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The 50's begin PoPcycler's love of "different" music. His family's taste ranged from the classical, tenors, sopranos to PoP music like Spike Jones & his City Slickers, Sinatra, Jimmy Durante, Rudy Valee and University & College marching bands. These old 78's were cool until the arrival of the 45 RPM record and Life Changed!

PoPcycles is all about American rock'n'roll - the artists - the songs -the generational developments (technical & spiritual) - that made it.

Don't we all know rock'n'roll came from The Blues and Country mix? Have a good time exploring PoPcycles, learn a little more about one of the most written of subjects in the history of the world and if you don't it's your own fault.

The rockabilly style evolved out of post-war country-boogie, hillbilly, and rhythm & blues. Between 1945 and 1954 these disparate musical styles crossed paths and developed the hybrid known as rockabilly.

The Delmore Brothers were early exponents of the country-boogie style, which had grown out of jazz boogie-woogie rhythms. They recorded several influential discs on the King label in the mid-forties, including "Hillbilly Boogie" and "Pan American Boogie" in 1945. These set the course for other country artists who assimilated the Delmores' rhythms into then-own work. Hank Thompson, Webb Pierce, Red Foley and Moon Mullican among others built careers around the boogie beat.

Equally important in the evolution of rockabilly was the hillbilly style of Hank Williams. His honky-tonk hillbilly sound, utilizing steel guitar, acoustic bass and guitar, had a profound influence on Bill Haley and Carl Perkins. As each and every decade comes to a close we somehow seem to say goodbye to certain values, traditions, styles and phenomena. It happened at the tailgate of the sixties and the seventies and most important of all, apart from the social and economic changes that had taken place, the shattering impact that first generation rock'n'roll had unleashed upon an unsuspecting world in the fifties was already part of the history books as soon as 1960 dawned. Everything about rock'n'roll had happened so fast. It had been conceived, nurtured, matured and exploited at such a pace that it simply could not continue at that level. It was not unlike the history of the cinema. Just as in the heyday of the silent movie era. seemingly overnight young stars were whisked to enormous levels of popularity as the industry which employed them simply grew and grew. As both industries pushed along at such a hard driving rate it was inevitable that a good number of the artists involved would suffer and there would be casualties. And sure enough, just as many of the silent film greats bit the dust, hit skid-row and even committed suicide...... the greatness of fifties rock'n'roll took it's toll on some of it's brightest stars. It had convinced Little Richard that he was a sinner and needed the church, it had forced Jerry Lee Lewis into temporary retirement and it had washed away most of the rebel in Elvis Presley by safely installing him in the U.S. Army.

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