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658: 2510:" is a "much more appropriate candidate" than "the more frequently cited" "Rocket 88". In Palmer's view, that is because of the presence of loud electric guitar work on the former song. Palmer wrote that "Rocket 88" is credited for its raucous saxophone, boogie-woogie beat, fuzzy amplified guitar, and lyrics that celebrate the automobile. However, he regards "Rock Awhile" to be a more appropriate candidate for the "first rock and roll record" title, because it was recorded two years earlier, and because of Carter's guitar work bearing a striking resemblance to Chuck Berry's later guitar work, while making use of an over-driven amplifier, along with the backing of boogie-based rhythms, and the appropriate title and lyrical subject matter. Roger Wood and 723:", a song that parodied church music by appropriating its references, including the word "rocking" and the gospel call "Have you heard the news?", relating them to very worldly lyrics about dancing, drinking and sex. The song became much more successful the following year when recorded by Wynonie Harris, whose version changed the steady blues rhythm to an uptempo gospel beat, and it was re-recorded by Elvis Presley in 1954 as his second single. A craze began in the rhythm and blues market for songs about "rocking", including "We're Gonna Rock" by 1783:, released as a B side in 1946 and featuring Ransom Knowling on string bass and Judge Riley on drums, may be considered a transition song between blues and rock and roll and, arguably, the first rock and roll song according to several sources, including Southeastern Louisiana University rock historian Joseph Burns, who adds that "this song could contain the first ever guitar solo break". One reliable source states that it "stands as a convincing front-runner for rock ‘n’ roll's ground zero". The song was covered by 1171: 9094: 2362:" by Bill Haley and His Comets (recorded on April 12, 1954) was the first no. 1 rock and roll record on the US pop charts. It stayed in the Top 100 for a then-record 38 weeks. The record is often credited with propelling rock into the mainstream, at least the teen mainstream. At first it had lackluster sales but, following the success of two other Haley recordings, "Shake Rattle and Roll" and "Dim, Dim the Lights", was later included in the movie 9106: 573:"Rock 'n' roll was an inevitable outgrowth of the social and musical interactions between blacks and whites in the South and Southwest. Its roots are a complex tangle. Bedrock black church music influenced blues, rural blues influenced white folk song and the black popular music of the Northern ghettos, blues and black pop influenced jazz, and so on. But the single most important process was the influence of black music on white." 98:

still intermittently – in the late 1930s and 1940s, principally on recordings and in reviews of what became known as "rhythm and blues" music aimed at black audiences. In 1939 during the April 5th broadcast on “The Fred Allen- Town Hall Tonight- Show” the song “Rock and Roll” appeared as a barber shop quartet lead-in. In May 1942, long before the concept of rock and roll had been defined, a

841:, at Lansky Brothers, where all the black people shopped. Right outside Memphis, there was a voodoo village, all black-real mystic kind of people... A lot of real old line southern people called my dad and my uncle white nigger. Nobody was doing rock-and-roll in those days except people they called white trash. When my dad and my uncle started doin' it, they were just about the first. 506:. The lyrics include the line, "I rock 'em, roll 'em all night long". Freed did not acknowledge the suggestion about that source (or the original meaning of the expression) in interviews, and explained the term as follows: "Rock ’n roll is really swing with a modern name. It began on the levees and plantations, took in folk songs, and features blues and rhythm". 2640:. That, say Dawson and Propes, was the first music being called rock and roll during that short time when the term caught on all over America. Because the honking tenor saxophone was the driving force at those shows and on many of the records Freed was playing, the authors began their list with a 1944 squealing and squawking live performance by 200:

who held the steel spikes would "rock" the spike back and forth to clear rock or "roll", twisting it to improve the "bite" of the drill. "Rocking" and "rolling" were also used, both separately and together, in a sexual context; writers for hundreds of years had used the phrases "They had a roll in the hay" or "I rolled her in the clover".

