The drummer, stage name Dick Richards (nee Dick Boccelli) was my teacher when I was in junior high school in Philadelphia. He, also, coached football there.
You knew this guy? What!? I didn't know about this recording until just now. I'm always trying to find the earliest clear cut example of a snare on the backbeat in a rock song and right now this is it. Do you know about his influences? I'm so curious because if any single little thing revolutionized pop music it is that single thing. Once it caught on, the snare on 2 and 4 became universal from pop, rap, heavy metal, rock-a-billy, on and on forever more.
@@madamemadame9410 That's where rock 'n' roll grew from. If you keep digging deeper into its roots, you'll end up with Johann Pachelbel or Henry Purcell (THIS is nonsense). So listen: 1951 was a transitional year between R&B and R'n'R (Rocket 88, How High The Moon, Sixty Minute Man). Up until 1953, rock 'n' roll didn't appear on the charts; in 1954 were released Elvis' first record in the South and "Rock Around The Clock" in the North.
John Lennon said before Elvis there was nothing, but he was wrong. Bill Haley stands over modern music like a giant. It's just that no one remembers him these days.
Bill Haley was smart to record this tune when he did. A real rock and roll record to reach across America. Fun fact, he actually got the inspiration for this song, hearing how teenagers talked at the time, and the rest is history.
That is correct! My first guitar teacher was Johnny Kay, the Chester native who was the guitarist with Bill Haley and the Comets after Franny Beecher left to start his own record label. "Mr Kay" (as a 16 year old taking guitar lessons, I wouldn't dare call him "Johnny" out of respect!) would get annoyed with people who claimed rock and roll was born in Memphis. He would say to me "Elvis wasn't the first; it was Bill Haley!" Chester PA was an interesting place for music after WWII. You could walk a few blocks downtown and hear all kinds of different music. Walk a few more blocks in one direction, and you'd be hearing a totally different kind of music. Pop, blues, jazz, country, old-time bluegrass, dance music...it was all happening there, and when it got mixed together that's how we wound up with style we now call "rock and roll."
@@vandambautista A lot of people don't know this, but Sister Rosetta Tharpe was a huge influence on the young Elvis Presley. She definitely had a lot to do with the birth of rock and roll.
Crazy man crazy ..... Crazy man crazy ..... Crazy man crazy ..... Oh man that music's gone - gone - Crazy man crazy ..... Crazy man crazy ..... Ceazy Man Crazy ..... Oh man that music's gone, gone .... When I go out and I want a treat I find me a band with a solid beat !! Take my chick and we dance about When they start rockin - Boy we start to shout (we shout) Crazy man crazy ..... Crazy man crazy ..... Crazy man crazy ..... Oh man that music's gone - gone - Go - go - go everybody Go - go - go everybody Go - go - go everybody Go, go, go, .go, go, go, go Go - go - go everybody - Go - go - go everybody Go - go - go everybody Go - go, go, .go, go, go, go Oh man that music's gone - gone -
This is such a raw and wild take of this track. Their pre Decca stuff was wild. Imagine if they'd kept on in this less polished style. I bet they'd have lasted longer as chart toppers
In the summer of 1953, "Crazy Man, Crazy" became the first rock and roll song to be heard on national television in the United States when it was used on the soundtrack of Glory in the Flower, an installment of the CBS anthology series, Omnibus. This live production starred James Dean and was a predecessor to his later Rebel Without a Cause. (The Museum of Television and Radio maintains a copy of this production in its archives).
Mestizo y pionero rock and rolll!Aunque anteriormente a este tema estaban los chicos negros como Wynonis Harris con su Good rockin tonight en el 47, Fat domino con su The fat man del 49, Jackie Brenston con su Rocket 88 del 51 oBig Joe turner con su Shake, rattle, roll del 53, por citar unos cuantos, pues la gente que sabemos de esto, sabemos que el autenticfo rock and roll viene del Rhythm and blues y luego se fusionó con la musica blanca, siendo la musica rocker o negra o mestiza, nunca blanca.Maravilloso Bill con sus cometas. Sin duda uno de mis favoritos de siempre. Saludos de una chica rockabilly a todos-as los -as fans y amantes del género y de la musica cincuentera.
