Jailhouse Rock
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Elvis Presley
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Runtime: 26:10 Teacher: David
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Lesson Description
This guitar lesson has 6 chapters. The Performance shows you what David wants to have you learn in the lesson. The Overview tells you about the history, style, form, and chords you'll need to know. In the Intro you learn what may be the most important Strum Pattern that you’ll ever learn. Next comes the Verse, which uses the same strum, with a slight variation on the last two bars. This is a great chance to learn to keep a groove without going into “auto pilot.” In the Chorus you get two new Strum Patterns, similar but slightly different. The next chapter is the Outro Tag, where David shows you how to end the song the way Elvis did. In the Slow Practice you get to put it all together. This may be the most valuable part of the lesson and we hope you’ll play it with David as many times as you need to. In the Bonus Chapter David teaches you the Boogie-Woogie line that Elvis’ guitar player did. David shows you note-for-note how to do that. This is probably the hardest part of this lesson. You’ll need to work on single string pick control. But it’s a valuable skill that we’d love to have you learn.
Song Information
Jailhouse Rock
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| "Jailhouse Rock" | |||||
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| Single by Elvis Presley | |||||
| B-side | "Treat Me Nice" | ||||
| Released | September 24, 1957 | ||||
| Format | 45 rpm single,78 rpm single | ||||
| Genre | Rock and Roll | ||||
| Writer(s) | Leiber/Stoller | ||||
| Producer | Leiber/Stoller | ||||
| Elvis Presley singles chronology | |||||
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"Jailhouse Rock," by Elvis Presley, was written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. The song was released in September of 1957 as a 45 rpm single to accompany the release of Presley's motion picture of the same name. "Jailhouse Rock" is the lead song in the film, with Mike Stoller playing accompaniment on the piano.
The single, with its B-side "Treat Me Nice," was a U.S. #1 hit for 7 weeks in the fall of 1957. It was a UK #1 hit for three weeks early in 1958 and again for a week when it was re-released in 2005. It eventually sold four million copies in the US, resulting in a Double Platinum certification by the RIAA. Presley's version is also rated #67 on Rolling Stone's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time and is one of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll.
Some of the characters named in the song are real people: Shifty Henry was a well known L.A. musician, The Purple Gang was a real mob, "Bugs" was probably Bugsy Siegel, the Jewish gangster, and "Sad Sack" was a popular comic strip and comic book character.
Other artists who covered "Jailhouse Rock" after Elvis Presley:
- Jerry Lee Lewis
- Miranda Lambert
- Merle Haggard
- The Residents
- Mötley Crüe
- Brownsville Station
- The Blues Brothers
- ZZ Top
- The Animals
- Twisted Sister
- The Cramps
- Judy Nylon
- John Cougar Mellencamp
- Michael Bolton
- Jeff Beck Group (featuring Rod Stewart and Ronnie Wood)
- Billy "Crash" Craddock
- Adriano Celentano
- Cliff Richard
- ABBA with Olivia Newton-John and Andy Gibb
- Queen
- Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers
- Danny Noriega, American Idol Season 7
- Enrique Guzmán (in Spanish)
- Dean Carter (1967)
- Mind Garage
- IBEX
- Carl Perkins
- Eilert Pilarm
- Taylor Hicks, American Idol Season 5
- Lilo & Stitch film during ending credits
- Jesse & Beck in episode of Full House
- In Stephen King's novel Christine.
