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	Rocket 88
		Brenston (1930-1979) was a saxophonist with Turner and also sang the vocal on "Rocket 88", a hymn of praise to the joys of the Oldsmobile Rocket 88 automobile, which had just been introduced in 1949.
		Brenston also was given author credit not Turner; it is now agreed that Brenston's contribution was overstated for obscure, non-musical reasons.
		Brenston left Turner's band after the record's success and released several more singles between 1951 and 1953, but they were slavish copies of the original and had little success.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ja/Jackie_Brenston_&_His_Delta_Cats.html (355 words)

	Jackie Brenston and Ike Turner, Delta Rhythm Kings
		Jackie Brenston was born on August 15, 1930, in Clarksdale, Mississippi, the delta town where Highway 49 meets Highway 61.
		It was Jackie Brenston's song, but he had derived it from a song in the band's repertoire - "Cadillac Boogie," which Jimmy Liggins had cut for Specialty in 1947.
		One of Brenston's most spirited couplets in "Rocket '88" had been near the song's closing: "Goin' round the corner and get a fifth," he had sung; "Everybody in my car's gonna take a little nip." He no longer had the car, so to speak, but he was still going round the corner for fifths.
	www.rockabilly.nl /artists/brenstonturner.htm (1522 words)

	Rocket 88 by Ike Turner Songfacts
		Jackie Brenston, who was a member of Ike Turner's Rhythm Kings, sang lead.
		The single was credited to "Jackie Brenston and His Delta Cats" because Phillips wanted to release a different record credited to Turner.
		Brenston (1930-1979) was a saxophonist with Turner and also sang the vocal on "Rocket 88", a hymn of praise to the joys of the Oldsmobile Rocket 88 automobile (see: Oldsmobile 88), which had just been introduced in 1949.
	www.songfacts.com /detail.php?id=432 (762 words)

	Jackie Brenston - Music Downloads - Online
		But you can't go too far wrong citing Jackie Brenston's 1951 Chess waxing of "Rocket 88," a seminal piece of rock's fascinating history with all the prerequisite elements firmly in place: practically indecipherable lyrics about cars, booze, and women; Raymond Hill's booting tenor sax, and a churning, beat-heavy rhythmic bottom.
		Billed as by Jackie Brenston & His Delta Cats, "Rocket 88" drove up to the top slot on the R&B charts and remained there for more than a month.
		After a final single for Mel London's Mel-Lon imprint, Brenston was through; he worked as a truck driver and showed little interest in reliving his glory years.
	musicstore.connect.com /artist/260/Jackie-Brenston/1018433.html (217 words)

	Jackie Brenston - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Returning to Clarksdale from army service in 1947, Brenston learned to play the tenor saxophone, linking up with Ike Turner in 1950 as sax player and occasional singer in his band.
		Phillips passed the recordings on to Chess Records in Chicago, who released "Rocket 88" as by "Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats", rather than under Turner’s name.
		After one further recording session, Brenston and Turner parted company, and Brenston went on to perform in Lowell Fulson’s band for two years.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jackie_Brenston_and_his_Delta_Cats (338 words)

	Rocket 88 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The original version of the record was credited to "Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats", but that band did not actually exist.
		The song was written by Ike Turner at the Riverside Hotel in Clarksdale, Mississippi - though apparently based on the 1947 song "Cadillac Boogie" by Jimmy Liggins - and recorded by him with his band, the Kings of Rhythm.
		Haley's recording was a regional hit in the northeast United States, and started Haley along the musical road which led to his own impact on popular music with "Rock Around the Clock" in 1954.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rocket_88 (622 words)

	WPON Insane World Of Mike Sain - Auto Show 01-18-06
		Rocket "88" is credited to Jackie Brenston and His Delta Kings who were actually the Kings of Rhythm, a group founded by Ike Turner in the late 1940s.
		The song was released as being by Jackie Brenston and His Delta Cats rather than Ike Turner and His Kings of Rhythm.
		The song's authorship is still somewhat unresolved as Jackie Brenston was the one who got the credit at the time but Ike Turner is today believed by many to be the true author.
	www.allbutforgottenoldies.net /wpon/01-18-06.html (1446 words)

	BRENSTON Jackie : MusicWeb Encyclopaedia of Popular Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Singer, songwriter, saxophonist; one-hit wonder whose hit was often hailed as first true rock'n'roll record.
		Brenston fronted band on tour but faded when he parted with them.
		The song had been sold to Phillips for about $900; country bandleader Bill Haley switched styles to cover it on the Holiday label, launching a new career.
	www.musicweb-international.com /encyclopaedia/b/B378.HTM (70 words)

