steve put the crack pipe down for a sec ... you doin Ike and the kings of rythym a huge diservice this is just wrong ... MAKE IT RIGHT OR TAKE IT DOWN
The song was written by Jackie Brenston and it was he and his band that went into Sun Studios to record it, featuring Ike on the piano, along with his band, and the record was released on Chicago's Chess Records back in 1951. The Delta Cats certainly did exist. Give credit where credit is due. The song is Jackie Brenson's.
@keagon839 "I thought Elvis made rock." That's a complete myth -- a myth that Elvis himself didn't believe or claim. A number of recordings like Jimmy Preston's "Rock The Joint," Jimmy Smith's "Rock That Boogie," and Roy Brown's "Boogie At Midnight" (which can all be heard on youtube) were made before Dec. '49 -- before any rock and roll recordings by Fats Domino, Bill Haley, Little Richard, Louis Prima, etc., and five whole years before Elvis or Chuck Berry recorded.
you cant talk about rock and roll without blues! robert johnson is the King of Rock and Roll, Charlie Patton is the king of rock and roll, lowell fulson, fats domino, little walter, muddy waters, willie dixon, jimmy rogers, howlin wolf, bo diddley, john lee hooker, hubert sumlin....lok at all all of the people and then you will know what rock and roll is
You say "So here you have the wrong audio with this video. I hope some good will still come of it." um......how could it possibly? Just take this down - you're wasting people's time and it's not cool.
Well, that was confusing. What's with the whiter-than-white hipster ballad playing in the background of your slideshow about the first-ever rock'n'roll song?
Examples of rock and roll recordings from 1949 are "Rock The Joint" by Jimmy Preston and "Boogie At Midnight" by Roy Brown. Those are from shortly before Fats Domino recorded "The Fat Man" (which doesn't sound as rock and roll as they do), they're from two years before "Rocket 88," and they're from six years before Chuck Berry began recording for Chess.
My 13-year old grandson thinks Rock & Roll starts with Metallica, and disrespects anything that came before. I've tried to explain the origins, and that basically, Elvis made R&R/R&B/Rockabilly or whatever you want to call it "safe" for white kids to enjoy. Then we discovered the originals. I declare that Chuck Berry is the King of Rock and Roll. Little Richard was the Clown Prince. Elvis was the gateway drug that hooked us all on this incredible music.
This is true and Jackie Brenston did a great job recording this song. I've stood in the studio at Sun records. It's amazing to think of all the incredible musicians that created magic in that room !... My favorite version of Rocket 88 was recorded by James Cotton on the 100% cotton album with Matt "guitar " Murphy on the Gibson SG.
Amede Ardoin and Dennis McGee were rockin back in the 20s and 30s. You hear Amede singing at the top of his lungs and you instantly recognise where Little Richard got it from!
"Rocket 88" was NOT the first rock 'n' roll song. It wasn't even the first car song. It was based on Jimmy Liggins' "Cadillac Boogie" from 1948. Before that, Jimmy Preston released "Rock This Joint" and Roy Brown had "Good Rockin' Tonight". The first song with rock and roll in the title was "Rock And Roll" by The Boswell Sisters in 1933. Before that, Trixie Smith (1922) released "My Daddy Rocks Me With A Steady Roll" on Black Swan records - the first black owned label.
Nice vid but I would argue that the first "rock and roll" song was Good Rockin’ Tonight by Roy Brown from 1947- 4 years before. Hence the Beatles on Sgt. Pepper in 1967 singing "it was 20 years ago today, Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play".
The truth is that there is no one "first ever" r'n'r song. R'n'r is essentially a blend of the melodies of country&western with blues chords and the rhythm of swing jazz - particularly an uptempo version of the doo-wop "backbeat". But all that stuff goes WAY back, in various combinations, by both (predominantly) African-American artists and (to a lesser extent) Caucasians. I've got a recording of Jimmie Rodgers (arguably the first Country star) playing with none other than LOUIS ARMSTRONG!
If I were searching for the roots of R'n'r, the first place I would look is gospel music, since that's where most of these elements first started blending together... it was (Black) gospel music that most directly influenced Elvis (along with Little Richard), plus the term "rock and roll" comes from gospel... it first described the rocking of a ship- often Noah's ark- described in many songs of the "Spiritualist" (African American) churches of the 1800s, then described the spirit moving them.
@dialectic76 agreed....rock 'n roll is essentially Gospel,Blues,R&B and Country mixed together in one way or another...and I mean I listen to old gospel and its amazing how many elements you hear in Gospel stuff from the '30s even.
@jannyrcobs: I doubt that Berry was playing much of any kind of music in 1945, since he was in jail for armed robbery at the time... he was definitely playing as a sideman in various bands in the early 50s, though, and in 1953 joined Johnnie Johnston's band, which covered country and western songs, (or as Berry called them, "hillbilly songs") as well as blues... some people say that he copied everything he knew from T-Bone Walker, anyway.....
