Best Rockabilly Live Performance Ever (1955)
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- Texas Rockabilly band Sid King & The Five Strings live on the Ozark Jubilee. They were one of the first Rockabilly bands and Sid and his brother Billy (guitar) is still performing today.
I was playing a gig in a bar in Barcelona at the end of the 90's. My band were playing 'Let Er Roll' By Sid King & the Five Strings and in Walked Sid King and his Brother Billy. I kid you not!! They got on stage and did a few songs with us. Surreal
Wow, I wish I had memories like that!
What were they doing in Barcelona?
They were on vacation. A mutual friend invited them over and brought them along to our gig.
@@TheSkarocker56 incredible!!
It's a shame that cell phones were still those chunky old Nokias back in the 90's. Would've been great to have it on video :(
Sid King is a proud 87 years old! 😎
If only he had been called Elvis .
I was fortunate enough to interview Sid for Discoveries magazine in the 1980's.
He is a great guy.I'm glad to hear he is still with us.
I am playing local open mics with an 83 yo rocker. Stories galore! Good player too!
Sid is the bomb
My youngest son was about 5 when he said rockabilly was his favorite kind of music. When I asked why, he said, "it makes you wanna set something on FIRE!"
Live wire boy
Gibson J-200 and a mid 50s Stratocaster. Big hats and off ya go!!!!
"Out of the mouths of babes" - how very perceptive of him!
@@mathewhale3581 he showed some talent on the drums, but after a few months of lessons we gave up. He can play a wide-open tempo really well, but has zero ability to slow the beat down. Every song is either 'Ace of Spades' speed, or nothing LOL. Now 12, he wants to learn guitar.
CLASSIC!!
I’m glad I clicked on this one !
Me,too…❤
Me too.
Same here
DITTO‼
Possibly the earliest television footage of a Fender Stratocaster being used in performance.
Check out Buddy Merrill on Lawrence Welk. Don't know the date of the show, but it's early fifties, likely 1954, the year the Strat came out. Leo Fender gave Buddy a Strat to play and promote.
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and one of the best performances on Welk's show was Buddy and Neil Levang playing San Antonio Rose
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and Buddy on a Jazzmaster
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Wish it were a telecaster
@@marks7167I too find telecasters and esquires more classic, but the sound that this guitarist gets on the Stratocaster is fantastic!
@@marks7167 How 'bout a '51 Broadcaster ?🎸
It is true they were considered more affordable guitars, pre-Hendrix?
OMG, people. There are no bad guitars, and there is no bad music. There's just what you like and what you don't like.
1 o'clock 2 o'clock rock...
You can't deny there are bad hats 😂
@@Tony32
And occasionally, mediocre rhinestones...
I see my fellow time travellers of 2024 are in the house.
Amen to that.
Only 13 years later, "Dazed and Confused" by Led Zeppelin. Like moving from a covered wagon to the F-18 fighter jet in a little over a decade. Never again will we see such a thermonuclear explosion of talent and creativity as the 1960s were.
I count 14, but whatever. The original was released in '67
Great song, I love the old time rock abilly #Aztec73
Sid and billy played for me in 2001. Great guys and great show.
Where was that?
a private show yeah?
😂@@curtrod
I used to organise rockabilly and 50 music concerts from the late 80 till the early 2000 in Lyon France. I used to have a small festival in peage du roussillon south of Lyon. I had many european bands plus original artists such as Ronnie Dawson, Ray Campi,Don and Dewey, Sonny burgess, Hayden Thompson, Sid and Billy....all of them gave us great performances and all of them were very nice guys. Nice times and nice memories. I remember Sonny burgess gaving me some money back when he realised that i lost some money as we did not break even. Very nice of him.THANKS TO THEM AND THANKS TO THE AUDIENCE FOR GIVING ME SUCH GOOD TIMES. GOD BLESS YOU ALL.
Man the kids would have gotten grounded for listening to this back in the day
Rockin rockout
Why? This isn't "negro music".
Devil’s music !😊
@@curly8029 nah, it's honky-tonk music. Proto-rockabilly.
boogie wookiee chords were the first I learned.
These gentlemen are having a very good time.
Still as energetic and joyous today as seventy years ago!
Lead guitar is holding his body back from really rocking out. The man wants to boogie!
