Fourteen Unsung Pioneers of Early Rock and Roll Who Didn't Get Their Due (ePub)

Early rock and roll has a rich fascinating history primarily because of the music successes of the earliest superstars, such as Bill Haley, Fats Domino, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, Dwaine Eddy, the Fireballs, the Ventures and Dick Dale to name a few. But there are more, many, many more pioneers of the early rock-and-roll period who helped shape this new genre's historic roots with their music offerings as well, but they've sadly remained in the background for a number of reasons, which is the focus of this book.


Dick Stewart was born and grew up in the northwest quadrant of Albuquerque on July 22, 1940. Known as Los Griegos, many of his compadres were Hispanic and spoke both English and Spanish. So did Dick.


When Dick was a preteen, he wrote his first manuscript and called it the History of the Crow and Coon Empire in which he summarized all the exploring and constructive activities in the surrounding fields of his neighborhood boys' club. He was their appointed scribe, and it was imperative that they knew exactly where their forts, trails, ponds, and acequias (irrigation ditches) were and where their successful clod-throwing battles took place that kept the boys from the nearby neighborhoods out.


Dick was bitten by the rock-and-roll bug in 1954 when he was a freshman at Valley High School, but he wanted to do more than just listen and dance to its infectious beat. He wanted to be a contributor.


In 1961, Dick formed a band in Albuquerque called the Knights (a.k.a. King Richard and the Knights). Two years later, he composed and released a guitar-rock instrumental, his wife Judi named "Precision." It turned heads regionally, but the Beatles arrival on the East Coast in 1964 was one of the principal reasons that kept the instrumental from going nationally. The other was Dot Records' broken promise.


As a result of the setback, Dick formed Lance Records in 1965 and a year later, began

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