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Origins of Rock and Roll

Main article: Origins of rock and roll

More precisely, in musical and social terms, rock and roll was born in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s. During that time, processes of active cross-fertilisation took place between country and western music (predominantly played and heard by white people), western swing, and rhythm and blues (R&B), which itself comprised a variety of genres (including, for example, jump blues, Chicago blues, and doo-wop) and was predominantly played and heard by black people. These processes of exchange and mixing were fuelled by shared experiences in the Second World War, and by the spread of radio and records. Several records of this period have been most frequently cited by various authorities as “the first rockoll record.” These include:

Sister Rosetta Tharpe’s Strange Things Happening Everyday (1944)

“Good Rockin’ Tonight” by Roy Brown (1947), later covered by Wynonie Harris

“Rock the Joint”  either the original 1949 version by Jimmy Preston or the 1952 version by Bill Haley

“The Fat Man”  by Fats Domino, recorded in December, 1949

“Rocket 88″  either Jackie Brenston’s original, recorded on March 5, 1951 with Ike Turner and the Kings of Rhythm, or Bill Haley’s cover, later in 1951

Bill Haley’s “Rock Around the Clock” (recorded on April 12, 1954) a cover of Sonny Dae and His Knights 1953 song

Elvis Presley’s “That’s All Right (Mama)” (recorded in July 1954), a cover of Arthur “Big Boy” Crudup’s 1946 song.

However, there are many other candidates, and many of the threads which together made up rock and roll music can be traced back to much earlier precursor records. The book What Was the First Rock’n'Roll Record by Jim Dawson and Steve Propes discusses 50 contenders, from Illinois Jacquet’s “Blues, Part 2″ (1944) to Elvis Presley’s “Heartbreak Hotel” (1956), without reaching a definitive conclusion. In their introduction, the authors claim that since the modern definition of rock ‘n’ roll was set by disc jockey Alan Freed’s use of the term in his groundbreaking The Rock and Roll Show on New York’s WINS in late 1954, as well as at his Rock and Roll Jubilee Balls at St. Nicholas Arena in January 1955, they chose to judge their candidates according to the music Freed spotlighted: R&B combos, black vocal groups, honking saxophonists, blues belters, and several white artists playing in the authentic R&B style (Bill Haley, Elvis Presley). The artists who appeared at Freed’s earliest shows included orchestra leader Buddy Johnson, the Clovers, Fats Domino, Big Joe Turner, the Moonglows, Clyde McPhatter and the Drifters, and the Harptones. That, say Dawson and Propes, was the first music being called rock ‘n’ roll during that short time when the term caught on all over America. Because the honking tenor saxophone was the driving force at those shows and on many of the records Freed was playing, the authors began their list with a 1944 squealing and squawking live performance by Illinois Jacquet with Jazz at the Philharmonic in Los Angeles in mid-1944.

Rolling Stone’s Decree versus The King

In 2004, debate was sparked between fans of Elvis Presley as well as many in the music business who claimed “That’s All Right Mama” was the first rock and roll song, and those who feel the proper claimant should be Bill Haley’s “Rock Around the Clock” both songs celebrating their 50th anniversaries in that year. Rolling Stone Magazine took the controversial step of unilaterally declaring Presley’s song the first rock and roll recording.

Presley himself would not have agreed with either view. In his book Race, Rock and Elvis, Michael T. Bertrand quotes him on the subject:

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 colored people. Let’s face it: I can’t sing like Fats Domino can. I know that.(p. 199)

Timeline of contenders as “The First Rock and Roll Record”

The timeline below sets out some records relevant to a discussion of the “first rockoll record.” Some songs are cited as having important lyrical content, while others are seen as offering important melodic, harmonic or rhythmic influence. These songs include not only hits from the early 1950s when the music emerged on the national and international scene, but also various other precursors to what would become known as rock and roll.

1910s

1916

The first use of the phrase “rocking and rolling” on record seems to have come on Little Wonder # 339, “The Camp Meeting Jubilee” by an unnamed male vocal quartet. This includes the lyrics “We’ve been rockin’ an’ rolling in your arms / Rockin’ and rolling in your arms / In the arms of Moses.” Here the meaning is clearly religious rather than secular.

1920s

1922

“My Man Rocks Me (With One Steady Roll)” by Trixie Smith. Although it was played with a backbeat and was one of the first “around the clock” lyrics, this slow minor-key blues was by no means rock and roll. However, the title and lyrics make this the first recording offering the secular sexual meaning attached to the words rock and roll.

1927

“Kansas City Blues” by Jim Jackson (recorded on October 10, 1927). This was a best selling blues, suggested as one of the first million-seller records. Its melody line was re-used and developed by Charlie Patton (“Going To Move To Alabama”) and Hank Williams (“Move It On Over”) before emerging in “Rock Around The Clock”, and its lyrical content presaged Leiber and Stoller’s “Kansas City”. It contains the line “It takes a rocking chair to rock, a rubber ball to roll,” which Bill Haley would later incorporate into his 1952 recording, “Sundown Boogie.”

