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Bill Bugge

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Jun 4, 2000, 3:00:00 AM6/4/00
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In "Luther Played The Boogie," Johnny Cash says, outside of the melody just
before a guitar solo by Luther Perkins, "Play it strange."

There are many instances of similar asides in 50's records.

Others?

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Bill Bugge

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Dean F.

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Jun 4, 2000, 3:00:00 AM6/4/00
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Bill Bugge wrote:

>There are many instances of similar asides in 50's records.

>Others?

Almost every Gene Vincent song!

"Hello Little Boy," Ruth Brown: "Blow the blues!"

"What'd I Say," Ray Charles: "Aw, play it, boy."

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Stephen C. Propes

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Jun 4, 2000, 3:00:00 AM6/4/00
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Dean F. wrote:
>
> Bill Bugge wrote:
>
> >There are many instances of similar asides in 50's records.
>
> >Others?
>
> Almost every Gene Vincent song!
>
> "Hello Little Boy," Ruth Brown: "Blow the blues!"
>
> "What'd I Say," Ray Charles: "Aw, play it, boy."
>

didn't see the original post, but doesn't Wilbert Harrison instruct
Jimmy Spruill to hit the guitar break in Kansas City?

Steve

Roger Ford

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On Sun, 04 Jun 2000 15:47:55 GMT, "Bill Bugge" <bbb...@att.net> wrote:

>In "Luther Played The Boogie," Johnny Cash says, outside of the melody just
>before a guitar solo by Luther Perkins, "Play it strange."
>

>There are many instances of similar asides in 50's records.
>
>Others?
>

>--
One of my favorites is in the Sun RAB classic "Milk Cow Blues Boogie"
where,after the deceptively slow opening Elvis chides Scotty and Bill

"Hold it fellas...that don't move me...let's get real real gone for a
change".

The subsequent dramatic shift in tempo of the record also qualifies it
for that recent "Faster And Faster" thread :-)


ROGER FORD

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Bob Roman

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mari...@ddircon.co.uk (Roger Ford) wrote:
>One of my favorites is in the Sun RAB classic "Milk Cow Blues
>Boogie" where,after the deceptively slow opening Elvis chides
>Scotty and Bill
>"Hold it fellas...that don't move me...let's get real real gone
>for a change".

The first performance in his acting career.

Bob Roman

mr...@elroynet.com

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Jun 5, 2000, 3:00:00 AM6/5/00
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The Cow Cow Boogie aside is actually from the TV
soundtrack of Elvis' little jam session in the leather
jacket during his 1968 NBC Comeback program, the
best television he ever did, if you don't count the
original stuff on Soundstage's Wooden floor, introduced
by Tommy Dorsey who did the announcement, on one
of the appearances, by having his own band- out of sight-
do a shave and a haircut just before Tommy announced
the singers' name. Those appearances on Soundstage
in 1955 were sending electricity to young people everywhere,
and they were as primitive as I Remember Mama.

Mike Rice

On Sun, 04 Jun 2000 19:29:14 GMT, mari...@ddircon.co.uk (Roger Ford)
wrote:

>On Sun, 04 Jun 2000 15:47:55 GMT, "Bill Bugge" <bbb...@att.net> wrote:
>
>>In "Luther Played The Boogie," Johnny Cash says, outside of the melody just
>>before a guitar solo by Luther Perkins, "Play it strange."
>>
>>There are many instances of similar asides in 50's records.
>>
>>Others?
>>
>>--

>One of my favorites is in the Sun RAB classic "Milk Cow Blues Boogie"
>where,after the deceptively slow opening Elvis chides Scotty and Bill
>
>"Hold it fellas...that don't move me...let's get real real gone for a
>change".
>

Bob Roman

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mr...@elroynet.com wrote:
>The Cow Cow Boogie aside is actually from the TV
>soundtrack of Elvis' little jam session in the leather
>jacket during his 1968 NBC Comeback program,

No. The bit Roger referred to was from a December 1954
session. It was "Milkcow Blues Boogie" not "Cow Cow Boogie."
And Elvis did not do "Milkcow Blues Boogie" at the 1968 Comeback.

Roger Ford

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On Mon, 05 Jun 2000 10:15:52 GMT, mr...@elroynet.com wrote:

>The Cow Cow Boogie aside is actually from the TV
>soundtrack of Elvis' little jam session in the leather

>jacket during his 1968 NBC Comeback program, the
>best television he ever did, if you don't count the
>original stuff on Soundstage's Wooden floor, introduced
>by Tommy Dorsey who did the announcement, on one
>of the appearances, by having his own band- out of sight-
>do a shave and a haircut just before Tommy announced
>the singers' name. Those appearances on Soundstage
>in 1955 were sending electricity to young people everywhere,
>and they were as primitive as I Remember Mama.
>

This is nonsense!

The "aside" I mentioned comes from "Milk Cow Blues Boogie" by Elvis
Presley on Sun 215 released January 8,1955.

mr...@elroynet.com

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Jun 6, 2000, 3:00:00 AM6/6/00
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You are right, I had the wrong song. I thought
you just said the title incorrectly. But now I
remember Milk Cow Boogie, the title, but can't
remember how MCB goes. John D. Loudermilk
wrote one of these, who wrote the other.

Mike Rice


On Mon, 05 Jun 2000 03:50:05 -0700, Bob Roman
<rromanN...@boltstaff.com.invalid> wrote:

>mr...@elroynet.com wrote:
>>The Cow Cow Boogie aside is actually from the TV
>>soundtrack of Elvis' little jam session in the leather
>>jacket during his 1968 NBC Comeback program,
>

Bob Roman

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Jun 6, 2000, 3:00:00 AM6/6/00
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In article <393cffcd...@news.primenet.com>,

mr...@elroynet.com wrote:
>You are right, I had the wrong song. I thought
>you just said the title incorrectly. But now I
>remember Milk Cow Boogie, the title, but can't
>remember how MCB goes. John D. Loudermilk
>wrote one of these, who wrote the other.

Kokomo Arnold wrote "Milkcow Blues Boogie"
Gene DePaul, Don Raye, and/or Charles Davenport wrote "Cow Cow
Boogie"
Lowdermilk wrote "Tobacco Road"

mr...@elroynet.com

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Jun 7, 2000, 3:00:00 AM6/7/00
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God, the reason I have this all wrong is that
I got Milk Cow Boogie by plugging in Cow
Cow Boogie in the Napster search engine.
I first heard Cow Cow Boogie as one of
the first records of the new Capitol Records
in the late 40s. The song was done by
founder Johnny Mercer, tho Cow Cow Boogie
was even older than that. So Milk Cow Boogie
Blues was a Sun Record to begin with. Was
it any kind of a hit? Is it on one of the RCA
sun collections? Did Elvis sing it on the '68
TV show, or am I wrong about that also?
Enquiring minds you know.

Mike Rice

Stephen C. Propes

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Jun 7, 2000, 3:00:00 AM6/7/00
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Not to pick another nit, but Capitol Records began in early 40s, round
'bout 1942.

Steve

mr...@elroynet.com

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Jun 8, 2000, 3:00:00 AM6/8/00
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Yaeh, I found a Capitol Mercer record in
Whitburn in August 1942. I didn't find
his cow cow boogie listed at all.

Mike Rice

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