Rumble - Link Wray original 1958 instrumental with street video
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- Link Wray 's original single from vinyl, along with the opening street scene from the 1957 Delicate Delinquent movie by Jerry Lewis, a comedy. Rumble came later in 1958.
There is only one word to describe this:
"Cool"
Such a brilliant atmospheric song, and so simple to play
Honestly...does it really get any better than this??
No, Gazoo, it doesn't....
Greatest pairing of music and film ever? Yeah, probably.........
this is pure 50s and nothing is better. "ahead of its time" is an insult.
The ultimate RockHit ever...perfect!
Just slipped back in time fifty years. Used to play it bunches with the "Stingrays", still have the Strat!!
Damn good classic bad ass scene, just like from my childhood.
Link Wray - king of rock and roll forever
the soundtrack our lives... rock n roll yeah
Emiliano Ortega-Guerrero AWESOME
I was born in 1973 and I love this music more than today's rap crap
at age 42!..My father played in a blues band.
love this part actually love this whole movie Jerry Lewis was the mann
Still sounds dangerous, risky, raw, and edgy...in fact....just like and roll should be! WAY ahead of it's time.
You mean Wray ahead of its time.....
yes those guys were terrifying LOL
Only instrumental ever banned from radio play . The powers that be didn't like the title believing it could incite youth to violence.
I am great friends with 1 of his sons , Linc was / is A Legend....Great Post , thank's
remember the rock roots ( this was the revolution!)
I heard this song on some show last year, and have been searching for it since then. Finally, I watched Pulp Fiction today, and there it was. I feel so relieved.
how can a song that's actually 55 years old still be so cool? so cool in fact, that it would still slip into any scene of a tarantino, soderbergh or coen brothers film & completely steal that scene!
This is an awesome 50's song. Totally atmospheric. Gone are the great instrumentals like these.
This song is just so cool. First song I learned to play on a guitar. We had a disc jockey in Cleveland,Ohio named Mad Daddy and he ended his program with Rumble every night. He also was on tv 4 awile,i heard he got fired 4 sayin' hang loose mother goose your rags dripping with tomato juice Great videoA++++
Great job GS MovieMoments producing this. The song it self inspired Pete Townsend and influenced his style. He calls it the tune with the world's first power chord.
A simple and enjoyable song to play.
On this day in 1959 {Feb. 10th} Link Wray & His Wraymen performed "Rumble" on the late Dick Clark's American Bandstand
Ten months earlier on Apr. 28th, 1958 it entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; it peaked at #16 & spent 14 weeks on the Top 100
It was featured in the movie 'Pulp Fiction' and the pilot episode of HBO's 'The Sopranos'
Sixteen days after his death Bruce Springsteen performed it in tribute at a concert in Trenton, NJ...
R.I.P. Mr. Wray {1929 - 2005} and Mr. Clark {1929 - 2012}
I remember some of those rumbles in the late 50;s early 60's at Asbury Park High School! Always at a football or basket ball games with some rival schools!
I love this ,don't know why just love that guitar! I remember sitting in the back seat of mom & dads Ford riding on a Saturday night ,just out cruising for fun,and this was on the radio!
Me and Rob (drummer on Shadowman) toured Europe a couple of times, and Australia too - alas, no US gigs, so the only Cambridge we may have played is in the UK... we did some great shows in England and Scotland.
Link's US touring band did great, too, and we shared some tour stories over the web when Link had passed away.
Hour long encore - that sounds like Link! probably all the songs again, in a different order, with Rumble as opening and closing song.
Chaos, music, magic!
Awesome...the original tough man of guitar...what a cool guy
True or not, that is one of the most badass rock legends ever.
Link Wray brought my here !!!!!
One of the great electric guitar tunes of all time.
Way ahead of derivatives like punk, grunge, etc. Blues, R&B, R&R, would influence future rockers to this day, whether they know it or not.
Savadorason1 -Couldn't agree more. Cheers!
Got the original 45 on swan records with Jack the ripper on the B side, Link Wray was the Man !!!