According to wikipedia, this song, "became the first rock and roll song to hit the American charts, peaking at no.15 on Billboard and no.11 on Cash Box." Now that's history man!
Bill and his band were the forefathers of the genre since although rock had been around before they were the first to popularize it for a mainstream audience.
B&O5300 they were among the forefathers, certainly. Also for being pioneers of rockabilly. But being popular with white audiences does not mean the artists who created rock and roll weren’t also its forefathers. The very reason Haley switched from country to rock and roll was to capitalize on the fact that white kids had started buying up lots of black rock and roll records to dance to. It was a smart move that coincided with the emerging popularity of the 45 rpm record and television. But credit still also goes to Big Joe Turner, Wynonie Harris, Bill Moore, Jimmy Preston, Erlene Harris, Chris Powell, and others who were rocking and rolling in black juke joints in the 1940s
@@davivid I am aware that black artists were practicing the music before the 50's with examples dating as far back to the 1920's but it wasn't until when Haley made this genre into what it is now.
I think Bill was looking to the future and future trends when he realised country music could be fused with rhythm and blues and a whole new genre was about to explode. Bill was more of a business man than long term musician.
I think what he showed was you could out-volume big bands with a fraction of the instrumentation, which meant rock n roll was much cheaper to produce and tour with.
@@estabanb55 if sound and glory is correct,bill badly hurt his hand punching through a plaster wall,and hit a piece of studwork instead,he never played lead again,think he did it for a bet
Haley always gets screwed. Screwed by Rolling Stone Mag. Haley should have been in that first HOF class. 1953! This is before Elvis Sun records ('54) and Chuck Berry and Little Richard both first releases were in ('55).
Now listen to a 19 year old Memphis truck driver and his band create rockabilly in July 1954 and go and play that’s all right and blue moon of Kentucky Bills jumped up Western swing was gonna be old hat and the King was about to take his place as rock royalty
@Randy Rodes It wasn't Bill Haley either. It started with the black musician he was imitating. What he started was the phenomena of popularizing rock and roll among white teenagers.
The pre- 1955 Comets who, with Danny Cedrone on lead guitar recorded Rock Around The Clock: Johnny Grande -piano, Joey Ambrose- Sax, Marshall Lytle- bass, Dick Richards- drums. Ambrose, Lytle and Richards quit the band c. early 1955 to form "The Jodimars" (JOey DIck MARshall) Ambrose, now in his eighties ( about 18 y.o., here), and Richards, now in his Nineties still perform with other members as "The Comets". They are the last living members of the group that recorded "RATC"
Añadir que a los primeros rock and rolles no se les llamaba como tales, sino que estaban dentro de lo que es rythm and blues y eran llamados asi. El termino de rock and roll a este tipo de musica se hizo en el 1955, despues de los primeros sonidos rockers negros, la musica se fusiono y fue mestizo.. Tambien decir que la musica rockabilly igualmente es mestiza, mezclaba este tipo de sonido de rock and roll proveniente de los rhytm and bluseros con el hillbilly, y hay varios tipos de rockabilly por decirlo de alguna manera, los que suenan mas a hillbillies pero con el sonido de rockin negro en menor medida o los que suenan mas a rockin pues tienen influencia mayor de la musica negra, pero ambos son mestizos, claro. La musica rockabilly no es blanca como muchos-as creen.....ninguna cancion rocker es blanca, es o negra o mestiza, asi como ninguna cancion rockabilly es blanca, pues todas son mestizas.Saludos de una rocker desde hace ya casi treinta años al rockerio.