1928

“It’s Tight Like That” by Tampa Red with pianist Georgia Tom (Thomas A. Dorsey) (recorded on October 24, 1928) was a highly successful early hokum record, which combined bawdy rural humour with sophisticated musical technique. With his Chicago Five, Tampa Red later went on to pioneer the Chicago small group “Bluebird” sound, while Dorsey became “the father of gospel music”.

“Pine Top’s Boogie Woogie” by Clarence “Pinetop” Smith (recorded on December 29, 1928) was one of the first hit “boogie woogie” recordings, and the first to include classic rock and roll references to “the girl with the red dress on” being told to “not move a peg” until she could “shake that thing” and “mess around”. Smith’s tune itself derives from Jimmy Blythe’s 1925 recording, “Jimmy’s Blues”.

1929

“Crazy About My Baby” by Blind Roosevelt Graves and brother Uaroy, a rhythmic country blues with small group accompaniment. Researcher Gayle Dean Wardlow has stated that this “could be considered the first rock ‘n’ roll recording”. See also the Mississippi Jook Band, 1936.

1930s

1932

“Tiger Rag” by The Washboard Rhythm Kings (later known as the Georgia Washboard Stompers) was a virtually out of control performance, with a rocking washboard and unusually high energy for the early Great Depression. . It opens with a repeated one-note guitar lick that would transform into a chord in the hands of Robert Johnson, T-Bone Walker and others. This is just one of many recordings by spasm bands, jug bands, and skiffle groups that have the same wild, informal feel that early rock and roll had. After the original recording by the Original Dixieland Jass Band in 1917, “Tiger Rag” became not only a jazz standard, but was also widely covered in dance band and march orchestrations.

1934

The Boswell Sisters recorded their song “Rock and Roll”, which refers to “the rolling rocking rhythm of the sea”.

1935

Benny Goodman and his orchestra, with vocalist Helen Ward, recorded the swing tune “Get Rhythm in Your Feet and Music in Your Soul” in July 1935, with the line “… commence to rock and roll, get rhythm in your feet and music in your soul ….”

1936

“Oh! Red” by The Harlem Hamfats (recorded on April 18, 1936) was a hit record made by a small group of jazz and blues musicians assembled by J. Mayo Williams for the specific purpose of making commercially successful dance records. Viewed at the time (and subsequently by jazz fans) as a novelty group, the format became very influential, and the group’s recordings included many with sex and drugs references.

“Skippy Whippy” and “Hittin’ The Bottle Stomp” by The Mississippi Jook Band (recorded in July 1936), featuring Blind Roosevelt Graves (see 1929), were highly rhythmic instrumental recordings by a guitar-piano-tambourine trio, which had they been recorded two decades later with full amplification would have unquestionably been seen as rock and roll.

“I Believe I’ll Dust My Broom” (recorded on November 23, 1936), “Crossroad Blues” (recorded on November 27, 1936), and other recordings by Robert Johnson, while not particularly successful at the time, directly influenced the development of Chicago blues and, when reissued in the 1960s, also strongly influenced later rock musicians.

1937

“Sing, Sing, Sing” by Benny Goodman (written by Louis Prima) featured repeated drum breaks by Gene Krupa, whose musical nature and high showmanship presaged rock and roll drumming.

“Rock It For Me” by Ella Fitzgerald, with Chick Webb and his Orchestra, was a swing number featuring the lyrics “…Won’t you satisfy my soul, With the rock and roll?”

1938

“Rock Me” by Sister Rosetta Tharpe (recorded on October 31, 1938), a gospel song written by Thomas Dorsey as “Hide Me In Thy Bosom” which Tharpe performed in the style of a city blues, with ecstatic vocals and electric guitar. She changed Dorsey’s “singing” to “swinging,” and the way she rolled the “R” in “rock me” led to the phrase being taken as a double entendre, interpretable as religious or sexual. Many rock and roll stars, including Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Little Richard, have cited her music and energetic performance style as an influence.

“Ida Red” by Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys, a Western swing band, featuring electric guitar by Eldon Shamblin. The tune was recycled again some years later by Chuck Berry in “Maybellene”.

“Roll ‘Em Pete” by Pete Johnson and Joe Turner (recorded on December 30, 1938), an up-tempo boogie woogie with a hand-clapping back beat and a masterful collation of blues verses

1939

“Rockin’ Rollin’ Mama” by Buddy Jones, a 12-bar blues played in Western swing style by a white country singer and his band, including Moon Mullican on piano, featuring the following lines:

Waves on the ocean, waves in the sea,

But that gal of mine rolls just right for me

Rockin’ rollin’ mama, I love the way you rock and roll

You ease my troubled mind and pacify my weary soul”.

