Rockabilly is one of the earliest styles of rock and roll music, dating to the early 1950s.
The term "rockabilly" is a portmanteau of "rock" (from "rock 'n' roll") and "hillbilly", the latter a reference to the country music (often called "hillbilly music" in the 1940s and 1950s) that contributed strongly to the style's development. Other important influences on rockabilly include western swing, boogie woogie, and rhythm and blues. While there are notable exceptions, its origins lie primarily in the Southern United States.
The influence and popularity of the style waned in the 1960s, but during the late 1970s and early 1980s, rockabilly enjoyed a major revival of popularity that has endured to the present, often within a rockabilly subculture.
There was a close relationship between the blues and country music from the very earliest country recordings in the 1920s. The first nationwide country hit was "Wreck of the Old '97", backed with "Lonesome Road Blues", which also became very popular.Jimmie Rodgers, the "first true country star", was known as the "Blue Yodeler", and most of his songs used blues-based chord progressions, although with very different instrumentation and sound from the recordings of his black contemporaries like Blind Lemon Jefferson and Bessie Smith.
Wesley Erwin "Mac" Curtis, Jr. (b. Jan 16, 1939) is an American rockabilly musician.
Born in Fort Worth, Texas, Curtis began playing guitar at the age of 12, entering local talent competitions. He moved to Weatherford in 1954, and while there he formed a band with two classmates, Jim and Ken Galbraith. They played at school events, but during one of the events, their show was shut down due to sexually suggestive on-stage movements. Instead, the group played locally, and in 1955 they were offered a deal with King Records, who released their debut single, "If I Had Me a Woman". Soon after Alan Freed heard the group and invited them to play on his Christmas radio special in 1956. He returned to Weatherford to finish school in 1957, and then became a disc jockey in Seoul, Korea after joining the military. Upon his return in 1960, he continued work as a DJ in the South, and released a few albums; his 1968 release, The Sunshine Man, hit #35 on the U.S. Country albums chart. As rockabilly grew in popularity in the 1970s, he began recording with Ray Campi and signed to Ronnie Weiser's Rollin' Rock Records; his career took off there in the 1980s and 1990s. He was later elected to the Rockabilly Hall of Fame.
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You ever felt like you're gonna chuck up
You try to speak but it comes out mucked up
Well that's just the way she made me feel
I know I shoudn't, no I shouldn't pull her hair
But it's a kids sign of affection
And I still ain't got nowhere
I sat behind her in almost every lesson
She drove me mad with that gingham dress on
And those little ribbons in her hair
She had a brother in the year above her
So I wrote, told him that I bugged her
He got all my stuff stuck in a tree
Yes I confess, I may well be a pest
But I'm not gonna change, so let it go...
She had a brother and he threatened to hit me
So I turned round and ran home quickly
Hid under the stairs for quite a while
I like to remember my days at school
I always was the classroom fool
Best thing about playtime was kiss chase
Yelling swear words with your mates
Not finding out what it meant till it's too late
And you're grounded for the day
Giving your mate's an atomic wedge
Or finding pornos in the hedge
Ringing doorbells and running away