The most fun u can have with an unplugged guitar! 😂
One of the earliest videos of the Fender Stratocaster, which debuted in 1954 Great sound through what looks like a Fender Super (tweed wide panel) amp.
He got one of them new fangled Fender geetars...........
Finally, someone who knows how to pronounce it correctly.
He got HIM one...
And he can play the dad gum Thang too!
Gettin' a good tune out o the dang thing!
Yeah man, them things was keen back then.
Old is gold, really nice.
My 79 yo sister is convinced there's nothing worth seeing on CZcams. The rest of the folks in our 55 and older community all chime in on what they go to CZcams to see. The list is varied. I follow my curiosity and find gems like this. And cow hoof health. And puppies and kitties. And the details on replacing the tail light assembly on my 2001 Jeep. Unclogging the kitchen sink. Spatchcocking a chicken.
Ya gotta stay current on cow hoof health!
Don’t forget the “Pimple Popper” channel.
@@alfandeddieIt seems to me that he showed interest in knowing, in addition to many other things he finds on YT.
CZcams is seriously unappreciated as an educational tool. There are thousands of videos here better than any instruction you’ll receive from your friendly neighborhood school teacher.
All that I can say is that your sister is mistaken and missing out on a lot. I've got a sister like her and I don't listen to her...
Love it. Who cares if it's a Strat, Gretsch, a Gibson or an old Harmony. It's just great music.
Mainly people interested in great vintage guitars.
I know a Gretsch when I hear one.
It has a distinctive growl that makes if perfect for the rockabilly genre.
That Strat would worth an (absolute) fortune now
@@jjohn341 that had to be a custom color.
It looks like a Strat but it didn't sound like one, to me anyway. Now does anyone know if it's a Strat copy or an actual Strat?
It's good to hear that raw sound.
The whole genre sounds like a blending of Guitar Boogie (Arthur Smith 1945) and Move It On Over (Hank Williams 1947). I love them both.
Man that slide guitarist was bustin some moves lol 😂😆🤣
he was rockn with the og rock moves
He was gettin it on!
I "arrived" here in '55. When I was a kid my Dad used to sing parts of this while working on stuff around the house. I realize now that he must have caught this show on TV! Now it all makes sense 😎
That’s so cool
That means your dad was 1 cool cat !
My name is Sid and I approve of this performance. I was 10 when this was recorded.
good on you mate.
My dad just sent this to me! He was 10 also!! ❤️👍 Great stuff this was.
My Man Sid! (Bjm song)
Love it. The presenter right at the end has a BIG grin on his face, guess he loved it too.
Sounds like the start of something great that will outlive most of us. This is Pure Gold.
Not really. Rockabilly was invented by Elvis at Sun studios in 1954. You can argue till you're blue in the face to the contrary. It was, end of story.
Amen brother
@@joeblack8915 not true.....rockabilly/rock n roll was created by Bill Haley and his band in 1952 with the song ''Rock the joint''...that is way before Elvis even thought about stepping into and recording at Sun records...it is a fact end of story........
@@bhollyfanhardin9627 Fats Domino and other were doing rock n roll long before 1952
@@joeblack8915 Blasphemy!
I was a little sprout back in 1955. I was one year old. Just a teeny little superguy. I'm sure I would have been toe tapping. 🤠😎
Вот с этих ребят из пятидесятых годов начались все стили все мотивы здорово 👍 рок 🎸 ролл твист рокобилли буги вуги шейк навсегда здорово 👍
Love Rockabilly❤ This is 2 years younger than me😊
OMG me too!
Same here. God bless the 50's.
Great band. The guitar player is flawless and perfectly in tune. Great solo. He was more concerned playing great as opposed to showing off for the audience. That’s what singer is for! God love this band.
No it’s not!If I was one of those cats I would be going crazy on stage.You are too much purist,not enough crazy cat dude!I’m glad that today we have the many dance moves and styles that owe origins/inspiration to rockabilly.I just love all the dancers going hell for leather in the harp vids.🎶🎶😍❤️😎😎🙃😊😋🤗😎😎😎🌺🖖
Today’s dance is all RUBISH
Man, I wish this was in color!! I would love to see that Strat in its true beauty!! Sounds incredible!!!
Love this song & Sid King and the Five Strings.
I was born in 1955, and I'm pretty sure they didn't play this in the maternity ward. So this is the first time that I've heard this. Thank you!
