Have The Stones written or covered a Rockabilly song.. and if they have whats your favourite one..

'20 Flight Rock' by Eddie Cochran comes to mind. They did a great job with it!

20 Flight Rock .... Hound Dog but it's more in the rocknroll camp.....

At times Let Me Go ...She's So Cold ... She Was Hot ... Flip The Switch all carry something of the rockabilly spirit



ROCKMAN

Since "Not Fade Away" is a Buddy Holly song, I guess that makes it sort of 'rockabilly' too. (although maybe his music transcended the genre?)

Good pick Keefan. "Not Fade Away" is a great rockabilly song. By the way Dylan has been covering it in concert last few years, electric version and sounds great.

Buddy's 'Oh Boy' and 'Rave On' are straight on rockabilly. The Stones version of 'Not Fade Away' is a mashup of Holly's rockabilly and the Bo Diddley beat. I love the Stones version of '20 Flight Rock'. It's one of those instances where their version doesn't overwhelm, or fall short of the original.

"Had It With You"?

Claudine?

Not exactely Stones, but "Wandering Spirit" from MJ is really rockabilly, real gretsch-straycats-briansetzer-guitars ... love that one!

For me Break The Spell is pure rockabilly.

Thanks for bringing up this topic!

I think there was certain 'rock-a-billy spirit' - to use Rockman's term - or at least influence in the late stage of the third golden era. Just after the disco/punk phase. Most probably to do with Keith - if I have understood that was the time when he started to dig the Jerry Lee Lewis/Eddie Cochran kind of 'roots' stuff. I think the influence was most to be heard in the guitar sound and in certain 'feel' to play that Keith experimented at the time - like Rockman mentioned "Let Me Go", "She's So Cold" - and yeah, "Claudine" as mentioned, "Little T&A"... To an extent I think Keith applied this experiment to the guitar sound of the 1981/82 tour - that to some ears resulted as more 'thinner', less fuzzy sound. Probably Keith's interplay with Charlie and Bill has something to do with it - there is a difference to the louder, more raw, punk attitude of 1978 tour. The inclusion of "20 Flight Rock" to their setlist didn't came out of blue. (I think STILL LIFE is a good document of the particular sound they tried to achive during the tour. To this day it sounds very unique.)

I have wondered how much this was to do with the example of The Stray Cats. I remember them being in good terms with The Stones, and I remember reading at the time - rock-a-billy and the Stray Cats were a huge 'roots' phemenomeon here in Finland so thee were a lot of stuff in the media - that the Stray Cats reminded the Stones of their own origin/early days. The exotic instruments like harmonica, slide guitar and maracas and the blues purism of the early Stones was equal to the acoustic bass, rock-a-billy enthusiasm of The Stray Cats. (I can easily think that especially Keith liked the 'authenticity' of them.)

Anyway, it is 30 years of reading that article, and that 'connection' - or the rock-a-billy influence to the Stones sound at the time - has not much discussed ever since. In ROLLING WITH THE STONES there is an image of Bill Wyman with The Stray Cats during the 1981 American Tour.

- Doxa



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You Can't Catch Me
and yeah that fast version of Claudine

Mean Disposition?

I read somewhere that when Keith met the Stray Cats, he invited them to his place and they stayed there for 3 days, listening to Keith's record collection and playing and drinking.

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gwen
Mean Disposition?

Yeh - I think this is the closest they've come to pure rockabilly (whatever that is).

The fast version of Claudine are rockabilly, as is Fiji Jim of course. Break the Spell maybe.

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bolexman
Good pick Keefan. "Not Fade Away" is a great rockabilly song. By the way Dylan has been covering it in concert last few years, electric version and sounds great.

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No they havent.

"Should've stood you up", Keith Richards?

Keith wrote a solo rock-a-billy number "Could HAve Stood You Up" and performed
"Something Else" an Eddie Cochran number. And oh yeah,The Stones cut Susie-Q ,a straight up rockabilly hit. You guys mentioned 20 Flight Rock" but wouldnt "Chantilly Lace" qualify? Written and performed by The Big Bopper (who also wrote "White Lightnin" for George Jones which has to be rockabilly more than country honestly speaking!)

Hold on to your hat
Rip this joint
Break the spell
Title nr. 5 (more Surf/ Psycho, but with definite rockabilly feelin'...)
Claudine
Mean Disposition

["I can hear the Bullfrog calling me..."]

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scottkeef
Keith wrote a solo rock-a-billy number "Could HAve Stood You Up" and performed
"Something Else" an Eddie Cochran number. And oh yeah,The Stones cut Susie-Q ,a straight up rockabilly hit. You guys mentioned 20 Flight Rock" but wouldnt "Chantilly Lace" qualify? Written and performed by The Big Bopper (who also wrote "White Lightnin" for George Jones which has to be rockabilly more than country honestly speaking!)

I stand corrected, ICHSYU is a rockabilly although it's mashed with rock n roll.

i'm right, you're left, she's gone - toshiba studios '95 - didn't make the cut for stripped, though...

It's goes like this (three great lessons):














- Doxa



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Rockman
20 Flight Rock .... Hound Dog but it's more in the rocknroll camp.....

At times Let Me Go ...She's So Cold ... She Was Hot ... Flip The Switch all carry something of the rockabilly spirit

From the Time Is On Our Side site:

Keith Richards: Rolling Stones rockabilly

The guitar sound on Little T&A and She's So Cold is our equivalent of that rockabilly thing. I think you'll find that comes from using a lot of analog delay on Ron's guitar or my guitar or both of them, and I dampen it (cover right hand over base of strings). That'll give you that ticka-tacka-ticka.

I always thought 'Turd on the Run' had a r'billy/skiffle slant to it.

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Doxa
It's goes like this (three great lessons):





- Doxa

Haha, the black chick gets it straight away. Right on!

If 'Claudine' isnt rockabilly, I dont know what is...

Mick doing the track Wandering Spirit."

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Gazza
If 'Claudine' isnt rockabilly, I dont know what is...

....Rockabilly Boogie....hell, it's even in the title, which very much helps the listener along, just in case....

Eddy live in England. Who is Marty Wilde?