@gmdinformation actually if you want to dig back farther rock predates 1954 listen to jimmy ligging cadilliac boogie. Rock had existed prior to 1954....it just wasn't called rock yet......
@inkey2 That "is" really close. For that matter, some of the Texas Swing stuff (Jimmy Bryant and Speedy West for instance) came close to being rock music even before that. But I think most people from that 50s era would agree that there was something special about Rock Around the Clock that set a standard. It was the song that made every ask, "What's that!?" But you might as well ask what was the first disco song. There was a point at which funk turned into disco, but it's hard to say when.
Suggest you listen to Jimmy Liggins & His Drops of Joy "Cadillac Boogie" recorded @ Jan 1947 for Leon Rene's Exclusive Records of LA - then you'll hear where Ike Turner got the tune & idea for Rocket 88. Oh & Leon Rene was about the 1st black man to own a record company in USA. He got put out of business 1949 due to bootleggers & ripoffs. Your present audio upload is horrible. You need to make the point that your old upload is for educational purposes
Jesus had the only automobile in His time, a great big aqua blue Oldsmoblile 88, with lots of surface rust from His jaunts to the salty Dead Sea. He would ride through town at irresponsible speeds, taunting prostitutes & playing Johnny Cash on his 8 track tape deck. The Pharisees would curse him, the working men would shake their fists, & the women would swoon… Jesus had two things hanging from His rear-view mirror: a picture of James Dean, & a wineskin full of red wine. He wuz da man!
There are many records regarded as the first R'n'R songs, such as Rocket 88. Some commentators go as far back as Robert Johnson, but most of those records were really blues with a beat, or Rhythm & Blues. So people cite artists like Elmore James ('Dust My Broom') or the Chicago electric bluesmen. but I still think Fats Domino's 'The Fat Man' was the' first R'n'R record. Sticks McGee's song, 'Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee, is also a contender and it was released by Atlantic in early 1947.
YOU_THINK_"Rocket 88" was the first rock song??......on youtube listen to CADALIAC BOOGIE by jimmy liggins.......Cadaliac Boogie pre-dates rocket 88 by at least 2 years and you will hear the "obvious" similarity (similarity is a more gentle term for what I really mean)
my dad is insistant elvis was the sole inventor of rock n roll. and soul. and white people invented gospel aswell. Im pretty worried about him that I can find evidence against his frankly racist theories on youtube.
Remember rock is a marketing phrase.... this wasn't the "first" rock song, it set the presedent for rock and roll. Just like iggy pop did punk before punk, boggie was rock before rock. Rock, as a marketing tool, didn't really start , or take off until rockabilly
Lots of nonsence talked about the first Rock an Roll record.
A very early rockin tune was Monkey Blues by Alura Mack, she sings, dont know who is on piano, but you could also call it a Piano blues or a Boogie Woogie with singin, it still rocks along, from early 30,s at a guess. It just depend on how far you have gone back in your listening
Rubbish Rocket 88 was NOT thefirst Rock and Roll song as it isn't Rock and Roll it's more swing or Boogie Woogie.
If you think it is then Fats Dominos The Fat man is PRE Rocket 88 it was written in 1908 and Fats did it in 1950.
To me neither are Rock and Roll,the first is Bill Haleys Rock around the clock or Elvis's version of That's alright{although both could also be classed as Rockabilly},it's a grey area but this song was NOT the first.
@195477 I don't think That's All Right is Rockabilly but I do agree with you about Elvis being the first. To me, Rock and Roll is a time and place influencing the music as much as previous generations influencing the music. I don't know if Elvis sat around goin," I'm gunna do this Bluesy thing here and this country thing here and call it Rock and Roll." I think he just played, and a generation called him Rock and Roll. For that, he is it's first practitioner.
When asked about how he came accross his style Elvis replied"We jst stumbled upon it."
I listen to a lot of him rehearsing and a lot of it is in the 50s.
A lot of it was what felt right at the time it was just a case of doing a bit of thisa bit of that and mixing it till it became Rock and Roll.On Dec 4th 56 at Sun Studios Memphis Jerry Lee Lewis,Cark Perkins,Johnny Cash and Elvis all jammed together and it can be found on The Million Dollar quartet CD.Even though Rock ...ctd
Elvis grew up in Mississippi and then Memphis where he heard gospel,blues and country{and others}.
When he was asked the question how he arrived at his style he replied "We just stumbled upon it" what he ment was {as also said Scotty Moore} that when they were in the Sun studios just playing they didn't really know what was being developed they just messed around and everything fell into place.If you think this was the first R&R song then what about Fats Domino as far back as 1950....ctd
ctd...to me pre Elvis all came under blues swing gospel or what ever,it is hard to narow down but one thing for sure Elvis did do pure R&R as well as others.
