Comments on: Eff You, Beatles: Or Why You Need To Know About “Rockin’ Rochester USA”

By: Americano

Americano — Fri, 21 Nov 2014 00:05:00 +0000

So, would you say EFF you Buddy Holly, too? Phil Spector? Arthur Alexander? The Drifters?

Yeah, of course the Beatles were trying to be as good as Goffin/King and obviously influenced by the Brill Building, just like the majority of the USA in the early 60s. That whole “the British Invasion destroyed American Music” is just wrong. Those British bands were all recording American songs written on1650 Broadway. Dylan was the one who changed everything…

By: drk@dynamicrecording.com

drk@dynamicrecording.com — Thu, 20 Nov 2014 16:03:00 +0000

Tim,

WOW. You have writing exactly how I felt in 1960

when we wrote Rockin’ Rochester USA.

Thank you for a great article.

Dave Casperson – 1960

Dave Kaspersin – Today.

http://www.dynamicrecording.com/tempests

By: Tim Bummer

Tim Bummer — Thu, 20 Nov 2014 02:45:00 +0000

WRONG – The entire American century had been leading to a sound like this, the sound of “Rockin’ Rochester USA,”

and WRONG-ER – This amazing American music would be the bone buried by the dog of the British invasion.

Maybe you might have heard Rockin Rochester sooner if you hadn’t been busy listening to hootie all these years. Rockin Rochester – FOUR YEARS before the Beatles charted, and four years in early 60s pop music is a lifetime. So in your theory if the beatles never showed up the Sonics would have topped the charts. WRONG. Please go away. Hope you didn’t get paid to write this.