El Rockabilly viene directamente del country, estilo que tiene también muchas variantes. Prácticamente todos los rockeros blancos del comienzo tenían raíces en el country y en la música de iglesia. Bill Halley también tiene raíces country y se nota. En el 53 Halley ya hacía este tipo de música y un año después el 54 llegó Elvis a Sun Records y un año después el 55 empezó a grabar Berry. El verdadero padre del rock&roll sería Halley y no Berry pues el llegó antes.
That may be true but Bill Haley was before Elvis. Crazy Man Crazy was Bill Haley's Comets 1st national hit a year before Presley recorded his 1st record on Sun in '54. Rock Around the Clock was the start of the rock n roll revolution. It wasn't about looks it was about the music & the crazy beat & Haley's Comets had it in spades. Bill Haley's Comets got it going & brought it in to the mainstream but Elvis strengthened it & gave it staying power.
From a Universal short that was also to have featured a young Memphian, latterly the truck driver for Crown Electric Co. The film is referred to in Cleveland DJ Bill Randle's introduction of Elvis on "Stage Show" in January 1956, "Here's someone we first saw filming a movie short...." Allegedly cameras were at a 1955 Presley show in Cleveland, indicating that footage was shot for the film but not included in the final cut. Or. Not. Likely, now under the spell of T.Parker, whatever extravagant fee was being demanded for the show footage caused Universal to scrub Presley from the film. Later in Sept. '56, Universal crews shot silent footage later synced to the broadcast audio of Presley's Mississippi /Alabama Fair shows.
I always thought he said " Crazy man, crazy, mind that music score ! " , but in my defence I have to say that I was only 0 when this came out .......................................................................
LeThayle wrong. Little Richard recorded Little Richard’s Boogie in ‘53, and there were plenty of black rock and roll musicians already playing in the 40s-that’s who Haley is imitating here.
davivid no. Those ”rocj n roll” musicians youre talking about is boogie woogie. They are missing the key ingredimemt of country. Bob Wills was the first who did that. I understand that you get disappointed when your black musicians actually wasnt the first rock n rollers but its okay
LeThayle country is a necessary ingredient for rockabilly, not rock and roll: Q: “You gave rock and roll its name, didn’t you?” A: “Yes, in 1951 I first called it rock and roll. Actually, rock and roll is rhythm and blues and was called ‘race music’ because the negroes originated the blues.” - Alan Freed People. Oct. 1958
Everybody started calling my music rock and roll, but it wasn't anything but the same rhythm and blues I'd been playing down in New Orleans. - Fats Domino
“It used to be called boogie-woogie, it used to be called blues, used to be called rhythm and blues…It’s called rock now.” - Chuck Berry
“A lot of people seem to think I started this business. But rock ‘n’ roll was here a long time before I came along. Nobody can sing that kind of music like [black] people.” - Elvis Presley "Rock and roll was around a long time before me, it was really rhythm and blues. I just got on the bandwagon with it." -- Elvis Presley "[Rock and roll] existed long before I did. It was called rhythm and blues." -- Elvis Presley "Rhythm and blues is just rock and roll." -- Elvis Presley
@@willpn100 wrong. Tempo is not the distinguishing characteristic of rock and roll. Rock and roll is the name that Alan Freed used to refer to black rhythm and blues. The term has been often misdefined as everything that got placed under the label after white people started playing and buying rhythm and blues music.
Interesting the antics of the bass player. Bill Black was just as wild before van Kuijk forbid him, not to risk to put Elvis in the shade (a ridiculous notion, of course). I wonder who came first. I'm sure some black double bass player must have started it all.
You know it's rock n roll when you stand on your bass.
Rubbish - people are always doing that in classical music ...................................................................
The drummer, stage name Dick Richards (nee Dick Boccelli) was my teacher when I was in junior high school in Philadelphia. He, also, coached football there.