@195477 I guess radio and media was different back then. For example it was difficult to hear what someone in Tennessee was doin when you lived in Kentucky. Black and White musicians didn't intermingle very often.Records were relatively expensive.Technology, the interstate, a new social awareness, 45 rpms, and transistor radios are all factors to the birth of Rock and Roll. Record companies were very keen on these changes 'specially Sun.
Yes it was different but a lot of black and white musicians did mingle.Elvis was one of them,he started hearing the blues on Beale Street and listening to a lot of country.
Most people had radios in the 30s and 40s I think television took off more in the 50s as 10yrs after the war more people could start to afford one.
In the UK there was a change of style to what teenagers perents were listening to.
King Edward died in 52 and Elizabeth became queen being crowned in 53.
"Teddy boys" as they were known in the 50s and 60s were called so because they were named after King Edward{Ted for short} and they were the generation born or were kids in his reign and were now the teenagers of the 50s who were now not listening to what their parents wanted and now had more freedom nad money to buy music,although not much as the 60s.The 60s changed in the UK after national service was abolished.The Beatles all missed being drafted, Ringo by only months.
@195477 Yes, I've heard of this generation and its very interesting to compare it to its U.S counterpart. A friend of mine made an interesting analogy between post-war British youth and California suburban-decay punks of the late 70s' and early 80s'. The similarities are there. Both are byproducts of rotting old, traditional values, a failure of modern industrialization and out of the rubble they both created their own identity.
rock-n-roll refering to Rocket 88. Of course it's Boogie but it's a fact that Rocket 88 was the the first song to be called a Rock-n-Roll song years before Haley's Rock around the Clock. In fact Haley covered Rocket 88 before he did Rock around the Clock.
Rolling Stones magazine has just made Elvis's version of That's alright the first official R&R record.
There were songs with the words Rock and Roll long before but that was a sexual refrence.Regarding the music NOTHING pre 50s was R&R and by 54/55 it was fully established,it's the years inbetween which are a grey area.
Rock around the clock is considered by many as the first R&R song but others will say its rockabilly,it's the same with Carl Perkins Blue suede shoes.
This was done in 49-released in 50-to me it's not R&R but if anyone believes Rocket 88 is then can they explain the difference between this song and Rocket 88 in style.
My ass that blues is rock. The first true rock and roll song is Bill Haley's "Rock the Joint," which mixed Western swing with R&B. Even Little Richard--who was there during the birth of rock--says Haley invented it.
The claim is musicological nonsense. There is no such thing as a "first" rock-and-roll song. Rock-and-roll grew out of the mixture of country music and various blues substyles and plenty of folks were doing it all at the same time. As to the "fuzzy" or "buzzy" sound produced by the broken amp, that timbral quality is a common and desired quality in a number of West African and West-African-derived musics and can be identified in much African-American music before and after rock-and-roll.
As for the first Rock and Roll song... I think that "Rock and Roll" (yup that was the title) recorded by La Verne Ray on Jubilee Records in 1949 beat this shit.
Yeah, but if you have to play a replacement song, couldn't you have selected a better song than this one? I guess it's okay if you like mediocre power pop, but it doesn't even get close to the era or the spirit of Rocket 88.
Its not the first rock song ever, Rocket 88 is R&B (Note Ike Turner being a black R&B artist) some douche just got it wrong and should change the whole video and lose the gay song on it.
Jackie Breston didn't write a thing. Rocket was written by Ike Turner. Do your research. Jackie was in Ike's band & sang the song, which is why copyright belongs to Ike Turner.
There was a great documentary about this on youtube that was released somewhere between the 60s, that's how I know so much but I've always had a clue before hand though.. These days, "Rock" has everything in it though.. From classical to even Hip Hop, which is called Nu-Metal when fused because it had to be Metal in order for it to fuse with Hip Hop? LOL.. It's like Physics, certain elements can't mix lol.. Lots of bullshit though.
So the music became more accepted to the public ear, almost to the point where it's white-washed.. No offense. Music knows no color, which is a fact but there was a color that seeded/gave birth to that music.. It just wasn't accepted to the mainstream public, so things had to change. Once these things changed, the music became accepted.. It's crazy, but people were VERY racist back then, even today though there are alot of racists lurking around.. It shows on youtube alot.
Yup, people need to learn history.. RockNRoll is basically just RhytmNBlues.. It has always been refered to as "Rock N Roll" in RnB songs but never was actually permanently called Rock N Roll until the Alan Freed era came along.. Started playing RnB for the "white audience" and he began calling it RockNRoll, basically covering up the obvious.. Elvis and other white musicians came along and basically started covering tons of these old RnB songs and bam.. Here we are 2day, confused peeps..
Rocket 88 was not the first Rock'n'Roll record. The first R'n'R record was Fats Domino's 'The Fat Man', recorded by Fats in 1949 on Imperial Records. Check it out.
