Great stuff, Gordon. I have Roy listed as 12th with Good Rockin' Tonight on my earliest rock and roll songs in my book America's Gift. I didn't know he wrote it in Galveston. After further research, my list has changed a little. All my latest findings will be in my forthcoming book on rock and roll history. Many thanks for your feedback.
I don't think any history of Rock & Roll's deepest roots is complete without covering Cab Calloway. If anyone can be said to have invented the whole of rock & roll -- the rhythms, the chords, the attitude, the fashions -- it would be Cab Calloway, even though the words "rock & roll" were not uttered.
There was actually pioneering rock and roll before Cab Calloway, like Cow Cow Davenport's Cow Cow Blues in 1925 with Dora Carr.There was also Pine Top's Boogie Woogie cut in 1928. And Roosevelt Graves' Crazy About My Baby, and Hastings Street by Charlie Spand and Blind Blake, were both in 1929. My vids, of course, just touch on rock and roll's pioneers but Cab Calloway is certainly admired and features in my forthcoming book on the history of rock and roll.
@@paulmerry2310 Indeed, these guys had the rhythms and the beat down...but Cab encompassed the whole thing, adding the glam style and fashion (and the drugs!) and especially the attitude. I was introduced to his music by my grandfather probably more than 50 years ago and I finally was privileged enough to hear him play live at a small venue back in 1986. At 79, he tore the roof off the place and was every bit as energetic and wild as he was in the 30s. his grandson, Cab Calloway Brooks is a great guy and has carried on the tradition.
@@rainday6 What a wonderful experience watching Cab Calloway live. I've seen Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley live, but Cab Calloway must take the biscuit. He was, indeed, the ultimate entertainer. I'll look out for Cab's grandson.
Paul this is great stuff and thank you for your contibution of well produced, very informative videos. It's my understanding that rock rhythm evolved from essentially jump swing blues as you effectively illustrate, to the "straight 8" rock groove we know today. An obvious example of that would be the straight 8th rhythms of rock bands such as the Rolling Stones or ACDC. Can you ad anything as to where in history the swing jump thing becomes the staight 8 rock thing? Listening to early Chuck Berry you can hear Chuck vamping on the straight 8 rhythm guitar while the drummer swings hard on the ride cymbal. It's a beautiful combination that disappears in time.....but when does it disappear?
Many thanks for such an interesting comment, John. Dare I suggest Louis Jordan's Saturday Night Fish Fry from August 1949 as a contender for your query about jump swing blues evolving into the "straight 8" rock groove. Check it here: th-cam.com/video/b1QfXQakX2w/w-d-xo.html
These are from before May 1949 and also well worth a listen: "We're Gonna Rock" Wild Bill Moore (reached tied for #3 on the national black charts in 1948) "Rock And Roll" Wild Bill Moore "Hole In The Wall" Albennie Jones "Man Eater" Jay McNeely "Tupelo Junction" The Beale St. Gang
Certainly is. I have Wild Bill Moore's We're Gonna Rock, We're Gonna Roll, (recorded in Detroit in December 1947), listed as my 13th earliest rock 'n' roll prototype in a big chart at the end of my book America's Gift.
Where is part 3? :( and I was wondering why Sister Rosetta Tharpe isn't mentioned. Oh, nevermind. I see it starts at part 4! This is really interesting. Thanks for the videos!
Thanks for your feedback CloudGazer. Part three seems to be banned thanks to a greedy French music publisher. I can get it up but other can't. Thanks again for your comment.
Hi Paul. I'm a high school music teacher in Australia, and I really appreciate your documentaries. Unfortunately, a lot of documentaries out there aren't good for showing kids, because they just have to go overboard describing prostitution, alcohol and drugs etc. Despite the fact that those connections all exist, it's not about the music. I like the way you focus on the music and research your stuff well. In fact, I believe the history ought to be rewritten based on your documentaries. Keep making them, mate!
African American music whatever you call it originated in Africa thousands of years ago it's tribal and spiritual. It was the white 60s impostors who corrupted it and made it dirty.
One can not hide the sun with a finger. Black music can not be pasteurized from the whereabouts of racism, desperation, addictions, injustice and exploitation of the weak that the black suffered for so long.
