If you don't think the Beatles were important to Rock-n-Roll....

[WCGreen]

This is what was passing for Rock-n-Roll before the Beatles hit America.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oq2XC54n2Jk


remember, elvis was in the army...

Here's another example of what was passing for Rock-n-Roll back in the early 60's...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7n-INY0tyA

[Captain Hilts]

1. EXACTLY! It's what they saved us from as much as what they gave us. nt

[Moondog]

5. Well, and succinctly stated. And, oh, so true. n/t

[Fire Walk With Me]

2. I'm unhappy with the seeming corporatization of everything Beatles.

Someone talk me down...

[Captain Hilts]

19. They missed out on a TON of money in the sixties. Lost their music to Michael Jackson, etc. nt

[Cant trust em]

21. As long as it doesn't get overly corny.

If it's done more as an homage, then I'm cool with it.

I really like the Rock Band game. I've been obsessing over it for months.

[abq e streeter]

3. Much truth to that , but... a few artists had been keeping the real thing alive:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_Av0rDRLnw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiZ__BAWRk4

including Dion, and Del Shannon ( was gonna post some more but you tube is screwing up; hopefully these will play).

[WCGreen]

6. Oh yea, there was somje good stuff...

But Dion, as good as he was, was still stuck in the 50's...

This was always a favorite of mine...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7BRraVMZzc&feature=related

[abq e streeter]

8. Was gonna post some Pitney, but you tube is still not working right all of a sudden

anyone else having a problem with it? Gary U.S. Bonds was another artist making rocknroll with a sense of urgency and excitement to it ... The Beachboys, Sam Cooke, The Crystals, The Ronettes, all too were making great music in the early 60's. We'll have to agree to disagree about Dion; I thought he and Del were crucial transition artists who had a touch of both 50's and 60's in em. But I'm a huge Beatle fan, and yes, there was an unacceptably high percentage of schlock on the charts besides the aforementioned artists and a few ( but too few) others, and without question, the entire British Invasion, obviously spearheaded by The Beatles, brought back a spark that had been mostly ( but not completely ) missing from rocknroll.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

9. Yup, Youtube isn't working right for me either...

Oh well...

:shrug:

[abq e streeter]

10. must be sabotage by marxist nazi liberal muslins

and morans who want a pubic option

[CaliforniaPeggy]

12. Must be, lol!

:rofl:

[Crabby Appleton]

11. like Roy Orbison

'63 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3HVNzpiKDA

'64 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ma8X_Sm4gcQ

[BOSSHOG]

4. The Beatles were just a one century wonder

[WCGreen]

7. Good one...

It's coming up on 50 years when they hit the charts in England...

[Jetboy]

13. Who knows what would have happened if not for that crash in

Clear Lake Iowa, Elvis going into the army, Little Richard devoting himself to the lord, Jerry Lee's scandal, Eddie Cochran's crash, Alan Freed and the payolla scandal? I'd take my chances with no Beatles if we could change all of those things.

[rockymountaindem]

14. And just what is wrong with any of that?

You kids... I can't even understand the words to any of the music you listen to these days. I mean, what the hell do beetles have to do with some "hip" punk who claims to be a walrus? Let me give it to you straight you dope-smoking hippies: you wouldn't know good music if it hit you over the head with a Perry Como record.

Sincerely,

[pokerfan]

15. some things just aren't done

"My dear girl there are some things that just aren't done, such as drinking Dom Pérignon '53 above a temperature of 38 degrees Fahrenheit. That's as bad as listening to the Beatles without earmuffs! ~James Bond (1964)

[rockymountaindem]

16. Man, I thought 007 was supposed to be cool

Who knew he was so hopelessly behind the times?

[pokerfan]

18. Probably because James Bond wasn't a teen-aged girl in 1964

The Beatles were a boy band. The sixties version of the Backstreet Boys. Did you listen to the Beatles in 1964? I did. Or rather I should say my sister did. Over and over and over ad nauseum. They were the epitome of bubblegum pop.

