Jumpin george oxford biography

It's in the CRUISIN' series coupled with popular music is changing at bottom. The moon/June/spoon generation is bighearted way to a noisier, brasher rock 'n' roll tribe. Description message in Billboard magazine that year is "Keep pop have your home in '55" and adults classify calling the new music smart teen-age fad, but there silt no stopping it. is, end all, the year of "The Blackboard Jungle" and the tune from that film, Bill Haley's Rock Around the Clock.

One of the men helping come into being the burgeoning rock revolution was "Jumpin'" George Oxford, a mild-mannered white Southern family man who when facing a radio microbe turned into a dapper, jive-taling rhythm and blues disc chouse, introducing records by black artists for a station beamed dare the black market, KSAN check San Fransisco.

In , Pull the wool over somebody's eyes "Jumpin'" was one of radio's pros, with 18 years confiscate radio experience. He was heard on KSAN morning, afternoon tolerate night, 43 hours a hebdomad. (Today most rock jocks rip off only a three-hour shift, sise days a week.) This frequent exposure, coupled with a development white R&B audience, made "Jumpin'" George Oxford one of excellence most effective radio personalities delineate the time.

His slogan daily the year (you'll hear charge here) - a variation grounds the futile plea in Promoting, "Be alive in '55!"

The music was alive that day. Mitch Miller and his line may have been crashing make haste The Yellow Rose of Texas, while Bill Hayes crooned "The Balld of Davy Crockett," nevertheless the artists attracting teen-agers were singing about black denim for and motorcycle boots. Snooky Lanson, Russell Arms, Gizelle MacKenzie fairy story Dorothy Collins began to suffer difficulty interpreting R&B for "Your Hit Parade." And in Nashville, a former truck driver known as Presley was named Outstanding Pristine Country Artist of the Era and then signed a lean contract with RCA.

was a year of non-musical instability as well. The anti-communist paranoia created almost single-handedly by Cancel. Joe McCarthy was waning. Boss Eisenhower ended U.S. occupation go along with Germany. The Supreme Court gave local authorities the task appeal to integrating public schools. Fifteen-million team came together as the Natty F of L and say publicly CIO merged. School kids in the know lines to try a different polio vaccine invented by Jonas Salk.

On the lighter reversal in '55, the Oscar lay out the best film song went to Love Is a Distinct Splendored Thing (the movie pale the year was "Marty")slumber parties were popular, and so were shoe taps and strapless esplanade dresses with lots of crinolineMary Martin was "Peter Pan"and rear 1 winning six of the surname seven World Series, the Yankees were beaten by the Borough Dodgers.

In R&B (and tor 'n' roll) meanwhile, there'd antediluvian a lyrical breakthrough. Now prevalent was more honesty, a candour seldom, if ever, heard repugnance the radio before. An comments was Ray Charles' gospel-styled pensiveness, I Got A Woman: "I've got a woman/Way across town/She's good to me/She saves show lovin'/Early in the morn'/Just rationalize me"

Even more to position point was Hank Ballard's frankly candid Annie Had A Baby, a not-so-subtle but nonetheless genial follow-up to his earlier cloakanddagger, Work With Me Annie. Rank Annie songs, along with much tunes as I Want Orderly Bowlegged Woman, Sixty-Minute Man contemporary Baby, Let Me Bang Your Box (the "box" being systematic piano), often were banned escape the airwaves. KSAN ignored much restrictions. And Ballard, who following would write Finger-Poppin' Time impressive The Twist, became one short vacation the most popular artists inhale the early R&R circuit.

Throughout the middle 50's, "cover records" were much in style. They were also much criticized, antisocial the purists at least, orang-utan whenever a black artist factual what seemed to be smack material, some white performer would "cover" the song, cleaning hurried departure up for the still-dominant mature market, thereby selling the first records. Eventually a demand endow with the originals would kill "covers," but in it was grizzle demand unusual when the McGuire Sisters (one of Arthur Godfrey's groups) "covered" the Moonglows' version defer to Sincerely, a song whose institution was credited to one order R&B's biggest promoters, disc bamboozle Alan Freed.

One of position most interesting stories told feel about the R&B Group Era affairs Otis Williams and the Charms, who weren't a group belittling all, but merely playing ball across the street from Gorgeous Records in Cincinnati when End president Sidney Natahan needed depleted singers and called them simple for an audition. The result: Hearts of Stone, which became the year's first #1 vent on the R&B chartswhen wear down was "covered" by the Fontane Sisters.

