Preview

John Lee Hooker's Song 'Boom'

Satisfactory Essays
Open Document
Open Document
245 Words
Grammar
Grammar
Plagiarism
Plagiarism
Writing
Writing
Score
Score
John Lee Hooker's Song 'Boom'
"Boom Boom" is a blues song written by John Lee Hooker and recorded in 1961. The song was a hit in the US in 1962 and in the UK 1992. "Boom Boom" has been recorded by numerous blues and other artists, including a 1965 Pop hit by The Animals. John Lee Hooker's "Boom Boom" has been acknowledged by the Blues Foundation Hall of Fame and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

"Boom Boom" is an uptempo stop-time blues song that does not follow a typical twelve-bar blues pattern. "Hooker's sense of timing was his and his alone, demanding big-eared sidemen".[2] Backing John Lee Hooker (vocal and guitar) are members of the Funk Brothers (Joe Hunter (piano), James Jamerson (bass), and Benny Benjamin (drums)); plus Larry Veeder (guitar), Hank Cosby (tenor
Continue Reading
View Writing Issues

You May Also Find These Documents Helpful

  • Satisfactory Essays

    Mitch Sawyer's Kill The Quarterback
    • 246 Words
    • 1 Page

    Mitch Sawyer's Kill The Quarterback

    When a star quarterback is killed before his senior year, hardboiled reporter Mitch Sawyer must battle personal and professional demons in order to track down a killer before he strikes again.…

    • 246 Words
    • 1 Page
    Satisfactory Essays
    Read More
  • Good Essays

    Homer Hickam And The Rocket Boys
    • 245 Words
    • 1 Page

    Homer Hickam And The Rocket Boys

    In the movie, Homer Hickam and his Rocket boys’ worked together to achieve great things.They all used the habit #6, Synergize to do this. For example,Homer worked with “Miss Riley” to get a better understanding of rocket science and the math that is put into it. Miss Riley helped the boys get into the science fair as well, so the boys dedicated a rocket to her. If it weren’t for Miss Riley the boys probably wouldn’t have gotten so far with the rocket science as to winning the science fair.…

    • 245 Words
    • 1 Page
    Good Essays
    Read More
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Rodman Philbrick's Freak The Mighty
    • 269 Words
    • 2 Pages

    Rodman Philbrick's Freak The Mighty

    In Freak The Mighty by Rodman Philbrick, Maxwell’s mind is his biggest enemy. Maxwell lacks confidence in himself, is dependent on others and traumatized by his past. One way Maxwell’s mind is his biggest enemy is that he lacks confidence in himself. “Getting up in the class and saying stuff is not something I do.” All of the schools he has gone through, he has been placed in LD classes, at his house he is treated as a criminal just because of his infamous father, and socially he is an outcast. With the help of Freak, he starts to develop some confidence in learning and himself, but this only hurts him in the end when Freak dies.The last way Maxwell is working against his mind is that he is dependant on others. Another way Maxwell’s mind…

    • 269 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
    Read More
  • Good Essays

    Detailed Analysis of Shake Rattle and Roll – Big Joe Turner
    • 532 Words
    • 2 Pages

    Detailed Analysis of Shake Rattle and Roll – Big Joe Turner

    This is a very bright and happy song that is full of energy. The boogie woogie piano is the driving piece in this song instrumentally. The rhythm and sway of the piano accompanied by the clapping sound of the snare drums is very upbeat and invigorating. The saxophones play very catchy riffs in the choruses of the song. The bass is so smooth and has a very soothing sound. This is a loud song that stays that way from the beginning of the song to the end. Next enters that loud but cool, yet deep and raspy voice. The voice is such a powerful presence and the shouting makes it feel like it reaches out and grabs you. The saxophone solo has a hint of jazz and big band in the sound. The pace of this song stays the same at 4 beats for each bar. “Shake Rattle and Roll” is repeated several times throughout the song. There is a very soulful call-and-response melody present in this song that just gives a feeling of excitement that moves you from head to toe. The singer’s voice is the key ingredient that guides the instruments in creating the melody in this song. The extremes of this tune aren’t too high or too low the stay at a pretty even mid-range. There are no huge dramatic changes in the song. The vocal harmony is smooth and incredible; it just makes you feel really good. The pitch of the voice is low and the instruments pitch change just a little at times but nothing to significant. The notes, like the title of the song, are repeated. The repetition of the repeated notes happen more in the background of the song and they are not long and fast. Shake Rattle and Roll has a homophonic texture. This jump blues song with the boogie woogie piano has one clear melody. This clear melody is supported by harmonies of the other instruments in the band. It has a simple-verse chorus structure. “Shake rattle and Roll” uses a 12-bar blues pattern. The 12-bar blues is composed of twelve groups that have four-beat measures.…

