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Bob Wills is king! (reply)

JimT — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 21:46:19 +0000

I was born in '46 ... that's when the world changed!

I was 7 when I heard Gene Autry singing Rolly POlly ... the cowboy hero's I grew up with were Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, The Lone Ranger and Hopalong Cassidy. On the radio. We did not get a TV till the mid-1960's.

The 1946 version of that song..... (reply)

RayLee — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 21:14:53 +0000

really rocks as they say.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dP28DIewLMk&pp=ygUTYm9iIHdpbGxzIHJvbHkgcG9seQ%3D%3D

1946 was a pivotal year in popular music with the prevalence of electric guitar solos gaining over hawaiian steel noises.

Also in 1946, the delmore brothers "freight train boogie" is often cited as the first proper rock and roll song with merle travis on electric guitar. However, jethro burns is actually cited as the guitarist according to album liner notes.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YBy33bwK9C4&pp=ygUlZnJlaWdodCB0cmFpbiBib29naWUgZGVsbW...

Further in 1946, 17 year old Link Wray was playing in Norfolk area juke joints with a 1944 epiphone archtop fed through a radio cabinet to get arguably the first over-driven sustained noises.

Music that was preached against when I was a kid.

JimT — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 17:08:23 +0000

Worldly! Terrible stuff!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmYgST-aPts