15-617: Rock It may refer to: Songs [ edit ] "Rock It" (George Jones song) , 1956 "Rock It" (Lipps Inc. song) , 1980 "Rock It" (Little Red song) , 2010 "Rock It" / "Follow the Light" , by Sub Focus, 2009 " Rock It (Prime Jive) ", by Queen, 1980 "Rock It", by Master P from Game Face , 2001 "Rock It", by Motörhead from Another Perfect Day , 1983 "Rock It", by Ofenbach , 2019 Other uses [ edit ] Rock It (music festival) , an Australian music festival Rock It! ,
30-554: A 2007 Australian TV series See also [ edit ] Rockit (disambiguation) Rocket (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Rock It . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rock_It&oldid=1188946933 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
45-565: A Loving God , a book he did in collaboration with his friend the French painter Thierry Alonso Gravleur . He described his literary influences as " Hesiod , Sappho , Christopher Marlowe , Ezra Pound , William Faulkner , Charles Olson , and God knows who else." A compendium , The Nick Tosches Reader , collects writings from over the course of his career. Tosches was featured on the Travel Channel show Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations in
60-437: 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." Jones and Daily came up with the name Thumper Jones, but the single failed to chart. Jones retained a lifelong disdain for the rock and roll sides he cut during this time, joking in his 1995 autobiography I Lived to Tell It All , "During
75-531: 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
90-451: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages 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." With the explosion in popularity of Elvis Presley in 1956, country music lost
105-490: 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',
120-560: The 1989 Jones documentary Same Ole Me , Johnny Cash insisted, "George Jones woulda been a really hot rockabilly artist if he'd approached it from that angle. Well, he was, really, but never got the credit for it." Moreover, Jones' first #1 country hit, " White Lightning ", was written by J.P. Richardson , better known as rockabilly star the Big Bopper , and also had a rock and roll edge. Nick Tosches Nicholas P. Tosches ( / ˈ t ɑː ʃ ə s / ; October 23, 1949 – October 20, 2019)
135-671: The episode " Disappearing Manhattan ", in which he and Bourdain shared a drink at Sophie's in the East Village, a Manhattan dive bar , and discussed the changing nature of the city. Tosches died on October 20, 2019, at his home in Manhattan, three days before his 70th birthday. Actor Johnny Depp has stated in several interviews in the past that to be a passionate fan of the author. "I always feel really lucky after I’ve read one of Tosches’s books because it’s like you’ve had this experience with him. And it’s funny because hanging out with him
150-608: The soul/rock band Hall & Oates and the racketeer Arnold Rothstein . Tosches worked as a contributing editor of Vanity Fair magazine. His work was also published in Esquire and Open City . He published five novels, Cut Numbers (1988), Trinities (1994), In the Hand of Dante (2002), Me and the Devil (2012), and Under Tiberius (2015); and a collection of poetry, Chaldea and I Dig Girls (1999). He also worked on Never Trust
165-559: The years, when I've encountered those records, I've used them for Frisbees." However, some critics disagree, with Nick Tosches noting in his 1994 Texas Monthly article "The Devil in George Jones", "Though Jones would never acknowledge it, the rockabilly impulse of the early fifties had affected his sound as much as the lingering voices of Acuff and Williams. 'Play It Cool, Man, Play It Cool,' recorded by Jones in 1954, several months before Elvis's debut, had bordered on pure rockabilly..." In
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#1733085825364180-637: Was also reviews editor for Country Music magazine . He has been described as "the best example of a good rock journalist who set out to transcend his genre and succeeded," and as someone who "along with Lester Bangs , Richard Meltzer and a handful of other noble notables from the era... elevated rock writing to a new plateau." He was fired by Rolling Stone for collaborating with Meltzer in filing record reviews under each other's byline . Tosches' first book, Country: The Biggest Music in America (later retitled Country: The Twisted Roots of Rock and Roll ),
195-645: Was an American journalist , novelist , biographer , and poet . His 1982 biography of Jerry Lee Lewis , Hellfire , was praised by Rolling Stone magazine as "the best rock and roll biography ever written." Tosches was born in Newark, New Jersey , on October 23, 1949. His grandfather emigrated from Italy to New York City in the late 19th century. His grandparents were Arbëreshë from Casalvecchio di Puglia in Apulia . According to his own account, Tosches "barely finished high school". He did not attend college but
210-517: Was first published in 1977. It was followed in 1982 by Hellfire , a biography of Jerry Lee Lewis , and in 1984 by Unsung Heroes of Rock 'n' Roll: The Birth of Rock in the Wild Years Before Elvis . He subsequently wrote biographies of the singer and entertainer Dean Martin , the Sicilian financier Michele Sindona , the heavyweight boxer Sonny Liston , the country singer Emmett Miller ,
225-809: Was published for the first time in Fusion magazine at 19 years old. He also held a variety of jobs, including working as a porter for his family's business in New Jersey, as a paste-up artist for the Lovable underwear company in New York City , and later, in the early 1970s, as a snake hunter for the Miami Serpentarium , in Florida. A fan of early rock and roll and "oddball" records, he wrote for several rock music magazines, including Creem and Rolling Stone . He
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