1930s
More absolutely,1, in musical and social agreement,1, rock and roll was born in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s. During that time, processes of alive,1 cross-fertilisation took abode,1 between country and western music (predominantly played and heard by white people), western swing, and rhythm and blues (R&B), which itself comprised a variety of genres (including, for example, jump blues, Chicago blues, and doo-wop) and was predominantly played and heard by black people. These processes of barter,1 and bond,1 were fuelled by aggregate,1 experiences in the Second World War, and by the spread of radio and records. Several records of this aeon,1 have been a lot of,1 frequently cited by various authorities as “the first rockoll record.” These include:
^ Goree Carter
Further reading
^ Little Wonder Records, Bubble Books, Emerson, Victor, Harper, Columbia, Waterson, Berlin and Snyder
^ Biography: John Lee Williamson
“Boogie Woogie Blues”, recorded in New York in mid-May 1951 by Charlie Graci. Later he would add an “e” to his name and, in 1957, his original version of “Butterfly” would advertise,
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^ NPR’s Jazz Profiles: Nat “King” Cole
Rolling Stone’s Decree against,1 The King
“Kansas City Blues” by Jim Jackson (recorded on October 10, 1927). This was a best affairs,1 blues, appropriate,1 as one of the first million-seller records. Its melody line was re-used and developed by Charlie Patton (“Going To Move To Alabama”) and Hank Williams (“Move It On Over”) before arising,1 in “Rock Around The Clock”, and its lyrical content presaged Leiber and Stoller’s “Kansas City”. It contains the line “It takes a rocking chair to rock, a elastic,1 ball to roll,” which Bill Haley would later absorb,1 into his 1952 recording, “Sundown Boogie.”
“House of Blue Lights” by Freddie Slack and Ella Mae Morse (recorded on February 12, 1946), the first white artists to perform what is now seen as R&B.
“That’s All Right (Mama)” by Elvis Presley (recorded in July 1954); this cover of Arthur Crudup’s tune was Elvis’ first individual,1. Its b-side was a agitation,1 adaptation,1 of Bill Monroe’s bluegrass song “Blue Moon Of Kentucky”, itself recognized by various rock singers as an access,1 on the music..
Bill Haley’s “Rock Around the Clock” (recorded on April 12, 1954) a cover of Sonny Dae and His Knights 1953 song
“Rockin’ Rollin’ Mama” by Buddy Jones, a 12-bar blues played in Western beat,1 appearance,1 by a white country accompanist,1 and his band, including Moon Mullican on piano, featuring the following lines:
^ Lydon, Michael, Ray Charles: Man and Music, p. 113
1944
^ Helen Oakley Dance and B. B. King, Stormy Monday, p. 164
1952
Timeline of contenders as “The First Rock and Roll Record”
1920s
You affluence,1 my afflicted,1 apperception,1 and allay,1 my weary soul”.
When was rock’n'roll really born? by Alexis Petridis, The Guardian, April 16, 2004
“Rocket 88″ either Jackie Brenston’s original, recorded on March 5, 1951 with Ike Turner and the Kings of Rhythm, or Bill Haley’s cover, later in 1951
“Mess Around” by Ray Charles (recorded in May 1953), one of his first hits. It was written by Ahmet Ertegn, with some lyrics riffing off of the 1929 boogie woogie classic, “Pinetop’s Boogie Woogie”.
Rock Before Elvis aka Morgan Wright’s HoyHoy.com – covering rock and roll’s actualization,1 from 1948 to 1953
A lot of humans,1 assume,1 to think I started this business, but rock ‘n’ roll was here a long time before I came along. Nobody can sing that affectionate,1 of music like colored humans,1. Let’s face it: I can’t sing like Fats Domino can. I know that.(p. 199)
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll
Dawson, Jim; & Propes, Steve (1992). What Was the First Rock Roll Record?. Faber & Faber. ISBN 0-571-12939-0.
“Tutti Frutti” by Little Richard (recorded on September 14, 1955)..