One of the all-time greats.
That really is a cool tune.
This is the song that plays when I walk down the street
I just learned about Link Wray yesterday at the National Museum of Native Americans in lower Manhattan!
That was so bad ass! Loved the way that one guy “flicked” his cigarette at the cop.
this lil jam n flick is so boss.
The Original Recording Of This Song Was Recorded In a Chicken Coop In Accokeek, MD. He Is A Good Friend Of Mine
I hear this song and all that comes to mind is Pulp Fiction and Blow!
I just love the 50's "proto punk" by Link Wray (and his Ray Men). Duane Eddy, Eddie Cochran, and others, really exploded the potential of the electric guitar, and especially distortion electric guitar. Amps turned up loud, with early amp effects, twangy guitars, and driving primordial drum lines.These were a part of this early punk expression. It was a reflection of inner city pachuco attitude's that developed just after WWII. Long live the twanger's and banger's.
If any song was ahead of it's time-----------
still kick's ass today !!!
Wow, hadn't heard this before! It sounds way ahead of it's time. Cool!
Love that 50s noir mood!
Holy Heck, Shawn Hearte the Epic Surf Guitarist needs to be all up in this thang
Saw It Might Get Loud....now every time I hear the Rumble I think of Jimmy Page!!!!
ditto
If it wasn't for that documentary and Jimmy playing it I would've never knew who played this and I've been wondering for years.
This is how you do a rock song that's simple and still has tons of attitude. Butt simple, only four chords to it (E minor, D, A and B7th). And that's allegedly not an effect at the end. Wray's amp speaker was fried after multiple takes and was crapping out on him. The birth of punk, and possibly heavy metal as well, right here in this classic song.
This song influenced the heavy metal bands of the '70s & '80s more than anything.
Look at the video here on CZcams where Wray is in an interview and explains the effect at the end. It is indeed on purpose and he says nothing about the amp speaker frying. It came from using a mike on the amp the first time he played it on stage. It's called 'Link Wray on Rumble'.
Hasen Pfeffer I don't know exactly what Link said, but it sounds to me like the speed of the tremolo on his amp was simply increased as the song went on, till it was at its maximum setting by the time of the fadeout. It's very easy to duplicate this effect with any decent tremolo unit.
You guys are so rock'n'roll, talking about tremolos and amp speakers and shit.
Dsus2, E, A, B7
The only instrumental to ever be band from the Radio - official reason given back in the 50s - "because it just sounds like trouble"!!! How cool is that?????
great match up with video.
When the song comes first the video represents the song.
So ahead of its time - this powerful instrumental is still hot. Thanks for posting :o)-
Mad Daddy Pete Myers. One of the original crazy rock n roll DJs. WJW & WHK, I think.
This song caught everyone off balance.
perfect pairing
Classic song. Cool vid. I like when he flicked his cig at the cop.
Wow. What an awesome upload. Thanks!!
Amazing good !!!
Super badass clip!
It was a typical pretty good Jerry Lewis comedy. That's all I can tell you.
Coolest song ever
uno de los mejores rif de la historia de la MÚSICA
Amazing!
...but Link was prepared: he had a handgun (probably a revolver - ' a real big thing' Link said), and when things got rough he took it out, carefully placed it on his amp, and played the next song. The fight continued, but they didn't go near the stage anymore.
That's how Link told me things happened... I was his bassplayer on Shadowman, Barbed Wire and at least one live album, so plenty of time to hear this kind of stories!
This looks like a badass movie like The Wanderers, The Outsiders or Rebel without a cause.
splendide !
Good write-up Jim Philips I think I equated this style to surf music first - and then backed into the original Link Wray connection a little later. You can definitely hear it in Neil Young's music.
Timeless
great sound!
eu já vi filme bom mais igual há esse nunca tinha visto não!!!beijo emiliana do manejo.
If I ever get married again, I'm going to do a 2-step swagger down the aisle to this...
I thought that was from "The Delicate Delinquent." I haven't seen that on TV in nearly 40 years.
Perfect juxtaposition.
