Generation X Offender

The Continuing Story of Rock N Roll: The First 70 Years 1956-2026
 
Elvis: The Sun Years (53-54)
 
Join us as we retrace the footsteps of a boy who would be King: The Developmental Years
 
From obscurity to regional recognition and everything in between. Missed opportunities, rejection, misdirection, augmentation, trial, error and crispy bacon, peanut butter and mashed banana sandwiches!  . 
 
All this and MORE!
 
In the latest episode of The GXO Podcast hosted by none other than The Generation X Offender himself, offending friend and foe alike since 1966
 
Don't miss a beat!
 
*THE MUSIC

1941 That's When Your Heartaches Begin by The Ink Spots

1948 My Happiness by Jon & Sondra Steele

1950 It Wouldn't Be The Same Without You by Dude Martin & His Roundup Gang

1953 I'll Never Stand In Your Way by Joni James

1953 My Happiness by Elvis Presley

1953  That's When Your Heartaches Begin by Elvis Presley

1954  I'll Never Stand In Your Way by Elvis Presley

1954  It Wouldn't Be The Same Without You by Elvis Presley

1954 Without You by Jimmy Sweeney & Elvis Presley

1947 Blue Moon Of Kentucky by Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys

1947 That's All Right by Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup

1954 Good Rockin' Tonight by Elvis Presley

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Welcome Listeners! We have FINALLY arrived! At our Desired Destination

Nineteen Hundred And Fifty Six...the Dawning of the Age of Rock N Roll

Join us as we SPLASH DOWN DEEP into 1956, a year so chalk full of instant classics we had to break it down into multiple parts.

1956: PART ONE 

All the hits fit to print that DIDN'T make it to Billboard's Top 50 Songs of 1956 Chart

*THE MUSIC

1951 Drown In My Own Tears by Lula Reed

1956 Stranded In The Jungle by The Jay Hawks

1956 Roll Over Beethoven by Chuck Berry

1956 The Paperboy On Main Street USA by Bill Haley & His Comets

1956 Rip It Up by Little Richard

1956 Let The Good Times Roll by Shirley & Lee

1956 Fever by Little Willie John

1956 Honey Chile by Fats Domino

1956 Ballin' The Jack by Jim Lowe

1956 Love Is Strange by Mickey & Sylvia

1956 Treasure Of Love by Clyde McPhatter

1956 Please Be Mine by Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers

1956 In The Still Of The Night by The Five Satins

1956 Since I Met You Baby by Ivory Joe Hunter

1956 Drown In My Own Tears by Ray Charles

1956 Eddie My Love by The Teen Queens

1956 Stranded In The Jungle by The Cadets

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Our tale begins in the mid to late 40s...
The 1940s
Post War America
The Great Cities of the East are full of electricity and light
And music...
Swing beat is DEAD daddio
Bebop and Blues rule!
Jump Swing
Shout Blues
 
...but this new thing, as yet, remains undefined
 
Founded in 1894 (solely sheet music back then kids!) Billboard Magazine didn't know what to do with it or what to call it either...
 
Although the area of Harlem, situated within the borough of New York City known as Manhattan, only takes up approximately 1.4 square miles (as reported by the New York City Department of City Planning in March of 2019) Billboard Magazine, began publishing a music chart directed towards the entire African American customer base of the United States in 1942.
 
They called this chart The Harlem Hit Parade.
 
Close to 50 years after the publication's inception, Billboard Magazine decided the African American music consuming demographic mattered, or rather, their money mattered (cue Randy Newman "It's Money That Matters").
 
Three short years later, Billboard changed the name of the chart to "The Most Played Juke Box Race Records" followed by "Best Selling Retail Race Records" in 1948. These unfortunate (and possibly even hateful) labels used to categorize a type of music are literally, the very definition of racist (look it up).
 
While some historians suggest the term "race" was a self referential term used by African Americans in the early part of the 20th Century, the word came to be considered offensive in the post-war world.
 
This prompted the editorial staff of Billboard Magazine to rename the chart "Rhythm & Blues Chart Listings" in June of 1949...
 
...which is where our story begins
 
As this exciting new music slithered out of the primordial sludge of post War rhythm and blues, something MAGICAL happened...
 
Previously imposed barriers between people gradually, over time, began to shift and erode. And then...
 
The walls came tumblin' down!
 
IN TODAY'S EPISODE OF THE GXO MUSIC PODCAST:
 
Music Charts of 1954 & 1955 EXPOSED! Under the microscope
 
Come FEEL the NOISE and Celebrate with us 70 Years of Rock N Roll! (1956-2026) 
 
*THE MUSIC
 

1947 She's The No Sleepin' Est Woman by T-Bone Walker

1947 Good Rockin' Tonight by Roy Brown

1955 I'm Just A Lonely Guy (All Alone) by Little Richard

1954 Work With Me Annie by Hank Ballard & The Midnighters

1954 Hey Senorita by The Penguins

1954 Don't You Know by Johnny Ace

1955 I Hear You Knockin' by Smiley Lewis

1955 Ain't That A Shame by Fats Domino

1955 Greenbacks by Ray Charles

1954 Shake Rattle And Roll by Big Joe Turner

1960 Ida Red (1938 original version) by Bill Wills & Tommy Duncan

1955 Maybellene by Chuck Berry

1955 Bo Diddley by Bo Diddley

1955 Good Rockin' Daddy by Etta James

1954 Tweedlee Dee by LaVern Baker

1953 Gee by The Crows

1954 I Wonder Why by The Cadillacs

1954 Honey Love by The Drifters (Clyde McPhatter lead vocals)

1955 Speedo by The Cadillacs

1954 Sh-Boom by The Chords

1955 Ling Ting Tong by Otis Williams & The Charms

1954 Thirteen Women (And Only One Man In Town) by Bill Haley & His Comets

1955 Only You (And You Alone) by The Platters (Tony Williams lead vocals)

1949 Run On For A Long Time by Bill Landford & The Landfordaires

1954 Any Day Now by The Soul Stirrers (Sam Cooke lead vocals)

 
 

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...the road goes on forever and the party never ENDS!

