Other dark subcultures represented at the event include Horror Punk, Horror Rock, Halloween, Rockabilly, Psychobilly, Black metal, Steampunk, Hearse Societies, Industrial and EBM.
The title is taken from the 1957 Rockabilly novelty hit record "Flyin' Saucers Rock 'n' Roll" by Billy Lee Riley and His Little Green Men.
Rick Lindy (born June 30, 1967) is an actor and Country/Rockabilly musician from Chicago, Illinois.
In 1979, one of his compositions "Red Hot" was a top Billboard dance hit by Taka Boom (Chaka Khan's sister), and in 1985, U.K. Rockabilly sensation Shakin' Stevens recorded Bee's "Don't Be Two Faced" on his highly successful album, "The Bop Won't Stop."
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The first single released from the album was "Kyū Jō Show!!", a rockabilly-inspired tune that quickly followed up after the release of their junior album, Puzzle.
"Almost Saturday Night" had more success when covered in a rockabilly by Dave Edmunds in 1981 from his album Twangin....
The film touches on many of the styles of music that make up country music, including: Old-time music, Cajun music, Folk music, Rockabilly, Western music, Western swing, the Bakersfield sound, Honky-tonk and the Nashville sound.
Throughout his career, Hancock has played in backing bands for prominent musicians, including Fats Domino, Gene Vincent, blues guitarist Roy Buchanan, rockabilly Charlie Feathers, the Clovers, Amos Milburn, and country stars Dottie West and Jean Shepard.
Bo Ratliff and Bozo Ratliff (another 1950s rockabilly singer) are two different musicians.
This singer is not the same as Bo Ratliff, another rockabilly/country singer from the 1950s and 1960s.
In 2011, German group The Baseballs released a rockabilly version of "Candy Shop", which reached number 69 on the Austrian singles chart.
Hanna currently has a project called Chip Hanna & The Berlin Three, which is a country/western/rockabilly/psychobilly/bluegrass band based out of Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany.
The band often claims their name originated from the phrase "Demon teds are go!" as an adaptation of the phrase "Thunderbirds are go!" from the Thunderbirds TV series, as rockabillies are known as "teds", and psychobilly is often associated with horror.
".....about 65 years of age, Gene Summers sings and rocks like he did 45 years ago, when he recorded the immortal "School Of Rock 'n Roll".......it took Enviken over a year to get this session ("Do Right Daddy") released, but it was sure worth waiting for!" -Black Cat Rockabilly.
There was a special memorial service and rockabilly show in his honor on Sunday, March 26, 2007 at the Elks Lodge in Burbank, California.
Lenny LaCour, the owner of Lucky Four Records, encouraged Blazonczyk, at the age of 22, to specialize in polka music, rather than to continue as a rockabilly singer.
Ersel Hickey (June 27, 1934 – July 12, 2004), born in Brighton, New York, was a rockabilly singer best known for his hit song "Bluebirds over the Mountain".
That same year, he formed the rockabilly band The Rebels and performed on Joe Bill's Country Picnic on KRLD-TV where they were spotted by songwriter Jed Tarver.
Hi Records was a Memphis soul and rockabilly label started in 1957 by singer Ray Harris, record store owner Joe Cuoghi, Bill Cantrell and Quinton Claunch (formerly producers for Sun Records), and three silent partners, including Cuoghi's lawyer, Nick Pesce.
Reared in a musical household, Beverley grew up on early country, bluegrass, rockabilly, big band, and various forms of old time blues.
It did not sell well, but the song was successfully covered by the American rockabilly star, Dale Hawkins, on the Checker label.
Jerry Lott aka Marty Lott aka The Phantom (January 30, 1938 – September 4, 1983) was an American rockabilly singer with the frantic Dot single, "Love Me" backed with the ballad "Whisper My Love" (Dot 45-16056).
Highlight of the tour was the encore performance at the Helsinki Ice Hall on the last night of the tour when The Knockouts frontman Johan Frandsen joined Brian Setzer and Slim Jim Phantom on stage with a special rendition of the rockabilly classic, "Seven Nights to Rock".
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'".
The album branches out from Rancid's punk and ska roots to explore roots reggae and rockabilly, and dabbles in elements of dub, hip-hop, funk and other forms of music as The Clash did with Sandinista!.
Musically, the band had grown more adventurous, with Marr and Rourke channelling rockabilly and funk influences in "Rusholme Ruffians" and "Barbarism Begins at Home".
Rather than continuing with the rockabilly sound of "Pregnant for the Last Time", Morrissey and song writing partner Mark Nevin returned to a poppier sound for the final single they would release together.
