area), Isaac Collins (founder of Anchor Hocking), Edward and Rollin Swisher (from the company that manufactures Swisher Sweets cigars), and H. R. Penney (brother of J.C. Penney of department store fame).

It's Midnight Cinderella

"It's Midnight Cinderella" made its chart debut on Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) in December 1995 after the album's release, as an album cut along with "That Ol' Wind", "Rollin'", and then-current single "The Beaches of Cheyenne".

La Morte Vivante

Jean Rollin originally sought Italian actress Teresa Ann Savoy for the title role, but when he met her, Savoy said she would never work Rollin under any circumstances.

Les Trottoirs de Bangkok

The film is inspired by the 1932 Boris Karloff classic The Mask of Fu Manchu and is not what you would usually expect from a Rollin movie - vampires, dream-like atmospheres and crumbling chateau's, instead here he mixes themes of adventure, crime and mystery with comic book dialogue and still features naked women and sex, something his films are well known for.

Pirates of the Mississippi

Although "Rollin' Home" peaked outside the top 40, the album's third single, "Feed Jake", became the band's biggest hit at number 15.

Ray Campi

His career never really took off until the early 1970s when he was rediscovered by Ronnie Weiser, the owner of Rollin' Rock Records.

Requiem pour un Vampire

Marie-Pierre Castel who starred in Rollin's previous films La Vampire Nue and Le Frisson des Vampires joined the cast of Requiem because her twin sister Catherine Castel was unavailable.

Rocky Burnette

Burnette worked with Rosie Flores and Dwight Twilley in the mid-1990s, and also contributed vocals and the original "Trouble Is I'm in Love With You" to Paul Burlison's 1997 Train Kept A-Rollin'.

Rollin 60's Neighborhood Crips

They became notorious when several men identified as members of the Rollin' 60 were arrested by police investigating the murders of the family of Kermit Alexander, an All-American football icon.

That Ol' Wind

In December 1995, "That Ol' Wind" made its chart debut as an album cut, along with "It's Midnight Cinderella" and "Rollin'", which also charted as album cuts, and "The Beaches of Cheyenne", his then-current single.

The Prime Time of Your Life

On the album Alive 2007, "The Prime Time of Your Life" is put together with "The Brainwasher" from Human After All, as well as with the tracks "Rollin' & Scratchin'" and "Alive" from the album Homework.

Three Week Hero

#"Medley: It's So Hard to Be a Nigger/Jim's Blues/George Wallace is Rollin' in This Mornin'" (Hillery/Traditional) – 7:38

Walter R. Brooks

Walter Rollin Brooks (January 9, 1886 – August 17, 1958) was an American writer best remembered for his short stories and children's books, particularly those about Freddy the Pig and other anthropomorphic animal inhabitants of the "Bean farm" in upstate New York.


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