There were other claimants, like Sticks McGee's 'Pass That Bottle of Wine', but that wasn't really R'n'R ... more like jazz-inflected Rhythm' 'n' Blues. @The Fat Man', a rocked up version of an old New Orleans R'n'B song called Junker Blues, was the first. It still sounds great all these years later.
@juniormcfadden listen to Jimmy Liggins Cadiliac Boogie (on youtube)....i think it is earlier than 1949, (possibly 1947) and it is where ike turner got the "inspiration" for Rocket 88. I'll bet there are even earlier examples of rock (before it was called rock) if you had time to listen to hundreds of old tunes
@Shimiz You can trace back to the 40s from transition from 'bebop' to rocknroll. A big melting pot from delta blues to country and hillbilly and then electric chicago blues from early 50s. Wynone harris,Amos Milburn,Big Joe Turner to name a few that got the thing moving
@Shimiz Freed didnt call it Rock and Roll for the white audience, he did it for the teenage audience, so they felt that they had their own style of music. Selling Rock and Roll as a new form of music was what he wanted-andy many white parents knew nothing of RnB anyway so it seemed like a new style, and the artists like Presley and Bill Haley ( and even Chuck berry ) added some country influence.
@Shimiz Rock'nRoll was a combination of country/swing/and r'nb.It wasn't more one than the other.The likes of Little Richard and fats Domino leant more on the rhytm n blues. Haley, presley,holly,perkins were closer to country!!
I thought this was excellent disc-ography - don't get what's with hostile comments about "animals" and "the devil" and "getting a tan" and "a**hole". Anyway, thanks for the video.
damn every where I go now it's whitey this and blackey that and drugs came from where ever.Back in these days people were screaming for freedom no matter race.There were hyprocrites controlling shit.We stiil have these problems only they want to control more than music.They don't care what music u listen to they just want u to be under their control.If u think Dems r goin to legalize drugs get a life.Vote out all Repubs and Dems.Vote Libertarian.P.S I don't smoke pot or shoot or snort,but u can
Actually, Sam Phillips didn't start Sun Records until '52. In '50 he started his Memphis Recording Service and sold licenses to other labels. "Rocket 88" was recorded by Sam in '51 and the rights were sold to Chess, which is why Chess is on the original album.
Rock n roll is R&B but was given a different name for white audiences. The African slaves brought their hymns to American, gospel music or spirituals, blues, R&B, and rock. Then the British Invasion altered rock forever as the British groups added their sounds to it. It got harder and harsh by the mid-sixties. So it was no longer considered music, only layers of noise...lol
Excuse AllBobsAllTheTime! I don't mean to bust your bubble, but Rock 'n' Roll's roots were originally the blues and the inventors of Rock 'n' Roll were originally Blues singer Roy Brown and jazz singer Louie Jordan (who inspired both James Brown and Little Richard) and they both came out during the 1940's before the year 1950 even emerged. Please get your music history straight before you pull the race card on black-american music. THINK ABOUT IT!
When we were kids "Rag Mop" was considered the first rock'n'roll number which was recorded by the Ames Brothers a year before this and by others before that. From what I understand it's a variant on the old country tune "The Osage Stomp."
Rythm & Blues was rock 'n' roll. It was the white man that named it rock 'n' roll, Alan Freed did this but R&B is where that type of music originated from then combined with country & western. But the beat comes from Africa so it is the beat that is a voodoo beat and used centuries ago there.
Little Richard laid the architect for "rock n roll" as he said himself so he is the father of it. "Rocket 88" was r&b and not rock 'n' roll but similar to it.
No one knows who made the first rock n roll record as it isn't known.
Well I hope the architect (whoever he was)enjoyed being laid by Little Richard...
I would've said rock and roll is characterised by a more straight-on chugging beat, like 'Lucille' or Johnny B, Goode, as opposed to a swing-based beat such as Rocket 88 - to me that song is still R&B.
Well, gm78cc, I don't think I'm going to let some grammatically challenged bastard like you dictate to me what I should call the musical style of this song. I've told you why I think it is R&B, give me your reasons you think this is rock and roll. What makes it different from other slices of R&B, huh? The fuzzed up guitar? That was being used before this. The title was given to it as a way of turning it into a classic, and it has worked.
why i think its rock n roll, a fast beat, singing, and style, bluesy, loud as well, an african beat is nothing, that is some stereotypical bullshit, go back to your shitty history books and shut your damn mouth, the first rock n roll musicians were R&B and doo-wop groups,
It is the first beat, accent the second beat then 3, then 4th beat is accented so it makes for beat that is not found in nature. You're just jealous because I am an expert in music and you're not...lol
I read this article on the internet about how music is based on nature and rock 'n' roll isn't. Classical music is based on the rythmn of nature which is a natural one while the rock beat isn't because of its
accented first and fourth beat. It also said that the devil made this type of music so you can look it up.
You're just jealous you can't come up with anything as I have. Go back into your cave where you came from and start all over again or is that too hard for you?
