Good evening, fellow music lovers, and welcome to another Saturday night concert. Tonight we will be taking on the “beginning” of rock and roll — the 50’s.
The foundations of rock music are in rock and roll, which originated in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s, and quickly spread to much of the rest of the world. Its immediate origins lay in a melding of various black musical genres of the time, including rhythm and blues and gospel music, with country and western.[25] In 1951, Cleveland, Ohio disc jockey Alan Freed began playing rhythm and blues music (then termed "race music") for a multi-racial audience, and is credited with first using the phrase "rock and roll" to describe the music.[26]. en.m.wikipedia.org/...
By the end of the 50’s, with the deaths of Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens, the drafting of Elvis into the Army and the exposure of the payola scandal (see article above), people were quick to say rock was dead. Actually, it was just a metamorphosis into the “classic” rock of the 60’s (to be covered in a different diary).
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Three songs considered to be the “first” rock and roll songs.
This song was later released by Bill Hailey and the Comets.
This song, too, was released by Bill Hailey (but credit to he who did it first).