It's too bad Paul didn't link Jimmy Liggins' "Cadillac Boogie" to Ike Turner's "Rocket 88" because the former was the model for latter. Further, while he gives proper credit to Goree Carter as an influence on Chuck Berry, he didn't mention others just as important - notably Louis Jordan's guitarist, Carl Hogan, and T-Bone Walker.
Well spotted, David, though I did feature Ike's Rocket 88 in part one. While absolutely loving T-Bone, I didn't include him because I felt his records were simply pure blues rather than rocking blues. Perhaps you can advise me on any I might have missed. And I will certainly investigate Carl Hogan, someone I wasn't aware of. Thanks for such informative feedback.
Paul, guitarist Carl Hogan used an opening riff on Louis Jordan's 1946 record "Ain't That Just Like A Woman" that Chuck Berry credited in his autobiography as the inspiration for his "Johnny B. Goode" opening (although the riff goes back to at least the World War One era and is heard in dozens of records over the decades). Berry also said T-Bone Walker was a fave of his from his teens. Walker's "T-Bone Jumps Again" (1948) and "Strollin' With Bone" (1950) are two electric guitar rockers that use many of the same guitar licks that Berry used, though not as audaciously. What I have learned by studying the history of American vernacular music is that rock 'n' roll is not only the child of post-World War Two jump blues, but also the grandchild of earlier genres like boogie woogie and swing, which used many of the same musical signatures rock is known for - the back beat and shuffle beat, to name two. These go back to the 1920s. Yes, music has been proto-rockin' at least since then. Blind Blake's and Charles Spand's "Hastings Street" (1929) rocked one year after the first boogie woogie record came out (Pinetop Smith, "Pinetop's Boogie Woogie," which eventually became Tommy Dorsey's "Boogie Woogie.") The only thing jump blues and later rock 'n' roll did was to amp up the energy. Country & Western musicians adopted a lot of the same musical signatures beginning in the late '30s when swing was king - notably Hank Williams, who was an early rockabilly artist. Taught guitar by a black street musician, Williams had R&B rhythms in his soul, clearly apparent in his uptempo tunes. Add a tenor sax and substitute a Fender Stratocaster for the pedal steel guitar and Williams' songs would be rock 'n' roll - and many of them have been turned into rockers. So rock has been gestating a long, long time, but in my view, the first records that show rock was finally born - those that show the same fervor of white '50s rock - came out in 1947-48: Big Joe Turner's "Rock The Joint Boogie," Memphis Slim's "Rockin' The House," Memphis Minnie's "Shout The Boogie," Memphis Jimmy's "Jimmy's Jump," and Jimmy Preston's "Rock The Joint." My bible on a lot of this info is "Before Elvis: The Prehistory of Rock 'N' Roll" by Larry Birnbaum (Lanham, Maryland, USA: Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2013). ✦ ROCK TRVIA: Jimmy Preston and Bill Haley are both from Chester County, Pennsylvania. In addition, Haley's "(We're Gonna) Rock Around The Clock" copies an opening vocal riff heard on Hank Williams' first record ("Move It On Over," 1946).
@@davidmcalary2980 what fabulous and informative information you've given me, David. Thank you so much for taking the time and effort to tell me so much vital background. I'm currently writing a history of rock 'n' roll starting with the emergence of prototype boogie woogie in 1872. As I'm sure you'll know, this was in Marshall, Texas, as established by Dr John Tennison, who has a mass of info on his various boogie woogie sites. As I credit him, I'll credit you for what you've told me; and it looks like I'll also be crediting Larry Birnbaum, since I'll buy his book. Thanks for the tip. Funnily enough, I recently put up a TH-cam video on Hastings Street, Pinetop Smith, etc on my TH-cam channel; of which this video was one of my first. I also have Hank Williams' Move It On Over as my 11th earliest prototype rock 'n' roll record in my blues history book, America's Gift, which includes many of the songs you mentioned; although it concentrates more on what happened before the 1890s. I hope I can interest you in it - it's on Amazon as are my two eBooks, How Blues Evolved Volumes 1 & 2. I've also a blues history blog you might find interesting at paulmerryblues.com With knowledge like yours, you can only be American, unlike me. Please keep in touch.
The film "Blackboard Jungle "came out in 1954 BUT the song did not hit the no. 1 spot until 1955, not 1954 as You say! I remember but You can Google it!