Btw I've never heard any rock song that accented the 1st and 4th beat, lol. That doesn't sound very catchy don't you think? Go back and read some more and maybe just maybe you can tell us all about "the rhythm of nature". Hahahah.
rofl stfu you mentally challenged idiot you got it all wrong...don't trust the internet fool...or just go back to the fuckin 20th century..."It also said that the devil...blah blah blah" grow up and get the fuck out of whatever pastime you're in
I read and write music. Did I worry you with the voodoo man. Just to get a rise out of you and it worked. I manipulated you unawares, I can mind control you if I put my mind to it. Right voodoo man.
Let's see what you know? You don't know anything about music. The best you can do is watch the above video and think you're an expert on rock 'n' roll. It came from Africa. The primitive jungle beat and you don't even know that.
I know rock n roll, asshole, and they whitened it for you, bitch ass, The primitive jungle beat, whats so primitive about a jungle beat , asshole racist
How do you know if I am white or I could be Hispanic or Asian? So this makes me a racist to state that the beat came from Africa? That's what I read online. I think you're the one who is being the asshole racist.
Can I ask you something? What does this have to do with rock & roll? Rock & roll is a black slang term for sex and it was Alan Freed that gets the credit for naming it rock & roll which he didn't even come up with the term himself. Elvis just made it more popular with the white audiences of that time. Beach Boys ripped off Chuck Berry's surfing USA using his "Sweet Little Sixteen" so it seems the white artists were ripping off the black ones.
lol, exactly, but people don't believe that even though that is documented lol, rock n roll almost seems like the hoax of black music, if it wasn't for the british rockers, it wouldn't have its own style
It seems that the British groups brought the drugs
to America when they came to invade the U.S.
Do I have to mention their names?....lol
While singing about peace and love, they became high on LSD and started to see things that were not there. Even the devil came into the picture with the Stone's record.
I am aware of that. I think it was pot. He heard their recent song, "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" and the line that says, "I get high". So he thought they got high so he introduced them to it. Then a dentist introduced George & John to LSD, Paul was reluctant at first. But in the Hamburg days, they were popping pills.
First.... I LOVE this song. But I'm not sure I would call it the first true rock song. It's basically a jump blues song with an accidentally distorted guitar (a fortunate accident though). according to Sun Studios they tore their amp transporting it. Rock N Roll doesn't really happen without the marriage of the white country sound in my opinion, something black artists weren't doing on their own. Chuck Berry even said he had to "White it up" to sound Rock N Roll.
I was just being a smartass. In fact, I heard it was the devil that created the blues and rock music, jazz and possibly country music for his evil purposes. I know the blues had a baby and it was rock 'n' roll by black musicians, not white ones. Elvis ripped them off and some other white acts.
Elvis is the king of rock 'n' roll as he was called though he didn't like to be called king of anything. He did gospel songs and had a love for them. I don't think Elvis was the devil himself. He made it popular to white audiences, that type of music and it was controversial.
There is no "Rock & Roll" it was just a marketing name to re-brand "Race Music" in a more acceptable form to sell it to "white" people, in a fundamentaly & institutionally racist state, that had no comparison outside of the European's African colonies. Wise up for f***'s sake!
"Rock and roll" was a rebranding of _some_ "race" music. The fad for shouting about rocking and rolling over a backbeat through a song wasn't around yet in 1946, "race" music was. Freed chose that name specifically because of that fad. Calling the Mills Brothers' "Paper Doll" "race" music makes a lot more sense than calling it rock and roll, for instance. Also, there was rock and roll that wasn't race music before 1954 (although not much), such as "Leave Married Women Alone" by Jimmy Cavallo.
Good Rockin Tonight was a blues song. but made the word "rock" popular , but still a blues song. I believe "Fat Man" beats our "rocket 88" as the first rock n roll song
Sam Phillips, who late in his life allowed himself to be promoted as the man who invented rock and roll, liked to talk about "Rocket 88" because he produced it, but there were definitely earlier rock and roll records, such as "Rock The Joint" by Chris Powell.
The kings of rhythm were a good band....I like how they mixed blues,boogie woogie,and C&W together.They sometimes sounded like pre rockabilly....Ike had a strange sound to his guitar playing.
My comments were only based on an article on the incident that I read years ago. In that article the writer claimed that Turner liked the unusal sound but you may be right in that they just had no choice but to go with what they had.
bullshittttttttttttttttttttttt
SuperAhlberg 2 days ago
steve put the crack pipe down for a sec ... you doin Ike and the kings of rythym a huge diservice this is just wrong ... MAKE IT RIGHT OR TAKE IT DOWN
27willrobm 1 week ago
booooooooooooooooooooooooooo
GunGemini 3 weeks ago
what shit, r u serious.