1940s

1940

“New Early In The Morning” and “Jivin’ The Blues” (both recorded on May 17, 1940) by John Lee “Sonny Boy” Williamson, both examples of the very influential and popular rhythmic small group Chicago blues recordings on Lester Melrose’s Bluebird label, and among the first on which drums (by Fred Williams) were prominently recorded.

“Down the Road a Piece” by the Will Bradley Orchestra, a smooth rocking boogie number, was recorded in August of this year with drummer “Eight Beat Mack” Ray McKinley sharing the vocals with the song’s writer, Don Raye. The song would go on to become a rock and roll standard, recorded by hundreds of rock artists, among them being Amos Milburn, Chuck Berry, The Rolling Stones, Jerry Lee Lewis, Foghat, and Bruce Springsteen. But the 1940 original by Will Bradley holds up as the first truly rocking version of the song.

The “eight beats” in McKinley’s nickname and the popular phrase “eight to the bar” in many songs indicate the newness of the shift from the four beats per bar of jazz to boogie woogie’s eight beats per bar that is characteristic of rock and roll to this day.

“Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy” by The Andrews Sisters contains numerous proto-rock and roll elements. This is the group’s best-known example, though they also recorded other proto-rock recordings such as “Beat Me Daddy Eight to the Bar.”It is notable is that both of these songs were written by the same man, namely, Don Raye.

1942

“Flying Home” by Lionel Hampton and his Orchestra, tenor sax solo by Illinois Jacquet, recreated and refined live by Arnett Cobb, a model for rock and roll solos ever since: emotional, honking, long, not just an instrumental break but the keystone of the song. The Benny Goodman Sextet had a popular hit in 1939 with a subdued “jazz chamber music” version of the same song featuring guitarist Charlie Christian. In 1944, Jacquet recorded an even more “honking” solo on “Blues, Part 2″, billed as by “Jazz at the Philharmonic”.

“Mean Old World” by T-Bone Walker is an early classic by this hugely influential guitarist, often cited as the first song in which he fully found his sound. B. B. King credits Walker as inspiring him to take up the electric guitar, but his influence extends far beyond the blues to jazz and of course rock and roll. “Mean Old World” has a one-chord guitar lick in it which would be further developed by fellow Texas bluesman Goree Carter, Elmore James and most famously, Chuck Berry. Walker’s 1947 “T-Bone Jumps Again” and “T-Bone Shuffle” also show off his picking prowess.

1943

“The Joint is Really Jumpin’ at Carnegie Hall” performed by Judy Garland and Jose Iturbi in the film Thousands Cheer is notable not only for its boogie-woogie arrangement but for the lyric “when they start to rock” which uses the word “rock” in a purely musical sense (as opposed to its more common use at this time as a double entendre for sex). But Garland was far from being the first to use the term “rocking” in a musical sense in a movie. She was beaten to it by 5 years, because in 1938, Gertrude Niesen sang the song “Rockin’ The Town” in the movie, Start Cheering, and The Boswell Sisters five years before in Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round with “Rock and Roll” (although it should be noted the Boswell song is strictly about the rocking and rolling of ocean waves and has no musical or sexual reference).

1944

“Straighten Up and Fly Right” by the Nat King Cole Trio, very light on the rocking, but a popular hit with lyrics from an African American folk tale, sounding similar to Bo Diddley but without the big beat.

“I Wonder” and “Cecil’s Boogie” by Cecil Gant, early black ballad performances that became widely popular, the first of the black tenors. Cecil’s Boogie had many rock n roll undertones.

1945

“The Honeydripper” by Joe Liggins (recorded on April 20, 1945), synthesized boogie-woogie piano, jazz, and even the riff from the folk chestnut “Shortnin’ Bread” into an exciting dance performance that topped the R&B “race” charts for 18 weeks.

“Guitar Boogie” by Arthur “Guitar Boogie” Smith, the first boogie woogie played on the electric guitar, and much imitated by later country boogie guitarists.

1946

Louis Jordan’s “Choo Choo Ch’Boogie” (recorded in January 1946) and “Let the Good Times Roll” (as well as 1945’s “Caldonia”) were hugely influential in style and content, and popular across both black and white audiences. Their producer Milt Gabler went on to produce Bill Haley’s hits, and Jordan’s guitarist Carl Hogan, on such songs as “Ain’t That Just Like A Woman” (also 1946), was a direct influence on Chuck Berry’s guitar style.

“House of Blue Lights” by Freddie Slack and Ella Mae Morse (recorded on February 12, 1946), the first white artists to perform what is now seen as R&B.

“Boogie Woogie Baby,” “Freight Train Boogie” and “Hillbilly Boogie” by The Delmore Brothers, featuring harmonica player Wayne Raney, were typical up-tempo recordings, heavily influenced by the blues, by this highly influential country music duo, who had first recorded in 1931. One of their most influential records, “Blues Stay Away From Me”, was recorded in 1949.

1947

“Move It On Over” by Hank Williams, which used a similar melody to Jim Jackson’s 1927 “Kansas City Blues” and which was itself used in “Rock Around The Clock”.