1689:", into an exciting dance performance that topped the R&B "race" charts for 18 weeks (a record later shared with Jordan's "Choo Choo Ch'Boogie") and also made the pop charts. The lyrics proclaimed urban arrogance and were sexually suggestive – "He's a solid gold cat, the honeydripper... he's a killer, a Harlem diller...". 814:, whose first record, "Cry", reached number 1 on the Billboard chart in 1951. One source states that Ray "opened the way for Elvis and the overt sexual energy of rock and roll ... is credited by the Beatles, Bob Dylan, and Elton John as being a formative influence on their artistic styles". As well, Ray's manager said that 1808: 2846:'if I get me a white boy to sound like a black boy, then I got me a gold mine’, which is the truth". Ike's story continues: "So, that's when he got Elvis and he got Jerry Lee Lewis and a bunch of other guys and so they named it rock and roll rather than R&B... and so this is the reason I think rock and roll exists". 2490:

rather than the rock rhythm originally characteristic in Chuck Berry's and Little Richard's songs, although he added that "Rocket 88" had basic characteristics of rock music such as the emphasis on guitar and distortion. Its characterization as a rock and roll or rhythm and blues song continues to be

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was recorded on February 15, 1954, and reached number one on the Billboard R&B chart in June and number 22 on the Billboard singles chart. It was covered early in July by Bill Haley and his Comets; this version, which substantially was different in lyric and arrangement, reached no. 7 in the pop

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The Pentecostal church has also been identified as a crucial component in the development of rock and roll. The modern Pentecostal movement parallels rock and roll in many ways. Further, the unhinged, wild energy of the church is evidenced in the most important of early rock performers that were also

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combined elements of big band, blues and country music into a new style of dance music. As musicians from different areas and cultures heard each other's music, so styles merged and innovations spread. Increasingly, processes of active cross-fertilisation took place between the music played and heard

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However, the terms "rocking", and "rocking and rolling", were increasingly used through the 1920s and into the late 1940s, especially but not exclusively by black secular blues and jump blues musicians, to refer to either dancing or sex, or both. The term maintained a strong sexual connotation in the

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and His Orchestra in 1937. Its lyrics mentioned a kind of music called "rock and roll": "Every night/You'll see all the nifties/Plenty tight/Swingin' down the fifties/Now they're all through with symphony/Ho ho ho, rock it for me!/Now it's true that once upon a time/The opera was the thing/But today

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has stated that this "could be considered the first rock 'n' roll recording". The brothers also recorded rhythmic gospel music. The Graves brothers, with an additional piano player, later were recorded as the Mississippi Jook Band, whose 1936 recordings including "Skippy Whippy", "Barbecue Bust" and

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At around the same time, the terminology was used in secular contexts, for example to describe the motion of railroad trains. It has been suggested that it also was used by men building railroads, who would sing to keep the pace, swinging their hammers down to drill a hole into the rock, and the men

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Black country bluesmen made raw, heavily amplified boogie records of their own, especially in Memphis, where guitarists like Joe Hill Louis, Willie Johnson (with the early Howlin' Wolf band) and Pat Hare (with Little Junior Parker) played driving rhythms and scorching, distorted solos that might be

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Fats Domino was not convinced that his work belonged to a new genre. In 1957, he said: "What they call rock 'n' roll now is rhythm and blues. I’ve been playing it for 15 years in New Orleans". In an interview, Ike Turner offered a similar comment but about Rocket 88: "I don't think that ‘Rocket 88’

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Freed first started playing the music in 1951, and by 1953 the phrase "rock and roll" was becoming used much more widely to market the music beyond its initial black audience. The practitioners of the music were young black artists, appealing to the post-war community's need for excitement, dancing

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Jubilee", by both the Edison Male Quartet and the Columbia Quartette, recorded between 1896 and 1900. It contained the lyrics "Keep on rockin' an' rolling in your arms/ Rockin' an' rolling in your arms/ Rockin' an' rolling in your arms/ In the arms of Moses." "Rocking" was also used to describe the

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The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame considers Chuck Berry to have been particularly significant in the origins of the genre. "While no individual can be said to have invented rock and roll ... Chuck Berry came the closest of any single figure to being the one who put all the essential pieces together".