British history got it wrong again. After extensive research, it has now been determined that the first Rock n Roll song was fats Domino's "Careless love'. Its the very first song to feature the distinctive rock n roll backbeat that is not on any form of blues, boogie woogie or jump blues. It was recorded in September of 1950. Give a listen- its on you tube.
CONSIDER THAT THOSE ACCAPELLO GROUPS OF THE FIFTIES USED DOO WOP SOUND TO Create bass and rythm, not even employing any instruments except that piano playing only 4 repetitive notes over and over again.
If Big Joe and Pete Johnson's Roll 'Em Pete aren't in any of these videos, David, I can only think I couldn't get the video. They were put up seven years ago so it's hard to remember what was what. These days it's impossible to use any videos due to ultra-stringent corporate publishing people. For this reason, I'm virtually unable to make any more.
Roy, who wrote the song, offered it to Wynonie, who was the much bigger star. But Wynonie didn't want to know. He changed his mind when Roy's version started selling well in New Orleans where it was recorded. Did you know Paul McCartney agrees with you that Wynonie's treatment rocks the most.
The speaker talks about R'n'R and then calls Rock Awhile Jump Blues!!! See, thats the thing, we are talking about two types of related music......R'n'R and R'n'B/jump Blues.
Sorry, but all this is R'n'B or Jump Blues. Go to a nightclub and play Haleys Rock Around the Clock...the dance floor will fill. Play any of these and it will empty. Stop confusing R'n'R with R'n'B. related? yes, the same, no.
Message to Paul Merry: You have a good video on the history of blues and Rock 'n' Roll. But you are wrong on history by way of it's classifications of the music. Goree Carter’s song "Rock a while" (Year: 1949) was in fact one of the first Rock 'n' Roll records and so was Ike Turner's "Rocket 88" (Year: 1951). In fact, in one interview Ike Turner did, he did not describe his sound as blues. He described his sound as boogie woogie which eventually became Rock 'n' Roll (by way of accident based uponthe fuzz guitar effect which occurred due to damage one the musicians’ amplifiers). In addition, another early pioneer and architect of Rock 'n' Roll was electric blues-rock guitarist, Pat Hare, who was one the early pioneers of guitar distortion. Mr. Pat Hare did two songs with legendary blues-rock singer James Cotton. Those two songs were the slow tempo electric blues-rock song, "Cotton Crop Blues" (Year Released: July 1954) and the uptempo blues-rock song, "Hold Me In Your Arms" (Year Released: July 1954). Moreover, two other early pioneers and architects of rock and roll (who came before Pat Hare) were Jesse Stone (a.k.a. Charles Calhoun) and Mickey Baker who recorded and released a song called : Runaway” (recorded: March 21, 1954 and released: April 1954), which was recorded and released one month before Bill Haley and the Comets came out with Shake, Rattle, and Roll (their version released June 7, 1954) and one month before Bill Haley recorded and released “Rock Around The Clock” (recorded: April 12, 1954, released: May 20, 1954). And , if I am wrong on history, then that means the history has not been documented correctly. References: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Around_the_Clock en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shake,_Rattle_and_Roll rateyourmusic.com/release/single/jesse-stone/oh-thatll-be-joyful-runaway/ www.discogs.com/release/4719021-James-Cotton-Cotton-Crop-Blues-Hold-Me-In-Your-Arms
Thanks for taking the time to provide feedback, jazziccoolcat. Appreciated. I've just checked the video and, yes, I call Gore Carter jump blues but, to me, that's what it was back then, before rock and roll became named as such. And, believe me, rock history has certainly not been documented correctly in my humble opinion. Wikipedia, while generally excellent, is full of mistakes. It can't help but be since it is edited by the public. For this reason I'm at the moment writing a book debunking rock and roll myths. Btw, have you seen my Earliest Rock 'n' Roll Songs Parts 3 and 4. My series was, basically, about all the prototype rock and roll songs PRIOR to the 1950s. I've long since updated it but updating the vids in impossible.
@@paulmerry2310 I will check out parts 3 and 4. And yes! You are right about wikipedia spreading misinformation. They even spread the lie that jazz was started by white people and blacks had ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with its invention. Jazz was first recorded by The Original Dixieland Jazz Band, who, themselves claimed that black people had nothing to do with the creation of the music. However, just because a person is the first to record the music does not simply mean THEY CREATED IT. Think about it, my friend. See ya' later and good luck writing your book.