Amazing how many things he accomplished in his life, including playing with the Comets into his 90s. R.I.P. Dick
You knew this guy? What!? I didn't know about this recording until just now. I'm always trying to find the earliest clear cut example of a snare on the backbeat in a rock song and right now this is it. Do you know about his influences? I'm so curious because if any single little thing revolutionized pop music it is that single thing. Once it caught on, the snare on 2 and 4 became universal from pop, rap, heavy metal, rock-a-billy, on and on forever more.
this is the FIRST top 20 song in rock and roll history ! just thought I'd let you know
April 1953. The birth of pop rock and roll. Thank you so much, Bill Haley and His Comets.
Birth on rock 'n' roll in us
rosetta tharpe
@@vandambautista not rock 'n' roll, but a gospel, blues. Also not a pop.
@@madamemadame9410 That's where rock 'n' roll grew from. If you keep digging deeper into its roots, you'll end up with Johann Pachelbel or Henry Purcell (THIS is nonsense). So listen: 1951 was a transitional year between R&B and R'n'R (Rocket 88, How High The Moon, Sixty Minute Man). Up until 1953, rock 'n' roll didn't appear on the charts; in 1954 were released Elvis' first record in the South and "Rock Around The Clock" in the North.
John Lennon said before Elvis there was nothing, but he was wrong. Bill Haley stands over modern music like a giant. It's just that no one remembers him these days.
Wow, less than 2 minutes, this song rocks, the developing of rock and roll's future! Lively and toe-tapping, love the guy standing on the bass!
Bill Haley was smart to record this tune when he did. A real rock and roll record to reach across America. Fun fact, he actually got the inspiration for this song, hearing how teenagers talked at the time, and the rest is history.
Over 70 years ago and still awesome.
Rock and roll born in Chester, PA
rosetta tharpe the mother
That is correct! My first guitar teacher was Johnny Kay, the Chester native who was the guitarist with Bill Haley and the Comets after Franny Beecher left to start his own record label. "Mr Kay" (as a 16 year old taking guitar lessons, I wouldn't dare call him "Johnny" out of respect!) would get annoyed with people who claimed rock and roll was born in Memphis. He would say to me "Elvis wasn't the first; it was Bill Haley!" Chester PA was an interesting place for music after WWII. You could walk a few blocks downtown and hear all kinds of different music. Walk a few more blocks in one direction, and you'd be hearing a totally different kind of music. Pop, blues, jazz, country, old-time bluegrass, dance music...it was all happening there, and when it got mixed together that's how we wound up with style we now call "rock and roll."
@@vandambautista A lot of people don't know this, but Sister Rosetta Tharpe was a huge influence on the young Elvis Presley. She definitely had a lot to do with the birth of rock and roll.
Steel guitar taking the guitar solo - classic and fantastic! Thanks for posting
Bill Haley Mr Rocknroll and First Rock and Roll Band Comets.. Jauuuuuu😄❤️❤️
rosetta tharpe first
@@vandambautistaNo.
@@vandambautista thats blues
Crazy man crazy .....
Crazy man crazy .....
Crazy man crazy .....
Oh man that music's gone - gone -
Crazy man crazy .....
Crazy man crazy .....
Ceazy Man Crazy .....
Oh man that music's gone, gone ....
When I go out and I want a treat
I find me a band with a solid beat !!
Take my chick and we dance about
When they start rockin -
Boy we start to shout (we shout)
Crazy man crazy .....
Crazy man crazy .....
Crazy man crazy .....
Oh man that music's gone - gone -
Go - go - go everybody
Go - go - go everybody
Go - go - go everybody
Go, go, go, .go, go, go, go
Go - go - go everybody -
Go - go - go everybody
Go - go - go everybody
Go - go, go, .go, go, go, go
Oh man that music's gone - gone -
This is such a raw and wild take of this track. Their pre Decca stuff was wild. Imagine if they'd kept on in this less polished style. I bet they'd have lasted longer as chart toppers
Yeah, the pre decca and some of the country songs are my favorite, it just has that raw energy that you just can't get enough of
I love Elvis but rock'n'roll without Bill Haley's beat and voice wouldn't be rock'n'roll at all.