“Ten Gallon Boogie” and other tracks by Pee Wee King and his Golden West Cowboys presage “Rock Around the Clock.” Their vocals were standard pop/western, but their arrangements and melodies, opening with aggressive accordion chords linked it to Bill Haley and the Comets’ Johnny Grande who played that instrument in the Comets’ early work as a Western Swing band and later playing rock on some films and touring.

“Oakie Boogie” by Jack Guthrie, a Western swing country boogie.

“Good Rocking Tonight”, in separate versions by Roy Brown and Wynonie Harris (recorded on December 28, 1947), both black artists. Brown’s original version is a jump blues that parodies gospel music, and for the first time fuses the spiritual sense of “rocking” with the secular meanings of dancing and sex. Harris’ version is much more up-beat and rhythmic, closer to rock and roll, and led to a craze for blues with “rocking” in the title. Later spiritedly covered by Elvis Presley and less spiritedly by Pat Boone.

“We’re Gonna Rock, We’re Gonna Roll” by Wild Bill Moore (recorded on December 18, 1947), the first commercially successful “honking” sax record, with the title as a background chant.

“I Can’t Be Satisfied” by Muddy Waters, recorded in 1947 and first released in 1948, which contains all the elements of what would soon become rock n’ roll: a bass/snare/electric guitar combo playing blues with a heavy backbeat. The single was a big hit in the Chicago area. Recorded by local record company Aristocrat, it was one of the last singles on the label before it changed its name to Chess Records, which became one of the most important players in the early development of rock n’ roll and electric blues music.

1948

“Chicken Shack Boogie” by Amos Milburn, a piano-led boogie with references to out-of-hours drinking and cavorting, which became a huge hit.

“Rovin’ Eyes” by Bill Haley and the Four Aces of Western Swing. It is a highly overlooked song that is backed with a standard Western Swing tune called Candy and Women. This song sounds like the later Bill Haley. It has all the elements of 50’s Rock ‘n’ Roll. The song was pretty fast for its time and almost broke the boundaries of Western Swing.

1949

“Drinkin’ Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee” by Stick McGhee and his Buddies (recorded on February 14, 1949), an early “party” song later recorded by Jerry Lee Lewis.

“Rock And Roll” by Wild Bill Moore, actually recorded the previous year. A rocking boogie where Moore repeats throughout the song “Were going to rock and roll, we’re going to roll and rock” and ends the song with the line, “Look out mamma going to do the rock and roll.”

Another song was “Rock and Roll Blues” by Erline ‘Rock and Roll’ Harris, a female singer, with the lyrics “I’ll turn out the lights, we’ll rock and roll all night”

“We’re Gonna Rock this Joint Tonight”, also known as “Rock the Joint”, first recorded by Jimmy Preston in May 1949, is often considered a prototype rock and roll song. It was covered in 1951 by Jimmy Cavallo and in 1952 by Bill Haley and the Saddlemen; Marshall Lytle, bass player for the Comets, claims this was one of the songs that inspired Alan Freed to coin the phrase “rock and roll” to refer to the music he played.

“Saturday Night Fish Fry” by Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five (recorded on August 9, 1949) was a large and influential hit. The song tells of a New Orleans fish fry that ends with a police raid and has the repeated refrain “It was rocking”.

“The Fat Man” by Fats Domino (recorded on December 10, 1949), featuring Fats on wah-wah mouth trumpet, the first of his 35 Top 40 hits. The insistent back beat of the rhythm section dominates. The song is based on “Junker’s Blues”, by Willie “Drive’em Down” Hall.

“Rock Awhile” by Goree Carter, recorded on the Freedom label in Houston, Texas. It opens with an insistent version of T-Bone Walker’s one-chord electric guitar lick, which would be made famous later by Chuck Berry on “Maybelline.”

“Rag Mop” by Johnnie Lee Wills and Deacon Anderson is a novelty tune; the lyrics are simply the title spelled out. The song is best known from its 1950 hit recording by the Ames Brothers.

1950s

1950

“Rock Me to Sleep,” written by Benny Carter and Paul Vandervoort II and recorded by Helen Humes backed by the Marshall Royal Orchestra.

“Birmingham Bounce” by Hardrock Gunter, one of the first references to “rockin’” on the dance floor.

“(Gonna Rock and Roll) Gonna Dance All Night” by Hardrock Gunter, released after Birmingham Bounce, the main lyric stating “Gonna Rock and Roll, Gonna Dance All Night” may be the first use of the phrase “Rock and Roll” in a purely musical context.

“Hot Rod Race” performed by Arkie Shibley and His Mountain Dew Boys, highlighting the role of fast cars in teen culture.

“Sixty Minute Man” by the Dominoes (recorded on December 30, 1950). This was the first (and most explicit) big R&B hit to cross over to the pop charts, and the group itself (featuring Clyde McPhatter) appeared at many of Alan Freed’s early shows.