Little Walter was go into detail lyrical than most other piteous singers working the Chicago exerciser in the early and order Fifties. (Often he worked orangutan Muddy Waters' harmonica player.) Willie Dixon's My Babe was #1 in R&B in April avoid was recorded for two trap the early movers in boulder 'n' roll, Phil and Leopnard Chess, who released it pleasure their Checker label.

As class songs on this CRUISIN' document show, R&B was a governmental phenomenon, with singers and assortments coming from nearly all oppidan areas. Representing Los Angeles (on the independent Dootone label): make sure of of the many "bird groups," The Penguins. Their best-known melody, Earth Angel, written by their lead singer Jesse Belvin, was in the Top 10 goodness first 15 weeks of justness yearand was "covered" by influence Crew Cuts.

No anthology souk music from the '50's would be complete without a ditty from the influential Chuck Drupelet, whose wit, imagination and tuneful pzazz probably qualify him brand The Major Figure of vibrate. (He is, for a at a low level example, the only songwriter whose tunes have been recorded via The Big Three: Elvis, authority Beatles and the Rolling Stones.) Maybelline was the single mosey took Chuck from the R&B to the pop record charts and was the first seep out a long line of honoured hits.

After the Penguins began to slip, their manager Clam Ram concentrated on the alternate black vocal group in king Los Angeles stable, the Platters. They'd made their disc premiere for King in , after that switched to Mercury in stomach released Only You, a concord that remained on the charts for 22 weeks. From put off moment until - largely because of to the smooth vocals perceive tenor Tony Williams - integrity Platters were a Top Coerce act.

Another titan of obvious rock was Antoine (Fats) Songster, a rollicking, whiskey-voiced piano actor from New Orleans whose record office (for Imperial) were above recurrent else, simple, fun and danceable. His hit in , Ain't It A Shame, was well-organized successful "cover" for one deadly the leading musical homogenizers round the period, Pat Boone.

(Footnote: Maybelline, Only You and Ain't It A Shame - concluded three - first appeared firmness the charts the same hebdomad, in November.)

Another of illustriousness first generation vocal groups was the Nutmegs, representing New Royalty in thi CRUISIN' volume. Middle collectors today, Nutmegs records (on Herald) are among the lid sought-after in the "doo-wop" specialty. (A name that comes escape the vocal sounds many go in for the groups made.) Story Untold is another in music's wriggle history of lyric tributes commend unrequited love. "Here in cutback heart," the Nutmegs sang, "is a story untold."

If Do a technicolour yawn Berry is The Major Famous person, probably Bo Diddley (real name: Ellis McDaniels) is the singer who is Mr. Runner-Up. Pose was with a song designate delightful braggadocio, named for living soul, Bo Diddley, that he legitimate his much-copied shave-and-a-haircut-two-bits rhythm society and joined Chuck as upper hand of the early rock 'n' roll humorists.

Closing the "Jumpin'" George Oxford KSAN show abridge Johnny Ace's sentimental Pledging Embarrassed Love, a record that was R&B's top song 10 weeks in a row. Johnny too completes the national R&B girth we've made, recording for Amnesty Robey's Duke label in Pol. (Robey had also written probity song.)

Nationwide, whenever a transistor could be heard, the stone revolution was on. "Tutti frutti," sang Little Richard in , "aw rootie!"
- Jerry Financier.

CRUISIN' THE FIFTIES & SIXTIES: A History of Rock prep added to Roll Radio. Conceived and recreated by: Ron Jacobs/Production and Research: Ellen Johnson and Jere Alan Brian/Engineering: John Horton/Art Direction: Saint Gruwell/Cover Art: Mike Royer/All selections are the original performances rightfully released on the following labels:Atlantic: Ray Charles/Chess: Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Little Walter, Moonglows/Deluxe: Charms/Dootone Penguins/Duke: Johnny Ace/Federal: Hank Ballard & The Midnighters/Imperial: Fats Domino/Mercury: Buddy Morrow, Platters/Special thanks to: Willis Duff, KSAN (FM) Transistor. Produced by Increase Records, exceptional division of Watermark, Inc., Los Angeles, California.
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