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What is Rock & Roll ?
( This is the Squirrel's Opinion )
In the 1950s American Music tastes were changing, the younger generation was looking for there own sound!
Rock and roll emerged as a defined musical style in America in the 1950s, though elements of rock and roll can be seen in rhythm and blues records as far back as the 1920s. Early rock and roll combined elements of blues, boogie woogie, jazz and rhythm and blues, and is also influenced by traditional folk music, gospel music, and country and western.
(In 1991, Rolling Stones Magazine wrote an article that was titled, "Is This The Woman Who Invented Rock n Roll"?. The article focuses on what is
considered the most significant defining moment in the birth of Rhythm and Blues. The year is 1948.
The place was Baltimore, MD. The principals include a young group of Black singers who called themselves the Vibranaires.
The woman that Rolling Stone paid tribute to 53 years later was an 18 year old white Jewish girl named Deborah Chessler.
She was a struggling songwriter but did have one her songs recorded by Savannah Churchill. The song was "Tell Me So" but it died a quick death.
Deborah knew the song had more life in it and needed a different treatment.
Shortly thereafter, Deborah received a call from a friend who wanted her to hear a local vocal group looking to make a record.
The Vibranaires sang over the phone and she immediately knew she found the group to sing her songs. The lead singer's name was
Erlington Tilghman. His professional name was Sonny Til.
Deborah brought the group to appear in a talent show but they lost. They all returned to Baltimore and
could have easily disappeared into the abyss of lost hopes. Deborah persevered and returned to New York determined to succeed. Through a combination
of skill, luck, bravery, charm and sheer will she landed a recording contract with Jerry Blaine, owner of Jubilee Records.
He contrived a new label to showcase this group. He also gave them a new name, the Orioles. Their first song would be a Deborah Chessler composition
that she write in a bathroom on toilet paper.
On August 21st, It's A Natural Records released "It's Too Soon To Know". The rest they say is history. This record struck a chord, initially
with Black audiences, that is still reverberating today. The Mills Brothers, Ink Spots and even the Ravens, for the most part, were Black singers, singing
to white audiences. Sonny Til and the Orioles walked to center stage in those Black urban centers and the words poured out ..........................
Rhythm and Blues was truly underway. Black singers across the country heard Sonny Til and the Orioles and that's who THEY wanted to sound like.
Obviously Rhythm and Blues didn't just occur by four or five guys getting together to sing. It was the culmination of a very long and
arduous "Journey". That "Journey" isn't really over but at one of the stops along the way, it left us a legacy of musical achievement that
has traveled beyond our borders and is loved and cherished around the world. )
from the East Coast and West Coast Doo wop sounds,
(The Penguins "Earth Angel" was the first "pure" doo-wop record. "Earth Angel" blended pop's melodicism and lyrical innocence with the
emotional directness of gospel and R&B. A classic "ballad with a beat," the song is sung over a swaying piano triplets with sparse instrumental
backing. The yearning lead vocal and ragged background voices created an amateurish" sound in the best sense.)
from the South the sounds of Rockabilly,
the blending of the new sound of Rock mixed with the hillbilly music of the rural portions of the U.S. made famous from the SUN Record Studios,
(Without saying "it's just a feeling," rockabilly is a hard term to pin down. The simplest way may be to
describe it as picturing an exciting blend of the blues, country and gospel sounds of American music that
were prevalent, up to the mid 1950's. Mix that in with the heavier beat that was becoming more and more a
part of pop music of the day.)
a new hybred was born... Rock and Roll ???
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Rock and roll From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
THE ORIGINS OF ROCK 'n' ROLL
History-of-rock
The Golden Decade - 1955 to 1964
Which Was the First Rock Record?
#1
Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup: That's All Right Mama (1946)
Elvis Presley, Scotty and Bill: That's All Right, Mama (1954)
#2
Wynonie Harris: Good Rockin' Tonight (1948)
Which Was the First Rock Record?
You Decide:
Who was it that first named Rock and Roll music?
Hardrock Gunter
The Anthem Of Rock And Roll
"Rock Around the Clock"
The "King" of Rock and Roll
"Elvis Presley"
The "Home" of Rock and Roll
"Sun Records"
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