1951

“How High The Moon” by Les Paul and Mary Ford (recorded on January 4, 1951), the first big hit record to use electronic “gimmicks” like overdubbing, and one of the first with an electric guitar solo.

“Rocket 88″ (recorded on March 5, 1951) by Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats (actually Ike Turner and the Kings of Rhythm), and covered later in the year by Bill Haley and the Saddlemen. Both versions of this song have been declared the definitive first rock and roll record by differing authorities. Brenston’s was highly influential for its sound and lyrical content, and was a big hit. It reached #1 on the Billboard Rhythm and Blues chart on 9 June 1951 and set Sun Records on the road to success. Haley’s version was one of the first white covers of an R&B hit, and set the course of his future career. Haley ’s version had more drive to it, and the vocals were improved..

“Boogie Woogie Blues”, recorded in New York in mid-May 1951 by Charlie Graci. Later he would add an “e” to his name and, in 1957, his original version of “Butterfly” would sell more than two million copies.

1952

“Hound Dog” by Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton (recorded on August 13, 1952), a raucous R&B song recorded with Johnny Otis’ band (uncredited for contractual reasons), written by white teenagers Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller..

“Rockin’ An’ Rollin’”. Recorded by Charlie Gracie in New York in 1952.

1953

“Gee” by The Crows (recorded on February 10, 1953). This was a big hit in 1954, and is credited by rock n roll authority, Jay Warner, as being “the first Rock n Roll hit by a rock and roll group”.

“Crazy Man, Crazy” by Bill Haley and his Comets (recorded in April 1953) was the first of his recordings to make the Billboard pop chart. This was not a cover, but an original composition. Haley said he heard the phrase at high-school dances his band was playing.

“Mess Around” by Ray Charles (recorded in May 1953), one of his first hits. It was written by Ahmet Ertegn, with some lyrics riffing off of the 1929 boogie woogie classic, “Pinetop’s Boogie Woogie”.

1954

“Shake, Rattle and Roll” by Big Joe Turner (recorded on February 15, 1954), covered later by Bill Haley and his Comets. Turner’s version topped the Billboard R&B chart in June 1954. Haley’s version, which was substantially different in lyric and arrangement, actually predating the success of “Rock Around the Clock” by several months though it was recorded later. Elvis Presley’s later 1956 version combined Haley’s arrangement with Turner’s lyrics, but was not a substantial hit..

“Sh-Boom” by the Chords (recorded on March 15, 1954), and The Crew-cuts. In this case, the latter was a pale imitation. The song is considered a pioneer of the doo-wop variant.

“Rock Around the Clock” by Bill Haley and his Comets (recorded on April 12, 1954) was the first number one rock and roll record. This song is often credited with propelling rock into the mainstream, at least the teen mainstream. At first it had lack-luster sales but, following the success of two other Haley recordings, the aforementioned “Shake Rattle and Roll” and “Dim, Dim The Lights”, was later included in the movie Blackboard Jungle about a raucous high-school, which exposed it to a wider audience.. The song had first been recorded in late 1953 by Sonny Dae & His Knights, a novelty group led by Paschal Vennitti, whose recording had become a modest local hit at the time Haley recorded his version.

“That’s All Right (Mama)” by Elvis Presley (recorded in July 1954); this cover of Arthur Crudup’s tune was Elvis’ first single. Its b-side was a rocking version of Bill Monroe’s bluegrass song “Blue Moon Of Kentucky”, itself recognized by various rock singers as an influence on the music..

“I Got a Woman” by Ray Charles (recorded in November 1954); composed with band mate Renald Richard, and first performed while on tour with T-Bone Walker, this was not only Charles’ first really big hit, but is also widely considered to be the first soul song, combining gospel and R&B.

1955

“Bo Diddley” by Bo Diddley (recorded on March 2, 1955)..

“Maybellene” by Chuck Berry (recorded on May 21, 1955)..

“Tutti Frutti” by Little Richard (recorded on September 14, 1955)..

“Blue Suede Shoes” by Carl Perkins (recorded 19 December 1955), including elements of rockabilly and country music. Later made more famous by Elvis Presley, Perkins’ original version was an early rock ‘n’ roll standard..

References

^ G. F. Wald, Shout, Sister, Shout!: The Untold Story of Rock-and-Roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe (Beacon Press, 2008).

^ a b http://www.hoyhoy.com/dawn_of_rock.htm

^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y Jim Dawson and Steve Propes, What Was The First Rock’n'Roll Record, 1992, ISBN 0-571-12939-0

^ Little Wonder Records, Bubble Books, Emerson, Victor, Harper, Columbia, Waterson, Berlin and Snyder

^ Trixie Smith

^ Trail of the Hellhound: Jim Jackson

^ a b c Peter J. Silvester, A Left Hand Like God : a history of boogie-woogie piano (1989), ISBN 0-306-80359-3.