First Rockabilly and Rock&Roll band... Jeaaaahhh😘❤️❤️
no, just the former.
Stll the Best and only Rocknroll band forewer and ewer..jauuuuuuuu😚❤️❤️❤️
So this is where it all started! Sadly, few remember.
Depends on the history you pay respects to,… so, not necessarily this one.
Not sure what "it" is, but if you mean rock and roll, no, it started elsewhere.
I mean, there was "The Fat Man" and "Rocket 88".
@@jc35019 Booth are R&B, not R&R.
@@visaodissidente5560 rock and roll is rhythm and blues
In the summer of 1953, "Crazy Man, Crazy" became the first rock and roll song to be heard on national television in the United States when it was used on the soundtrack of Glory in the Flower, an installment of the CBS anthology series, Omnibus. This live production starred James Dean and was a predecessor to his later Rebel Without a Cause. (The Museum of Television and Radio maintains a copy of this production in its archives).
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Dr Demento brought me here.
Unfortunately there are not many people who will know what you mean by that.
These band was Crazy
Mestizo y pionero rock and rolll!Aunque anteriormente a este tema estaban los chicos negros como Wynonis Harris con su Good rockin tonight en el 47, Fat domino con su The fat man del 49, Jackie Brenston con su Rocket 88 del 51 oBig Joe turner con su Shake, rattle, roll del 53, por citar unos cuantos, pues la gente que sabemos de esto, sabemos que el autenticfo rock and roll viene del Rhythm and blues y luego se fusionó con la musica blanca, siendo la musica rocker o negra o mestiza, nunca blanca.Maravilloso Bill con sus cometas. Sin duda uno de mis favoritos de siempre. Saludos de una chica rockabilly a todos-as los -as fans y amantes del género y de la musica cincuentera.
1953
According to wikipedia, this song, "became the first rock and roll song to hit the American charts, peaking at no.15 on Billboard and no.11 on Cash Box."
Now that's history man!
I looked it up too it's true..
Randy Rodes but after Wynonie Harris, Wild Bill Moore, Big Joe Turner, etc etc
Bill and his band were the forefathers of the genre since although rock had been around before they were the first to popularize it for a mainstream audience.
B&O5300 they were among the forefathers, certainly. Also for being pioneers of rockabilly. But being popular with white audiences does not mean the artists who created rock and roll weren’t also its forefathers. The very reason Haley switched from country to rock and roll was to capitalize on the fact that white kids had started buying up lots of black rock and roll records to dance to. It was a smart move that coincided with the emerging popularity of the 45 rpm record and television. But credit still also goes to Big Joe Turner, Wynonie Harris, Bill Moore, Jimmy Preston, Erlene Harris, Chris Powell, and others who were rocking and rolling in black juke joints in the 1940s
@@davivid I am aware that black artists were practicing the music before the 50's with examples dating as far back to the 1920's but it wasn't until when Haley made this genre into what it is now.
That was THE MUSIC!
I think Bill was looking to the future and future trends when he realised country music could be fused with rhythm and blues and a whole new genre was about to explode. Bill was more of a business man than long term musician.
I think what he showed was you could out-volume big bands with a fraction of the instrumentation, which meant rock n roll was much cheaper to produce and tour with.
The beginning of rock of roll. 😁
Great song!!!!
Someone asked Elvis what he thought. He replied, “Well, that’s all right!”
First of the band's hits to reach #1 in the summer of '53.
Before Bill found a lead guitarist, the band's steel guitarist would take the solos (and sometimes Bill himself)
I always thought he played the lead he just only played rhythm?
@@estabanb55 if sound and glory is correct,bill badly hurt his hand punching through a plaster wall,and hit a piece of studwork instead,he never played lead again,think he did it for a bet
@@estabanb55 I believe Bill played rhythm only too. RATC lead was Danny Cedrone, who died shortly after the recording
1:06 epic. never seen that. standing on the bass while playing.