You're one year ahead of me, and I've never heard OF these guys, although I may have heard them on the radio in my early days. All I can say is that this is not only a good show, but it's FAR SUPERIOR to anything being done today. Music seems to have died in 1980, or there about. 😮
That looks like a bunch of young men enjoying their day
Never heard them before..excellent! ..Sounds a lot like 'Matchbox',written by Carl Perkins,released by Carl in 1955,also by by The Beatles in 1964...Looks like Carl was 'influenced' by this song..
I still have my 1966 Gretsch drum set with Avedis Zildjian cynbals!
Believe it or not in I bought a Gretsch in 1968- a used Champagne Set with 2 floor and 2 mount tom tom and a 22 and 24" Z cymbals all for $200. A few years later my head was really big and I wanted a brand new kit. The new kit did not come close to have the warm, rich sound the older set did. Was just thinking about my old kit yesterday.
Has a western swing feel to it ... Bob Wills was the root of much of what we listen to today
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I was 2 months old when this was played. Now I know where Primus got their inspiration for "Wynona's Big Brown Beaver"...
Les Claypool is Genius 🎸🎵😎❤🤙
Unfortunately they weren’t as inspiring with their music.
What's a primus..😂😂😂
Oh I see what you mean😅
@@Workerbee-zy5nx
Camping stove.
Notice that the guitar is NOT a Gretsch but IS in fact a Fender Stratocaster. Just to let all of the Brian Setzer fans know, the Gretsch guitars were only played by a few musicians back in the 1950s. It was mostly Fender Stratocasters, Telecasters/or Esquires, and Gibsons.
Yes! Something I've been saying for a long time. Gretsch guitars were hardly used by the original Rockabilly guys. Fenders and P90 Gibsons were used a lot more.
Not sure why it matters. Not all rockabilly guys play Gretsch guitars, and not all Gretsch players are into rockabilly. There's no such thing as a "rockabilly guitar".
@@seanmeisner3190 hiya Sean...
Well, I just retired from performing for about 40 years and I guess I was on the "Third Wave" of the Rockabilly scene in the Eighties... That's when I started out.
The Stray Cats were really big at the time, so I guess because Setzer and the Gretsch were pretty synonymous back then, it sort of cemented the idea in everyone's mind that the 6120 was THEE Rockabilly guitar.
Of course, there were a bunch of us who never fell into the habit.
I did have an old Cadillac Green Country Club at one time... But my main axes have been Teles... Hotrodded usually with Bigsby pick-ups and B-16 tailpieces.
But I sure do love old archtops... Only thing is, they were a bit too fragile to take on the road and abuse every night.
The Telecasters are essentially canoe paddles you can plug in.😄
Cheers
@@SirTwangabangalot Eddie cochrans guitar from 1955 was a gretch. 6120 same as chet atkins
@@SirTwangabangalotDuane Eddie. Had one. Bo diddley had a rectangular gretch. The stray cats. Had one.
That dude on the doghouse is rocking that thing 😁👏✌️
Good job...the guy on steel guitar playing and doing his crazy legs dance😊
I'd bet Mom and Dad had been dancing to that music the St. Valentines Day that I was conceived.
That sound is in my genes.
Thank YOU 50s Rockabilly !!!! That is a GEM !!!!!
the country-side roots of rock n roll!!!
Does anyone out there remember the late great Eddie Cochran he was a wonderful performer who was tragically killed way too young,if you have no knowledge of him look him up,he was going to be the next Elvis,but he was his own.
April, 1960 age just 21.
@@muffs55mercury61 so sad a young musical genius,so sad.
He was scary good, what a shame, he was so young.
Great sound .. 1955 that guitar player owned a Fender Strat . Earliest video of a Strat player ? 54 or 55 vids are rare . Sid King has a bunch of nice tunes .
I wish we could see the finish on it, it looks unusual maybe it's the lighting.
Mighty fine! Yes sir, that's some mighty fine footwork!
Hell yeah! I love this song! I just love rockabilly! This is about 47 years before I was born!
Du rockabilly dans la plus pure tradition des gars géniaux j aimerai revivre cette moi cette période 50 et qui sera rockabilly revival courant 70 et 80 et encore rockabilly a 64 balais aimé le rockabilly ça vous fera resté le même et jeune.
