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I'm not going to poll this, since it would only get a handful of votes. I'm currently reading Blue Monday: Fats Domino and the Lost Dawn of Rock and Roll and came across this:
In 1958 Alan Freed started his first "Big Beat" Tour headlined by Jerry Lee Lewis, Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly and Frankie Lymon, but it crashed head-on with Irvin Feld's Biggest Show of Stars for 1958, starring Sam Cooke, The Everly Brothers, Clyde McPhatter and Jackie Wilson... Another tour featuring The Midnighters, the 5 Royales, Bo Diddley, Etta James and Little Willie John, threw in the towel after a week.
Three amazing line-ups; given a time machine, which would you see? (fwiw Domino was tired of eighty day tours by that time and declined the Big Beat tour, although it bears the name of one of his songs.)
― Dick Clownload (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 8 October 2014 18:15 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, this went over about as well as I thought it would. I was mostly just marvelling at that third bill, which I don't imagine was planned for predominantly white venues, but man... Hank Ballard, prime period Bo and Etta, Lowman Pauling!
― Dick Clownload (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 9 October 2014 17:11 (nine years ago) link
Oh, this is easier than you might think it would be. Seeing Sam Cooke sing live would be it for me. What else would be left to do? What could top that?
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 9 October 2014 17:23 (nine years ago) link
Jerry Lee Lewis, Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly and Frankie Lymon
never heard of frankie, but the rest of that line up would easily seal if for me.
of for the chance to see the killer in his prime years ..
― mark e, Thursday, 9 October 2014 17:36 (nine years ago) link
two years pass...
Surprised to find that Fats Domino is younger than Chuck Berry, always thought he was much older.
― Dan Worsley, Monday, 20 March 2017 08:46 (seven years ago) link