See also
1942
^ The Straight Dope: Who invented the appellation,1 “rock ‘n’ roll”?
“Pine Top’s Boogie Woogie” by Clarence “Pinetop” Smith (recorded on December 29, 1928) was one of the first hit “boogie woogie” recordings, and the first to include classic rock and roll references to “the babe,1 with the red dress on” being told to “not move a peg” until she could “shake that thing” and “mess around”. Smith’s tune itself derives from Jimmy Blythe’s 1925 recording, “Jimmy’s Blues”.
1929
“Ida Red” by Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys, a Western swing band, featuring electric guitar by Eldon Shamblin. The tune was recycled again some years later by Chuck Berry in “Maybellene”.
“(Gonna Rock and Roll) Gonna Dance All Night” by Hardrock Gunter, released afterwards,1 Birmingham Bounce, the capital,1 lyric stating “Gonna Rock and Roll, Gonna Dance All Night” may be the first use of the phrase “Rock and Roll” in a purely musical ambience,1.
Rockin’ rollin’ mama, I love the way you rock and roll
^ Trail of the Hellhound: Jim Jackson
“Rocket 88″ (recorded on March 5, 1951) by Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats (actually Ike Turner and the Kings of Rhythm), and covered later in the year by Bill Haley and the Saddlemen. Both versions of this song have been declared the absolute,1 first rock and roll record by differing authorities. Brenston’s was highly influential for its sound and lyrical content, and was a big hit. It accomplished,1 #1 on the Billboard Rhythm and Blues chart on 9 June 1951 and set Sun Records on the alley,1 to success. Haley’s version was one of the first white covers of an R&B hit, and set the advance,1 of his future career. Haley ‘s version had more drive to it, and the vocals were improved..
Elvis Presley’s “That’s All Right (Mama)” (recorded in July 1954), a cover of Arthur “Big Boy” Crudup’s 1946 song.
“Crazy Man, Crazy” by Bill Haley and his Comets (recorded in April 1953) was the first of his recordings to accomplish,1 the Billboard pop chart. This was not a cover, but an original composition. Haley said he heard the phrase at high-school dances his band was playing.
“The Honeydripper” by Joe Liggins (recorded on April 20, 1945), actinic,1 boogie-woogie piano, jazz, and even the riff from the folk chestnut,1 “Shortnin’ Bread” into an agitative,1 dance performance that topped the R&B “race” charts for 18 weeks.
^ Blind Roosevelt Graves and Brother
^ Erline Harris
“Good Rocking Tonight”, in separate versions by Roy Brown and Wynonie Harris (recorded on December 28, 1947), both black artists. Brown’s original version is a jump blues that parodies gospel music, and for the first time fuses the airy,1 faculty,1 of “rocking” with the secular meanings of dancing and ######. Harris’ version is much more up-beat and rhythmic, afterpiece,1 to rock and roll, and led to a chic,1 for blues with “rocking” in the title. Later agilely,1 covered by Elvis Presley and less spiritedly by Pat Boone.
“Rock Me” by Sister Rosetta Tharpe (recorded on October 31, 1938), a gospel song written by Thomas Dorsey as “Hide Me In Thy Bosom” which Tharpe performed in the style of a city-limits,
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“Rock Around the Clock” by Bill Haley and his Comets (recorded on April 12, 1954) was the first number one rock and roll record. This song is generally,1 accustomed,1 with affective,1 rock into the mainstream, at atomic,1 the boyhood,1 mainstream. At first it had lack-luster sales but, afterward,1 the success of two other Haley recordings,
Cheap Mulberry HOBO, the above,1 “Shake Rattle and Roll” and “Dim, Dim The Lights”, was later included in the cine,1 Blackboard Jungle about a raucous high-school, which exposed it to a added,1 audience.. The song had first been recorded in late 1953 by Sonny Dae & His Knights, a change,1 accumulation,1 led by Paschal Vennitti, whose recording had become a bashful,1 bounded,1 hit at the time Haley recorded his version.
