{"id":20116,"date":"2015-03-27T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-27T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/?p=20116"},"modified":"2026-07-22T11:03:46","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T18:03:46","slug":"cover-me-good-rockin-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2015\/03\/27\/cover-me-good-rockin-tonight\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Rockin&#8217; Tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you heard the news? It sounds like the future.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Good Rockin&#8217; Tonight&#8221; may or may not be the original rock and roll song. (If I&#8217;ve learned anything from Andrew Hickey&#8217;s excellent <em>A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs<\/em> podcast&#8211;and I&#8217;ve learned a <em>lot&#8211;<\/em>it&#8217;s a fool&#8217;s endeavor to try to pinpoint a single origin for rock and roll.)<\/p>\n<p>But we can at least say this: if Roy Brown&#8217;s 1947 recording of &#8220;Good Rockin&#8217; Tonight&#8221; isn&#8217;t the big bang of rock music, then it at least announced rock&#8217;s arrival with one of the greatest opening lines in history.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"758\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cgdzS4OSQ1M?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>Brown&#8217;s recording of &#8220;Good Rockin&#8217; Tonight&#8221; was a hit, peaking at #13 on the Billboard R&amp;B chart.<\/p>\n<p>But Wynonie Harris&#8217; cover&#8211;released the following year&#8211;added the all-important backbeat and made it all the way to #1, refusing to leave the chart for six months. (Harris actually turned down an option to be the first to record and release &#8220;Good Rockin&#8217; Tonight&#8221; when Brown, a fan of Harris, approached him first with the opportunity.)<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"758\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SllhnR7D8LA?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Good Rockin&#8217; Tonight&#8221; also helped announce Elvis Presley&#8217;s arrival onto the rock and roll scene when it became his sophomore single in 1954. Elvis freshened the song, dropping its dated namechecks and adding a Scotty Moore guitar solo.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"758\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6FeWJHUB8aU?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>It was undoubtedly Elvis&#8217; cover that made a lasting impression on Bruce Springsteen. When Bruce covered the song throughout his 1978 Darkness on the Edge of Town Tour, we can clearly hear (and see, in this remarkably clear bootleg video) Bruce imitate the King&#8217;s vocal stylings on phrases like &#8220;mighty, mighty man,&#8221; and the overall arrangement hews pretty closely to the Elvis version (but at a Harris tempo).<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"758\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mwoXacB6pH4?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Good Rockin&#8217; Tonight&#8221; made a few follow-up appearances on the River Tour, but then it vanished from Bruce&#8217;s set list for more than a quarter-century. It finally reappeared for a one-off late on the Magic Tour and has made two follow-up appearances since.<\/p>\n<p>In its last appearance (to date) on a Springsteen set list, Bruce brought &#8220;Good Rockin&#8217; Tonight&#8221; almost full circle, taking full advantage of the E Street Band&#8217;s expanded horn section for an arrangement similar to the Harris version that first made the song a monster hit.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"758\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aKqGDgXMFjM?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s been 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