@@jazziccoolcat Cheers JC. I'd have thought jazz came out of the style of New Orleans blues played by Buddy Bolden in the 1890s, influencing King Oliver and his protege Louis Armstrong.
I think a lot of people miss the point of ROCK N ROLL'S origin. Had Europeans not picked up R&B and translated it, they would have continued with Perry Como, Patti Page style. Meanwhile, BLACKS WOULD HAVE EVEOLVED R&B INTO HIP HOP AND RAP. WHICH MEANS ROCK N ROLL WOULD NEVER BE, BECAUSE BLACK PEOPLE DONT CALL THEIR MUSIC ROCK N ROLL, ONLY EUROPEANS, LATINOS ETC. DO.
Beg to differ, RCA. Black bandleader Manhattan Paul released a record actually called 'Rock and Roll' in September 1948. Black boxing champ Wild Bill Moore retitled his 1947 song 'We're Gonna Rock' as 'Rock and Roll' in 1949. The term, of course, comes from the black slang for sex. Many thanks for your feedback.
That dancing crowd was filmed in 1956 in the movie Rock Around the Clock. at 7:40 you can spot Bill Haley and his Comets in white jackets.
You have keen eyes, Rick. Well spotted and thanks for the update.
Great video Paul
Many thanks, BLC. Much appreciated.
This video is for not-for-profit educational purposes only. My gratitude goes to the organisations holding the copyrights for allowing their use.
Roy Brown wrote "Good Rockin' Tonight" in Galveston, Texas in 1947, and performed it live on KGBC radio
Great stuff, Gordon. I have Roy listed as 12th with Good Rockin' Tonight on my earliest rock and roll songs in my book America's Gift. I didn't know he wrote it in Galveston. After further research, my list has changed a little. All my latest findings will be in my forthcoming book on rock and roll history. Many thanks for your feedback.
Fascinating thank you
My pleasure, Yama Biru. Thanks for your feedback.
Sister Rosetta Trap!!! .-)
Sister Rosetta Tharpe features in Part 3 or 4.
Fats Domino recorded "The Fat Man" in December 1949 which was a R&R song but Fats always said he played R&B.
As Fats said on U.S. TV in the 1950s, “Rock and roll is nothing but rhythm and blues and we’ve been playing it for years in New Orleans.”
I don't think any history of Rock & Roll's deepest roots is complete without covering Cab Calloway. If anyone can be said to have invented the whole of rock & roll -- the rhythms, the chords, the attitude, the fashions -- it would be Cab Calloway, even though the words "rock & roll" were not uttered.
There was actually pioneering rock and roll before Cab Calloway, like Cow Cow Davenport's Cow Cow Blues in 1925 with Dora Carr.There was also Pine Top's Boogie Woogie cut in 1928. And Roosevelt Graves' Crazy About My Baby, and Hastings Street by Charlie Spand and Blind Blake, were both in 1929. My vids, of course, just touch on rock and roll's pioneers but Cab Calloway is certainly admired and features in my forthcoming book on the history of rock and roll.
@@paulmerry2310 Indeed, these guys had the rhythms and the beat down...but Cab encompassed the whole thing, adding the glam style and fashion (and the drugs!) and especially the attitude. I was introduced to his music by my grandfather probably more than 50 years ago and I finally was privileged enough to hear him play live at a small venue back in 1986. At 79, he tore the roof off the place and was every bit as energetic and wild as he was in the 30s. his grandson, Cab Calloway Brooks is a great guy and has carried on the tradition.
@@rainday6 What a wonderful experience watching Cab Calloway live. I've seen Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley live, but Cab Calloway must take the biscuit. He was, indeed, the ultimate entertainer. I'll look out for Cab's grandson.
Paul this is great stuff and thank you for your contibution of well produced, very informative videos. It's my understanding that rock rhythm evolved from essentially jump swing blues as you effectively illustrate, to the "straight 8" rock groove we know today. An obvious example of that would be the straight 8th rhythms of rock bands such as the Rolling Stones or ACDC. Can you ad anything as to where in history the swing jump thing becomes the staight 8 rock thing? Listening to early Chuck Berry you can hear Chuck vamping on the straight 8 rhythm guitar while the drummer swings hard on the ride cymbal. It's a beautiful combination that disappears in time.....but when does it disappear?