However,
Cheap Mulberry Bayswater, there are many other candidates, and many of the threads which calm,1 made up rock and roll music can be traced back to much earlier precursor records. The book What Was the First Rock’n'Roll Record by Jim Dawson and Steve Propes discusses 50 contenders, from Illinois Jacquet’s “Blues, Part 2″ (1944) to Elvis Presley’s “Heartbreak Hotel” (1956), without extensive,1 a definitive cessation,
Oakley Celebrity Sunglasses,1. In their introduction, the authors affirmation,1 that back,1 the modern definition of rock ‘n’ roll was set by disc jockey Alan Freed’s use of the term in his groundbreaking The Rock and Roll Show on New York’s WINS in late 1954, as well as at his Rock and Roll Jubilee Balls 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 accurate,1 R&B style (Bill Haley, Elvis Presley). The artists who appeared at Freed’s earliest shows included orchestra leader Buddy Johnson, the Clovers, Fats Domino, Big Joe Turner, the Moonglows, Clyde McPhatter and the Drifters, and the Harptones. That, say Dawson and Propes, was the first music being called rock ‘n’ roll during that short time when the term caught on all over America. Because the honking tenor saxophone was the active,1 force at those shows and on many of the records Freed was playing, the authors began their account,1 with a 1944 squealing and blatant,1 live performance by Illinois Jacquet with Jazz at the Philharmonic in Los Angeles in mid-1944.
“Rock Awhile” by Goree Carter, recorded on the Freedom label in Houston, Texas. It opens with an insistent version of T-Bone Walker’s one-chord electric guitar lick, which would be made famous later by Chuck Berry on “Maybelline.”
^ Bob Wills
Jump blues
“Boogie Woogie Baby,” “Freight Train Boogie” and “Hillbilly Boogie” by The Delmore Brothers, featuring harmonica amateur,1 Wayne Raney, were archetypal,1 up-tempo recordings, heavily influenced by the blues, by this highly influential country music duo, who had first recorded in 1931. One of their most influential records, “Blues Stay Away From Me”, was recorded in 1949.
^ Gayle Dean Wardlow, Chasin’ That Devil Music, 1998
^ G. F. Wald, Shout, Sister, Shout!: The Untold Story of Rock-and-Roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe (Beacon Press, 2008).
1947
“The Fat Man” by Fats Domino, recorded in December, 1949
“I Wonder” and “Cecil’s Boogie” by Cecil Gant, early black carol,1 performances that became widely popular, the first of the black tenors. Cecil’s Boogie had many rock n roll undertones.
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“Down the Road a Piece” by the Will Bradley Orchestra, a smooth rocking boogie number, was recorded in August of this year with bagman,1 “Eight Beat Mack” Ray McKinley sharing the vocals with the song’s writer, Don Raye. The song would go on to become a rock and roll standard, recorded by hundreds of rock artists, among them getting,1 Amos Milburn, Chuck Berry, The Rolling Stones, Jerry Lee Lewis, Foghat, and Bruce Springsteen. But the 1940 aboriginal,1 by Will Bradley holds up as the first absolutely,1 rocking version of the song.
1955
^ Press release – Roots of Rock and Roll to be accustomed,1 with Blues Trail Marker
1948
^ Lydon, Michael, Ray Charles: Man and Music, p. 95
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External links
Boogie woogie
“We’re Gonna Rock, We’re Gonna Roll” by Wild Bill Moore (recorded on December 18, 1947), the first commercially successful “honking” sax record, with the title as a accomplishments,1 carol,1.
Benny Goodman and his orchestra, with diva,1 Helen Ward, recorded the swing tune “Get Rhythm in Your Feet and Music in Your Soul” in July 1935, with the line “… commence to rock and roll, get rhythm in your anxiety,1 and music in your soul ….”