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credits Walker as inspiring him to take up the electric guitar, but his influence extended far beyond the blues to jazz and rock and roll. Among other innovations, "Mean Old World" has a two-string guitar lick where Walker bends notes on the G string up to the notes on the B string, which would be

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in 1991, the organization's website offered this comment: "He became internationally known for promoting African-American rhythm and blues music on the radio in the United States and Europe under the name of rock and roll". Some years later, Greg Harris, then the Executive Director of the Rock and

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singing a song starting out as a traditional lullaby which soon changes into a rocking boogie-woogie with lines like "Rock, rock, rock it, baby ...". Although the song was only a short comedy number, it contains references which, by then, would have been understood by a wide general audience.

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was recorded in 1948 and released in 1949. This was a rocking boogie where Moore repeats throughout the song "We're going to rock and roll, we're going to roll and rock" and ends the song with the line "Look out mamma, going to do the rock and roll." Another version of this song (with songwriting

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in a wilder version, in which "rocking" was ostensibly about dancing but was in fact a thinly veiled allusion to sex. Such double-entendres were well established in blues music but were new to the radio airwaves. After the success of "Good Rocking Tonight", many other R&B artists used similar

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The phrase "rocking and rolling" originally described the movement of a ship on the ocean, but it was used by the early 20th century, both to describe a spiritual fervor and as a sexual analogy. Various gospel, blues and swing recordings used the phrase before it became used more frequently – but

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as "The Father of Rhythm & Blues" and "The Grandfather of Rock 'n' Roll". The Hall also states that "Saturday Night Fish Fry" is "an early example of rap and possibly the first rock and roll recording". Chuck Berry was quoted as saying, "To my recollection, Louis Jordan was the first that I

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called Ray the "father of rock and roll." Some historians have noted him as a pioneering figure in the development of the genre. One source states that Ray "opened the way for Elvis and the overt sexual energy of rock and roll ... is credited by the Beatles, Bob Dylan, and Elton John as being a

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Rock and roll music emerged from the wide variety of musical genres that existed in the United States in the first half of the 20th century among different ethnic and social groups. Each genre developed over time through changing fashion and innovation, and each one exchanged ideas and stylistic

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On April 25, 1881, comedian John W. Morton of Morton's Minstrels performed a song entitled "Rock and Roll" as part of a repertoire of comic songs at a concert at the Theatre Royal in Victoria, British Columbia. A comic song titled "Rock and Roll Me" was performed by Johnny Gardner of the Moore's

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in the same hard rocking style. Although Haley first recorded in 1946, his early recordings, including "Rovin' Eyes", were essentially in the Western swing style of country music as was his 1951 cover of "Rocket 88" (see below). "Rock the Joint" became the first of his records in the style that

697:'s orchestra the same year to form the Tympany Five. Mixing of genres continued through the shared experiences of the World War II, and afterward a new style of music emerged, featuring "honking" saxophone solos, increasing use of the electric guitar, and strongly accented boogie rhythms. This " 6026:

His first venture, the Phillips label, issued only one known release, and it was one of the loudest, most overdriven, and distorted guitar stomps ever recorded, "Boogie in the Park" by Memphis one-man-band Joe Hill Louis, who cranked his guitar while sitting and banging at a rudimentary drum

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felt that while there were rock and roll records before Presley's, his recording was the moment when all the strands came together in "perfect embodiment". Presley said: "A lot of people seem to think I started this business, but rock and roll was here a long time before I came along."

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have also called it the first, among several others. "Rocket 88" is cited for its forceful backbeat and unrefined, distorted electric guitar. By contrast, writer and musician Michael Campbell wrote that, "from our perspective," it was not the first rock and roll record because it had a

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foreshadowed "Pine Top's Boogie Woogie" a year later, perhaps not coincidentally since Lewis and Pine Top had recently been roommates. Like Pine Top's later recording, it contained most of the elements that would be called Rock and Roll thirty years later, except with piano instead of

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was recorded on October 16, 1951. Ray's emotional delivery – he was mistaken for a woman, as well as for a black man – set a template for later vocal styles, and more importantly, showed that music could cross racial barriers both ways by topping the R&B chart as well as the pop

597:, essentially jazz played for dancing, and in some areas such as New York City processes of social integration were taking place. According to Palmer, by the mid-1930s, elements of rock and roll could be found in every type of American folk and blues music. Some jazz bands, such as 479:

began broadcasting rhythm, blues, and country music for a multi-racial audience. As one source points out, there was some controversy in his selection of recordings: "Freed would play the original singles by the black artists instead of waiting for a white singer to cover them".