[mitchum]

20. My father-in-law spent 30 minutes alone with the Beatles in 64

When people are surprised that he wasn't excited, I always reply,"He was a 19 year old college student. Why in the hell would he have been crazy about the Beatles?"

[Captain Hilts]

26. Friend of mine interviewed them for the Toronto Star and played cards with them.

He later ran into them on holiday in the Bahamas and he and his wife hung with them a bit. He was an older guy, too.

[pokerfan]

17. delete wrong place

[GCP]

22. Or this

Pat Boone 'covers' Little Richard

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lvieb2OedWE

[baldguy]

25. .

:scared:

[Danger Mouse]

23. Not liking the Beatles is one thing. It is an opinion. It is personal taste.

But saying the Beatles weren't one of the most important and influential rock bands, PERIOD, is denying a basic FACT.

[carlyhippy]

24. the Beatles ARE rock n roll

As much as I love the Beatles, I really seemed to love their solo careers even more.

[rurallib]

27. In hindsight the Beatles seem pretty tame

But OMG what an incredible change they launched in a time when the world seemed gray.
There was a huge cauldron of change waiting to burst to the surface. The Beatles were the first wave of change.
And they stayed on top of the changing times for years, usually well ahead of their times.
It is hard to understand from today's vantage point what the Beatles meant.

[WCGreen]

28. Do you remember that Radio Free Europe black and white

commercial set somewhere behind the Iron Curtain?

It was a "mod" listening to Radio Free Europe.

You watch him walking around his room, the broadcast overlaying every movement.

Everything is in Black and White.

You hear the announcer get ready for a song, you hear him saying Un Broadvay and out come The Drifters...

That's how I viewed the whole world until the Beatles came along.

They were great musicians, wrote marvelous and melodic songs and witty lyrics that you could easily remember.

And they took the Do Wop harmonies and gave them balls.

And they also treated the Album as a way to get a lot of good music from touch down on side one till hitting the inside grove on side 2.

There were never any throw away songs.

And they were a group. No lead singers, they all sang all the time. they wrote 99% of their music, unheard of before they came on the scene.

[Matilda]

30. Even Vladimir Putin has admitted to having secret Beatles records

way back when. And he was KGB!

[Lethe]

29. Timothy Leary on the Beatles:

"I declare that The Beatles are mutants. Prototypes of evolutionary agents sent by God, endowed with a mysterious power to create a new human species, a young race of laughing freemen."

if i may split hairs here....the beatles where not rock n roll, they were pop rock or pure pop.

[MilesColtrane]

31. Have you listened to "Helter Skelter" through headphones turned up LOUD?

Or "Revolution", or "I Want You (She's So Heavy), or "Dizzy Miss Lizzie", or...

You can't say the Beatles didn't rock.

[WCGreen]

32. I'm Down, Back in the USSR, Roll over Beethoven, A Hard Days Night...

Birthday, Come Together, Hey Bulldog, I want to Hold You r Hand, I wanna be your Man, I saw her Standing There, Im Down,
Lady Madonna....

[Captain Hilts]

35. Yes It Is, I Saw Her Standing There, I'm Only Sleeping, Two of Us, The Ballad of John and Yoko....

[Burma Jones]

33. Their stuff before they got famous was very much Rock and Roll, the covers........

But once they hit it big.....that was mostly, well, Beatles Music.......

I think "I Saw Her Standing There" is pretty basic Rock and Roll.......

[Deja Q]

34. Listening to music of the era, it's clear they revolutionized it.

Doesn't mean there aren't aspects to their music nobody's allowed to criticize, however. :D

[Jetboy]

36. Have you ever heard the recordings of the Beatles backing

Gene Vincent? I love the movie Backbeat and find that most of my favorite Beatles songs are their early rock-n-roll covers. A clip of the Beatles backing Gene instead of the guys in this clip would be priceless:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NCrI7YQ158

[Tuesday Afternoon]

37. mkay

but we also had http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Y9gb3NUGkk

and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqJGnqjMTHQ

[WCGreen]

38. But Buddy was dead before the Beatles hit the shore....

[Tuesday Afternoon]

39. but, HE influenced the Beatles .