"House was the 1950s all over again"

[koganbot]

My friend Michael Freedberg has resumed posting on livejournal under the moniker house_junkie; over the years he's written the freshest, most original ideas ever on the subject of dance music. Here is a startling quote: "House was the 1950s all over again -- though with later rhythm music embedded, and all of it futurized, computered, i-podded, mp3'd. Whatever -- house made me relive, re-taste, re-embed myself in the 1950s."

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Jackie Brenston "Rocket 88"

[koganbot]

"We lost Ike Turner - go listen to his 'Rocket 88,' tell me that isn't house music"

(Of course some wag is going to say, "No, that's schaffel.")

The date on "Rocket 88" is March 1951, the place Memphis, the studio Sam Phillips'.