Many thanks for such an interesting comment, John. Dare I suggest Louis Jordan's Saturday Night Fish Fry from August 1949 as a contender for your query about jump swing blues evolving into the "straight 8" rock groove. Check it here: th-cam.com/video/b1QfXQakX2w/w-d-xo.html
These are from before May 1949 and also well worth a listen:
"We're Gonna Rock" Wild Bill Moore (reached tied for #3 on the national black charts in 1948)
"Rock And Roll" Wild Bill Moore
"Hole In The Wall" Albennie Jones
"Man Eater" Jay McNeely
"Tupelo Junction" The Beale St. Gang
Certainly is. I have Wild Bill Moore's We're Gonna Rock, We're Gonna Roll, (recorded in Detroit in December 1947), listed as my 13th earliest rock 'n' roll prototype in a big chart at the end of my book America's Gift.
Goree Carter, "Rock Awhile" 1949
Indeed.
Where is part 3? :( and I was wondering why Sister Rosetta Tharpe isn't mentioned.
Oh, nevermind. I see it starts at part 4!
This is really interesting. Thanks for the videos!
Thanks for your feedback CloudGazer. Part three seems to be banned thanks to a greedy French music publisher. I can get it up but other can't. Thanks again for your comment.
Hi Paul. I'm a high school music teacher in Australia, and I really appreciate your documentaries. Unfortunately, a lot of documentaries out there aren't good for showing kids, because they just have to go overboard describing prostitution, alcohol and drugs etc. Despite the fact that those connections all exist, it's not about the music. I like the way you focus on the music and research your stuff well. In fact, I believe the history ought to be rewritten based on your documentaries. Keep making them, mate!
What a nice thing to say, Mark. Thank you kindly for such positive feedback.
African American music whatever you call it originated in Africa thousands of years ago it's tribal and spiritual. It was the white 60s impostors who corrupted it and made it dirty.
One can not hide the sun with a finger. Black music can not be pasteurized from the whereabouts of racism, desperation, addictions, injustice and exploitation of the weak that the black suffered for so long.
It's too bad Paul didn't link Jimmy Liggins' "Cadillac Boogie" to Ike Turner's "Rocket 88" because the former was the model for latter. Further, while he gives proper credit to Goree Carter as an influence on Chuck Berry, he didn't mention others just as important - notably Louis Jordan's guitarist, Carl Hogan, and T-Bone Walker.
Well spotted, David, though I did feature Ike's Rocket 88 in part one. While absolutely loving T-Bone, I didn't include him because I felt his records were simply pure blues rather than rocking blues. Perhaps you can advise me on any I might have missed. And I will certainly investigate Carl Hogan, someone I wasn't aware of. Thanks for such informative feedback.
Paul, guitarist Carl Hogan used an opening riff on Louis Jordan's 1946 record "Ain't That Just Like A Woman" that Chuck Berry credited in his autobiography as the inspiration for his "Johnny B. Goode" opening (although the riff goes back to at least the World War One era and is heard in dozens of records over the decades). Berry also said T-Bone Walker was a fave of his from his teens. Walker's "T-Bone Jumps Again" (1948) and "Strollin' With Bone" (1950) are two electric guitar rockers that use many of the same guitar licks that Berry used, though not as audaciously.
What I have learned by studying the history of American vernacular music is that rock 'n' roll is not only the child of post-World War Two jump blues, but also the grandchild of earlier genres like boogie woogie and swing, which used many of the same musical signatures rock is known for - the back beat and shuffle beat, to name two. These go back to the 1920s. Yes, music has been proto-rockin' at least since then. Blind Blake's and Charles Spand's "Hastings Street" (1929) rocked one year after the first boogie woogie record came out (Pinetop Smith, "Pinetop's Boogie Woogie," which eventually became Tommy Dorsey's "Boogie Woogie.") The only thing jump blues and later rock 'n' roll did was to amp up the energy.
Country & Western musicians adopted a lot of the same musical signatures beginning in the late '30s when swing was king - notably Hank Williams, who was an early rockabilly artist. Taught guitar by a black street musician, Williams had R&B rhythms in his soul, clearly apparent in his uptempo tunes. Add a tenor sax and substitute a Fender Stratocaster for the pedal steel guitar and Williams' songs would be rock 'n' roll - and many of them have been turned into rockers.
