Editing Rockabilly (section)

===Late 1950s and decline ===
There were thousands of musicians who recorded songs in the rockabilly style, and many record companies released rockabilly records.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://rcs-discography.com/rcs/index.htm|title=RCS front page|publisher=Rcs-discography.com|access-date=May 22, 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100312074642/http://rcs-discography.com/rcs/index.htm|archive-date=March 12, 2010}}</ref> Some enjoyed major chart success and were important influences on future rock musicians.

Sun also hosted performers, such as [[Billy Lee Riley]], [[Sonny Burgess]], [[Charlie Feathers]], and [[Warren Smith (singer)|Warren Smith]]. There were also several female performers like Wanda Jackson who recorded rockabilly music long after the other ladies, Janis Martin, the female Elvis [[Jo Ann Campbell]], and [[Alis Lesley]], who also sang in the rockabilly style. Mel Kimbrough -"Slim", recorded "I Get Lonesome Too"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://rcs-discography.com/rcs/artists/k/kimb5000.htm|title=RCS - Mel Kimbrough page|publisher=Rcs-discography.com|access-date=May 22, 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100310195903/http://rcs-discography.com/rcs/artists/k/kimb5000.htm|archive-date=March 10, 2010}}</ref> and "Ha Ha, Hey Hey" for Glenn Records along with "Love in West Virginia" and "Country Rock Sound" for Checkmate a division of Caprice Records.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.seabear.se/Check-Mate.html|title=Check-Mate|website=Seabear.se|access-date=August 22, 2015}}</ref>

[[Gene Summers]], a Dallas native and [[Rockabilly Hall of Fame]] inductee, released his classic Jan/Jane 45s in 1958–59. He continued to record rockabilly music well into 1964 with the release of "Alabama Shake".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://rcs-discography.com/rcs/artists/s/summ1000.htm|title=RCS - Gene Summers page|publisher=Rcs-discography.com|access-date=May 22, 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120629234000/http://rcs-discography.com/rcs/artists/s/summ1000.htm|archive-date=June 29, 2012}}</ref> In 2005, Summers's most popular recording, ''[[School of Rock 'n Roll]]'', was selected by Bob Solly and [[Record Collector]] Magazine as one of the "100 Greatest Rock 'n' Roll Records".<ref>Solly, Bob. (2005). ''100 Greatest Rock 'n' Roll Records''. Diamond Publishing Company LTD, UK. {{ISSN|1746-8051}}-02. UPC 9-771746805006.</ref>

Tommy "[[Sleepy LaBeef]]" LaBeff recorded rockabilly tunes on a number of labels from 1957 through 1963.<ref name="variety">{{Cite web|last=Willman|first=Chris|date=December 26, 2019|title=Sleepy LaBeef, Enduring Rockabilly Cult Hero, Dies at 84|url=https://variety.com/2019/music/news/sleepy-labeef-dead-dies-rockabilly-singer-1203452304/|access-date=December 27, 2019|website=Variety}}</ref> Rockabilly pioneers the Maddox Brothers and Rose continued to record for decades.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://rcs-discography.com/rcs/artists/m/madd6200.htm|title=RCS - Maddox Brothers page|publisher=Rcs-discography.com|access-date=May 22, 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120719051433/http://rcs-discography.com/rcs/artists/m/madd6200.htm|archive-date=July 19, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://rcs-discography.com/rcs/artists/m/madd4900.htm|title=RCS - Rose Maddox page|publisher=Rcs-discography.com|access-date=May 22, 2014}}{{dead link|date=April 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> However, none of these artists had any major hits and their influence would not be felt until decades later.<ref>Morrison, Craig. ''Go Cat Go!: Rockabilly Music and its Makers''. (1996). Illinois. University of Illinois Press. {{ISBN|0-252-06538-7}}</ref>

In the summer of 1958 [[Eddie Cochran]] had a chart-topping hit with "[[Summertime Blues]]". Cochran's brief career included only a few more hits, such as "Sitting in the Balcony" released in early 1957, "[[C'mon Everybody]]" released in October 1958, and "[[Somethin' Else (Eddie Cochran song)|Somethin' Else]]" released in July 1959. Then in April 1960, while touring with Gene Vincent in the UK, their taxi crashed into a concrete lamp post, killing Eddie at the young age of 21. The grim coincidence in this all was that his posthumous UK number-one hit was called "[[Three Steps to Heaven (song)|Three Steps to Heaven]]".

Rockabilly music enjoyed great popularity in the United States during 1956 and 1957, but radio play declined after 1960. Factors contributing to this decline are usually cited as the 1959 death of [[Buddy Holly]] in an airplane crash (along with [[Ritchie Valens]] and [[the Big Bopper]]), the induction of Elvis Presley into the [[United States Army|army]] in 1958, and a general change in American musical tastes. The style remained popular longer in England, where it attracted a fanatical following right up through the mid-1960s.

Rockabilly music cultivated an attitude that assured its enduring appeal to teenagers. This was a combination of rebellion, sexuality, and freedom—a sneering expression of disdain for the workaday world of parents and authority figures. It was the first rock 'n' roll style to be performed primarily by white musicians, thus setting off a cultural revolution that is still reverberating today.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Rockabilly|url=http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=77:187|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071012181526/http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=77:187|archive-date=October 12, 2007|website=[[AllMusic]]}}</ref><ref>''Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll Music'' by Greil Marcus 1982 E.P. Dutton pp. 154–156, 169</ref> "Rockabilly" deviance from social norms, however, was more symbolic than real; and eventual public professions of faith by aging rockabillies were not uncommon.<ref>''Don't Get Above Your Raisin'', p. 79, Bill C. Malone, 2002, [[University of Illinois Press]], {{ISBN|0-252-02678-0}}</ref>