Credit to @thelegendsofmusic Link Ray performing “Rumble” Live on the 19th of November, 1974 at the Winterland in San Francisco, California
In early 1958, Link Wray & His Ray Men were performing at a live event in Fredericksburg, Virginia. In an attempt to work up a musical arrangement for “The Stroll” by The Diamonds, the group accidentally came up with the instrumental “Rumble”, which they originally called “Oddball”. That night the instrumental was an instant hit with audience and the song was performing every night since then. The host of Sock Hop, Milt Grant personally paid for the song to be formally recorded and released as a single with the intention that he would receive a songwriting credit in return. Over time the instrumental came to the attention of record producer Archie Bleyer of Cadence Records, who hated it, particularly after Wray poked a pencil through the speaker cone of his amplifier to make the recording sound more like the live version. However, when Bleyer’s stepdaughter loved it, so he released it. However, there’s a conflict as to who came up with the title “Rumble”. Some version of accounts credit Archie with coming up the title and some credit Phil Everly of the Everly Brothers as the one to come up the title. Upon release the original single was banned in several US radio markets, but climbed to number 16 on the pop charts and number 11 on the R&B chart in the summer of 1958.
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