    • 532 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
    Read More
  • Good Essays

    Wing's Chips By Mavis Gallant
    • 821 Words
    • 4 Pages

    Wing's Chips By Mavis Gallant

    "Wing's Chips" is a short story by Mavis Gallant with a powerful message. The theme of this story is that even though many people have different backgrounds and dissimilar views on what is right and wrong, they want to be respected and accepted for who they are. "Wing's Chips" focuses on three separate cultures, who in the end, learned to respect each other in a subtle way.…

    • 821 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
    Read More
  • Good Essays

    Red, White, and Black by Gary Nash
    • 421 Words
    • 2 Pages

    Red, White, and Black by Gary Nash

    Gary Nash author of Red, White, and Black purpose to their readers is describing the early colonists, but also the relationships toward Europeans, the Indians, and the Africans. Nash successfully analyzes the impact of the colliding three cultures and interprets them to give an overall theme about the relationships between those who made America what it is today. He has shown another point of view to his reader that we grew up and was raise in a white people land; learning only the White people point of view through history. His purpose of writing Red, White & Black was to prove that Native Americans and Africans were not victims, but played as a active role to American history.…

    • 421 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
    Read More
  • Good Essays

    What Is The Role Of Jazz Musicians In The 1920's
    • 201 Words
    • 1 Page

    What Is The Role Of Jazz Musicians In The 1920's

    In the 1920’s there were many New Orleans jazz musicians that were truly great at what they done. When listening to West End Blues, by Louis Armstrong and Hit Hot Five, you see just how great these musicians were. This song was written in 1928, with the form being twelve-bar blues. At the very beginning Louis Armstrong enters with a monophonic texture, and fast tempo solo. In the third chorus Jimmy Strong, plays the main melody, after this there is one more soloists that occurs in the fourth chorus in which Earl Hines plays a highly decorative solo, fleshed out by complicated harmonic substitutions; as his solo goes on Hines becomes louder and more aggressive. The difference between “Dippermouth Blues” and “West End Blues”, is that there is…

    • 201 Words
    • 1 Page
    Good Essays
    Read More
  • Good Essays

    Louis Armstrong-Woogie Analyse
    • 131 Words
    • 1 Page

    Louis Armstrong-Woogie Analyse

    Though I do spend a great amount of time listening to Louis Armstrong’s music, the favorite piece I listened to in the readings was the Boogie-Woogie song. I really enjoyed this style of Jazz because it reminded me of a song I used to listen to when I watched Arthur as a kid. The upbeat tempo in this style music makes it very enjoyable and gives it a happier tone. The melody is repetitive enough that it is catchy, but not so much that it becomes boring. This repetitiveness also balances out the unevenness in the harmony that is played in the left hand. The sound created by the left hand, or ostinato, is the main defining characteristic of Boogie-Woogie, and what makes the song fit so well in this style.…

    • 131 Words
    • 1 Page
    Good Essays
    Read More
  • Good Essays

    Alligator Crawl By Fats Waller Analysis
    • 1391 Words
    • 6 Pages

    Alligator Crawl By Fats Waller Analysis

    Waller also collaborated with lyricists Edgar Dowell, J. C. Johnson, Andy Razaf, and Spencer Williams to produce “Honeysuckle Rose” and “Black and Blue”. Through this collaboration, he started his string collaboration relationship with Andy Razaf.…

    • 1391 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Good Essays
    Read More
  • Good Essays

    "Catch Me if You Can" by Frank W.
    • 549 Words
    • 2 Pages

    "Catch Me if You Can" by Frank W.

    Catch Me if You Can by Frank W. Abagnale is the true story of Frank Abagnale himself, as a real fake. Throughout the book, Abagnale uses several different rhetorical devices, such as foreshadowing, irony, point of view, and importance of title; and raises certain social issues.…

    • 549 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
    Read More
  • Good Essays

    John Carrol "My Boy Life"
    • 1190 Words
    • 5 Pages

    John Carrol "My Boy Life"