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		The name of arguably, if not a serious contender for, the title of first rock and roll record, written by Mississippians (Clarksdale) James Cotton and Ike Turner and recorded by Clarksdale's Jackie Brenston.
		Backed by Ike Turner's Delta Cats, Rocket 88 was produced by Sam Phillips at Sun Studio in Memphis and then sold to Chess Records in 1951; it became a number 1 hit billed as
		Jackie Brenston came out with the song first, but me and Ike really wrote it."
	users.cjb.net /rocket88/links.htm (168 words)

	Jackie Brenston
		It is claimed by Sam Phillips - owner of Sun Records, and pioneer rock and roll record producer - to be the "first rock and roll song".
		Brenston (1930-1979) was a saxophonist with Turner who also sang the vocal on "Rocket 88", a hymn of praise to the joys of the Oldsmobile "Rocket 88" automobile (see: Oldsmobile 88), which had just been introduced in 1949.
		Turner's piano introduction was copied note for note by Little Richard on his "Good Golly Miss Molly" several years after that.
	www.gamelow.com /Music-J/Jackie_Brenston.php (545 words)

	The Sun Records Label Story
		Modern Records was upset that Phillips had given Chess the first option on Brenston and Wolf recordings and after that used virtually nothing from the Memphis Recording service.
		Jackie Brenston was a saxophone player in Ike Turner's Kings of Rhythm band.
		Sam Phillips leased the song to Chess records, where it was issued under the name "Jackie Brenston and His Delta Cats." It became one of the biggest R&B hits of 1951.
	www.bsnpubs.com /sunstory.html (2289 words)

	Jackie Brenston and His Delta Cats – Music at Last.fm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
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		Jackie Brenston and His Delta Cats - Rocket "88"
	www.last.fm /music/Jackie+Brenston+and+His+Delta+Cats (200 words)

	Jackie Brenston & His Delta Cats - Rocket 88 / The Hype Machine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Jackie Brenston & His Delta Cats - Rocket 88 / The Hype Machine
		Jackie Brenston & His Delta Cats - Rocket 88
		This page provides information about the track Rocket 88 by Jackie Brenston & His Delta Cats posted on the Tuwa's Shanty blog.
	hype.non-standard.net /track/74423 (126 words)

	Jackie Brenston and His Delta Cats - Rocket 88 – Music at Last.fm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Jackie Brenston and His Delta Cats - Rocket 88 – Music at Last.fm
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	www.last.fm /music/Jackie+Brenston+and+His+Delta+Cats/_/Rocket+88 (89 words)

	Jackie Brenston (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		In his teens he was also a DJ, and a talent scout for the Modern and Chess labels, and he played piano on many of those records.
		In 1951, at Sam Phillips' tiny recording studio in Memphis, Ike Turner and his Kings of Rhythm recorded "Rocket 88," with Jackie Brenston on sax and vocals, but Phillips shipped the tape to Chess Records in Chicago as having been performed by "Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats," and Chess released it as such.
		Songwriting credit on the record also went to Brenston, though Turner wrote it.
	www.hoyhoy.com /brenston.htm (705 words)

	Willie Kizart - AOL Music
		Billed as by Jackie Brenston and His Delta Cats, "Rocket 88" drove up to the...
		For "Rocket 88," for instance, guitarist Willie Kizart arrived with an amp that had been damaged when it fell off the top of the car on the way to the...
		Jackie Brenston (vocal, baritone sax); Raymond Hill (tenor sax); Ike Turner (piano); Willie Kizart (guitar); Jesse Knight (bass); Willie Sims (drums)...
	music.aol.com /artist/willie-kizart/145734/main (124 words)

	Bad Dog Blues Radio
		In 1951 he cut "Rocket 88" by Jackie Brenston backed by Ike Turner's Kings of Rhythm, a record often cited as the first rock 'n' roll record.
		Phillips leased the song to Chess records, where it was issued under the name "Jackie Brenston and His Delta Cats." It became one of the biggest RandB hits of 1951.
		A local disc jockey on WDIA named Rufus Thomas had the first hit on Sun with "Bear Cat" (Sun 181) which was an answer record to Big Mama Thorton's popular RandB hit "Hound Dog".
	www.baddogblues.com /archives/8.03/special.htm (1328 words)

	Rocket 88 - AOL Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		No matter which version deserves the accolade, "Rocket 88" is seen as a...
		Phillips passed the recordings on to Chess Records in Chicago, who released "Rocket 88" as by "Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats", rather than under...
		Known for their outrageous stage show featuring upright bass, fiery piano, blazing guitar, pounding drums and...
	music.aol.com /artist/rocket-88/20224/main (114 words)

