Ready Teddy
June 1, 1956
Ready Teddy is a rock ' n' roll song by Little Richard from the year 1956. It was written by John Marascalco in cooperation with Bumps Blackwell and first released on Specialty Records. The song structure is in the Rock ' n ' Roll frequent 12 -bar blues, the text is an invitation for fun at parties. Ready Teddy has been through many timely cover versions fast becoming a standard of rock ' n ' roll, which was also included in Europe and during the rock-' n' -roll revival in the 1970s and in the neo- rockabilly scene since the 1990s artists found. The song reached number eight in the original version of the rhythm-and - blues charts and number 44 of the pop charts as a crossover of Billboard magazine. None of the above 25 cover versions could follow the original in the charts.
Formation
After the young songwriter John Marascalco from Grenada, Mississippi had tried in vain to share its composition Rip It Up Elvis Presley, he heard Little Richard's second single, Long Tall Sally at their radio debut. Excited by the high-energy rock ' n ' roll, he decided to go to California to offer the record label Specialty Records a song for Little Richard. He finished yet during the five-day trip in March 1956 Ready Teddy. In the office of the specialty he met the producer and A & R manager Bumps Blackwell, who liked the song and asked about other available pieces. Marascalco therefore wrote the little Country -known rip it up into a few days. Blackwell was convinced of both titles, and hoped for a double-sided hit single when he would combine and Ready Teddy Rip It Up as two sides of a vinyl single.
The first recording of both titles on 9 May 1956 Matassas Cosimo J & M Studio in New Orleans where Little Richard had already recorded his debut single, Tutti Frutti and their follow-up hit Long Tall Sally. It made music under Blackwell's leadership, the studio band with Edgar Blanchard and Ernest McLean on guitar, Frank Fields on bass, Lee Allen on tenor saxophone, Alvin Tyler on baritone sax and Earl Palmer on drums. From Ready Teddy least five takes are obtained, probably Take 6 was mastered for release on single.
Musical structure
As in rock ' n ' roll often, Little Richard Ready Teddy is based on a 12-bar blues pattern, leave its functional chords be displayed with the theory of stages, the first stage being the tonic, the fourth stage of the subdominant and the fifth stage of the dominant corresponds:
The four measures are used at the first stage ( the tonic ) as stanza, the clocks five to twelve as a refrain. The third and fourth verse are extended by a further four bars of tonic. The song sequence starts with the verses one through three, after two successive schemes take up the saxophone solo. Then the verses are repeated two and three. By the fourth verse of the song comes to a close. Thus, the Blue pattern is repeated eight times. The verses are as a stop- Times presented by the rhythm section and section wooden play only single shocks in the back and a clock Offbeat and otherwise silent and the singer staccato melody and reduced the text " roars ."
Content
Ready Teddy is one of a long series of rhyming song titles from Little Richard's repertoire as Tutti Frutti, Heeby - Jeebies or Good Golly Miss Molly. It is a slang term from the Southern States, the John Marascalco with the synonym "hot to trot " explains ( German hot, hot). The first stanza of "Ready set go you go I got a gal did I love so " ( German: . On your marks, get set, go I got a girl that I love so much ) was the author Marascalco that of his songwriting the surrounding everyday scenes inspired white, the church on Sundays to mind. Thematically, the song includes a basic invitation to everyone to have fun, and is thus in the tradition of Bill Haley song Rock Around the Clock.
Publications
It was only on May 31, In 1956 Venice Music, the music publishing the label boss type Rupe, register the title in the Library of Congress, just in time for the publication on June 1 with Rip It Up B-side on Specialty 579 for both titles allowed the producer to dignify his arrangement with author credits, so since Marascalco and Blackwell can be found as co- authors on publications. The single was released both as a 10 -inch shellac single and on 7-inch vinyl. The license for the UK, Germany, Italy, Japan and New Zealand, held London Records, in Belgium, the single was released on Ronnex Records, in the Netherlands on Artone Records. The first publications outside the United States, however, continued until 1959. Published by Specialty Records as an EP exclusively the 6 -disc series Here 's Little Richard, on the second edition Specialty EP -401 in March 1957 Ready Teddy next to Slippin ' and Slidin', Oh Why? and baby was presented. At the same time the title found its way into the track list of the first same -titled album Here 's Little Richard under the number 100 and Specialty, 2100.
Ready Teddy found its way into Little Richard's live program and was played over the years regularly. Some of the concerts were recorded for live albums. On January 17, 1966, the singer gave his standard repertoire in the Domino Club in Atlanta, Georgia for the best, in January 1967, the album Little Richard Sings His Greatest Hits - Recorded Live appeared on Modern Records. Ready Teddy is only 40 seconds. The recording was also reworked and largely without audience noise along with Tutti Frutti and Do You Feel It - Part 1 released on single. A similar program came on 30 August 1976 SJ Productions at Jack Clement Studio for recording. The liner notes of the album Little Richard Live! to K-tel Records assert as well as the title of the disc recorded a live session.
