Jimmy Cavallo & The Houserockers - Rock, Rock, Rock: Then and Now (2006)

R&B pioneer JIMMY CAVALLO has been on the music scene since 1947..
Jimmy Recorded the first Rock & Roll record “Rock the Joint” in 1951 one year before Bill Haley and He was the first white rocker to play the Apollo Theater in 1956, six months before Buddy Holly. Jimmy appeared at Allen Freed’s legendary Brooklyn Paramount shows, wrote and sang the title song and appeared in the Allen Freed cult movie classic “Rock, Rock, Rock!!”

Jimmy is an international known recording artist who has performed in such places as New York City, Las Vegas, Atlantic City, Miami, Montreal, Thailand, Tokyo, England and Italy.

Jimmy Cavallo has shared the stage with many famous names in entertainment such as Sammy Davis Jr., Nat “King”Cole, Ray Charles, Smokey Robinson, Bobby Darin, Connie Francis, Bobby Rydell, Tuesday Weld, Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, Big Joe Turner, Chubby Checker, Bill Haley & the Comets Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers and Jerry Lee Lewis to name a few.

Recently Jimmy has appeared numerous times before tens of thousands of adoring fans at Rock & Roll revival festivals throughout the U.S.A. and in England and Italy.

The saxophone has been at the heart of JUMP BLUES and R&B for over six decades - artists like Illinois Jacquet, whose wild solo on Lionel Hampton’s 1942 hit ‘Flying Home’, and the unfettered flamboyance of artists like Big Jay McNeely, Joe Houston and Wild Bill Moore inspiring a revolution that was to explode, in the 50s, onto young white audiences as rock’n’roll, led by legendary bands like Bill Haley & The Comets and Jimmy Cavallo & The Houserockers.

Jimmy Cavallo was born in 1927 and, inspired by Roy Brown, Wynonie Harris and Paul “Hucklebuck” Williams, in 1949 he formed his own quintet, which took Central New York by storm. Recordings followed for BSD Records (‘I Got Eyes For You’ and ‘Rock This Joint’) and Coral Records – and in 1956 his became the first white R&B Band to appear at the famed Apollo Theatre, culminating in his appearance singing the title track in Alan Freed’s ground-breaking movie ‘Rock, Rock, Rock’. Since then Jimmy has worked continuously recording for labels like Darcy and Romar Records – backing Nat King Cole, Bobby Darin, Sammy Davis Jr and Jayne Mansfield, and sharing the stage with the likes of Jimi Hendrix, Joe Dee & The Starliters, Connie Frances, The Fifth Dimension and the Turtles and more.