Still haven't listened to it, but the Wikipedia page for "Corrine, Corrina" actually doesn't mention the Big Joe Turner version at all. Apparently it's not one of the more notable recordings of it.

Still haven't listened to it, but the Wikipedia page for "Corrine, Corrina" actually doesn't mention the Big Joe Turner version at all. Apparently it's not one of the more notable recordings of it. Says a lot about the Bob Wills version, though.

Yes, or at least, not very much. They were revered by many later artists, but weren't well enough known to make much of an impact among their contemporaries.

Can people please stop using Wikipedia as a reference source? You'd all honestly be much better off saying "My dentist tells me that so and so was a big rock artist back in 1923..." or "According to the fortune cookie I opened last night, such and such is not a rock song".

Is there then a place in the criteria for peer recognition that occurs late?

Naah. It's pretty good as long as you check the footnotes.

Besides, since Big Joe Turner is unquestionably a rock artist and since Wikipedia claims otherwise, they're factually wrong, footnotes or not.

Yet by using them as a source to claim Turner is not qualified for a Top 100 spot means you're essentially giving credence to someone else's entirely subjective (and inaccurate) "opinion" of what constitutes rock 'n' roll music. That's hardly something that should be encouraged around here considering how long it's taken for people to actually view rock from an historically correct perspective.

Can people please stop using Wikipedia as a reference source? You'd all honestly be much better off saying "My dentist tells me that so and so was a big rock artist back in 1923..." or "According to the fortune cookie I opened last night, such and such is not a rock song".

And in influence, I don't think Elvis and the Beatles are #1 and #2. They're both extremely strong, and possibly both top 5. But I think James Brown is #1 and Chuck Berry is #2 in influence.

Pretty interesting, Eric. I would like to see your perspective as to why.

as if Rock and Roll didn`t have a dark and dangerous bad boy image before the Rolling Stones arrived on the music scene, Rock and Roll`s image was entirely that before the Beatles arrived as the first boy band of note that had a safe clean image so appealing to young teenage girls without scaring their parents ..... as opposed to popular live acts of the time like long green haired rock and roller Screaming Lord Sutch and his Savages which also included proto Alice Cooper stage make up and props

If other people want to present their arguments in that way, that's fine, but for me it would be hard to translate performance in criteria into numbers.