Haley always gets screwed. Screwed by Rolling Stone Mag. Haley should have been in that first HOF class. 1953! This is before Elvis Sun records ('54) and Chuck Berry and Little Richard both first releases were in ('55).
Now listen to a 19 year old Memphis truck driver and his band create rockabilly in July 1954 and go and play that’s all right and blue moon of Kentucky
Bills jumped up Western swing was gonna be old hat and the King was about to take his place as rock royalty
Primeira banda de rock da História, mas a mãe do rock mesmo é evangelista pentecostal, irmã Rosseta.
Vários outros artistas contribuíram para o surgimento do R&R, não apenas Tharpe. Ela é citada com mais frequência porque é mais politicamente correto.
Great song!!
The father of Rock & Roll!!!
Lynne Musicalgenius your right
He was before Elvis the first white man who played rock’n’roll
@@mahmoudsadimusic Carl Perkins was playing rockabilly earlier than Elvis's Sun recordings
@Randy Rodes It wasn't Bill Haley either. It started with the black musician he was imitating. What he started was the phenomena of popularizing rock and roll among white teenagers.
@@ronlisk1911 But no recording exist.
This would be the type of song for the villain making his getaway! Great song
This song is a as old as me!
The pre- 1955 Comets who, with Danny Cedrone on lead guitar recorded Rock Around The Clock:
Johnny Grande -piano, Joey Ambrose- Sax, Marshall Lytle- bass, Dick Richards- drums.
Ambrose, Lytle and Richards quit the band c. early 1955 to form "The Jodimars" (JOey DIck MARshall)
Ambrose, now in his eighties ( about 18 y.o., here), and Richards, now in his Nineties still perform with other members as "The Comets".
They are the last living members of the group that recorded "RATC"
They quit the band in September 1955.
Añadir que a los primeros rock and rolles no se les llamaba como tales, sino que estaban dentro de lo que es rythm and blues y eran llamados asi. El termino de rock and roll a este tipo de musica se hizo en el 1955, despues de los primeros sonidos rockers negros, la musica se fusiono y fue mestizo.. Tambien decir que la musica rockabilly igualmente es mestiza, mezclaba este tipo de sonido de rock and roll proveniente de los rhytm and bluseros con el hillbilly, y hay varios tipos de rockabilly por decirlo de alguna manera, los que suenan mas a hillbillies pero con el sonido de rockin negro en menor medida o los que suenan mas a rockin pues tienen influencia mayor de la musica negra, pero ambos son mestizos, claro. La musica rockabilly no es blanca como muchos-as creen.....ninguna cancion rocker es blanca, es o negra o mestiza, asi como ninguna cancion rockabilly es blanca, pues todas son mestizas.Saludos de una rocker desde hace ya casi treinta años al rockerio.
El Rockabilly viene directamente del country, estilo que tiene también muchas variantes. Prácticamente todos los rockeros blancos del comienzo tenían raíces en el country y en la música de iglesia. Bill Halley también tiene raíces country y se nota.
En el 53 Halley ya hacía este tipo de música y un año después el 54 llegó Elvis a Sun Records y un año después el 55 empezó a grabar Berry. El verdadero padre del rock&roll sería Halley y no Berry pues el llegó antes.
Gracias.
The First R&B. Willian (Bill) with 27 age
I am crazy 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁
Before ELVIS.....there was BILL...
NOW...IMHO..if Bill had been a younger man with Elvis's looks....hed be the
"King"
Eddie Cochran, Ricky Nelson, Fabian all had Elvis style good looks but never had the music
That may be true but Bill Haley was before Elvis. Crazy Man Crazy was Bill Haley's Comets 1st national hit a year before Presley recorded his 1st record on Sun in '54. Rock Around the Clock was the start of the rock n roll revolution. It wasn't about looks it was about the music & the crazy beat & Haley's Comets had it in spades. Bill Haley's Comets got it going & brought it in to the mainstream but Elvis strengthened it & gave it staying power.
