Question: What Happened To Rock N Roll Between 59 and 62?

Elias Graves

Elias Graves

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I've always foun it odd. The early rockers, Elvis, Fays Domino, Chubby Checker, Buddy Holly, Carl Perkins, etc. ruled the charts all through the 50s, yet most disappeared by 59 or 60 with few exception.

Motown took over, then it was the Beach Boys, Bob Dylan and the Beatles come 62 and the early rockers were just gone.

Was it a generational thing? The early guys were born in the 30s and early 40s and the later groups were baby boomers?

Weird.
 
Chuck Berry was arrested for transporting an underage girl across state lines.

Elvis joined the army.

Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and the Big Bopper died in a plane crash.

Jerry Lee Lewis married his 13 year old cousin.
 
1963 JFK was murdered and a year later we were thrust into Viet Nam by LBJ......civil rights marches started.....things got ugly everywhere....life got a lot grittyer.....so did rock and roll.
 
Yup. Those were even more fertile folks years than the late 20s/early 30s. Folk music was in a huge revival, peaked shortly before Beatlemania and has never found such broad acceptance since.


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In fact, I would even credit the Beatles and the Stones for copping, incorporating, covering, whathaveyou, the tunes and sounds of those rockers like Carl, Buddy, Elvis, and Chuck.
 
BoomBoomBigelow said:
In fact, I would even credit the Beatles and the Stones for copping, incorporating, covering, whathaveyou, the tunes and sounds of those rockers like Carl, Buddy, Elvis, and Chuck.
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Most all those guys give credit to the pioneers.
Still seems odd that rock n roll just died for a few years then reincarnated itself into a hippie.
 
Elias Graves said:
Most all those guys give credit to the pioneers.
Still seems odd that rock n roll just died for a few years then reincarnated itself into a hippie.
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that's kinda oversimplifying things. what happened was the crossover/white artists went away (as described above) and safe versions like Fabian displaced them. then folk, surf, motown, and finally the Beatles came in. the hippie thing didn't start until after the Beatles and Stones re-popularized the catalogs of Chuck Berry and Buddy Holly, and by then Elvis had come back.

you can blame Dylan for the hippie movement. :embarrassed:
 
mongooz said:
1963 JFK was murdered and a year later we were thrust into Viet Nam by LBJ......civil rights marches started.....things got ugly everywhere....life got a lot grittyer.....so did rock and roll.
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Just to note, we were in Vietnam when Kennedy died. LBJ escalated our involvement, but our foot had been in the door.
 
Help!I'maRock! said:
that's kinda oversimplifying things. what happened was the crossover/white artists went away (as described above) and safe versions like Fabian displaced them. then folk, surf, motown, and finally the Beatles came in. the hippie thing didn't start until after the Beatles and Stones re-popularized the catalogs of Chuck Berry and Buddy Holly, and by then Elvis had come back.
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Pretty much QFT.

Help!I'maRock! said:
you can blame Dylan for the hippie movement. :embarrassed:
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Gladly.
 
In 1959, the US Government ordered supersecret MKULTRA II subatomic ultraviolet tests in accordance with Illuminati directives stemming from the third prime assemblage convention, held at the ancestral Rothschild estate outside Paris. All school lunches were adulterated for a period of six months to instill through a bio-osmosis reaction genetic altering agents in American teenagers.

But the experiment went awry.

Rather than build a new generation of supermen based upon now discredited Nazi eugenics, the experiments resulted in an unruly generation of rabble rousers who thumbed their noses at the system. For most, however, the effect wore off after about fifteen years and they became stockbrokers and political operatives.
 
What's so funny? :shrug: :hippie:
As a former hippie myself, I am quite proud of the accomplishments of that movement, as well as my hygiene, which has always been excellent.

Pacifism, though, by it's very nature, is such an easy target.
 
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All I remember was a reference to the day music died, some pie, a Chevy on some levy...
...and then the Beatles showed up.

OK, I was just a kid, but the music and art that followed really was groovy. :hippie:
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BoomBoomBigelow said:
What's so funny? :shrug: :hippie:
As a former hippie myself, I am quite proud of the accomplishments of that movement, as well as my hygiene, which has always been excellent.

Pacifism, though, by it's very nature, is such an easy target.
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As a life-long pacifist, I agree. :hippie:

I will be doing a "Singing for Peace" concert September 21st to mark International Peace Day. The 60's live. :grin:
 
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