Cover versions
Ready Teddy has been covered since it was first published more than 25 times. Time near to some well-known rock-' n- ' roll colleagues Little Richard's chart number attended.
Not all early recordings came to publication, but are much came out music - archival work later in the course.
The British Merseybeat scene adapted the standard quickly.
Mid-1960s had reached the title in France.
In 1965, the German Beat scene tried at a time.
Even a Chilean edition is known.
The onset in the 1970s rock-' n' -roll revival grabbed the song again.
After over ten years of break the song his comeback by the neo- rockabilly scene.
Other sizes of rock industry celebrate in the 2000s the old rock ' n' roll repertoire.
- 2008 - Morrissey
- 2009 - Jerry Williams
Meaning, criticism and success
Little Richard Ready Teddy took on in his live repertoire, which he plays with only a few interruptions due to religious studies into old age. This and the many cover versions of famous performers Ready Teddy belongs to the canon of well-known and frequently played rock 'n' roll standards. In addition, Ready Teddy is characterized as a crossover success of African American original artists, who scored on his division 's Market Rhythm and Blues addition, in the pop market in the white consumer base, as the other way around white artists interpreted the title and become the black rhythm -and- blues market busy. The effect that must have on the audience of the " wild pounding rock-' n'- roll- Driver", eloquently describes the cultural critic and music journalist Greil Marcus: " Man shaking his head in disbelief that such a thing ever could have happened that it had to be taken that it is now present in front of you when it happened for the first time, not as a reproduction of anything, but as event itself "
Besides the title song The Girl Can not Help It and She's Got It Little Richard Ready Teddy was able to give the best in 1956 turned Hollywood film The Girl Can not Help It in the playback process. Little Richard played out here, even with a behavioral staged appearance with his live band The Upsetters. As a soundtrack, however, came the recording studio with the band to use, so Lee Allen's tenor sax solo had to be synchronized in the film by Grady Gaines.
The R & B charts of Billboard magazine passed in 1956 with the sales charts ( "R & B Best Sellers in Store" ), the Jukebox charts ( " Most Played R & B Juke Boxes" ) and the radio charts ( " Most Played R & B by Jockeys " ) of three separate leaderboards. In the first two the single was rated especially with their main titles, only the radio charts led both sides of the plate separately. Specialty Records deliberately avoided an assignment to A- and B-side and left it to the market, which title was preferred demand. Specialty 579 charted for the first time on 30 June 1956 in the sales charts, but due to demand for Rip It Up. The marking of the back Ready Teddy in bold shows, however, that the title of a remarkable share of the sales success of the plate was attributed. In the chart the course of the Jukeboxcharts Ready Teddy was only mitgenannt in six weeks. In the radio charts to Ready Teddy could place independently beside Rip It Up. On 7 July 1956, the song debuted there with eighth place on its top position, surpassing in this week's main rip it up as much as a place. She could hold six weeks to 11 August. After a week's break, the title placed again on August 25 at number eleven and had the following week with his 14th place last chart listing. According to the common Joel Whitburn methodology in the chart statistic Ready Teddy spent thus eight weeks in the R & B charts and occupied the high position in eighth place. As a crossover Ready Teddy was able to score in the Top 100 charts: The entry was also carried out on 7 July 1956, a 80th place. The peak position at rank 44 was achieved on July 21. After eight weeks, the title on August 25, 1956 was recorded for the last time in the pop charts. In addition to the Top 100 list B charts were analogous to the R & out in the cross-genre Popsegment sales, radio and jukebox charts, but only until space 25, the Ready Teddy but missed.
Although no other single has except the version of Little Richard to place in the charts, but on five albums that came in the album charts, the title was represented: Elvis Presley coverte the title on his album Elvis, RCA LPM -1382 that was in 1956 five weeks at No. 1 on the album charts and recorded a total of 32 weeks in the album charts. 1957 was published Here 's Little Richard on Specialty 2100, the first LP by Little Richard, on which there was the single version of Ready Teddy. The LP reached number 13 in the album charts. John Lennon in 1975 took the title in a rock ' n' roll medley as part of his album Rock ' n ' Roll on Apple 3419 on. The album reached # 6 of the album charts. Also in 1975 appeared the sampler More American Graffiti Disc Jockeys Wolfman Jack. On the double album version of the song by Little Richard was released again. The album reached number 84 in 1988 version of Elvis Presley on the soundtrack of the film Heartbreak Hotel was released again. The double album with the number 90004 Asylum reached only place 176 on the charts.