FAN DE CES ANNÉES LA BIEN SUR MOI AUSSI
From a Universal short that was also to have featured a young Memphian, latterly the truck driver for Crown Electric Co.
The film is referred to in Cleveland DJ Bill Randle's introduction of Elvis on "Stage Show" in January 1956,
"Here's someone we first saw filming a movie short...."
Allegedly cameras were at a 1955 Presley show in Cleveland, indicating that footage was shot for the film but not included in the final cut.
Or. Not.
Likely, now under the spell of T.Parker, whatever extravagant fee was being demanded for the show footage caused Universal to scrub Presley from the film.
Later in Sept. '56, Universal crews shot silent footage later synced to the broadcast audio of Presley's Mississippi /Alabama Fair shows.
No - this has nothing to do with "The Pied Piper of Cleveland". This was shot about 6 months before the Elvis/Bill Haley film project you refer to.
I always thought he said " Crazy man, crazy, mind that music score ! " , but in my defence I have to say that I was only 0 when this came out .......................................................................
Does anyone know the name of the Comets here? Thanks.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Haley_%26_His_Comets
Johnny Grande-piano, Billy Williamson-steel guitar, Dick Richards- drums, Joey Ambrose- sax, Marshal Lytle- bass
The used to be The Saddlemen!
So Little Richard wasn't the first who invented rock and roll
Little Richard didn't come along until 1955. The likes of Elvis, Carl Perkins, Bill Haley etc have been recording before that.
LeThayle wrong. Little Richard recorded Little Richard’s Boogie in ‘53, and there were plenty of black rock and roll musicians already playing in the 40s-that’s who Haley is imitating here.
davivid no. Those ”rocj n roll” musicians youre talking about is boogie woogie. They are missing the key ingredimemt of country. Bob Wills was the first who did that. I understand that you get disappointed when your black musicians actually wasnt the first rock n rollers but its okay
LeThayle country is a necessary ingredient for rockabilly, not rock and roll:
Q: “You gave rock and roll its name, didn’t you?”
A: “Yes, in 1951 I first called it rock and roll. Actually, rock and roll is rhythm and blues and was called ‘race music’ because the negroes originated the blues.”
- Alan Freed
People. Oct. 1958
Everybody started calling my music rock and roll, but it wasn't anything but the same rhythm and blues I'd been playing down in New Orleans.
- Fats Domino
“It used to be called boogie-woogie, it used to be called blues, used to be called rhythm and blues…It’s called rock now.”
- Chuck Berry
“A lot of people seem to think I started this business. But rock ‘n’ roll was here a long time before I came along. Nobody can sing that kind of music like [black] people.”
- Elvis Presley
"Rock and roll was around a long time before me, it was really rhythm and blues. I just got on the bandwagon with it." -- Elvis Presley
"[Rock and roll] existed long before I did. It was called rhythm and blues." -- Elvis Presley
"Rhythm and blues is just rock and roll." -- Elvis Presley
@@lethayle3388 Little Richard recorded in 1952
The first song of rock n roll was MY ROCKET 88
FROM IKE TURNER, THE YEAR:1948
Rocket 88 by Ike is R&B. Bill Haley´s rocket 88 is the first rock and roll, because is uptempo !
@@willpn100 wrong. Tempo is not the distinguishing characteristic of rock and roll. Rock and roll is the name that Alan Freed used to refer to black rhythm and blues. The term has been often misdefined as everything that got placed under the label after white people started playing and buying rhythm and blues music.
Rocket 88 is a cover of Jimmy Liggins' Cadillac Boogie (1947) with the lyrics changed for Oldsmobile.
no rosetta tharpe is the first rocker
Cringe
Yes you are
Interesting the antics of the bass player. Bill Black was just as wild before van Kuijk forbid him, not to risk to put Elvis in the shade (a ridiculous notion, of course).
I wonder who came first. I'm sure some black double bass player must have started it all.