Jailhouse Rock (song)
Jailhouse Rock (English jailhouse for " prison " and rock, paraphrased for " rhythm " or " dance ") is a drafted by the successful author team of rock & roll, Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, in 1957 rock song by Elvis Presley became a million seller. It was the title song of the same music film with Elvis Presley in the starring role.
Genesis
Jailhouse Rock Hound Dog was after the second number -one hit for Elvis Presley in the national Billboard charts, who came from the pen of the songwriting duo Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller. On the ostensible " Hound Dog " Elvis Presley, however, was not by Leiber & Stoller itself or with the original version of the colored rhythm & blues singer Willie Mae ' Big Mama ' Thornton hear, but by a parodic version with slightly modified text of the group Freddy Bell and The Bell Boys, whose live performance had seen Elvis in the spring of 1956 in Las Vegas. It was not until the success of Presley's Hound Dog version meant that Leiber & Stoller were commissioned early in 1957 so that, among other authors to write songs for the third Presley film was later called the Jailhouse Rock. As the two young writers the New York nightlife but were more devoted than the task as quickly as possible to provide a selection of good songs for an Elvis soundtrack, closed Freddy Bienstock - the music publisher Hill & Range responsible for the publishers Gladys Music and Elvis Presley Music - the duo an overnight in their hotel suite by making himself comfortable on a sofa in front of the door. So ( You're So Square ) Baby I Do not Care and I Want To Be Free were almost overnight Jailhouse Rock, Treat Me Nice, done that then chose Presley from a number of titles by other authors for recording.
The recording sessions for Jailhouse Rock took place on April 30 and May 3, 1957 at Radio Recorders, and on May 9th place in 1957 at MGM soundstage in Hollywood. On request, Elvis Presley Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller were present at the recording session led by Steve Sholes and supported the young singer in his work. The studio band consisted of Presley's old companions Scotty Moore ( electric guitar), Bill Black (bass ) and DJ Fontana (drums), Dudley Brooks and Mike Stoller ( piano ), Elvis Presley himself ( acoustic guitar ) and the gospel quartet The Jordanaires with background vocals.
The fast-paced bass, accompanied with D. J. Fontana's drums between rumba and shuffle, are symptomatic of the music track. The rapid pace of the usual 12-bar Blue scheme and its typical harmony structure ( with a lowered subdominant seventh grade) is associated with a high density text, which required a quick singing Jailhouse Rock. This could also English-speaking listeners the contents do not immediately understand. Jailhouse Rock was released as the A- side of a single with Treat Me Nice as a B-side. Unusually, Elvis Presley played in the recording of Treat Me Nice even the Fender bass, as bass player Bill Black was not initially coped with the new instrument for him and had given up.
The title Jailhouse Rock about a fictional party in prison describes the coincidence of several prisoners who play different musical instruments and therefore a band can put together that then all the prisoners encouraged to dance. Some people that were mentioned in the song, actually lived. " Shifty Henry" was a well-known bass musicians and blues composer from Los Angeles and not a criminal, at the " Purple Gang " it was a real five-member gang of criminals from Detroit and not a rhythm section behind "Bugs " hid himself well the Jewish -born shot dead gangster Benjamin " Bugsy" Siegel, and " Sad Sack " was in the U.S. Army, the name for a loser types. In the second stanza, the fictitious prisoners "Spider Murphy " is mentioned as a tenor saxophonist, hereafter the Spider Murphy Gang named.
Publication
The title Jailhouse Rock / Treat Me Nice (RCA Victor # 47-7035 - for the 45rpm single - and # 20-7035 for 78rpm ) was published on September 24, 1957 and arrived on 21 October 1957, the peak position of the U.S. charts, where it remained for seven weeks. He also reached the first rank of the U.S. country and R & B charts, making it one of the few songs that performed so successful as a crossover, where Presley was with All Shook Up Teddy Bear and this already 2 times previously succeeded. A first course succeeded in Britain, in Germany Rank 20 was reached. The strong popularity of the song led to a record sales of two million copies in the U.S. within just two weeks and four million copies in total, which earned him the status of a 14 million seller of Elvis.
The movie Jailhouse Rock - Jailhouse Rock was born on November 8, 1957 officially in the U.S. ( only on 5 April 1958 in Germany ) in the cinemas. The central Gesangs-/Tanzszene in Jailhouse Rock with the title song is now regarded as the prototype of the Rock-/Popvideos. The movie premiere took place before October 17 place in 1957 in Memphis, what Elvis but not participated. He had the film on October 2, looked at with his parents in a private show.
On October 30, 1957 follows the eponymous EP, on the other next to the title song, two Leiber / Stoller compositions can be found in the film, namely I Want to Be Free, and ( You're So Square ) Baby I Do not Care. EP reached # 1 on the Extended Play charts in the U.S.. It was implemented two million times. In January 2005 Jailhouse Rock again reached the British number one, making it the oldest title that ever occupied the top position for a second time.
Statistics and cover versions
From the song Jailhouse Rock 61 versions are listed, the title was awarded a BMI Award. Presley's version of Jailhouse Rock is the first single in UK chart history, which made the jump from zero to one. The play was interpreted by many other artists, including Jeff Beck (June 1969), Jerry Lee Lewis ( 1971), ZZ Top ( 1975), Twisted Sister (1994 ), the Spider Murphy Gang (2004), Erika Stucky (2005) and Helge Schneider ( 2007). Our own version of the song was used as the conclusion of the 1980 film The Blues Brothers. Queen played the song in the majority of their concerts; only during the tours in 1982 and 1986 Jailhouse Rock was never on the agenda. A recorded early eighties live interpretation is included in Queen rock Montreal.