7659: 1719:, and, like Raye's "Down the Road a Piece", was recorded later by many rock and roll singers. Morse was one of the first white singers to perform what would now be regarded as rhythm and blues music. "The House of Blue Lights" was an important precursor to rock and roll. 6225: 2557:" released in 1954 was the first rock and roll record to achieve significant commercial success and was joined in 1955 by a number of other records that pioneered the genre. Along with "Rock Around the Clock", several rock critics also have pointed to Presley's " 1958:

chart for 11 weeks and crossed-over to reach number 21 on the national pop chart. The song had a "lively jump rhythm, call-and response chorus and double-string electric guitar riffs that Chuck Berry would later admit to copying". Jordan is described by the

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at St. Nicholas Arena in January 1955, they chose to judge their candidates according to the music Freed spotlighted: R&B combos, black vocal groups, honking saxophonists, blues belters, and several white artists playing in the authentic R&B style

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hit in 1949. The guitar figure from "Boogie Chillen'" has been called "the riff that launched a million songs", inspiring many popular blues and rock songs. It is considered one of the blues recordings most influential on the forthcoming rock 'n'

1189:, recorded on July 16, 1930, was one of a series of recordings made by the biggest early star of country music in the late 1920s and early 1930s, based on blues songs he had heard on his travels. "Blue Yodel No. 9" was recorded with an uncredited 2728:" (1958), refined and developed the major elements that made rock and roll distinctive, focusing on teen life and introducing guitar intros and lead breaks that would be a major influence on subsequent rock music. Early rock and roll used the 1835:(1948), led to a craze for blues with "rocking" in the title. Roy Brown's original version was described on the record label as a "Rocking blues". One source states that the "opening line ... could double as a rallying call for rock ‘n’ roll". 2457:. Turner led the band but provided no vocals for "Rocket 88". The identity of the writer of the song remains in dispute. Brenston said that "they had simply borrowed from another jump blues about an automobile, Jimmy Liggins’ 'Cadillac Boogie 1700:, originally recorded in 1945 but not a hit until reissued in 1948, was the first boogie woogie played on the electric guitar, and was much imitated by later rock and roll guitarists. The tune was based on "Pinetop's Boogie Woogie" from 1929. 1271:

for the specific purpose of making commercially successful dance records. Viewed at the time (and subsequently by jazz fans) as a novelty group, the format became very influential, and the group's recordings included many with sex and drugs

153:) and "rolling" (side to side) motion of a ship on the ocean. Examples include an 1821 reference, "... prevent her from rocking and rolling ...", and an 1835 reference to a ship "... rocking and rolling on both beam-ends". 336:

recorded "Rockin' Rollin' Mama", which drew on the term's original meaning – "Waves on the ocean, waves in the sea/ But that gal of mine rolls just right for me/ Rockin' rollin' mama, I love the way you rock and roll". In August 1939,

2112:– was highly influential for its sound and lyrical content, and was a big hit. Many writers declare it as the first, or among the first, of the rock'n'roll genre. Turner considered it to be an R&B song. It reached no. 1 on the 685:" helped spark a craze across American society for "boogie woogie" music, mostly played by black musicians. In both musical and social terms, this helped pave the way for rock and roll music. Economic changes also made the earlier 518:: "Freed's role in breaking down racial barriers in U.S. pop culture in the 1950s, by leading white and black kids to listen to the same music, put the radio personality 'at the vanguard' and made him 'a really important figure'". 605:, and explored the use of amplification. In the Midwest, jump bands developed instrumental blues based on riffs, with saxophone solos and shouted vocals. In Nashville and elsewhere, country music played by white musicians such as 2355:

chart at the end of August and predated his much wider success with "Rock Around the Clock" by almost a year. Elvis Presley's later 1956 version combined Haley's arrangement with Turner's lyrics, but was not a substantial hit.

