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."

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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

Silverchair

Beaverloop

Test Eagles

Auto Pilot

DJ Kingsize

Kenny Bartley

DJ Betamax

DJ Dr Love

Fourstroke

2000

22 October 2000

Green Day

Powderfinger

Grinspoon

28 Days

Shihad

John Butler Trio

Weta

2002

13 October 2002

Grinspoon

Bodyjar

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Rock It

Rock It may refer to:

Songs

"Rock It" (Little Red song), 2010

"Rock It" / "Follow the Light", a 2009 single by Sub Focus

"Rock It (Lipps Inc)", a song by Lipps Inc from Mouth to Mouth

"Rock It (Motörhead)", a song by Motörhead from Another Perfect Day

"Rock It (Prime Jive)", a song by Queen from The Game

Other uses

Rock It (album), a 1979 album by Chuck Berry

Rock It (music festival), an Australian music festival

Rock It! (TV series), a 2007 Australian children's show featuring the pop group Rock It!

Riya

Riya (born February 18) is a female Japanese singer from Fukuoka, Japan. In her early career, she admired Akino Arai. Riya eventually became the lead singer and lyricist to the J-pop band Eufonius, which debuted in 2004.

Solo discography

Singles

"Toki no Mukōgawa", Released March 24, 2005 by Lantis

Albums

Sorarado, Released on December 28, 2003

Sorarado Append, Released on December 28, 2004

Love Song, Released August 31, 2005 by Key Sounds Label

Other songs

"Mawaru Sekai de" (duet with Haruka Shimotsuki; opening theme to PlayStation 2 game Akai Ito)

"Tabiji no Hate" (duet with Haruka Shimotsuki; ending theme to Akai Ito)

"Dianoia" (opening theme to PC game Saishū Shiken Kujira)

"Crescent Moon" (opening theme to Dreamcast & PlayStation 2 game Suigetsu ~mayoigokoro~)

"Mag Mell" (opening theme to Clannad)

"-Kage Futatsu-" ("-Two Shadows-")/ "Chiisana Tenohira" (ending theme to Clannad)

"Hikari no Hō e ~Ashita e no Jumon~ (opening theme to PlayStation 2 game Mabino x Style)

"Narcissus" (opening theme to Narcissu: Side 2nd)

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Like.com

Like.com was a price comparison service website that billed itself as a "visual search engine for products".

History

The website was created by Riya, a company built to create a search engine used to search for similar faces among photos. The company found it difficult to monetize the service, however, so they created Like.com to use the same technology for a different purpose. Riya's CEO, Munjal Shah, noted that "the same technology works well to find similar-looking products." Riya's CTO and co-founder, Burak Göktürk, had previously worked with computer vision technology and has filed for two dozen facial-recognition patents under his name. The website was first announced at the Web 2.0 Conference on November 8, 2006. Like.com raised US$19.5 million from investors who included Bay Partners, BlueRun Ventures, and Leapfrog Ventures. The company planned to make money by acting as an affiliate to the retail sites that it links to, allowing it to receive about a 10% commission on each sale that the website sent to an online retailer. As of November 2006, the website had about two million unique products from 200 merchants. In 2015, the site became defunct and redirected users to Google's shopping search engine.

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