Rudy "Tutti" Grayzell

"In the late '50s, Rudy "Tutti" Grayzell went to Los Angeles and then on to Las Vegas and Seattle. He settled in Portland for a long time before coming back to San Antonio for a few months. He's now based in Pacific Grove, Calif. In August, Grayzell worked Lincoln Center in New York City, where he sang Judy during a salute to Sun Records.

Walker also introduced a 17-year-old Grayzell to Elvis Presley. Grayzell and his band were playing a supermarket opening in San Antonio. Presley stopped by the gig. Presley was impressed with Grayzell and asked the youngster from South San to go on the road as his opening act.

"Elvis gave me my nickname, Rudy 'Tutti,' after I added Little Richard's Tutti Frutti to my set," Grayzell said. "Elvis was a beautiful human being. I knew from the first time I saw him in that grocery store parking lot that he was going to be a big star." [MySanAntonio]

Rudy plays Brooklyn Bowl tonight (12/7) with Lustre Kings (maybe you caught him at Lincoln Center this summer). More dates and a video of him performing at Lincoln Center, below...

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Tickets are on sale (@ noon) for the three upcoming Vampire Weekend shows in NYC (United Palace, Bowery Ballroom, and Webster Hall)

Tickets are on sale (@ noon) for the two Magnetic Fields shows happening at Town Hall. BAM tickets are also now on sale.

Tickets are on sale (@ noon) for the two February Yeasayer album release shows at Bowery Ballroom and Music Hall of Williamsburg.

Tickets are on sale (@ noon) for the Hot Chip / xx show happening at Terminal 5.

Tickets are on sale (@ noon) for the upcoming Wild Beasts / Still Life Still show at Bowery Ballroom.

Alberta Cross is headlining Bowery Ballroom on February 4th. Tickets are on sale (@ noon).

Tickets are on sale at noon for the three Jonathan Richman shows taking place at Music Hall of Williamsburg in February.

People Under the Stairs are playing Bowery Ballroom on January 23rd. Tickets are on sale (@ noon).

Slayer, Tinariwen, and other tickets are on sale too.

Pictured above is ROCKABILLY BARBIE.

Deer Tick @ Prospect Park in August (more by Chris La Putt)

tonight in NYC
* Skeletons Big Band @ Roulette
* Rockabilly Fest @ Coney Island
* Reverend Vince Anderson @ Union Pool
* My Teenage Stride, Boy Genius @ The Cameo
* Deer Tick, Jonny Corndawg @ Rocks Off Concert Cruises
* Precious Metal w/ Orphan, Dark Castle, The Body, Malkuth @ Lit Lounge
* Small Beast w/ Norden Bombsight, Crash & Burn, Dania Reid, Paul Wallfisch @ The Delancy

Paul Wallfisch curates and performs at Small Beast at The Delancy with Norden Bombsight, Crash & Burn and Dania Reid.

Deer Tick play a boat (Rocks Off Concert Cruises) with Jonny Corndawg. Video of Deer Tick performing Friday the 13th with Liz Isenberg in the offices of Rolling Stone, below...

Precious Metal has a Labor Day lineup of Orphan, Dark Castle, The Body and Malkuth at Lit Lounge.

Skeletons Big Band debuts tonight at Roulette. The group is there for two more nights, then plays DBA's The Maze.

Coney Island Rockabilly Fest is in its final day. Earlier this long weekend, the fest featured someone swinging bowling balls by their ears. That and more videos below....

What else?

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The annual Coney Island Rockabilly Festival is taking place this year from September 4th to September 7th (Labor Day weekend). The four-night fest, put on by Cockabilly Records, will feature "over 100 psychobilly, burlesque and sideshow acts from all around the world."

The fest's lineup, with its outdoor day-stage schedule, is posted below (with a poster)...

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this weekend in Coney Island...

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The Coney Island Rockabilly Festival takes place August 16 – August 19, 2007. All details below....

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Experience Hippiefest, the musical flashback celebrating the bands that defined music's most influential decade: the '60s. The second annual Hippiefest marks the fortieth anniversary of the Summer of Love – an era of liberation, experimentation, long hair and flower power – with impresarios The Turtles, Felix Cavaliere's Rascals, The Zombies, Mountain, Mitch Ryder, Badfinger, Country Joe McDonald, Iron Butterfly, Denny Laine and Melanie.

Tour creator Toby Ludwig explains, "This festival is for people who weren't around in the '60s and '70s or were and just can't seem to remember. Bring your parents, your grandparents and your kids. Come be a Hippie for a day!"

Hippiefest is a tour that hits the free "Seaside Summer Concert Series" in Coney Island on July 26th.

@ Asser Levy/Seaside Park, Brooklyn, NYC in 2007 - FREE
July 12 - Tommy James & The Shondells, Jay Black, Johnny Maestro
July 19 - Billy Ocean & Air Supply
July 26 - Hippiefest
Aug 02 - mystery night
Aug 09 - The B-52's w/ Patty Smyth (an annual tradition?)
Aug 16 - mystery night
Aug 23 - Salsa by the Sea w/ TBA

So will it be Daft Punk, Beastie Boys, The Hold Steady, The Black Crowes OR THE B-52's? Actually, it should be noted that the B-52's and Daft Punk are both in Coney Island. The other free concert in Coney Island is on July 21. And then there's the Rockabilly Festival in August.

Martin Luther King Jr concert series dates HERE. All Hippiefest & B-52's tour dates below....

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