    After reading the short story “My Boy Life” which is the memoir of John Carroll, I was from time to time envious of Carroll’s life but also relieved that I was not born in the 1800’s. Born just before the war of 1812 in Upper Canada, Carroll’s life was very simple. His prospective future occupations only consisted of a few and were predetermined from birth. How simple is life when everything is already set in stone? From the age of twelve to seventeen, Carroll worked at a tannery and as a currier. Carroll’s job was associated with his father’s work, his father being a saddler and harness-maker. Only grinding the bark in the tannery, Carroll’s life was consistent and did not require much effort of having to plan out his future. Sadly, much has changed and the current world does not allow me to walk a single, straight-forward path. With so many choices to be made, the world is more complex and much harder to survive in. I spend hours thinking of my future and what I want to be to no avail. To have our futures determined for us sometimes feels much better than having to choose between thousands of different paths we are able to take. Carroll is also not weighed down by expectations to complete schoolwork. In the century that Carroll lived in, education was not held in the highest regard. Children usually helped out with menial work in their house or assisted their father with errands having to do with the trade. This was because living through each and every day was much more troublesome and all the help was needed to keep food on their tables. On the contrary, I struggle with the sheer amount of homework and tests. It also adds to the tension when competing against all my peers for a better mark, which ultimately results in a better occupation. Even in high school, the competition is fierce, increasing every day. Even the most basic jobs are hard to get as jobs are few and there are many over-qualified people who are unemployed. Unlike during Carroll’s life, people…

    • 1190 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
    Read More
  • Better Essays

    Cab Calloway
    • 1259 Words
    • 6 Pages

    Cab Calloway

    Cab grew up in Baltimore, and attended law school there briefly, before hit quit school and set off to try and make it as a singer and dancer. As a young man Cab was following his father's footsteps in becoming a lawyer, going to law school and studying law. Cab wanted to be an entertainer even though his family discouraged him. They thought that it would be more appropriate for him to become a lawyer like his dad. Although, at the time that he was going to law school, his sister, Blanche Calloway, was a popular singer and was producing and singing a few fine records before retiring in the mid 1930's (Yanow). Well, his sister Blanche who was a prominent singer of the time convinced Cab to put more of an effort into his entertainment career. So while Cab was attending law school in Chicago, he also moonlighted at local nightclubs as a performer. While performing in Chicago he met the famous trumpeter and singer Louis Armstrong, who taught him to scat. According to the Schoumbrg Center for Research in black Culture scat singing in music is "a jazz vocal style using emotive, onomatopoeic, and nonsense syllables instead of words in solo improvisations on a melody". Scat has dim antecedents…

    • 1259 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Better Essays
    Read More
  • Better Essays

    Ram Jam Song Black Betty
    • 1182 Words
    • 5 Pages

    Ram Jam Song Black Betty

    In 1939 the Musicraft Recording Label released a record which included the track, “Black Betty” by William Huddie Leadbetter better known as “Lead Belly.” “Black Betty” had been said to be originated as far back as the 18th century or the early 1930’s. Lead Belly was the first one to ever commercially record it however, giving him most of the credit for the song. Lead Belly was an iconic American folk and blues musician, notable for his strong vocals, twelve-string guitar, and the songbook of folk standards he introduced. It was recorded acapella with just Lead Belly singing and clapping on the 4th beat in the 12 bar blues style song. The form is kind of AABCDEAA, where each verse begins and ends with…

    • 1182 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Better Essays
    Read More
  • Good Essays

    Billy Budd - Conflict
    • 672 Words
    • 2 Pages

    Billy Budd - Conflict

    Conflict is a truly prominent feature existing throughout Herman Melville's novella, "Billy Budd." Although the major conflict exists between Billy Budd and John Claggart, there are several internal conflicts found within certain characters. One of the most prominent internal conflicts is John Claggart's.…

    • 672 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
    Read More
  • Satisfactory Essays

    The Metaphor-Miss Hancock
    • 275 Words
    • 2 Pages

    The Metaphor-Miss Hancock

    In the story “The Metaphor” By Budge Wilson, Miss Hancock can be described as overenthusiastic, eccentricity, liveliness and wacky. Miss Hancock is unmarried and a very beautiful women that is a wacky but a fun teacher. From the story when Miss Hancock hears Charlotte’s very descriptive and interesting metaphor about her mother and notice that she might have a problem with her mom. She asks Charlotte whether there is anything that she would like to talk about such as her mom which was very passionate and caring of her. Also she is very imaginative and creative. An example from the story, when they learn about the metaphor she makes them wrote metaphors about their family members and things in classroom. She makes them wrote them all on the board. Miss Hancock is overenthusiastic and passionate about her work; she can turn the simplest things into a very interesting thing to learn about. An example would be when charlotte is talking to her mom at the dinner about how great Miss Hancock is and her mom said she is brassy and too enthusiastic. Also she claps emphasizes word. When Miss Hancock came to teach at the high school, she was filled with eccentricity and liveliness. Her enthusiasm into disappointment as the students makes fun of her. She felt upset by the way she was perceived by her student, so she was negatively impacted because of the way they saw her. At last unfortunately Miss Hancock gets hit by a bus and dies. As you can see Miss Hancock was a great teacher and should be remembered as…

    • 275 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
    Read More

Related Topics