To Whom it may concern: we got this straightened out. Right, Vanessa?
To give you some more background information: when the band played live, they did plenty of vocal stuff and a handful of instrumentals. During (what was to become) Rumble, Link's brother would put his vocal mic into Link's amp, making it go loud and distorted - and the audience loved it. That's what Link was trying to recreate (at acceptable sound levels for recording).
There you have it. Link was, in fact, the first known guitarist who deliberatly created an artificially distorted sound.
and Jerry stumbles in .
argh. Link Wray. amazing
Hi -
The story of an audience mobbing the stage is one Link told me, too; it didn't have anything to do with the title Rumble (I think that was coined by Bleyer's daughter). Link, his brothers and Shorty Horton played at a dance when rumour had it that two gangs chose there and then to 'sort things out', and one of Link's brothers overheard some heavy guys making threats thinking Link was ' one of them' (=the other gang). Sure enough a fight broke out, and they were threatening the stage...
Classic!
The start of it all.
At the 2:25 mark, the brass Knuckles he puts on becomes a crowbar in his right hand seen just over his shoulder. That actor had recently died and was a famous Soap actor in his later years.
Link WAS the one man garage band!!
I genuinely believe the ending to this clip is the most badass thing to exist.
Post-modern hell has a grrrreat soundtrack...
Wow. Pretty awesome sound actually. only came here because i was doing a research paper and Link Wray came up so i wanted to give him a try. It's funny that with this being his first hit single and was banned in NY and Boston for fear of "inciting teen gang violence" yet west side story was on broadway the same year and it had some of the same kind of similarities involving teenage gang violence.
Badass!!!
No one's version of Rumble can hold a candle to Link Wray's . I kinda like Link Wray's 86 video.
This would be great entrance music for a bad-guy professional rassler!!
Put 'em up, put 'em up!!!
Linda Maria "Delicate Delinquent", eh? Not familiar with this one.
It's a comedy about Jerry Lewis getting mixed up with them. 5 seconds after this clip Jerry shows up.
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Hey that's Richard Bakalyan in that scene. No wonder he got type cast into playing the bad guy in many TV shows and movies.
great tune good vid fits well
I know it also from the great movie Pulp Fiction
that was Ace of Spades. Similar intro.
I don't know why but I think of GIs hunting Charlie in the jungles of Vietnam when I listen to this song.
Rumble 'came later in 1958', OK, but it was recorded in 1957. Working title: Oddball. One of so many songs cut as acetates by so many bands...
Then after a while the acetate was played at the birthday of Cadence record boss Archie Bleyer's (step?)daughter, who loved it - in fact, all her friends did, so it was released after all, re-named Rumble.
And hey, "the rest is history" is more than a phrase here. Rumble did actually change history.
Well, - no, Link told me the story about the gang fight and the gun and the story of how Rumble came about as two different occasions. Remeber, Rumble wasn't named Rumble at first, it was their take at a stroll - that's what the audience requested, 'hey, play us a stroll'. The stroll was a slow dance, so Doug started a slow drum beat, to which Link improvised the chords that became 'that oddball song' everybody kept asking for. The acetate said 'Oddball', it was changed to 'Rumble' for release!
Plus - lots of people first heard the tremolo effect when they heard Rumble (in the closing chords). And Link is generally acknowledged as the Father of the Powerchord, also because of Rumble.
People from Bob Dylan to Sid Vicious, Neil Young to Lemmy and Pete Townshend to Elvis Costello say they were influenced by this song by Link Wray and his Ray Men. ( "I wouldn't have picked up a guitar if it wasn't for Link Wray's Rumble" - Pete Townshend.)
Rumble actually DID change history.
OK?
Jerry Lewis' first solo effort. Dean refuse to play a cop so Darren McGavin ( A Christmas Story ) was given the role.
How about that! A 1950's music video! Twenty-three years before MTV!
The first sound of Rock
Cuántos llegaron aquí porque vieron el video en el recital de Morrissey? En mi caso, Santiago 11-11-2015.
tough guy; good thing there's no wind on that street