So rock has been gestating a long, long time, but in my view, the first records that show rock was finally born - those that show the same fervor of white '50s rock - came out in 1947-48: Big Joe Turner's "Rock The Joint Boogie," Memphis Slim's "Rockin' The House," Memphis Minnie's "Shout The Boogie," Memphis Jimmy's "Jimmy's Jump," and Jimmy Preston's "Rock The Joint."
My bible on a lot of this info is "Before Elvis: The Prehistory of Rock 'N' Roll" by Larry Birnbaum (Lanham, Maryland, USA: Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2013).
✦
ROCK TRVIA: Jimmy Preston and Bill Haley are both from Chester County, Pennsylvania. In addition, Haley's "(We're Gonna) Rock Around The Clock" copies an opening vocal riff heard on Hank Williams' first record ("Move It On Over," 1946).
@@davidmcalary2980 what fabulous and informative information you've given me, David. Thank you so much for taking the time and effort to tell me so much vital background.
I'm currently writing a history of rock 'n' roll starting with the emergence of prototype boogie woogie in 1872. As I'm sure you'll know, this was in Marshall, Texas, as established by Dr John Tennison, who has a mass of info on his various boogie woogie sites. As I credit him, I'll credit you for what you've told me; and it looks like I'll also be crediting Larry Birnbaum, since I'll buy his book. Thanks for the tip.
Funnily enough, I recently put up a TH-cam video on Hastings Street, Pinetop Smith, etc on my TH-cam channel; of which this video was one of my first.
I also have Hank Williams' Move It On Over as my 11th earliest prototype rock 'n' roll record in my blues history book, America's Gift, which includes many of the songs you mentioned; although it concentrates more on what happened before the 1890s. I hope I can interest you in it - it's on Amazon as are my two eBooks, How Blues Evolved Volumes 1 & 2.
I've also a blues history blog you might find interesting at paulmerryblues.com
With knowledge like yours, you can only be American, unlike me. Please keep in touch.
No mention of Robert Johnson's They're Red Hot ?
th-cam.com/video/Blh4ZLKV9Yc/w-d-xo.html
Berry was most influenced by Rosetta Tharpe
He certainly was, Stuart, and Louis Jordan.
The film "Blackboard Jungle "came out in 1954 BUT the song did not hit the no. 1 spot until 1955, not 1954 as You say! I remember but You can Google it!
British history got it wrong again. After extensive research, it has now been determined that the first Rock n Roll song was fats Domino's "Careless love'. Its the very first song to feature the distinctive rock n roll backbeat that is not on any form of blues, boogie woogie or jump blues. It was recorded in September of 1950. Give a listen- its on you tube.
Many pop "musicians" today don't know how to play any instruments.
Too true, Jamaal.
I call them Pop Performers.
CONSIDER THAT THOSE ACCAPELLO GROUPS OF THE FIFTIES USED DOO WOP SOUND TO Create bass and rythm, not even employing any instruments except that piano playing only 4 repetitive notes over and over again.
BJT with Pete Johnson, "Roll 'Em Pete".
If Big Joe and Pete Johnson's Roll 'Em Pete aren't in any of these videos, David, I can only think I couldn't get the video. They were put up seven years ago so it's hard to remember what was what. These days it's impossible to use any videos due to ultra-stringent corporate publishing people. For this reason, I'm virtually unable to make any more.
Roy Brown's is still a little too bluesy, but I think Wynonie did a better touch to it.
Roy, who wrote the song, offered it to Wynonie, who was the much bigger star. But Wynonie didn't want to know. He changed his mind when Roy's version started selling well in New Orleans where it was recorded. Did you know Paul McCartney agrees with you that Wynonie's treatment rocks the most.
@@paulmerry2310 That's cool!
Most progressive rock bands originated from the UK to my surprise. Thought they were Americans
They were part of what was called 'The British Invasion' of rock and blues-rock music to America, starting with the Beatles in 1964.
The speaker talks about R'n'R and then calls Rock Awhile Jump Blues!!! See, thats the thing, we are talking about two types of related music......R'n'R and R'n'B/jump Blues.
White trying to Lindy Hop I assume....