1crankyvet 1 month ago
Yawn. I'll go to the guy who somehow got the music on Youtube, unlike you. :P
54markl 1 month ago
IT'S JUSTIN BIEBER (ROCK N ROLL VERSION)
themurderjunkies24 1 month ago
@themurderjunkies24 JB version? it's a total different song. gimmeabreak...:-)
dmwilk99 3 weeks ago
LOL
themurderjunkies24 1 month ago
@MrJNScott: wow you know your facts. This is interesting!
keagon839 1 month ago
Never has a piece of music and background info been so incompatible. Sounds like the theme tune to some lame American sit-com.
flaxonx3 2 months ago
The info n pics are cool, but the background song bites it.
10-30-11
patrickb5197 2 months ago
The song was written by Jackie Brenston and it was he and his band that went into Sun Studios to record it, featuring Ike on the piano, along with his band, and the record was released on Chicago's Chess Records back in 1951. The Delta Cats certainly did exist. Give credit where credit is due. The song is Jackie Brenson's.
denalaurens 4 months ago
I agree with stefdebest, no beat and poor singing plus the melody is rotten.
Comofan100 4 months ago
whats with this shitty queers music you cock sucking piece of mother fucking shit you cunt face twat !!!!!!
eelpieballox 4 months ago
I thought Elvis made rock.
keagon839 5 months ago
@keagon839 "I thought Elvis made rock." That's a complete myth -- a myth that Elvis himself didn't believe or claim. A number of recordings like Jimmy Preston's "Rock The Joint," Jimmy Smith's "Rock That Boogie," and Roy Brown's "Boogie At Midnight" (which can all be heard on youtube) were made before Dec. '49 -- before any rock and roll recordings by Fats Domino, Bill Haley, Little Richard, Louis Prima, etc., and five whole years before Elvis or Chuck Berry recorded.
MrJNScott 1 month ago
that was horrible.
rckmmmm 6 months ago
you cant talk about rock and roll without blues! robert johnson is the King of Rock and Roll, Charlie Patton is the king of rock and roll, lowell fulson, fats domino, little walter, muddy waters, willie dixon, jimmy rogers, howlin wolf, bo diddley, john lee hooker, hubert sumlin....lok at all all of the people and then you will know what rock and roll is
supergodzilla33 6 months ago
the song is supposed to be rocket 88...
supergodzilla33 6 months ago
You say "So here you have the wrong audio with this video. I hope some good will still come of it." um......how could it possibly? Just take this down - you're wasting people's time and it's not cool.
susaninmaine 6 months ago 3
Well, that was confusing. What's with the whiter-than-white hipster ballad playing in the background of your slideshow about the first-ever rock'n'roll song?
countingmx 7 months ago
false advertising, shananigans
cokeworthy 8 months ago
Examples of rock and roll recordings from 1949 are "Rock The Joint" by Jimmy Preston and "Boogie At Midnight" by Roy Brown. Those are from shortly before Fats Domino recorded "The Fat Man" (which doesn't sound as rock and roll as they do), they're from two years before "Rocket 88," and they're from six years before Chuck Berry began recording for Chess.
josephnathanscott 9 months ago
but hows about Fats Domino with the Fatman ??
he made the song in 1949/50 and sounds like rock'n roll to me!!
jellyrollbaker 9 months ago
Why would you play such terrible music to explain rock n roll to?
elizhitchcock 10 months ago
My 13-year old grandson thinks Rock & Roll starts with Metallica, and disrespects anything that came before. I've tried to explain the origins, and that basically, Elvis made R&R/R&B/Rockabilly or whatever you want to call it "safe" for white kids to enjoy. Then we discovered the originals. I declare that Chuck Berry is the King of Rock and Roll. Little Richard was the Clown Prince. Elvis was the gateway drug that hooked us all on this incredible music.
FresnoDick 11 months ago
Yes the truth!!!
MrLahboogie 11 months ago
This is true and Jackie Brenston did a great job recording this song. I've stood in the studio at Sun records. It's amazing to think of all the incredible musicians that created magic in that room !... My favorite version of Rocket 88 was recorded by James Cotton on the 100% cotton album with Matt "guitar " Murphy on the Gibson SG.
RogerColes1 1 year ago
Amede Ardoin and Dennis McGee were rockin back in the 20s and 30s. You hear Amede singing at the top of his lungs and you instantly recognise where Little Richard got it from!
guitarmaniax 1 year ago
chuck berry invented rocknroll.
132gibson 1 year ago
why didnt you play the dam song
boogie6543 1 year ago 7
@boogie6543 read the damn description
MRCOOL2345e 7 months ago
Just play Bill haley or buddy Holly...it's not r'n'b its rock'nroll !!
rocknroll56able 1 year ago
This is screwed up fknroll. Check Chuck Patton rather.
plasticdrag 1 year ago
For the "black" people, rock and roll is R&B, The firsts songs are: Rocket 88 from Ike Turner, and Fat Man from Fats Domino.
For the "white" people, rock and roll is Rockabilly or Country Rock. The first song are a acelerate country: Rock Around the Clock, from Bill Haley.