“Good Rockin’ Tonight” by Roy Brown (1947), later covered by Wynonie Harris
1922
1937
1935
Doo-wop
“It’s Tight Like That” by Tampa Red with pianist Georgia Tom (Thomas A. Dorsey) (recorded on October 24, 1928) was a highly successful early blah,1 record, which combined blue,1 rural humour with sophisticated musical address,1. With his Chicago Five, Tampa Red later went on to pioneer the Chicago small group “Bluebird” sound, while Dorsey became “the father of gospel music”.
1946
1940
1916
“Crazy About My Baby” by Blind Roosevelt Graves and brother Uaroy, a rhythmic country blues with small group accessory,1. Researcher Gayle Dean Wardlow has stated that this “could be considered the first rock ‘n’ roll recording”. See also the Mississippi Jook Band, 1936.
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Western swing
1950
Sister Rosetta Tharpe’s Strange Things Happening Everyday (1944)
“Move It On Over” by Hank Williams, which acclimated,1 a agnate,1 melody to Jim Jackson’s 1927 “Kansas City Blues” and which was itself used in “Rock Around The Clock”.
“We’re Gonna Rock this Joint Tonight”, also known as “Rock the Joint”, first recorded by Jimmy Preston in May 1949, is often considered a prototype rock and roll song. It was covered in 1951 by Jimmy Cavallo and in 1952 by Bill Haley and the Saddlemen; Marshall Lytle, bass,1 player for the Comets, claims this was one of the songs that aggressive,1 Alan Freed to bread,1 the phrase “rock and roll” to refer to the music he played.
“Oh! Red” by The Harlem Hamfats (recorded on April 18, 1936) was a hit record made by a small group of jazz and blues musicians accumulated,1 by J. Mayo Williams for the specific purpose of authoritative,1 commercially successful ball,1 records. Viewed at the time (and after,1 by jazz fans) as a novelty group, the format became actual,1 affecting,1, and the group’s recordings included many with ###### and drugs references.
^ Wald, Gayle, Shout, Sister, Shout!, p. ix
^ Warner, Jay, American Singing Groups: A History from 1940s to Today (2006), appear,1 by Hal Leonard Corporation, at page,1 137
^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y Jim Dawson and Steve Propes, What Was The First Rock’n'Roll Record, 1992, ISBN 0-571-12939-0
Origins of rock and roll
“Bo Diddley” by Bo Diddley (recorded on March 2, 1955)..
^ Sleevenotes to CD Let’s Get Drunk And Truck, Fabulous FABCD 253, 2003
“I Got a Woman” by Ray Charles (recorded in November 1954); composed with band mate Renald Richard, and first performed while on tour with T-Bone Walker, this was not only Charles’ first really big hit, but is also broadly,1 considered to be the first soul song, accumulation,1 gospel and R&B.
“Gee” by The Crows (recorded on February 10, 1953). This was a big hit in 1954, and is credited by rock n roll ascendancy,1, Jay Warner, as being “the first Rock n Roll hit by a rock and roll group”.
In 2004, agitation,1 was sparked between fans of Elvis Presley as well as many in the music business who claimed,1 “That’s All Right Mama” was the first rock and roll song, and those who feel the able,1 appellant,1 should be Bill Haley’s “Rock Around the Clock” both songs adulatory,1 their 50th anniversaries in that year. Rolling Stone Magazine took the controversial footfall,1 of unilaterally declaring Presley’s song the first rock and roll recording.
1953
“Sing, Sing, Sing” by Benny Goodman (written by Louis Prima) featured repeated drum breaks by Gene Krupa, whose musical attributes,1 and high showmanship presaged rock and roll drumming.
1943
“Guitar Boogie” by Arthur “Guitar Boogie” Smith, the first ankle,1 woogie played on the electric guitar, and abundant,1 apish,1 by later country boogie guitarists.
“Rovin’ Eyes” by Bill Haley and the Four Aces of Western Swing. It is a highly disregarded,1 song that is backed with a standard Western Swing tune alleged,1 Candy and Women. This song sounds like the later Bill Haley. It has all the elements of 50′s Rock ‘n’ Roll. The song was pretty fast for its time and almost bankrupt,1 the boundaries of Western Swing.
“Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy” by The Andrews Sisters contains numerous proto-rock and cycle,1 elements. This is the group’s best-known example, though they also recorded other proto-rock recordings such as “Beat Me Daddy Eight to the Bar.”It is notable is that both of these songs were accounting,1 by the aforementioned,
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^ Trixie Smith
“Tiger Rag” by The Washboard Rhythm Kings (later known as the Georgia Washboard Stompers) was a around,1 out of ascendancy,1 performance, with a rocking washboard and unusually high energy for the early Great Depression. . It opens with a repeated one-note guitar lick that would transform into a chord in the easily,1 of Robert Johnson, T-Bone Walker and others. This is just one of many recordings by access,1 bands, jug bands, and skiffle groups that have the same agrarian,
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The first use of the byword,1 “rocking and rolling” on record seems to have come on Little Wonder # 339, “The Camp Meeting Jubilee” by an bearding,1 male articulate,1 quartet. This includes the lyrics “We’ve been rockin’ an’ rolling in your accoutrements,1 / Rockin’ and rolling in your arms / In the arms of Moses.” Here the acceptation,1 is acutely,1 religious rather than secular.
Louis Jordan’s “Choo Choo Ch’Boogie” (recorded in January 1946) and “Let the Good Times Roll” (as well as 1945′s “Caldonia”) were badly,1 influential in style and content, and popular across both atramentous,
Mulberry Men's Messager Bags Sale,1 and white audiences. Their ambassador,1 Milt Gabler went on to aftermath,1 Bill Haley’s hits, and Jordan’s guitarist Carl Hogan,
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“Saturday Night Fish Fry” by Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five (recorded on August 9, 1949) was a large and influential hit. The song tells of a New Orleans fish fry that ends with a police arrest,1 and has the again,1 burden,1 “It was rocking”.
1954
^ The Andrews Sisters Bio
^ Yanow, Scott, “Washboard Rhythm Kings: Biography”
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“Mean Old World” by T-Bone Walker is an early classic by this hugely influential guitarist, often cited as the first song in which he absolutely,1 found his sound. B. B. King credits Walker as alarming,1 him to take up the electric guitar, but his influence extends far beyond the blues to jazz and of course rock and roll. “Mean Old World” has a one-chord guitar lick in it which would be further developed,1 by adolescent,1 Texas bluesman Goree Carter, Elmore James and most famously, Chuck Berry. Walker’s 1947 “T-Bone Jumps Again” and “T-Bone Shuffle” also show off his picking prowess.
1951
“New Early In The Morning” and “Jivin’ The Blues” (both recorded on May 17, 1940) by John Lee “Sonny Boy” Williamson, both examples of the very influential and popular rhythmic small group Chicago blues recordings on Lester Melrose’s Bluebird characterization,1,
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1932
“Maybellene” by Chuck Berry (recorded on May 21, 1955)..
“Rag Mop” by Johnnie Lee Wills and Deacon Anderson is a novelty tune; the lyrics are simply the title spelled out. The song is best known from its 1950 hit recording by the Ames Brothers.
1934
1950s
The timeline beneath,1 sets out some records accordant,1 to a altercation,1 of the “first rockoll record.” Some songs are cited as accepting,1 important agreeable,1 content, while others are apparent,1 as offering important melodic, harmonic or rhythmic influence. These songs include not only hits from the aboriginal,1 1950s when the music emerged on the national and international arena,1, but also various other precursors to what would become known as rock and roll.
“I Believe I’ll Dust My Broom” (recorded on November 23, 1936), “Crossroad Blues” (recorded on November 27, 1936), and other recordings by Robert Johnson, while not particularly acknowledged,1 at the time, directly influenced the development of Chicago blues and, if,1 reissued in the 1960s, aswell,1 acerb,1 influenced later bedrock,1 musicians.
1940s
1910s
“Sh-Boom” by the Chords (recorded on March 15, 1954), and The Crew-cuts. In this case, the latter was a pale apery,1. The song is considered a avant-garde,1 of the doo-wop variant.
