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New Book Tells Tales Of Also-Ran Rock Pioneers You Never Heard Of
A Guelph professor who once tried to make it in the music biz has written a tome featuring the pioneers of rock and roll you never heard of - and whose stories have remained mostly untold for decades. But he argues some of them were as important as Elvis himself - and most them came a lot earlier.
"Contacted by a U.S. colleague who had come into possession of some old acetate discs, he discovered that far from being an Elvis also-ran, (Carl) Perkins had been playing similar material two years before Presley ever set foot in a recording studio.
“All of a sudden there are these extraordinary sides by some guy named Carl Perkins,” recalled Davis. “And you look at the date: 1952. Excuse me? 1956 is when ‘Blue Suede Shoes’ was a hit record. What the hell is this stuff?”
Never mind Elvis — Hank Davis’s book ‘Ducktails, Drive-ins, and Broken Hearts’ is about rock’s also-rans
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"What was it like to see a pale cover version of your latest record climb the charts while yours sat unplayed by mainstream radio stations? How did precious Elvis tapes end up in a Memphis landfill? And who was that thirteen-year-old girl who made a five-dollar vanity record at Sun just two years after Elvis had-and ended up singing backup on "Suspicious Minds" and "In the Ghetto?"