For me, the only thing matter, are: Rock and Roll Is Here, to Stay!
Thanksyou, Very Much.
RamisAbud1 1 year ago
Rock N Roll also has some roots from Country. Rap has it's roots from Country and Rock.
InfiniteEternalLove 1 year ago
"Rocket 88" was NOT the first rock 'n' roll song. It wasn't even the first car song. It was based on Jimmy Liggins' "Cadillac Boogie" from 1948. Before that, Jimmy Preston released "Rock This Joint" and Roy Brown had "Good Rockin' Tonight". The first song with rock and roll in the title was "Rock And Roll" by The Boswell Sisters in 1933. Before that, Trixie Smith (1922) released "My Daddy Rocks Me With A Steady Roll" on Black Swan records - the first black owned label.
MrDagwoodBumstead 1 year ago
Nice vid but I would argue that the first "rock and roll" song was Good Rockin’ Tonight by Roy Brown from 1947- 4 years before. Hence the Beatles on Sgt. Pepper in 1967 singing "it was 20 years ago today, Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play".
jpoll3 1 year ago
The truth is that there is no one "first ever" r'n'r song. R'n'r is essentially a blend of the melodies of country&western with blues chords and the rhythm of swing jazz - particularly an uptempo version of the doo-wop "backbeat". But all that stuff goes WAY back, in various combinations, by both (predominantly) African-American artists and (to a lesser extent) Caucasians. I've got a recording of Jimmie Rodgers (arguably the first Country star) playing with none other than LOUIS ARMSTRONG!
dialectic76 1 year ago
If I were searching for the roots of R'n'r, the first place I would look is gospel music, since that's where most of these elements first started blending together... it was (Black) gospel music that most directly influenced Elvis (along with Little Richard), plus the term "rock and roll" comes from gospel... it first described the rocking of a ship- often Noah's ark- described in many songs of the "Spiritualist" (African American) churches of the 1800s, then described the spirit moving them.
dialectic76 1 year ago
@dialectic76 agreed....rock 'n roll is essentially Gospel,Blues,R&B and Country mixed together in one way or another...and I mean I listen to old gospel and its amazing how many elements you hear in Gospel stuff from the '30s even.
EmeraldFlowsion62 1 year ago
@dialectic76 what is the name of the song with louis armstrong and jimmie rodgers... is it on youtube??
sasnyc 1 year ago
great video, the history is very true
freeserburn9 1 year ago
Chuck Berry was playing what we recognise today as 'rock n roll' as early as 1945; sadly, he wasn't recorded that early.
jannyrcobs 1 year ago
@jannyrcobs: I doubt that Berry was playing much of any kind of music in 1945, since he was in jail for armed robbery at the time... he was definitely playing as a sideman in various bands in the early 50s, though, and in 1953 joined Johnnie Johnston's band, which covered country and western songs, (or as Berry called them, "hillbilly songs") as well as blues... some people say that he copied everything he knew from T-Bone Walker, anyway.....
dialectic76 1 year ago
Rock n roll started in 1954 with Rock Around the Clock. Period.
gmdinformation 1 year ago
@gmdinformation actually if you want to dig back farther rock predates 1954 listen to jimmy ligging cadilliac boogie. Rock had existed prior to 1954....it just wasn't called rock yet......
inkey2 1 year ago
@inkey2 That "is" really close. For that matter, some of the Texas Swing stuff (Jimmy Bryant and Speedy West for instance) came close to being rock music even before that. But I think most people from that 50s era would agree that there was something special about Rock Around the Clock that set a standard. It was the song that made every ask, "What's that!?" But you might as well ask what was the first disco song. There was a point at which funk turned into disco, but it's hard to say when.
gmdinformation 1 year ago
Suggest you listen to Jimmy Liggins & His Drops of Joy "Cadillac Boogie" recorded @ Jan 1947 for Leon Rene's Exclusive Records of LA - then you'll hear where Ike Turner got the tune & idea for Rocket 88. Oh & Leon Rene was about the 1st black man to own a record company in USA. He got put out of business 1949 due to bootleggers & ripoffs. Your present audio upload is horrible. You need to make the point that your old upload is for educational purposes
Rowland108 1 year ago
Frank Sinatra performed his "Castle Rock " before the ww2
everhard1000 1 year ago
The first Rock N Roll song was recorded 20 years before this one. The song was called " Goin to Alabama"
elijah1944 1 year ago
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JERI0K 1 year ago
Elvis Presley Sucks. Chuck Berry Is The King Of Rock-N- Roll.
ordepet 1 year ago
There are many records regarded as the first R'n'R songs, such as Rocket 88. Some commentators go as far back as Robert Johnson, but most of those records were really blues with a beat, or Rhythm & Blues. So people cite artists like Elmore James ('Dust My Broom') or the Chicago electric bluesmen. but I still think Fats Domino's 'The Fat Man' was the' first R'n'R record. Sticks McGee's song, 'Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee, is also a contender and it was released by Atlantic in early 1947.
juniormcfadden 1 year ago
YOU_THINK_"Rocket 88" was the first rock song??......on youtube listen to CADALIAC BOOGIE by jimmy liggins.......Cadaliac Boogie pre-dates rocket 88 by at least 2 years and you will hear the "obvious" similarity (similarity is a more gentle term for what I really mean)
inkey2 1 year ago
Amazing how some music gets deleted while other entries of the identical song never get touched. What's that all about???
ronaldt491 1 year ago
what's the song's title?? the replaced song, the song we're listening!