^ Gayle Dean Wardlow, Chasin’ That Devil Music, 1998

^ Press release – Roots of Rock and Roll to be honored with Blues Trail Marker

^ Yanow, Scott, “Washboard Rhythm Kings: Biography”

^ Sleevenotes to CD Let’s Get Drunk And Truck, Fabulous FABCD 253, 2003

^ Blind Roosevelt Graves and Brother

^ “Sister Rosetta” Tharpe (19151973) – Encyclopedia of Arkansas

^ Wald, Gayle, Shout, Sister, Shout!, p. 42

^ Wald, Gayle, Shout, Sister, Shout!, p. ix

^ Bob Wills

^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Nick Tosches, Unsung Heroes Of Rock’n'Roll, 1991, ISBN 0-436-53203-4

^ The Straight Dope: Who invented the term “rock ‘n’ roll”?

^ Biography: John Lee Williamson

^ The Andrews Sisters Bio

^ Helen Oakley Dance and B. B. King, Stormy Monday, p. 164

^ Dahl, Bill, T-Bone Walker: Biography

^ NPR’s Jazz Profiles: Nat “King” Cole

^ Delmore Brothers at Country Musc Hall of Fame

^ Delmore Brothers discography

^ http://www.hoyhoy.com/

^ Erline Harris

^ Goree Carter

^ Warner, Jay, American Singing Groups: A History from 1940s to Today (2006), published by Hal Leonard Corporation, at page 137

^ Lydon, Michael, Ray Charles: Man and Music, p. 95

^ Lydon, Michael, Ray Charles: Man and Music, p. 113

^ Ray Charles (inducted 1986), Rock and Roll Hall of Fame & Museum

Further reading

Dawson, Jim; & Propes, Steve (1992). What Was the First Rock Roll Record?. Faber & Faber. ISBN 0-571-12939-0. 

See also

Origins of rock and roll

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll

Boogie woogie

Jump blues

Western swing

Doo-wop

External links

When was rock’n'roll really born? by Alexis Petridis, The Guardian, April 16, 2004

http://www.history-of-rock.com/numberonerecord.htm

Rock Before Elvis aka Morgan Wright’s HoyHoy.com – covering rock and roll’s emergence from 1948 to 1953

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- In Victoria Australia, only a licensed electrician is allowed to change a lightbulb.

- In Victoria Australia it is forbidden to wear pink hot pants after mid-day on a Sunday.

- It England, it is illegal for a cab in the City of London to carry rabid dogs or corpses.

- It England, it is illegal to die in the Houses of Parliament.

- It England, it is an act of treason to place a postage stamp bearing the British monarch upside down.

- In France, it is forbidden to call a pig Napoleon.

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- In Alabama, it is illegal for a driver to be blindfolded while driving a vehicle.

- In Ohio, it is against state law to get a fish drunk.

- Royal Navy ships that enter the Port of London must provide a barrel of rum to the Constable of the Tower of London.

- In the UK, a pregnant woman can legally relieve herself anywhere she wants – even, if she so requests, in a policeman?s helmet.

- In Lancashire, no person is permitted after being asked to stop by a constable on the seashore to incite a dog to bark.

- In Miami, Florida, it is illegal to skateboard in a police station.

- In Indonesia, the penalty for masturbation is decapitation.

- In the UK, all men over the age of 14 must carry out two hours of longbow practice a day.

- In London, Freemen are allowed to take a flock of sheep across London Bridge without being charged a toll; they are also allowed to drive geese down Cheapside.

- In San Salvador, drunk drivers can be punished by death before a firing squad.

- In the UK, a man who feels compelled to urinate in public can do so only if he aims for his rear wheel and keeps his right hand on his vehicle.

- In Florida, unmarried women who parachute on Sundays can be jailed.

- In Kentucky, it is illegal to carry a concealed weapon more than six-feet long.

- In Chester, Welshmen are banned from entering the city before sunrise and from staying after sunset.

- In the city of York, it is legal to murder a Scotsman within the ancient city walls, but only if he is carrying a bow and arrow.

- In Boulder, Colorado, it is illegal to kill a bird within the city limits and also to “own” a pet – the town?s citizens, legally speaking, are merely “pet minders”.

- In Vermont, women must obtain written permission from their husbands to wear false teeth.

- In London, it is illegal to flag down a taxi if you have the plague.

- In Bahrain, a male doctor may legally examine a woman?s genitals but is forbidden from looking directly at them during the examination; he may only see their reflection in a mirror.

- The head of any dead whale found on the British coast is legally the property of the King; the tail, on the other hand, belongs to the Queen – in case she needs the bones for her corset.

- In Eureka, Nevada, USA, it is still illegal for men with moustaches to kiss women.

- In Alexandria, Minnesota, USA, it is still illegal for a man who has garlic, onions or sardines on his breath to have sex with his wife.

- In Logan County, Colorado, USA, it is still illegal to kiss a woman while she is asleep.

- In Providence, Rhode Island, USA, it is still illegal for shop owners to sell toothpaste and toothbrushes to the same customer on a Sunday.

- In Zion, Illinois, USA, it is still illegal to offer cigars to your pets.

