{"id":966,"date":"2015-01-16T09:00:37","date_gmt":"2015-01-16T09:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/douglascowie.com\/?p=966"},"modified":"2015-01-15T11:57:33","modified_gmt":"2015-01-15T11:57:33","slug":"song-of-the-week-good-rockin-tonight-three-versions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/?p=966","title":{"rendered":"Song of the Week: &#8220;Good Rockin&#8217; Tonight&#8221; (Three Versions)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each Friday I pick a song\u2013new, old, borrowed, blue\u2013that\u2019s been on my mind and in my ears, and write a short post about it.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s &#8220;Good Rockin&#8217; Tonight&#8221; by Roy Brown, the guy who wrote it:<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cgdzS4OSQ1M\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s &#8220;Good Rockin&#8217; Tonight&#8221; by Wynonie Harris, the guy who made it a hit:<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/b5G6p7WpLSk\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s &#8220;Good Rockin&#8217; Tonight&#8221; by Elvis Presley, the guy who made it rock &#8216;n&#8217; roll:<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6FeWJHUB8aU\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Something old, something borrowed, something new, and no longer (jump) blues.<\/p>\n<p>Roy Brown&#8217;s jump ain&#8217;t bad, though for my money, he sounds like he&#8217;s trying a little too hard.\u00a0 It really gets a kick in the pants by Wynonie Harris, whose version announces itself as something more sophisticated with that &#8220;When the Saints Go Marching In&#8221; quotation that kicks it off.\u00a0 One thing Harris isn&#8217;t doing is trying to hard. He doesn&#8217;t even have much regard for Brown&#8217;s lyrics.\u00a0 As my friend Michael has pointed out, &#8220;meet me in the alley \/ behind the barn&#8221; doesn&#8217;t make sense, but it doesn&#8217;t have to; the point is, this barn dance has moved its good rockin&#8217; to the big city. Where Brown&#8217;s trying real hard to let you know he&#8217;s gonna have some good rockin&#8217; with his baby, Harris is pretty offhand and louche about the whole thing.\u00a0 Now Elvis&#8211;well, Elvis sounds like a teenage kid hoping he&#8217;ll get laid.\u00a0 He moves the song back into the country, but he doesn&#8217;t lose the swagger that Harris brought to the song, and in turning that swagger into his own, and with the pared-down instrumentation, he&#8217;s inventing rock &#8216;n&#8217; roll before your very ears.<\/p>\n<p>But I mean, come on. Two guitar solos?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"DouglasCowie\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Song%20of%20the%20Week%3A%20%22Good%20Rockin%27%20Tonight%22%20%28Three%20Versions%29\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each Friday I pick a song\u2013new, old, borrowed, blue\u2013that\u2019s been on my mind and in my ears, and write a short post about it. Here&#8217;s &#8220;Good Rockin&#8217; Tonight&#8221; by Roy Brown, the guy who wrote it: Here&#8217;s &#8220;Good Rockin&#8217; Tonight&#8221; by Wynonie Harris, the guy who made it a hit: Here&#8217;s &#8220;Good Rockin&#8217; Tonight&#8221; by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"DouglasCowie\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Song%20of%20the%20Week%3A%20%22Good%20Rockin%27%20Tonight%22%20%28Three%20Versions%29\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-song-of-the-week","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=966"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":968,"href":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions\/968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}