May 25, 1962: After Phil Spector flopped with the tune and before The Beatles scored, The Isley Brothers hit with TWIST & SHOUT...

May 25, 1962:

 The Isley Brothers RELEASE "Twist And Shout" 

"Twist And Shout" was written by Phil Medley and Bert Russell and was first recorded as "Shake It Up, Baby" by the Top Notes in 1960 with a very young Phil Spector producing...

This recording flopped...

 Then the Isley Brothers decided to have a go at it, and Bert Russell changed the title to "Twist And Shout"...

 Their recording with Ron Isley doing the lead vocal went to #17 on the pop charts during the summer of '62...

 The following year, the Beatles would famously cover the tune with John Lennon singing lead...

Check out The Who doin’ the tune in concert at Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto.
16th December 1982...   

Bruce Springseen did a cover, recorded in 1988 Swiss concert...

More recently Chaka Demus and Pliers (featuring Jack Radics and Taxi Gang) reached No. 1 on the UK charts with their version in January 1994... 

Bon Jovi got mileage out of the tune in Romania in 2011...  

Even Celine Dion tears it up, Twistin’ & Shoutin’ on a Memphis concert date which produced her album Celine Dion Live in Memphis...  

Not a bad track record for a tune which failed under the production of a very young (to be fair) Phil Spector and then, first hitting the charts with Ronald Isley on lead vocals, only peaking at No. 17 on the U.S. pop top 40—Of course THE ISLEY BROTHERS version DID hit No. 2 on the US R&B charts...

TWIST & SHOUT, Y’ALL!!!

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May 25, 1968: Paul Butterfield, IGGY & THE STOOGES and The MC5 ROCK THE GRANDE...

May 25, 1968

 

Electra veterans, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, plays the second of three nights at

The Grande Ballroom, Detroit, Michigan, USA, supported by  Electra “newcomers” and DETROIT FAVORITES; The Psychedelic Stooges and The MC5…

Butterfield:

MC5:

The Stooges

36 YEARS LATER…
THE STOOGES AND THE FIVE: 
STILL INTERNATIONAL STARS AND DETROIT FAVORITES!!!

MC5

Iggy and The Stooges Induction into
The Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame

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May 24th : Tommy Chong, Bob Dylan, Chuck Berry, Elmore James, The Beatles and Earth, Wind & Fire all have a connection in Tropical Jon's Evolution of Rock 'n Roll...

MAY 24^th

IN
TROPICAL JON’S

EVOLUTION OF
ROCK ‘n ROLL:

May 24, 1940: Tommy Chong (Cheech and Chong) hits the planet! 

Tommy Chong is a marijuana activist and is a supporter of marijuana legalization and medical use of marijuana. He is a regular contributor to Cannabis Culture Magazine and sits on the NORML (National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws) advisory board...

MAY 24, 1951: Bob Dylan hits the planet!

 

May 24, 1955: Chuck Berry hits #2 on the R&B chart with the Chess single "Thirty Days" 

May 24, 1963: Elmore James checks out…R.I.P. ELMORE!

May 24, 1969: The Beatles reach #1 with "Get Back"

May 24, 1975: "Shining Star,' from Earth, Wind & Fire's 'That's the Way of the World', reaches #1 on Billboard's singles chart. It earns the first of many Grammys for the group, winning Best R&B Vocal Performance by a Group…

THINK ABOUT IT...

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TROPICAL JON'S EVOLUTION OF ROCK 'n ROLL: Louis Prima ROCKS The Jefferson Beach Park Ballroom in St. Claire Shores...

May 13 ~ 24, 1942:  Louis Prima

TORE UP the  
Jefferson Beach Park Ballroom in The Motor City’s close suburb of St. Clair Shores, MI…

Jefferson Beach Dance Hall and Bath House
on Lake St. Claire

Ever wonder how we got to be where we are now? This is the stuff our folks were listenin’ to! This blog is dedicated to my very goode friend’s dad, RALPH GOODE...

RALPH GOODE
 on the bass in Detroit in the 40s

who was playin’ these same venues back in the 1940’s…

Ya thought that Roth cat did the tune? Well he did, but Louis Prima did it first…

Did these cats swing or what!?!

To be honest, I don’t know if Keely Smith was on this date, but dig Louis & Keely rockin’—Oui’ Oui, WELL ALRIGHT!!!

Rock ‘n Roll?

Our folks were ROCKIN’
at the JEFFERSON BEACH BALLROOM!!!

WELL, ALMOST...

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May 23: Pop hits by Detroit's Bill Haley (1953) , The Everly Brothers (1960) and Millie Small (1964), in Tropical Jon's Evolution of Rock 'n Roll...

May 23, 1953: Bill Haley and his Comets'
 "Crazy, Man, Crazy" enters the charts  reached No. 12, becoming the first song generally recognized as rock and roll to be a pop hit…  

 May 23, 1960: The Everly Brothers' "Cathy's Clown" hits #1, eventually selling eight million copies worldwide, spending five weeks at number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart and one week on the R&B charts. It spent seven weeks at number one in the UK in May and June 1960. It would become the Everly Brothers' biggest hit single and their third and final US Number One.

The song is ranked number 149 on the Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time… 

  

May 23, 1964: Millie Small's "My Boy Lollipop" enters the charts: It is unclear who played the harmonica - urban legend credited Rod Stewart for many years,
but he has denied it...

 

Even the “slow days” have their moments, in

The Evolution of Rock ‘n Roll…

           

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