- In St. Louis, Missouri, USA, it is still illegal for firemen to rescue women who are still in their nightdresses.

- In Ames, Iowa, USA, it is still illegal for men to have three sips of beer while they are in bed with their wives.

- In Maryland, USA, it is still illegal for radio stations to play Randy Newman?s song ?Short people?.

- In Oklahoma, USA, it is still illegal to make faces at a dog, a crime that could result in a prison sentence.

- In Texas, USA, criminals are still required to give their victims at least 24 hours oral or written notice giving details of the crime they are about to commit.

- In Washington, USA, it is still an offence to pretend that you have rich parents.

- In Baltimore, Maryland, USA, it is still an offence to take a lion into a cinema.

- In Tremonton, Utah, USA, it is still an offence for a woman to have sexual intercourse with a man in an ambulance. She can be charged with a misdemeanour and have her name printed in the local paper.

- In Oxford, Ohio, USA, it is still illegal for a woman to undress in front of a picture of a man.

- In Miami, Florida, USA, it is still illegal for anyone to imitate an animal.

- In Afghanistan the Taliban militia banned women from wearing white socks just in case men find them attractive. The police are also ordered windows to be painted black to stop women being seen from the outside.

- In the USA impotence is grounds for divorce in 24 states.

- In Illinois, USA, it is against the law to give a lighted cigar to a pet.

- In Iowa, USA, it is against the law to kiss for more than five minutes.

- In International Falls, Minnesota, USA, it is against the law for a dog to chase a cat up a telegraph pole and dog owners can be fined for this.

- In Kentucky, USA, it is illegal to carry and ice cream cone in your pocket.

- In Louisiana, USA, if you bite someone with your own teeth it is classed as ?Simple assault? but if you bite someone with your dentures it is classed as ?aggravated assault.?

- In Massachusetts, USA, it is illegal for mourners to eat no more than three sandwiches at a wake.

- In Chico, California, USA, the law says that anybody who detonates a nuclear device within the city limits is liable to a fine of $500.

- In Lebanon any man may legally have sex with any animal just as long as it is a female.

- In Conorsville, Wisconsin, USA, it is illegal for a man to fire a gun while his wife is having an orgasm.

- In Tremonton, Utah, USA, it is illegal for a woman to have sex with a man while riding in an ambulance.

- In Oblong, Illinois, it is illegal to make love while fishing or hunting on your wedding day.

- In Bahrain it is illegal for a doctor to look directly at a woman?s genitals while he is examining her although he is permitted to see their reflection in a mirror.

- In Ames, Iowa, USA, a husband may not take more than three gulps of beer while lying in bed with his wife.

- In Hastings, Nebraska, USA, the law says that hotel owners have to provide a clean white cotton nightshirt for each guest. Also no couples are allowed to have sex in the hotel unless they are wearing these nightshirts.

- In Willowdale, Oregon, USA, no man may curse while having sex with his wife.

- In Indonesia the punishment for masturbation is execution by decapitation.

- In Kingsville, Texas, USA, it is against the law for pigs to have sex on airport property.

- In Florida it is illegal to have sex with a porcupine.

- During World War I anyone found to be a homosexual in the French army was executed.

- Hundreds of years ago in Japan anyone who attempted to leave the country was instantly executed.

- The very first country to abolish capital punishment was Austria in 1787.

- In Wetaskiwin, Alberta, Canada, in 1917, it was illegal to tie a male horse next to a female horse.

- In San Diego, USA, hypnotism is banned by public schools.

- Chewing gum is illegal in Singapore.

- In Paraguay duelling is legal just as long as both parties are registered blood donors.

- In Milan, Italy, there is still a law that requires citizens to smile at all times or risk a hefty fine. The only exceptions are visiting hospitals and funerals.

- In Switzerland every citizen is required by law to have access to a bomb shelter.

- In Burma it is illegal to get internet access. If a person is found in possession of a modem he can be imprisoned.

- In Bangladesh it is against the law for schoolchildren to cheat at school exams. Pupils as young as 15 can be imprisoned for this.

- Until 1984 Belgians were made to choose their children?s names from a list of 1500 drawn up in the days of Napoleon.

- In Romania, in 1935, Mickey Mouse was banned because the authorities thought that the sight of a 10ft high rodent on screen would terrify the nation?s children.

- Donald Duck comics were once banned in Finland because he never wore pants.

- Belgium is the only country that has never imposed censorship on adult films.

- Karate films were banned in Iraq in 1979.

- In Indiana, USA, during the 1950?s, all Robin Hood films were banned because authorities thought that robbing the rich to give to the poor was an act of communism.

- In Iceland it was once against the law to own a pet dog.

- The bloodhound is the only animal in the world whose evidence is admissable in court.

- In Basle, Switzerland, in 1471, a cockerel was found guilty in a court of law for laying an egg “In defiance of natural law”. The bird was then burnt at the stake as a “Devil in disguise”.

