Hullabaloo February 2, 1965 - 07 The Bird Song - Rocky Roberts & The Airedales.avi

[@Jrie619]

Rocky Roberts and the Airdales one of my favorites! It's ashame america didn't appreciate this man's talent.

[@MyEnzo1960]

Italy did it

[@ebf1957]

Given the crowed field back in 1965 with singers and bands in America it was just hard to get any kind of airplay. But there was an audience elsewhere.

[@gazgaskell]

@@MyEnzo1960 Yes, I was playing with a Merseyside band in Rome from 1967 and we used to see them at the Piper club where we also used to play and they were very friendly with us. Bei tempi!

[@jeffk2053]

Born: August 23, 1941, Tanner, AL Died: January 14, 2005, Rome, Italy

[@Cin2023]

So the guy who sang that awesome song Django was a Black guy huh? I loved the song the first time I heard it. That voice intrigued me.

[@juanmonge8]

Never heard of these guys. A lot of talent!

[@jeantetreault132]

Was that at The Paul Anka night show? I heard Rockie Roberts and the Airedales for the first time in 1998 on CKUT FM Montreal. I was just 30 then. This song had been recorded in a studio around 64-65. But i already feel old at 50 today Lol

[@Savadorason1]

-Didn't get famous in America, but it worked in Italy. Get it when & where you can. He wasn't bad, better than some others, & back then as now, people were trying for that shot to fame.

[@paulrushworth3405]

PLAYED WITH THEM IN PARIS AT THE CLUB KASAMBA 1963 WITH Denny and the Witchdoctors

[@annaritaranalli1791]

He danced well and he did A good performance here as well musicicians

[@daviddowns7552]

i first heard them on the beach scene ( the wild wild world of jayne mansfeild. )

[@chasam1234]

There's a movie here ….very interesting guy and superb singer

[@caboose2163]

So, this is the guy who sings Django theme....huh

[@luizgueiros]

where is the django music video?

[@annaritaranalli1791]

Gifted 🇨🇦 paul anka was a good presenter

[@annaritaranalli1791]

Charles roberts(rocky )'son is a veru good soul and funky singer and really handsome too

[@hudisoca]

Um artista e tanto, chegue aqui pelo filme django

[@ebf1957]

Seeing her stand next to Paul Anka I'm reminded the line Mickey Rooney said when standing next to Jayne Mansfield when he said, Who wants to be tall?'

[@enriqueenriqueziii5564]

My history professor told me that he saw him at a restaurant in New York back in the early 60s. Interesting.

[@beretta152]

Very good guy...he was Wilson pickett friend

[@MrShobar]

Beats the hell out of staying in the Navy.

[@siberiantiger8553]

R.i.p. great Rocky 😇😇😇

[@michelelaraia7358]

2/2005

[@michelelaraia7358]

Saw him in Trani, Southern Italy, Mid July(17) 1993.His son, born in 1973,studied as an odontotechnician and made a Festival di Sanremo appearance.

[@michelelaraia7358]

Sang also an Easy-Commodores cover. Song "Can be done" in a 1972 Bud Spencer & Jack Palance movie

[@tamburo-bg2kg]

Eccezionali

[@michelelaraia7358]

Paul Anka hosting? 😄

[@pantera29palms]

This guy sang "Django" therefore being better than James Brown will ever be.

[@tblue]

Absolutely no one is better than the Godfather of Soul. He wrote the book...tore the book up....and then rewrote the book.

[@Jrie619]

I feel rocky roberts didn't get the credit he obviously deserves in America! They made some form of movie about everyone else but this guy is pretty much a big deal first black man to introduce soul to Italy and other places in Europe. He deserves to be known.

[@michelelaraia7358]

@@Jrie619 Right.

[@annaritaranalli1791]

Charles roberts sung much better in his mother tongue than in italian

[@annaritaranalli1791]

But i find no resemblance with james brown about singing voice

[@tb3812]

Rocky had to be black on the low

[@Jrie619]

He is

[@ebf1957]

If you look at it Rocky Roberts was more like Jackie Wilson than James Brown.

[@graysight]

well, you are quite right, I didnt know Jakie, but I watched him now, and Rocky Roberts took some moves from him, like the one he falls with the open knees to the ground.

[@Jrie619]

I agree