	Jackie Brenston & His Delta Cats on Msn Music
		Jackie Brenston & His Delta Cats on Msn Music
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		Play Jackie Brenston & His Delta Cats free on Rhapsody
	music.msn.com /artist/?artist=29493969 (77 words)

	Sun Records "The Sam also Rises"
		In a very few years it would produce sounds that would forever change music.
		In 1950, Phillips recorded Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats (a group led by musical genius and well-known wife beater Ike Turner) doing a tune called "Rocket 88" (penned by the then 19-year-old Turner).
		The song was released in 1951 on the Chess/Checker label out of Chicago and would later become considered by most musicologists to be the world's first Rock 'n' Roll record.
	www.loti.com /sun_records.htm (551 words)

	Marv Goldberg's R&B Notebooks - THE SLY FOX
		At some point he brought the band down to a more manageable size and renamed it the Kings Of Rhythm His big break came in mid-1951, when the band's recording of “Rocket 88” soared to number 1 on the R&B charts.
		With Jackie Brenston (possibly Ike's cousin) doing the vocal, it was released as by “Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats.”
		Finally, low pay and rigors of the nightlife led him to bequeath his tenor saxophone to C.V. and the band's sax player, Jackie Brenston.
	home.att.net /~uncamarvy/Slyfox/slyfox.html (2783 words)

	Blues Humor \| Onion Article: ''History of Rock Written by The Losers''
		Anyone who knows anything will say the first single was either Roy Brown's 'Good Rockin' Tonight' or 'Rocket 88' by Jackie Brenston And His Delta Cats."
		Added Rinkin: "Brenston And His Delta Cats was actually Ike Turner's Kings Of Rhythm under a different name, in case you didn't know."
		From covering concerts for a local newspaper to distilling rock's history into an 800-page book, the historians of rock 'n' roll soldier on, despite their negligible impact on the direction or quality of rock itself.
	www.respectperfection.com /losers.html (748 words)

	Ike Turner
		JACKIE BRENSTON and HIS DELTA CATS/IKE TURNER (feat.
		JACKIE BRENSTON WITH IKE TURNER'S KINGS OF RHYTHM (feat.
		JACKIE BRENSTEN WITH IKE TURNER'S ORCHESTRA (=Jackie Brenston with Ike Turner:gtr)
	koti.mbnet.fi /wdd/iketurner1.htm (2721 words)

	Jackie Brenston - Free Music Downloads, Videos, Lyrics, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links
		Jackie Brenston - Free Music Downloads, Videos, Lyrics, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links
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		But you can't go too far wrong citing Jackie Brenston's 1951 Chess waxing of "Rocket 88," a seminal piece of rock's fascinating history with all the prerequisite elements firmly in place: practically indecipherable lyrics about cars, booze, and women; Raymond Hill's booting tenor sax, and a churning,..
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/music/artist/bio/0,,407838,00.html (384 words)

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		Yesterday, the General Motors company announced the Olds will be no more.
		Back in 1951, R and B saxophonist Jackie Brenston sang his tribute to the Olds 88, the fastest car on the road.
		Here is Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats with Rocket 88.
	www.cbc.ca /insite/AS_IT_HAPPENS_TORONTO/2000/12/13.html (506 words)

	Rock the House (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		And even the mythical date of July 4, 1955, is no better date for the birth of rock and roll than several others I could name.
		(Yes, that Ike Turner.) The record was later released under the name of Jackie Brenston and the Delta Cats (Brenston was the member of Turner's band who sang it) and it became a major hit on the RandB charts.
		It sure sounds like what we'd consider early rock and roll--big beat, honking sax, and all about a hot car.
	webpages.charter.net /jabartlett/rockthehouse.html (418 words)

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		Red Prysock (Author), Bullmoose Jackson & His Buffalo Bearcats (Author), Wynonie Harris (Author), Roy Brown (Author), Little Johnny Jones (Author), Tiny Bradshaw (Author), Rudy Greene (Author), Jackie Brenston & His Delta Cats (Author), Big Jay McNeely & Band (Author), Ruth Brown (Author)
		In My Real Gone Rocket - Jackie Brenston & His Delta Cats 10.
	www.amazon.com /Jump-Blues-Classics-Essential-Collection/dp/B000KJNPWG (639 words)

	Rock History: Weeks 2-3
		Jackie Brenston, Saxophone Player, wrote a tune called "Rocket 88"
		Had a lighter feel than the RandB and used a Boogie Woogie Rhythm
		1st released by record by Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats
	gozips.uakron.edu /~clb22/rockhistory.htm (6181 words)

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