policerevolvercollector
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How about this one from 1949?
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Best,
Charles
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Charles
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What is the first "Rock and Roll" song??
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THE PILGRIM
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Rock Around the Clock, Bill Haley.
Did you notice who is introducing Bill HALEY?
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Did you notice who is introducing Bill HALEY?
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Hard to identify a first, but Rocket 88 was one of the first black songs played on white stations. This may have given Sam Phillips the idea to find a white singer who sounded black.
some more early notes.......
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ol' geeser
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Most historians of music agree that "Rock around the Clock" is considered the first "Rock and Roll" song with the dance sequence of Elvis singing "Jailhouse Rock" in the movie with same name to be the first music video.....
Long may it live......!
Long may it live......!
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Answer #1- Back in the 1950's, the answer would have been overwhelmingly Rock Around the Clock.
Answer #2- Modern day enthusiasts and historians have extensively researched popular and obscure surviving tracks of R&B, Blues, Boogie Woogie, Western Swing, etc to study the evolution of Root music as to song structure, rythm structure, instrumentation, guitar riffs, etc. The answer is a gradual continuum, and a judgement call of which factors are more important, and how close is close enough.
That said, the pre Bill Haily song with the most convergence the earliest is probably Rocket 88 .
Answer #2- Modern day enthusiasts and historians have extensively researched popular and obscure surviving tracks of R&B, Blues, Boogie Woogie, Western Swing, etc to study the evolution of Root music as to song structure, rythm structure, instrumentation, guitar riffs, etc. The answer is a gradual continuum, and a judgement call of which factors are more important, and how close is close enough.
That said, the pre Bill Haily song with the most convergence the earliest is probably Rocket 88 .
RobertJ.
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Hey, didn't Led Zeppelin write that?
Just kidding, of course.
I'll bet back then, when they were putting their name on all that obscure blues music, they were thinking, "How is anyone ever going to figure this out?"
And I don't remember Jimmy Preston, but my dad loved early R&R and R&B (actually he listened to everything, he's my sister's and my biggest influence as far as music appreciation) and I grew up listening to most of this stuff.
RobertJ.
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I just noticed Jimmy McCracklin's "Rockin' All Day" was .79 cents!
How much is that in gasoline for the time period?
How much is that in gasoline for the time period?
5-Shot
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For me it was Mabeline (sp?). I still remember vividly when I first heard it. Nothing was ever the same after that.
Ed
Ed
First really big hit I remember was Carl Perkins wrote & recorded "Blue
Suede Shoes". It was a hit not only rock & roll but country, pop, & R&B.
Then another young feller came along and recorded it and made it even
bigger.
Suede Shoes". It was a hit not only rock & roll but country, pop, & R&B.
Then another young feller came along and recorded it and made it even
bigger.
In Memphis, which lays claim to being the birthplace of rock and roll, the general consensus is Ike Turner's Rocket 88 recorded at Sun Studios in 1951
MCorps0311
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Some are confusing ragtime with early rock and roll. Similar but not the same
StakeOut
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There were many before the one I remember the best and saw performed On Am Banstand
"Great Balls Of Fire"
Sing it again Jerry!
"Great Balls Of Fire"
Sing it again Jerry!
Five gallons? More? Even in the fifties, gas was under twenty cents a gallon for name brand. Cheap stuff was fifteen, and a friend's father put 200K on a 51 Dodge using that. But by that time, I think that vinyl discs were closer to a dollar.
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Richard Wayne Penniman = the king of rock n roll.....