1734:, the song was a big hit for Cole – who by that time already had 11 top ten hits on the R&B chart, starting with "That Ain't Right" in 1942 – and was later widely covered by rock and roll performers, including Chuck Berry. 1531:. The song would later become a rock and roll standard. The "eight beats" in McKinley's nickname and the popular phrase "eight to the bar" in many songs indicate the newness of the shift from the four beats per bar of jazz to 2368:

about a raucous high-school, which exposed it to a wider audience and took it to worldwide success in 1955. Eventually, the recording sold a total of 6 million copies. The song itself had first been recorded in late 1953 by

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elements with all the others. Contributions came from America's black population, with an ancient heritage of oral storytelling through music of African origin, usually with strong rhythmic elements, with frequent use of "

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recorded "Get Rhythm in Your Feet and Music in Your Soul" which included the lyric "If Satan starts to hound you, commence to rock and roll / Get rhythm in your feet..." The lyrics were written by the prolific composer

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tune, with, in Macon's version, a vocal refrain of "Don't she rock, daddy-o", which in other versions became "Don't you rock me, daddy-o". "Don't You Rock Me, Daddy-o" later became a hit in the UK in 1957 for both the

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1768:, The Three Flames, and Louis Jordan, all of whom had hits with it. It was the precursor of many similar novelty R&B-based records, which became a mainstay of early rock and roll in recordings by groups such as 5635: 2339:", also known as "Roll with Me, Henry". Although the records were banned from radio play and led to calls for rock and roll to be banned, the lyrics were soon rewritten for a more conservative white audience, and 1901:

was recorded in April 1949. It has been cited as a contender for the "first rock and roll record" title and a "much more appropriate candidate" than the more frequently cited "Rocket 88" (1951) according to the

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was recorded on April 21, 1947. It was Williams' first hit on the country music charts, reaching no. 4. It used a similar melody to Jim Jackson's 1927 "Kansas City Blues" and was adapted several years later for

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article explained, "by the time DJ Alan Freed started using the term to describe ... rhythm and blues ... the sexual component had been dialled down enough that it simply became an acceptable term for dancing".

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might be more accurate. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame considers the song "an original amalgam of country and R&B that arguably became the first rock and roll record to register on Billboard's pop chart".

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referred to Little Richard as being the artist that started a new kind of music, which was a funky style of rock and roll that he was performing onstage for a few years before appearing on record in 1955 as

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in Los Angeles in mid-1944. That record, "Blues, Part 2," was released as Stinson 6024 and is still in print as a CD on the Verve label. Several notable jazz greats accompanied Jacquet on "Blues", including

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were recording blues songs as early as 1946 that are indistinguishable from later rock and roll, and that these blues songs were based on themes, chord changes, and rhythms dating back decades before that.

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and others; the Hawkins version was called "right rhythmic rock-and-roll music" by Billboard. (The actual concept of rock and roll had not actually been defined at that time.) Several sources indicate that

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Troubadours theatrical group during a performance in Australia in 1886, and one newspaper critic wrote that Gardner "made himself so amusing that the large audience fairly rocked and rolled with laughter."

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wrote that "the rhythmic singing, the hard-driving beat, the bluesy melody, and the improvised, stream-of-consciousness words... all anticipate key aspects of rock 'n roll as it would emerge some 20 years

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He had a band by 1949 and wrote and recorded what most historians consider the first rock and roll record, 1951's "Rocket 88" (singer Jackie Brenston's on the label, but it's Ike's band and Ike's song).