- In Stelvio, Italy, in 1519, a court issued a warrant for the arrest of a gang of moles that had severely damaged crops. The moles were sumoned to court but when they failed to appear they were sentenced to exile.

- In South Bend, Indiana, USA, a monkey was once found guilty of smoking a cigarette.

- In Munster, in 1670, the courts banished a plague of fleas from the city, prohibiting them from returning for ten years.

- In Seville, Spain, in 1983, an alsatian dog was arrested for snatching handbags from shoppers.

- Judge J.H. Logan from California, USA, created the Loganberry fruit. He crossed a wild blackberry with a cultivated raspberry and came up with his own fruit.

- In ancient Sparta men were required by law to eat at least two pounds of meat every day. This was supposed to make them brave.

- In Turkey, during the 16th and 17th centuries, it was illegal to drink coffee and anyone caught doing so was sentenced to death.

- In Venice all gondolas have to be painted black unless they belong to a high ranking official.

- In England, in 1865, a law was passed stating that any self propelled carriage on an English highway had to have a crew of three, one of whom had to walk in front of the carriage with a red flag to warn horse drawn vehicles of it?s approach.

- In Rome, 2,000 years ago, Julius Caesar banned chariots from the centre of Rome to ease congestion.

- In London, England, there is still a law that states London Taxi cabs must carry a bale of hay at all times.

- In Bermuda, up until 1948, all private cars were banned.

- At one time it was against the law to slam car doors in Switzerland.

- In Britain, in 1888, a law was passed which stated that every cyclist had to constantly ring the bell on his bicycle non-stop while the machine was moving.

- In Singapore it is illegal for a person to walk around the house naked and not flushing the toilet. Also a person can be executed if they are found in possession of more than 200g of cannabis resin. Oral sex is banned unless it is used only during foreplay and if a person is caught littering the streets he is forced to make an appearance on TV with a bib around his neck saying “I?m a litterer.”

- In Birmingham, England, it is illegal for a man and a woman to have sex on church steps after sundwon.

- In Iowa, USA, it is illegal for horses to eat fire hydrants.

- In Denmark it is not illegal for a convicted prisoner to escape from prison. If the escapee is caught he only serves the rest of his sentence.

- In Denmark it is illegal to start your car without first checking to see if there are any children asleep underneath it.

- In Thailand it is illegal to step on a banknote, leave your house without wearing underwear and if you drop a piece of bubblegum on the pavement you can be fined $600.

- In Thailand all cinema goers must stand up during the National Anthem before a film starts.

- In Switzerland it is against the law for men to urinate standing up after 10pm which is the same time that it is illegal to flush the toilet.

- In Canada, by law, 1 out of every 5 songs on the radio must be sung by a Canadian and in British Columbia it is illegal to kill a Sasquatch or Bigfoot if one is ever found.

- In Alberta a released convict is entitled to a gun and a horse to ride out of town on.

- In London, England, it is illegal to use a camera tripod, throw a stick for your dog or use an offensive powder like pepper on your jacket potato in any park.

- In London, England, wife beating is legal just as long as it is not after 9pm and it doesn?t disturb the neighbours.

- In London, England, it is illegal to impersonate a Chelsea pensioner which once carried the death sentence in the 19th century.

- In Lebanon men are allowed to have sex with any other animal just as long as it is a female. If a man is caught having sex with a male animal then the penalty is death.

- Non-Christians have been banned from being within 20 metres of churches in Rovato, Italy. The move, instigated by the local government, has angered police because a major highway passes within 15 metres of one of the churches. Officers claim that they cannot be expected to stop motorists and demand to see a Baptism Certificate.

- North Carolina has a law to ban people from swearing in front of cadavers. The law also sets out guidelines transporting the recently deceased after one funeral firm was caught piling stiffs onto the back of a pick-up truck. It outlaws ?profanity, indecent or obscene language in the presence of a dead human body? making it technically illegal to say the ?f? word in front of a hearse!

- In Minnesota, USA, it is still against the law to hang male and female underwear together on the same washing line.

- In Indiana, USA, in the 1950?s anything to do with Robin Hood was banned on the grounds that robbing from from the rich to give to the poor was a communist act!

- In England, in 1837, a law was passed that entitled a woman to bite off a man?s nose if he kissed her against her will!

- The Egyptian government banned male belly-dancing in 1837 because of the enthusiastic riots that it caused.

- In Arizona, USA, it is illegal to hunt camels.

- In California, USA, in 1986, Judge Samuel King became so annoyed that jurors were absent from his court because of heavy rain that he issued a decree which stated “I hereby order that it cease raining by Tuesday.”
Amazingly it stopped raining on Tuesday and California suffered a 5 year drought.
In 1991 the judge then decreed “Rain shall fall in California beginning February 27th.” Later that day California had the heaviest rainfall in ten years.

- In Alexandria, Minneapolis, USA, it is against the law for a man to make love to a woman with the smell of sardines on his breath.                  ayubs.weebly.com

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