Template:Did you know nominations/Carl Hogan

Carl Hogan

 * ... that the "most famous signature in rock 'n' roll" – the opening riff to Chuck Berry's 1958 hit "Johnny B. Goode" – was actually a jazz riff played 12 years earlier by Carl Hogan?
 * Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Ernest Halliwell

Created/expanded by Mattgirling (talk). Self nom at 13:46, 30 April 2012 (UTC)


 * Pictogram voting keep.svg New article moved into Wikipedia mainspace on April 30 and nominated that same day, article over 1500 characters (1655) according to DYKcheck, NPOV, and cites sources (most of which are offline). Hook under 200 characters (177), fact interesting, and accepted in good faith from offline sources. (The one cited online source has Italian text next to an English text, but the two diverge notably, and the English claim of 10 years rather than 12 has no equivalent in the Italian, and 10 does not fit all the other evidence, such as song dates for the two songs in question. AGF that the other sources are more precise.) I'm adding a period after the initial in "Johnny B. Goode", since that's its proper name. As Berry is quoted in the article saying that he got the riff from Hogan, I don't see how this can be said to be negative. BlueMoonset (talk) 02:26, 4 May 2012 (UTC)


 * Comment Linked "jazz" (as rock 'n' roll is linked) and moved the "riff" link to the first instance of the word. matt (talk) 07:21, 4 May 2012 (UTC)