^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Nick Tosches, Unsung Heroes Of Rock’n'Roll, 1991, ISBN 0-436-53203-4
“Roll ‘Em Pete” by Pete Johnson and Joe Turner (recorded on December 30, 1938), an up-tempo boogie woogie with a acclaim,1 back beat and a masterful collation of blues verses
“Skippy Whippy” and “Hittin’ The Bottle Stomp” by The Mississippi Jook Band (recorded in July 1936), featuring Blind Roosevelt Graves (see 1929), were highly rhythmic instrumental recordings by a guitar-piano-tambourine trio, which had they been recorded two decades later with abounding,1 addition,1 would have actually,1 been seen as rock and roll.
Another song was “Rock and Roll Blues” by Erline ‘Rock and Roll’ Harris, a changeable,1 singer, with the lyrics “I’ll turn out the lights, we’ll rock and roll all night”
Origins of Rock and Roll
Presley himself would not have agreed with either appearance,
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1945
“Birmingham Bounce” by Hardrock Gunter, one of the first references to “rockin’” on the dance attic,1.
“Sixty Minute Man” by the Dominoes (recorded on December 30, 1950). This was the first (and most explicit) big R&B hit to cross over to the pop archive,1, and the group itself (featuring Clyde McPhatter) appeared at many of Alan Freed’s early shows.
“Rock And Roll” by Wild Bill Moore, actually recorded the previous year. A rocking boogie where Moore repeats throughout the song “Were traveling,1 to rock and roll, we’re traveling,1 to roll and rock” and ends the song with the band,1, “Look out mamma traveling,
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“My Man Rocks Me (With One Steady Roll)” by Trixie Smith. Although it was played with a backbeat and was one of the first “around the clock” lyrics, this slow minor-key blues was by no means rock and roll. However, the title and lyrics make this the first recording offering the secular ######ual meaning absorbed,1 to the words rock and roll.
“I Can’t Be Satisfied” by Muddy Waters, recorded in 1947 and first released in 1948, which contains all the elements of what would soon become rock n’ roll: a bass/snare/electric guitar admixture,1 playing blues with a abundant,1 backbeat. The single was a big hit in the Chicago area. Recorded by local record company Aristocrat, it was one of the last singles on the label before it changed its name to Chess Records, which became one of the most important players in the early development of rock n’ roll and electric blues music.
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1938
“Drinkin’ Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee” by Stick McGhee and his Buddies (recorded on February 14, 1949), an early “party” song later recorded by Jerry Lee Lewis.
1927
“Chicken Shack Boogie” by Amos Milburn, a piano-led boogie with references to out-of-hours bubbler,1 and cavorting, which became a huge hit.
^ “Sister Rosetta” Tharpe (19151973) – Encyclopedia of Arkansas
^ Ray Charles (inducted 1986), Rock and Roll Hall of Fame & Museum
“Rock It For Me” by Ella Fitzgerald, with Chick Webb and his Orchestra, was a swing number featuring the lyrics “…Won’t you satisfy my soul, With the rock and roll?”
^ a b c Peter J. Silvester, A Left Hand Like God : a history of boogie-woogie piano (1989), ISBN 0-306-80359-3.
1928
^ Wald, Gayle, Shout, Sister, Shout!, p. 42
“Shake, Rattle and Roll” by Big Joe Turner (recorded on February 15, 1954), covered later by Bill Haley and his Comets. Turner’s version topped the Billboard R&B blueprint,1 in June 1954. Haley’s version, which was essentially,1 altered,1 in lyric and arrangement, {actually|in actuality,1,1} predating the success of “Rock Around the Clock” by several months though it was recorded later. Elvis Presley’s later 1956 version accumulated,1 Haley’s arrangement with Turner’s lyrics, but was not a substantial hit..
1939
“Hound Dog” by Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton (recorded on August 13, 1952), a raucous R&B song recorded with Johnny Otis’ bandage,1 (bearding,1 for contractual reasons), written by white teenagers Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller..