Rock N Roll - Celebrating 70 YEARS of Maximun Rock N Roll (1956-2026)

 

...in this episode the party CONTINUES with the JUMP BLUES and R&B SWING and SHOUT BLUES of the mid 1940s through to 1953

MAKE NO MISTAKE - this sh*ts ROCK N ROLL! 

Louis Jordan

T-Bone Walker (first ROCK N ROLL lead guitarist)

BIG Joe Williams

The Flamboyantly outrageous and openly gay Billy Wright, the ORIGINAL Georgia Peach! Roy (Good Rockin' Tonight) Brown. Little Richard would take what these two GIANTS of the genre created, Louis Jordan too, and define not only himself but the predominant popular music of the MASSES for the next 50 PLUS years!

All THIS and MORE!

...in our continuing saga of the story of ROCK N ROLL

70 Years! Celebrate it MFs!

*THE MUSIC (broken down chronologically by year)

1945 Caledonia by Louis Jordan & His Tympany 5

1947 You're My Best Poker Hand by T-Bone Walker

1947 Around The Clock Blues Pt. 1 by Big Joe Turner & Pete Johnson

1947 Around The Clock Blues Pt. 2  by Big Joe Turner & Pete Johnson

1948 Cadillac Boogie by Jimmy Liggins

1949 Rockin' At Midnight by Roy Brown

1949 The Fat Man by Fats Domino

1950 Tee Nah Nah by Smiley Lewis

1950 Do Something For Me by Billy Ward & The Dominoes (lead vocals by Clyde McPhatter)

1951 Rocket 88 by Ike Turner & The Kings of Rhythm (credited as Jackie Brenston & His Delta Cats)

1951 I Want To Rock by Lavern Baker credited as Little Miss Sharecropper

1952 Follow The Rule by Johnny Ace

1952 Ain't Nothing Happening by Little Richard (on RCA Records)

1952 I've Been Your Dog (Ever Since I've Been Your Man) by The Moonglows

1952 Married Woman Boogie by Billy Wright

1953 Mama He Treats Your Daughter Mean by Ruth Brown

1953 Mess Around by Ray Charles

1953 Get It by The Royals

1953 Bounce by The Spaniels

1953 Money Honey by The Drifters (lead vocals Clyde McPhatter)

1953 Give Thanks by The Platters (lead vocals Tony Williams)

 

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In this Episode we continue to CELEBRATE 70 Years of Rock N Roll!

1956 - 2026

...from the very first HIT BLUES song ever in 1920 on the deep down low through the murky waters of the Mississippi Delta onto Robert Johnson, FOUNDING MEMBER of the 27 Club, through his TWO HISTORIC Texas Recording Sessions (1936 & 1937), Son House, Blind Willie Johnson, Charley Patton, Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Tom Waits, Captain Beefheart, Ry Cooder, the Rolling Stones and MORE! MORE! MORE!

Generations in the making, Rock N Roll officially became part of the cultural zeitgeist in 1956, the first year this perpetually evolving NEW MUSIC produced the most popular song of the year.

Rock N Rollers Little Richard, Fats Domino, Gene Vincent, Carl Perkins, Frankie Lymon And The Teenagers, Bill Haley And The Comets, vocal group The Platters, Johnny Ray and British skiffle sensation Lonnie Donegan were also present in the Top 50 Year End Singles Chart of 1956.

This had never happened before in the history of recorded music...

From this point on, Rock N Roll ruled the charts, becoming the most dominant genre of popular music for the next 40 plus years.

To celebrate this milestone. The GXO music podcast will, over the next few episodes, be exploring and expanding upon the ever evolving nature of Rock N Roll from it's humble acoustic beginnings through numerous other incarnations including, but not limited to, pub rock, punk rock, proto punk, post punk, industrial, disco, electronic, hardcore, rap, EDM, post rock, new rock and ultimately where she currently resides in the hills of contemporary NPR = New Post Rock where nary a guitar is likely to be found.

*WORDS AND MUSIC

Keith Richards interview...

1. Paris Texas by Ry Cooder

2. Me And The Devil Blues (1937) by Robert Johnson

Honeyboy Edwards interview...

3. Crazy Blues (1920) by Mamie Smith

4. Shave 'Em Dry (1924) by Ma Rainey

5. Rising High Water Blues (1927) by Blind Lemon Jefferson

6. High Water (For Charley Patton) by Bob Dylan

7. Moon Going Down (1930) by Charley Patton

8. Evil (Is Going On) (1954) by Howlin' Wolf

9. 16 Shells From A Thirty-Ought-Six by Tom Waits

10. John The Relevator (1930) by Blind Willie Johnson

11. Cocaine Blues by Reverend Gary Davis

12. Cocaine by Jackson Browne

13. You Was Born To Die (1933) by Blind Willie McTell

14. All I Want Is That Pure Religion (1926) by Blind Lemon Jefferson

15. True Religion by Hot Tuna

16. Blind Willie McTell by Bob Dylan

17. Death Letter Blues by Son House

18. Baby Please Don't Go (1952) by Big Bill Broonzy 

19. Baby Please Don't Go by Them

20. Sure 'Nuff 'n' Yes, I Do by Captian Beefheart And His Magic Band

21. Love In Vain (1937) by Robert Johnson

22. Love In Vain by The Rolling Stones

23. Mannish Boy by Muddy Waters & Johnny Winter

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