Talk:Rockabilly/Archives/2016

important performers
I understand why burnette was taken out - he had been already mentioned before. but now both references to burnette were taken out. why? and why were orbison and cash taken out from the list? cash moved on and stopped playing rockabilly but his rockabilly WAS important so, in my opinion, he has to be listed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.49.129.227 (talk) 13:13, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
 * The "Important Performers" section was a bunch of unferenced, histronic text. Note the tag at the beginning of the section. The only reason ANY of it is still there is that neither I, nor anyone else, has gotten around to integrating it with the rest of the article. One thing about rockabilly, and rock n roll in general, is that narratives are jumbled together with little regard to when things happened. This is one reason most people think Elvis was "first". This should not happen in a well organized article. Again, Important Performers is headed for the "trash bin", but the preformers themselves, and where they fit in, aren't. Steve Pastor (talk) 21:34, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

Buddy Holly, Eddy Cochran, and The Everly Brothers are all under-represented; none of them are mentioned in the list of seminar artists.

Stray Cats' role
While not willing to doctor the article at this point, I would submit for discussion that the rockabilly revival started in the mid to late 1970's not the 1980's and that while arguably the most popular of the revival groups, the Stray Cats did not lead this revival but rather rode on the coat tails of many local rockabilly groups and such recorded acts as Robert Gordon and the Kingbees.


 * yep, I'd agree. Hank Mizell's (sp) Jungle Rock was a hit in the 1970's. Some people credit Start Coleman's radio show, "It's Only Rock'n'Roll" as helping the Rockabilly revival in the late 1970's. I think what Stray cats did was to make it more mainstream. (37.30.109.27 (talk) 22:06, 18 March 2013 (UTC))

Drake Bell
Does Drake Bell really belong in the neo-rockabilly section? Just want to make sure he was placed in the right area. -- Joseph Prasad (talk) 22:50, 2 January 2016 (UTC)

I've moved this good faith edit
here to be discussed. Ray Campi is a distinguished musician often called The King of Rockabilly. Campi's trademark is his white double bass, which he often jumps on top of and "rides" while playing. After his family moved to Austin, Texas in 1944, Campi began a lifetime of performing and recording music in numerous American genres, including folk, country, and rock and roll as well as rockabilly. Ray continues to gig and record with his longtime musical pals Kevin Fennell (his lead Guitarist since 1977), Rip Masters on piano since the 70's and various others. In the 1950s Ray Campi recorded for several labels, including Dot Records, and recorded the first tribute record to the 1959 Buddy Holly plane crash, 'The Ballad of Donna and Peggy Sue', backed by the Big Bopper's band. He also worked with many of the most prominent pioneers of rock and roll music, including Bill Haley, Buddy Holly, and Gene Vincent. An interest in the genre endures even in the 21st century, often within a subculture. Rockabilly has left a legacy, spawning a variety of sub-styles and influencing other genres such as punk rock.
 * This information is not deemed to be "notable" because notable for these purposes is typically defined as "having a wikipedia article" Write an article on Ray Campi and the info might fit back in, depending on the sources involved.  Einar aka Carptrash (talk) 17:35, 6 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Now I see that there is a Ray Campi article, so this needs to be rethought. Carptrash (talk) 17:38, 6 February 2016 (UTC)


 * Ray Campi is certainly "notable" - though his article needs some improvement. Equally certainly, the text you removed is inappropriately promotional for this article.  I think some consideration could be given to including a more neutrally-worded sentence or two on Campi in this article.  Ghmyrtle (talk) 17:47, 6 February 2016 (UTC)