Rockabilly!

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 * [|Elvis Presley] performing his rendition of "You Ain't Nothing But a Hound Dog"
 * Combined blues and country music.
 * Often called "hillbilly music" was adapted as a music style in the fourties and fifties
 * Was the cross over from R&B to rock and roll, a very important era in music's history.
 * Elvis was often known as the epitamy of rockabilly, with his "black" sound and white upbringing and influences.

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 * Ricky Nelson was one of the various artists involved in the rockabilly craze. He was the son of jazz bandleader Ozzie Nelson and singer Harriet Hillard, so was brought up with a musical backround.
 * Other artists included in this transitional genre are [|Bill Haley and the Comets,] Jerry Lee Lewis, and the Everley Brothers.
 * Sam Phillips of [|Sun Records]brought in important and influential artists such as Elvis Presley, [|Johnny Cash,] and Carl Perkins
 * Buddy Holly was another artist with a major impact on rockabilly.
 * He was a "nerdy" looking young man, who made teenagers realize that looks didn't matter.
 * His sophisticated style for the time included instrumentation worthy of an almost rock and roll style, a lead guitar, and a celeste included.
 * His early death in a plane crash made the american teen population idolize the lost star even more, and his music became even more widespead.
 * [|Chuck Berry]'s song //Maybelline// had a rockabilly influences, attracting crowds of young teens.
 * The song tells a story of a hot rod race and a broken romance, and was named after the make up company which Chuck Berry worked for before becoming a professional musician.
 * He made the transition from rockabilly to rock and roll complete, ending the rockabilly era for about two decades, until a revival was made in the seventies.

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