Rockabilly

==Use of the term "rockabilly"==
Early rockabilly singer [[Barbara Pittman]] told [[Experience Music Project]] that "Rockabilly was actually an insult to the southern rockers at that time. Over the years it has picked up a little dignity. It was their way of calling us 'hillbillies'."{{Citation needed|date=June 2021}}

One of the first written uses of the term ''rockabilly'' was in a press release describing [[Gene Vincent]]'s "Be-Bop-A-Lula".<ref>''Go Cat Go!: Rockabilly Music and Its Makers''. Craig Morrison. 1996. University of Illinois Press. page 3.</ref> Three weeks later, it was also used in a June 23, 1956, ''Billboard'' review of Ruckus Tyler's "Rock Town Rock".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.billybop.be/styles/rockabilly/RRDefinition.asp |title=Definition |publisher=Billybop.be |access-date=May 22, 2014 }}{{Dead link|date=February 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

The first record to contain the word ''rockabilly'' in a song title was "Rock a Billy Gal", issued in November 1956.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://rcs-discography.com/rcs/titles/r/ro.htm|title=RCS database|publisher=Rcs-discography.com|access-date=May 22, 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100218055004/http://rcs-discography.com/rcs/titles/r/ro.htm|archive-date=February 18, 2010}}</ref> The Burnette brothers had been playing a song called "Rock Billy Boogie" since 1953, but did not record or release it until 1956 and 1957, respectively.<ref name="rockabillyhall:PB" /><ref name=":2" />