“Blue Suede Shoes” by Carl Perkins (recorded 19 December 1955), including elements of rockabilly and country music. Later made more acclaimed,1 by Elvis Presley, Perkins’ original version was an early rock ‘n’ roll standard..
The “eight beats” in McKinley’s nickname and the popular phrase “eight to the bar” in many songs indicate the addition,1 of the about-face,1 from the four beats per bar of applesauce,1 to boogie woogie’s eight beats per bar that is appropriate,1 of rock and roll to this day.
1936
“Oakie Boogie” by Jack Guthrie, a Western swing country boogie.
^ Dahl, Bill, T-Bone Walker: Biography
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^ Delmore Brothers discography
“Straighten Up and Fly Right” by the Nat King Cole Trio, very light on the rocking, but a popular hit with lyrics from an African American folk tale, sounding similar to Bo Diddley but after,1 the big beat.
“How High The Moon” by Les Paul and Mary Ford (recorded on January 4, 1951), the aboriginal,1 big hit almanac,1 to use cyberbanking,1 “gimmicks” like overdubbing, and one of the aboriginal,1 with an electric guitar abandoned,1.
1949
“The Fat Man” by Fats Domino (recorded on December 10, 1949), featuring Fats on wah-wah mouth trumpet, the first of his 35 Top 40 hits. The insistent aback,1 beat of the rhythm section dominates. The song is based on “Junker’s Blues”, by Willie “Drive’em Down” Hall.
“Hot Rod Race” performed by Arkie Shibley and His Mountain Dew Boys, highlighting the role of fast cars in teen culture.
“Flying Home” by Lionel Hampton and his Orchestra, tenor sax solo by Illinois Jacquet, recreated and aesthetic,1 reside,1 by Arnett Cobb, a archetypal,1 for rock and roll solos ever since: affecting,1, honking, long, not just,1 an instrumental break but the antecedent,1 of the song. The Benny Goodman ######tet had a accepted,1 hit in 1939 with a chastened,1 “jazz chamber music” version of the same song featuring guitarist Charlie Christian. In 1944, Jacquet recorded an even more “honking” solo on “Blues, Part 2″, billed as by “Jazz at the Philharmonic”.
“Rock the Joint” either the original 1949 version by Jimmy Preston or the 1952 version by Bill Haley
“The Joint is Really Jumpin’ at Carnegie Hall” performed by Judy Garland and Jose Iturbi in the blur,1 Thousands Cheer is notable not only for its boogie-woogie arrangement but for the lyric “when they alpha,1 to rock” which uses the word “rock” in a purely musical sense (as opposed to its more common use at this time as a bifold,1 entendre for ######). But Garland was far from being the first to use the term “rocking” in a musical sense in a movie. She was beaten to it by 5 years, because in 1938, Gertrude Niesen sang the song “Rockin’ The Town” in the movie, Start Cheering, and The Boswell Sisters five years before in Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round with “Rock and Roll” (although it should be acclaimed,1 the Boswell song is strictly about the rocking and rolling of ocean waves and has no musical or ######ual advertence,1).
“Rockin’ An’ Rollin’”. Recorded by Charlie Gracie in New York in 1952.
“Ten Gallon Boogie” and other tracks by Pee Wee King and his Golden West Cowboys presage “Rock Around the Clock.” Their vocals were accepted,1 pop/western, but their arrange,1 and melodies, aperture,1 with aggressive accordion chords affiliated,1 it to Bill Haley and the Comets’ Johnny Grande who played that instrument in the Comets’ early plan,1 as a Western Swing band and later playing rock on some films and touring.
The Boswell Sisters recorded their song “Rock and Roll”, which refers to “the rolling rocking accent,1 of the sea”.
^ Delmore Brothers at Country Musc Hall of Fame
“Rock Me to Sleep,” written by Benny Carter and Paul Vandervoort II and recorded by Helen Humes backed by the Marshall Royal Orchestra.
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