Check this Lindy Hop out from 1916. That's much earlier than the history books say. thth-cam.com/video/3RhrMdXCwVw/w-d-xo.html
Sorry, but all this is R'n'B or Jump Blues. Go to a nightclub and play Haleys Rock Around the Clock...the dance floor will fill. Play any of these and it will empty. Stop confusing R'n'R with R'n'B. related? yes, the same, no.
Message to Paul Merry: You have a good video on the history of blues and Rock 'n' Roll. But you are wrong on history by way of it's classifications of the music. Goree Carter’s song "Rock a while" (Year: 1949) was in fact one of the first Rock 'n' Roll records and so was Ike Turner's "Rocket 88" (Year: 1951). In fact, in one interview Ike Turner did, he did not describe his sound as blues. He described his sound as boogie woogie which eventually became Rock 'n' Roll (by way of accident based uponthe fuzz guitar effect which occurred due to damage one the musicians’ amplifiers). In addition, another early pioneer and architect of Rock 'n' Roll was electric blues-rock guitarist, Pat Hare, who was one the early pioneers of guitar distortion. Mr. Pat Hare did two songs with legendary blues-rock singer James Cotton. Those two songs were the slow tempo electric blues-rock song, "Cotton Crop Blues" (Year Released: July 1954) and the uptempo blues-rock song, "Hold Me In Your Arms" (Year Released: July 1954). Moreover, two other early pioneers and architects of rock and roll (who came before Pat Hare) were Jesse Stone (a.k.a. Charles Calhoun) and Mickey Baker who recorded and released a song called : Runaway” (recorded: March 21, 1954 and released: April 1954), which was recorded and released one month before Bill Haley and the Comets came out with Shake, Rattle, and Roll (their version released June 7, 1954) and one month before Bill Haley recorded and released “Rock Around The Clock” (recorded: April 12, 1954, released: May 20, 1954). And , if I am wrong on history, then that means the history has not been documented correctly.
References: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Around_the_Clock
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shake,_Rattle_and_Roll
rateyourmusic.com/release/single/jesse-stone/oh-thatll-be-joyful-runaway/
www.discogs.com/release/4719021-James-Cotton-Cotton-Crop-Blues-Hold-Me-In-Your-Arms
Thanks for taking the time to provide feedback, jazziccoolcat. Appreciated. I've just checked the video and, yes, I call Gore Carter jump blues but, to me, that's what it was back then, before rock and roll became named as such. And, believe me, rock history has certainly not been documented correctly in my humble opinion. Wikipedia, while generally excellent, is full of mistakes. It can't help but be since it is edited by the public. For this reason I'm at the moment writing a book debunking rock and roll myths. Btw, have you seen my Earliest Rock 'n' Roll Songs Parts 3 and 4. My series was, basically, about all the prototype rock and roll songs PRIOR to the 1950s. I've long since updated it but updating the vids in impossible.
@@paulmerry2310 I will check out parts 3 and 4. And yes! You are right about wikipedia spreading misinformation. They even spread the lie that jazz was started by white people and blacks had ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with its invention. Jazz was first recorded by The Original Dixieland Jazz Band, who, themselves claimed that black people had nothing to do with the creation of the music. However, just because a person is the first to record the music does not simply mean THEY CREATED IT. Think about it, my friend. See ya' later and good luck writing your book.
@@jazziccoolcat Cheers JC. I'd have thought jazz came out of the style of New Orleans blues played by Buddy Bolden in the 1890s, influencing King Oliver and his protege Louis Armstrong.
I think a lot of people miss the point of ROCK N ROLL'S origin. Had Europeans not picked up R&B and translated it, they would have continued with Perry Como, Patti Page style. Meanwhile, BLACKS WOULD HAVE EVEOLVED R&B INTO HIP HOP AND RAP. WHICH MEANS ROCK N ROLL WOULD NEVER BE, BECAUSE BLACK PEOPLE DONT CALL THEIR MUSIC ROCK N ROLL, ONLY EUROPEANS, LATINOS ETC. DO.
Beg to differ, RCA. Black bandleader Manhattan Paul released a record actually called 'Rock and Roll' in September 1948. Black boxing champ Wild Bill Moore retitled his 1947 song 'We're Gonna Rock' as 'Rock and Roll' in 1949. The term, of course, comes from the black slang for sex. Many thanks for your feedback.
This video is for not-for-profit educational purposes only. My gratitude goes to the organisations holding the copyrights for allowing their use.