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and unique guitar style that inspired many artists without either side using the 12-bar pattern – they instead played variations on a single chord each. His more insistent, driving rhythms, hard-edged

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the first rock record. In fact, that title is hotly disputed, with contenders including Sister Rosetta Tharpe's Strange Things Happening Every Day (1944), and Roy Brown's Good Rockin' Tonight (1947)

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was the first non-gospel song he learned; and the shriek on the Jordan record "sounds eerily like the vocal tone Little Richard would adopt" in addition to the "Jordan-style pencil-thin moustache".

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When Alan Freed began referring to rock and roll on mainstream radio in 1951 however, "the sexual component had been dialled down enough that it simply became an acceptable term for dancing".

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and increasing social freedoms, but the music also became very attractive to white teenagers. As well as "rocking" rhythm and blues songs, such as the massively successful and influential "

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By the middle of the 20th century, the phrase "rocking and rolling" was slang for sex in the black community but Freed liked the sound of it and felt the words could be used differently.

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recorded on January 22, 1952. One of Anita O'Day's few compositions, she was one of the best jazz singers ever, and recorded this blues single on Mercury Records with her own orchestra.

5875: 7692: 420:'s "It's Sand, Man!" as "an instrumental screamer.. .. displays its rock and roll capacities when tackling the righteous rhythms." In the April 25, 1945 edition, Orodenker described 2732:

chord progression and shared with boogie woogie the four beats (usually broken down into eight eighth-notes/quavers) to a bar. Rock and roll, however, has a greater emphasis on the

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of the rhythm section dominates. "The Fat Man" "is cited by historians as the first rock and roll single and the first to sell more than 1 million copies". The tune is that of "

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By the time of Haley's first hits in 1953, and those of Berry, Little Richard and then Presley the next year, the term and the concept of rock and roll was firmly established.

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used the couplet "Now we gonna do the old country rock / First thing we do, swing your partners" in "West Coast Blues", which in turn formed the basis of "Old Country Rock" by

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similarly felt that, "It is impossible to discern the first modern rock record, just as it is impossible to discern where blue becomes indigo in the spectrum." Music writer

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with the tagline "It jumps, it's made, it rocks, it rolls." Another record where the phrase was repeated throughout the song was "Rock and Roll Blues", recorded in 1949 by

1157:"Hittin'the Bottle Stomp" were highly rhythmic instrumental recordings which, according to writer Robert Palmer, "..featured fully formed rock and roll guitar riffs and a 4482:

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questions whether it was really an R&B song "with an unusually fast, bottom-heavy eight-to-the bar boogie rhythm and a great lyric about cars, booze and women".

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pop chart. This was not a cover, but an original composition, and has been described "the first rock and roll song to be a hit on the pop charts" although the term

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Citing its unmistakable resemblance to Chuck Berry's later work, its lyrical instruction to "rock awhile," and the way the guitar crackled through an overdriven amp

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in May 1949, was a prototype rock and roll song which was successful in its own right and highly influential in that it was recorded three years later in 1952 by

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record, which combined bawdy rural humor with sophisticated musical technique. With his Chicago Five, Tampa Red later went on to pioneer the Chicago small group "

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devised a new dance called "The Castle Rock and Roll", described as "an easy swing step", which she performed at the Dancing Masters of America convention at the

2445:. Various recordings dating back to the 1940s and 1950s have been cited as the first rock and roll record. A number of sources have considered the first to be " 6652: 4922: 937: 933: 4545: 1851:, co-written and produced by Milt Gabler, with the lyrics "We're gonna rock and roll at the hole in the wall tonight". However, the former vice-chairman of 5609: 2867: 708:

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in May 1949, and a R&B top 10 hit that year. Preston's version is often considered a prototype of a rock-and-roll song, and it was covered in 1952 by

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by white people and the music predominantly played and heard by black people. These processes of exchange and mixing were fueled by the spread of radio,

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from 1955 onward. Critic Rober Palmer also cited " its lyrical instruction to “rock awhile,” and the way the guitar crackled through an overdriven amp".

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flavored gospel song that "crossed over" to become a hit on the "race records" chart, the first gospel recording to do so. It featured Tharpe on an

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and recorded on July 7, 1937, was based on a 12-bar blues that builds in rhythmic intensity and features, like many of Basie's other records, the

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genre, but crossed over to the pop charts, and is credited by rock n' roll authority Jay Warner, as being among "the first rock n' roll records".

