Rosco Gordon

Rosco Gordon

Rosco Gordon

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Top Songs

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Shoobie Oobie
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Cheese & Crackers
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Goin' Home
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No More Doggin
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Just My Memories Of You

Albums

  • Sun Records Originals: Just Love Me Baby

    Mar 2023 • 21 songs

  • The Rosco Rhythm

    Jun 2018 • 20 songs

  • Rosco Gordon's What You Do To Me

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Rosco Gordon

Biography

Rosco Gordon was best known for being one of the progenitors of a slightly shambolic, loping style of piano shuffle called "Rosco's Rhythm." The basic elements of this sound were further developed after Jamaican musicians got a hold of 45s Gordon recorded in the early '50s -- which were not available to Jamaicans until 1959 -- and created ska, which took its name for the sound of this particular shuffle as it sounded being played on an electric guitar (ska-ska-ska). No less an authority than Chris Blackwell -- he was the founder/president of Island Records who produced Bob Ma...
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