Sister Rosetta Tharpe-Strange Things Happening Everyday

[MaryannDamico]

I love her! She is awesome! I think she started rock and roll. I'm working on a gospel album and I just love her style. Inspiration!!!!

[redredshoes]

great song, terrible upload

[hsojeliah]

This was on the Chef Boyardee commercial!

[xobbitua]

Definitely first record of RnR, besides it may be considered the first reggae, since it is a religious music ;-)

[5871248]

@cannonball  you damn straight ...Delta cats (with Ike Turner too) couple of months before Bill Haley

[buddhabder]

It sounds like Rock n Roll to me.

[lyon406]

It is my opinion that Rocket 88 by Bill Haley and the Comets(Saddlemen) recorded in late 1951 is the first true Rock & Roll song.

[teewoods]

@lyon406

Hahaha pls! Lets even put this song aside go and listen to Roy Brown - Good Rockin' Tonight 1947 years before Bill copied so many others

[cannonball1821]

@lyon406 Rocket 88 was Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats, not Bill Haley.

[TGram29]

i'm here because of a chef boyardee

[lyon406]

This is not a "rock and roll" song. This is R&B bordering on rockabilly, same as Brestons version of Rocket 88.

[djswamptv]

@lyon406 What would you consider the first rock n roll song to be?

[wkunzelman1]

@djswamptv According to musician and writer Billy Vera:

"Rock 'n' roll was an evolutionary process – we just looked around and it was here.... To name any one record as the first would make any of us look a fool."

[wkunzelman1]

@wkunzelman1 That said, this is still an important precursor to rock & roll.

[duckseyeview]

go ahead and upload the clean version

[iluvdorinda]

If is wasn't for the Church of God in Christ, there would be no rock and roll as we now know it.

COGIC has produced outstanding artists for many years, and Sister Rosetta Tharp shall forever stand a lasting testament and monument of great American music.

[closedcircle1]

Does anyone have 'What is this thing called soul?'

[upthcreek]

timeless, and in the moment...

[Agathogatos]

Please is anyone able to wright the lyrics of this song??????

I searched for them but there were many other songs named "Strange ....." : )

[KojiRecords]

The distinction of the first rock and roll record falls between Jackie Breston-"Rocket 88" which should have been correctly listed as Ike Turner & His Band, Vocal by Jackie Breston (A Sun Recording, Licensed to Chess Records)and Fats Domino-"The Fat Man" 1949-Imperial Records), the latter artist said in an interview that rock and roll had been playing for over 10 years previously as rhythm and blues). One cannot deny the rock and roll appeal of the immortal Sister Rosetta Tharpe on Decca Records

[capitalsown]

This isn't quite rock. It's very close. If I had to describe it, I would call it proto-rock. It has many rock elements, but it's not quite there yet. It's very hard to determine what was the first "rock n roll" song. You can't put a definite line between genres.

[Ivoryticklermama]

Sister Rosetta makes me feel good.

I want to dance and worship the Lord.

5 *****

Elva Joan Atwell

[666DILLINGER]

its definitely rock n roll anyone know any rock n roll songs earlier than this?

[doubleotwentyone]

She rocks! What a guitar player. Such attitude.

[pop0it0rocket]

Thanks for posting this! Outstanding.

[daveandthealleycats]

you gotta here Sleepy laBeefs version of it, it rocks

[watermelonridge]

NOTICE: The entire catalog of Sis. Rosetta's music has been released on C.D. You can find it on Document Records. :-) What a joy for all of us who love her sound! I have transferred many of her licks to the piano over the years! She yet continues to inspire.

[ppkbond]

Rosetta was a very under-rated guitar

player. Listening to her just makes me

feel good. What a lady !!

[bobluman]

Roseanne Cash said that this was her father's favorite song. Sister Rosetta was also a big favorite of Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard. Personally, I could listen to her music 24/7. Anyone who has never heard her music is definitely missing something special.

[lamontlewis]

@bobluman She also was a major influence on Patsy Cline, according to Patsy. Listening to Patsy sing "Life's Railway to Heaven" I hear Sister Rosetta's influence in the way Patsy ends a note.

[whitefalcon64]

I'd like the help of some of you, to know all the lyrics. Thanks in advance.

[whitefalcon64]

Hey folks, a great song. But I want you introduce you to the british version of the song. REALLY STUNNING !!. Was done in the 50's by Ottilie Patterson with Chris Barber Jazz Band. Check it, and you will tell me. Greetings from Spain.

[yiprock]

It's a great song, no doubt about it. Thanks for posting it. The hum makes it difficult to listen to, though. And the title is "Strange Things Happening Every Day."

[beerrox711]

yeah i was going to upload a direct version but then someone uploaded it too and i forgot to do it

[esharpcool]

thanks God,she is in the Arkansaw Jazz Hall of Fame.

[LizzyDouglas]

Rock & Roll ?? In my ears this is plain Boogie Woogie and yes I know, R&R is nothing more or less than Boogie Woogie, though many do not realise this, but to be honest a very nice 'swinging' song by "The Sister", love her music!

[MehefinHeulog]

superb! thankyou so much

just tonight heard Bryn Haworth sing this at St.James' Church in Darwen! and that rocked too

[skinnerprincipal]

Thanks for this. It was driving me crazy trying to find out what the heck this piece of music was.

The buzzing's annoying though. What is it?

[beerrox711]

the buzzing was a bad connection but ill probably upload a better version later

[skinnerprincipal]

Great song though. I miss music like this. Thanks for the good feedback on my song btw.

J.

[N73B60]

@beerrox711 it has been 3 years since you said you would upload a better version without this annoying buzzing.