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remarked that the long-debated question is useless and cannot be answered because "criteria vary depending upon who is making the selection."

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Dawson, Jim, and Steve Propes, What Was The First Rock 'n' Roll Record ? (Faber and Faber, 1992, p. 128 and 130) ISBN 0-571-12939-0

3441: 3371: 9132: 6257: 2100:, with Brenston doing the vocals. It was covered later in the year by Bill Haley and the Saddlemen. The original version – produced in 1535:'s eight beats per bar, which became, and remains, characteristic of rock and roll. Bradley also recorded the first version of Raye's " 897:

took advantage of the gradual breakdown of ethnic barriers in America to become equally popular and help launch the rock and roll era.

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Much of the initial breakthrough of rock and roll into the wider pop music market came from white musicians, such as Haley, Presley,

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recorded "My Man Rocks Me (with One Steady Roll)," first featuring the two words in a secular context. Although it was played with a

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argued that because rock and roll was "an evolutionary process", it would be foolish to name any single record as the first. Writer

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and His Mountain Dew Boys in late 1950, another early example of "rockabilly", highlighted the role of fast cars in teen culture.

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was recorded on October 16, 1953. It was an electric blues song that had a major impact on rock and roll and featured distorted

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Freed, familiar with the music of earlier decades, used the phrase 'rock and roll' to describe the music he aired over station

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titles through the late 1940s. At least two different songs with the title "Rock and Roll" were recorded in the late 1940s: by

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as "Hide Me in Thy Bosom". Tharpe performed the song in the style of a city blues, with secular lyrics, ecstatic vocals and

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and unusually high energy. It opens with a repeated one-note guitar lick that would transform into a chord in the hands of

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formative influence on their artistic styles". As well, Ray's manager said that Elvis often watched Johnnie's concerts.

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is rock ‘n’ roll. I think that ‘Rocket 88’ is R&B, but I think ‘Rocket 88’ is the cause of rock and roll existing".

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at about the same time, and Gus Reed in 1908. By that time, the specific phrase "rocking and rolling" was also used by

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raised in Pentecostal churches, including Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Elvis Presley, Little Richard, and Jerry Lee Lewis.

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Northern Memoirs, Calculated for the Meridian of Scotland: To which is Added, the Contemplative and Practical Angler

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song, combining gospel with R&B; its tune was derived from the gospel song "My Jesus Is All the World to Me" by

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incorporated blues styles, and in some cases was recorded with (uncredited) black musicians. In Texas and Oklahoma,

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band, the Blue Flames in 1953, "contributing a pair of future rockabilly standards" that later would be covered by

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felt by worshippers at certain religious events, and to refer to the rhythm often found in the accompanying music.

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in "Jealous Hearted Blues", and which Bill Haley would later incorporate into his 1952 recording "Sundown Boogie."

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also have cited "Rock Awhile" as the first rock & roll record. Others have taken the view that the first was

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Schwartz, Roberta Freund (October 1, 2018). "How Blue Can You Get? "It's Tight Like That" and the Hokum Blues".

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felt that Presley's song was the first rock and roll recording. At the time, Presley recorded Big Joe Turner's "

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the first rock record. contenders including Sister Rosetta Tharpe's 'Strange Things Happening Every Day' (1944)

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was modified through the experience of slavery, and through contact with white musical styles such as the folk

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on vocals featuring the lyrics "... Won't you satisfy my soul, With the rock and roll?"; and "Rock Me" by

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discusses 50 contenders as the "first rock and roll record", the earliest being "Blues, Part 2" from the 1944

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and brother, Uaroy, recorded in 1929, was a rhythmic country blues with small group accompaniment. Researcher

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recorded "Rockin' in Rhythm" in 1928, and Robinson's Knights of Rest recorded "Rocking and Rolling" in 1930.

