In need of more music help
I'm doing a rockabilly show in early September. I'm continuing my classic twist and doing a glove-and-gown routine with some high-energy fringe. I have an amazing gown that I thought was going to be this big scary feat to make fit until _firepixie_ did it for me in about 10 minutes. I've owned the gown for years (I got it at a clothing exchange because it didn't fit anyone but it was closer to fitting me than anyone else), and I'm very excited to finally put it to use.
I want the routine to be a two-song set, starting with a darkly sultry femme fatale-esque jazz piece and going to a high energy rockabilly shimmy and shaking.
The complication is that I don't know this genre of music at all! I used Google to get a list of 50s era jazz and rockabilly musicians as well as some modern rockabilly musicians, but I don't know how to narrow things down beyond that. Can anyone help with suggestions?
ETA: You people are just no help at all. :) Fortunately, Google has helped me figure out that what I want is a piece by Link Wray and his Ray Man that is not "Rumble" for the first part. I'm about settled on "Rumble Mambo" (similarity of names is a coincidence), but I have some more to listen to so I may change my mind.
I'm still trying to figure out the high energy part, though. Do rockabilly people hate surf rock? It would make me happy to sneak in something by Meshugganeh Beach Party or that really amazing surf band that played the Vortex regularly back in my Austin days.
I want the routine to be a two-song set, starting with a darkly sultry femme fatale-esque jazz piece and going to a high energy rockabilly shimmy and shaking.
The complication is that I don't know this genre of music at all! I used Google to get a list of 50s era jazz and rockabilly musicians as well as some modern rockabilly musicians, but I don't know how to narrow things down beyond that. Can anyone help with suggestions?
ETA: You people are just no help at all. :) Fortunately, Google has helped me figure out that what I want is a piece by Link Wray and his Ray Man that is not "Rumble" for the first part. I'm about settled on "Rumble Mambo" (similarity of names is a coincidence), but I have some more to listen to so I may change my mind.
I'm still trying to figure out the high energy part, though. Do rockabilly people hate surf rock? It would make me happy to sneak in something by Meshugganeh Beach Party or that really amazing surf band that played the Vortex regularly back in my Austin days.