I was able to record this as a cover in the late 1970s. Great song. thank you Jim Colegrove
I never tire of this excellent record and wonderful video.
Never get tired of this music!
It is real without any digital manipulation.Great stuff!
My God!
First time ever l've seen S King & Band performing as youngsters!
This is a real gem!
Very lucky to meet both, Sid & Billy!
A million thanks for posting it!
All the best!
I also was able to see them perform at the Continental Club 4 years ago.Fantastic performance!
First Rock song in my life was Rock Around the Clock by Bill Haley and the Comets. We played it in band.
My maternal grandfather had a band in the 30s and beyond. He had a pickup on his "fiddle".
One of his guitarists was Ernest Tubbs.
Tubbs rode around San Angelo, Texas, in a horse-drawn cart, (no, not his daily driver, 😅) selling shiner beer and playing for tips.
He got mad at my Paternal grandfather for not bailing him out of jail when he and my uncle got drunk and hit a telephone pole.
That is a good one.
Full credit to the drummer in this.
He’s absolutely nailed it.
That's tight and in the pocket.
8 ball, side pocket..they won the game. Excellent music!
Wow. That's the very beginning right there, it rocks ...and it rolls! That's pure gold, thanks for posting! 👍
This really rocks. First time i heard Aid King and the Five Strings. Thanks a bunch for the post !!
Although they wore country clothes, Rockabilly music is the mixture of the" blues" or rhytm and blues music with "hillbilly" or country music.Great music! .The best!Saludos de una chica rockabilly a todos-as los rockers que lean esto.
Yes, a lot of singers and groups song country music in the 60s and they song less rock and roll music .Many singers song country- rock or country- folk since the 60s.
💋💋❤❤❤👨👨😎😎😎😎
This is amazing. I had never heard of them before this. I am an old guy, and missed this? I will look into finding more of their music.
Im not really into rockabilly, but this really swings. Great musicianship.
Absolute Real music! Talent, genuine. No computer antics here!
We met Sid & Billy King at Greenbay rockabilly Festival a few years ago. Billy King has his own Barber Shop !
Green Bay was the best Rockabilly show that hardly anyone showed up too. We went all 3 times. It was all free
Rockabilly makes me proud to be an American
We have our problems in America, but we sure have created good music!
@@robbrown1918
The world may hate America’s “foreign policy” but they love Our music. 🥳🇺🇸
I love this band. I never heard of them. I will keep this and look to download their music. Thanks so much for sharing.
FANTASTIC BAND And RECORDING in 1955* ❗ HEADING TOWARDs ROCK N ROLL 👍😉😁😎😊😘😘😘
Here’s Sid King playing in Vegas in 2019. He comes on stage at the 2:00 mark. He is 83 during this show. Rock on! Respect!
Forgot the link, man, lol
It’s the good ol’ boys!
That's hilarious!
It’s no wonder, really,
that Rock’n’Roll took hold
of everyone in the 1950s
the way it did…
This sounds perfect
There isn’t a microphone in sight but the voice sails about the above the band perfectly
and so does the guitar when it’s time to solo…the music the band is playing was made for dancing and the language of the song is post WW2 national slang
Gradually, it was decided that everything needs to be mic’d up
and it’s not necessarily the best for the music
Sid King & The Five Strings !!
Thanks a lot for this jewel...
The early beginnings of rock and roll. How cool. A very early Stratocaster player, too!
Yeah, when people talk about Rock N Roll as we have come to know it, they always mention it's blues roots but forget to acknowledge that it's the addition of country swing that transformed it into what became known as rock n roll.
@@kingswing00 Nonsense. Country swing or rock-a-billy has nothing at all to do with rock'n' roll.
@@blueduck5589 Chuck Berry, for example, credited his unique sound to combination of country and blues. "It was his particular genius to graft country & western guitar licks onto a rhythm & blues chassis in his very first single, "Maybellene", for example. Also that's why I was careful to say rock "as we have come to know it". The term rock n roll was actually a name coined by black artists like Fats Domino mostly attributed to a new genre of blues, a groovier less syncopated blues style. The name was co-opted by people like Dewey Phillips and slapped on a variety of new types of music. There's endless articles about black and white artists combining country and western licks and vocalization on top of blues to create a new genre, eventually called rock n roll. Also, if you just listen to it, it's pretty obvious.
Sid King, Billy King & The Five Strings - "Sag, Drag and Fall" (1955)
great toe-tappin' music... these guys are having fun and so their audience does too... THAT'S what entertainment is all about... projecting your feelings onto your audience...
You can tell you're old as dirt when you say toe tapping
Oh, Man - Does THIS ever trigger some Childhood Memories !
I probably danced to this in front of the old B&W when I was a Toddler 🤠 !
True roka billy rock.never heard these dudes
Used to love this song... Still do
Awesome stuff!!! Heavy metal fan back in the 70's KISS, VH, AC/DC etc.
Then busts into my life Robert Gordon, Stray Cats etc.
You can love 2 things at once!!!!!!
I still have the Columbia 45 of this-…and a few more
Cool Rockabilly...Awesome Band...Long Live Texas Rockabilly
Western Swing all the way.
@@SuperChuckRaney
John Hughey on steel pedal!
They were always on the country side of things.
Man!! Dig that crazy beat!! And moves!!❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶😎😎😎😎😍😍😍
Say what you will but without these guys we wouldn't have Primus.
Wow, this is awesome. Never heard of them before; gotta tell Slim Jim to play on his Sirius #21 Station
Idk....i think the stray cats sounded way too much like this song
This is from the ABC TV show "Ozark Jubilee", broadcast from Springfield, MO. The was also called "Jubilee USA" for the last couple of years it was on the air. Hosted by Red Foley, it was the show that also featured the first national TV appearances by Wanda Jackson and Brenda Lee (who became a show regular). While it has been rumored that they turned down Elvis Presley, the show did have other rockers of the era, Carl Perkins, Bobby Lord, Marvin Rainwater and Johnny Cash (yes, there was a time when he did some rockabilly).
Love the footwork of thr keyboard player.
John Travolta is playing a pedal steel guitar or lap steel guitar. very common in country music, not so much in rock.
Like it. As a kid in Phoenix there was Lew King talent show on TV. Discovered the Newton brothers singing act, Jerry and Wayne. I moved to Denver in '72. It had a gentleman's club called Sid King's. Almost as good as
PT's or Shotgun Willie's.
sounds like a quote from Gatemouth Brown's " Okie Dokie Stomp" at the beginning of the guitar solo. great stuff.
I agree! This is one of the Ultimate rockabilly bands ever!
In 2002 I moved to Richardson Texas. I was driving around looking for a place to get a haircut, found a barber in a strip shopping center. The guy cutting my hair starts telling me that he used to tour with Elvis Presley. The photo of Sid and his brother standing in front of their touring wagon was right there on the wall. I didn't think much of it at the time. Twenty two years later, CZcams suggests this video to me. I love their music. Just bought the album off iTunes. Great stuff.
Please check out Eddie Cochran.
Sid Erwin (aka King) owned the barbershop in Richardson Heights Shopping Center, next to what was then Sun Rexall. Brother Billy cut my hair for over 25 years. He was the real thing when it came to playing guitar and was a pretty good composer, too. I believe they had another hit, "Who Put The Turtle in Myrtle's Girdle." We both enjoyed all kinds of music and I always looked forward to my haircut with Billy.
This band is badass and has some pre-rocknroll moves, too! They got it!
Sid King reminds me of Hank the 3rd !!!
Man.. That Fender Strat is out there somewhere, and it’s worth a small fortune! That’s only the 2nd year it was made, came out in ‘54. The Tele is just a few years older in ‘51
Tight band. This rocks. Never get tired of listening to these guys.
The contrast of the black hats is killer!
Hats.. Lucas McCain 'Rifleman' style... ;]
How the hell have they stayed under the radar????????????? Should have been mainstream during one of the 7 decades!!!!!!
Extraordinary! I've never seen Sid King & Five Strings performing! Only heard them. Was filmed from a TV screen, I think. A treasure.
This was back when TV studios were still trying to figure out what the best programming for television is and that's when you got some of the best stuff, when no holds were barred.
i was 9 years old in 55 but grew a liking for rockabily you can hear it in the early elvis songs and performances.
Rock n roll its my lyfe
The drummer was laying down the beat. Nice and tight.
Joyful music, thanks!
Que bien. El rock es mi género favorito. Una joya.
Beautiful sound