The4Blackjacks 1 year ago
i took a class on rock history the best class ever.
RagingTurtle805 1 year ago
my dad is insistant elvis was the sole inventor of rock n roll. and soul. and white people invented gospel aswell. Im pretty worried about him that I can find evidence against his frankly racist theories on youtube.
tinyrebellion 1 year ago
@tinyrebellion LOL.......even a racist has to admit that blacks had a huge part in the evolution of R&R
inkey2 1 year ago
Remember rock is a marketing phrase.... this wasn't the "first" rock song, it set the presedent for rock and roll. Just like iggy pop did punk before punk, boggie was rock before rock. Rock, as a marketing tool, didn't really start , or take off until rockabilly
jvsolotet 1 year ago
nice man . but as always truth is bitter
thenewbreed2 1 year ago
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XanaduZune 1 year ago
eminem- Though I'm not the first king of controversy
I am the worst thing since Elvis Presley,
To do Black music so selfishly
And use it to get myself wealthy! (Hey!)
enferno00 1 year ago
Eminem may think he is "the" worst thing I think everything is worse than Elvis..
195477 1 year ago
Then play the G.D. song instead of the stupid thing you have playing instead. Moron.
kiddo78mn 1 year ago
what the HELL is this ? just wasted three minutes of my life .....
alzahad 1 year ago
Lots of nonsence talked about the first Rock an Roll record.
A very early rockin tune was Monkey Blues by Alura Mack, she sings, dont know who is on piano, but you could also call it a Piano blues or a Boogie Woogie with singin, it still rocks along, from early 30,s at a guess. It just depend on how far you have gone back in your listening
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gitfiddlejim 2 years ago
Take this down the audio just is bad, considering what you expect to hear. The pain of this is terrible... Take this down. Please.
ChrisJHutchins 2 years ago
Rubbish Rocket 88 was NOT thefirst Rock and Roll song as it isn't Rock and Roll it's more swing or Boogie Woogie.
If you think it is then Fats Dominos The Fat man is PRE Rocket 88 it was written in 1908 and Fats did it in 1950.
To me neither are Rock and Roll,the first is Bill Haleys Rock around the clock or Elvis's version of That's alright{although both could also be classed as Rockabilly},it's a grey area but this song was NOT the first.
195477 2 years ago
@195477 I don't think That's All Right is Rockabilly but I do agree with you about Elvis being the first. To me, Rock and Roll is a time and place influencing the music as much as previous generations influencing the music. I don't know if Elvis sat around goin," I'm gunna do this Bluesy thing here and this country thing here and call it Rock and Roll." I think he just played, and a generation called him Rock and Roll. For that, he is it's first practitioner.
lemonite1 2 years ago
@lemonite1
When asked about how he came accross his style Elvis replied"We jst stumbled upon it."
I listen to a lot of him rehearsing and a lot of it is in the 50s.
A lot of it was what felt right at the time it was just a case of doing a bit of thisa bit of that and mixing it till it became Rock and Roll.On Dec 4th 56 at Sun Studios Memphis Jerry Lee Lewis,Cark Perkins,Johnny Cash and Elvis all jammed together and it can be found on The Million Dollar quartet CD.Even though Rock ...ctd
195477 2 years ago
Elvis just stumbled upon it ?
He did his research, Ike told me he used to sneak Elvis into the clubs they were playing and hide him behind his piano.
Another reason why Ike is the true father of rock n roll.
xaniphir 1 year ago
Elvis grew up in Mississippi and then Memphis where he heard gospel,blues and country{and others}.
When he was asked the question how he arrived at his style he replied "We just stumbled upon it" what he ment was {as also said Scotty Moore} that when they were in the Sun studios just playing they didn't really know what was being developed they just messed around and everything fell into place.If you think this was the first R&R song then what about Fats Domino as far back as 1950....ctd
195477 1 year ago
ctd...to me pre Elvis all came under blues swing gospel or what ever,it is hard to narow down but one thing for sure Elvis did do pure R&R as well as others.
195477 1 year ago
@lemonite1
ctd..and roll had taken off then it gives an insight of how they just played and what came out.
195477 2 years ago
@195477 I guess radio and media was different back then. For example it was difficult to hear what someone in Tennessee was doin when you lived in Kentucky. