Rock It (George Jones song)
"Rock It" is a rockabilly single by country music singer George Jones. Not wanting to use his real name and jeopardize his reputation as a country artist, Starday Records released it under the pseudonym "Thumper Jones."
Background
With the explosion in popularity of Elvis Presley in 1956, country music lost a sizeable portion of its young audience and scrambled to adapt. As biographer Bob Allen put it in his book George Jones: The Life and Times of a Honky Tonk Legend, "It temporarily sent the country music industry sprawling flat on its ass. Sales figures for country music plummeted dangerously, and soon even the most dedicated country artists - as a matter of sheer professional survival - were all rushing to pump some Elvis glottal bestiality into their own music." Jones, who had played with both Elvis and Johnny Cash on the Louisiana Hayride, and his producer Pappy Daily decided to give rockabilly a shot, recording two songs Jones wrote: "Rock It" and "Dadgumit, How Come It." As Jones explained to Billboard in 2006: "I was desperate. When you're hungry, a poor man with a house full of kids, you're gonna do some things you ordinarily wouldn't do. I said, 'Well, hell, I'll try anything once.' I tried 'Dadgum It How Come It' and 'Rock It', a bunch of shit. I didn't want my name on the rock and roll thing, so I told them to put Thumper Jones on it and if it did something, good, if it didn't, hell, I didn't want to be shamed with it."
Rock It (music festival)
Rock It is an Australian music festival held at the Arena Joondalup in the northern suburbs of Perth, Western Australia. The festival was first held in 1999, and mainly features modern rock music. Along with the nationally-touring Big Day Out, Rock It was one of the major rock concerts held regularly in Perth.
At the March 2009 event Western Australian Police trialled the use of drug amnesty bins for the first time at a rock concert. The police restrictions resulted in long queues on entry and due to their public visibility little use by concert goers.
Artist lineups by year
1999
5 December 1999
2000
22 October 2000
2002
13 October 2002
Rock It
Rock It may refer to:
Songs
Other uses
See also
Podcasts:
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ALBUMS
- The Dome, Volume 53 released: 2010
- Technikart.02 released: 2003
- Essential Chillout: Six-Pack released: 2001
- Essential Trance 2 released: 2000
- The Star - Male Artists released:
Technikart.02
Released 2003- It's Complete (Château Flight's Darkside mix)
- Star Spangled Banner (original Ibiza mix)
- Superstar (Percapella)
- Hit and Run
- Love Can Damage Your Health (Sacha Funke remix)
- Bugs Don't Cry (Philemonsanto mix)
- Way Back
- Seeing Is Believing (Cosmo Vitelli remix)
- J'aime regarder les mecs
- Joe le taxi
- Zero (feat. Scratch Massive)
- The Date (Bad Boy remix by Chloé)
- Sex (Les Pétroleuses remix)
- Everybody's Got Learn Sometime (Korgi's Cover)
- L'Amour
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by: Xpq-21Rock it
Beat me like a rocket
Treat me like a pocket
Do it like a nun
Love me
Treat me like a rocket
Treat me like a pocket
Beat me like a nun
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