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Several sources suggest that Freed discovered the term (a euphemism for sexual intercourse) on the record "

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began playing this music style while popularizing the term "rock and roll" on mainstream radio. As a 2018

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that have the same wild, informal feel that early rock and roll had. After the original recording by the

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Sextet had a popular hit in 1939 with a more subdued version of the song, featuring electric guitarist

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Orchestra, a smooth rocking boogie number, was recorded in August 1940 with drummer "Eight Beat Mack"

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Some of the rhythm and blues musicians who had been successful in earlier years – such as Joe Turner,

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The identity of the first rock and roll record is one of the most enduring subjects of debate among

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credit to Moore) was recorded in 1949 by Doles Dickens. Also related were "Rock and Roll Blues" by

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said that it is "frequently cited" and "widely considered the first", respectively. People in the

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By the early 20th century the words increasingly were used together in secular black slang with a

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playing, and energetic performance style as an influence. Tharpe performed the song with pianist

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in 1954 as his first single but Presley's version was "at least twice as fast as the original".

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was issued in 1922, the first record to refer to "rocking" and "rolling" in a secular context.

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and his brother, recorded in 1929, "could be considered the first rock 'n' roll recording".

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on June 9, 1951, and set Phillips on the road to success by helping to finance his company

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Shout, Sister, Shout!: The Untold Story of Rock-and-Roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe

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How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll: An Alternative History of American Popular Music

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made himself so amusing that the large audience fairly rocked and rolled with laughter

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was recorded in May 1953, one of his earliest hits. The writing credit was claimed by

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live album, also featuring Jacquet's saxophone but with an even more "honking" solo.

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The adoption of rock and roll by white people was hindered by racist attitudes. As

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became internationally known for promoting African-American rhythm and blues music

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the rage is rhythm and rhyme/So won't you satisfy my soul/With the rock and roll?"

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Palmer, Robert (1992). "Church of the Sonic Guitar". In DeCurtis, Anthony (ed.).

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in 1926, has been described as "the earliest recording... featuring a consistent

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whose records reached the top of the newly christened "rhythm and blues" charts.

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By the early 1940s, the term "rock and roll" was being used in record reviews by

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Ike Turner offers another perspective, imagining Sam Philips' plan as follows:

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also was recording shouting, stomping music in the 1930s and 1940s, including "

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and, when reissued in the 1960s, also strongly influenced later rock musicians.

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and his Fruit Jar Drinkers on May 7, 1927. "Sail Away Ladies" is a traditional

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Brooks, Tim; Spottswood, Richard Keith; Spottswood, Dick (February 24, 2004).

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and recorded in 1948. It was Hooker's debut record release and became a No. 1

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who had his first R&B hit in 1950 – made the transition into new markets.

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The earliest known recordings of the phrase were in several versions of "The

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s Joan Anderman, most rock historians cite "Rocket 88" as the first, while

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and Elvis Presley, respectively. For Presley's version of "Mystery Train",

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at least as early as the 17th century to describe the combined "rocking" (

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was recorded on February 12, 1946. The song was co-written by Slack with

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and was one of the first "around the clock" lyrics, this slow minor-key

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Icons of Rock: An Encyclopedia of the Legends Who Changed Music Forever

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Other notable recordings using the words, both released in 1938, were "

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topped the pop charts in 1955 with her version "Dance with Me, Henry".

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also borrowed the guitar riff from Parker's "Love My Baby", played by

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was recorded on August 13, 1952. A raucous R&B song recorded with

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was recorded on February 10, 1953. This was a big hit in 1954 in the

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The alliterative phrase "rocking and rolling" originally was used by

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hit to cross over to the pop charts, and features guitar playing by

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to coin the phrase "rock and roll" to refer to the music he played.

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label, but the tune was quickly covered by white musicians, notably

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A double meaning came to popular awareness in 1947 in blues artist

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and others. A hit "pop" version of Smith's record was released by

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in 1940, which was itself derived from an unrecorded original by

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as well as widely covered in dance band and march orchestrations.

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techniques from the 1930s onward, including the invention of the

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and others. This is just one of many recordings by spasm bands,

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