The band is still on hiatus while FULL is working on a new project that he founded called Shilfee and Tulipcorobockles, which leans towards the opera/rockabilly sound.
Friendly is known for his successful US tours with the rockabilly pioneer Glen Glenn and various European and US CD releases, most notably his recordings with the Grammy-winning guitar legend Albert Lee (released by the UK label Evangeline Records, Ltd).
Rockabilly artist Sleepy LaBeef has also covered this song on his album Rockabilly 1977, and also included it on his 2000 album Tomorrow Never Comes.
Some of the original 1950s rockabilly stars also appear in the documentary: Wanda Jackson (the first lady of rockabilly); The Comets (Bill Haley's original band) and Joe Clay.
"Dead By X-Mas" has been covered by the Japanese hardcore band The Piass in 1994, the US punk band The Hillstreet Stranglers in 2005, the British electro group Sohodolls in 2007 and the Finnish rockabilly band Big Daddy & Rockin’ Combo in 2008.
He was soon signed by Capitol Records, which viewed him as its answer to Columbia Records' Lefty Frizzell and demanded he continue releasing country songs rather than the rockabilly sound he experimented with since the war.
This band played (and is still playing) almost all kinds of American music of the 1940s and 50's, blues, rhythm and blues, rock and roll, rock-a-billy, swing, country and western.
To celebrate the return of Kevin Ayers to Harvest Records, in November 1976 the label reissued his 1971 neo-rockabilly single.
They were the only British band to play the 2002 Rockabilly Festival, which marked the 50th year anniversary of Sun Records and 25th anniversary of Elvis Presley's death.
Rockabilly artist Dave Edmunds, in collaboration with the Stray Cats, whose debut album Edmunds had recently produced, recorded a version for his 1981 album, Twangin....
• You Drive Me Insane
• Please Don't Tell Me (featuring Joe Terry of The Morells)
• Sweet Nothins
• (She's My) Rockabilly Baby
• When Will This Heartache End (featuring Bill Cowsill)
• The Ballad Of Desiree
• Morse Code Of Love
• Hey Doll Baby
• I'll Find A Way
• Hurricane (featuring Steve Bloomfield of Matchbox)
• Lotta Lovin' (featuring The Roses)
• No Other Love
• Hit The Brakes
• They Don't Know
Also featured in the film are Frédéric Chopin's "Romance-Larghetto" from his first piano concerto, performed by Arthur Rubinstein, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Rondo Alla Turca" from his Piano Sonata No. 11 in A Major, performed by Wilhelm Kempff, Wojciech Kilar's "Father Kolbe's Preaching" performed by the Orchestra Philharmonique National de Pologne and "20th Century Boy" performed by rockabilly band The Big Six.
Johnny Burnette and the Rock and Roll Trio recorded "The Train Kept A-Rollin'" in 1956 using a rockabilly/rock and roll arrangement.
Triple Deuces is the fifth studio album of the California-based rockabilly band The Chop Tops.
An upbeat hard rock cover of Eddie Cochran's rockabilly "Twenty Flight Rock" follows, serving as an echo of its stylistic companion Good Rockin' Tonight which appeared on the 1973 Montrose debut.
Although there has been no official announcement as to whether or not the band will continue performing or recording in the near future, the song "Subway Killer" later appeared as a bonus track on the Cherry Poppin' Daddies' 2013 album White Teeth, Black Thoughts, re-written in a rockabilly style.
"Whole Lotta Woman" is a song written and originally performed by American country and rockabilly singer Marvin Rainwater.
Its origins lie in American R&B, surf rock artists like The Ventures, Dick Dale, Exotica, rockabilly and country and western brought over by American and Australian Soldiers serving in Vietnam in the late 1950s and early 60's when on R&R.
Morrissey had been rehearsing with a new band prior to the release of Your Arsenal, which was the first official album of this new line up, whose core has remained stable to date: ever since this record was released, his music has been chiefly composed by either Alain Whyte or Boz Boorer, two musicians originally coming from the rockabilly scene.
Other cover versions were recorded by The Residents on The Third Reich 'n Roll (1976), Spanish disco group Baccara on their 1978 album Light My Fire, rockabilly band Elvis Hitler on their 1992 album Supersadomasochisticexpialidocious, and experimental rock band Tub Ring on their 1995 album ...And the Mashed Potato Mountain Etiquette.
Some Japanese youths admired American music, and Japanese Bill Haley clones were known as rokabiri zoku (the rockabilly tribe).