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Another song that was in the air that year was ‘Good Rocking Tonight’, in a version from the charismatic blues shouter Wynonie Harris, but he wasn’t the first to sing it. The year before, Roy Brown had already let the world know what was coming down the pike. “I’ve heard the news and there’s good rocking tonight” he belts, over a steady beat, a boogie woogie piano and screaming saxophone. A jump blues like ‘Caledonia’, the song rocks and it rolls, it shakes and balls.
When he was setting the world on fire seven years later as the foremost star of the fledgling rock and roll scene, and singing his own version of ‘Good Rocking Tonight’, even Elvis’ version with its kit drum, bass and electric guitar doesn’t rock nearly half as hard as Roy Harris did back in 1947.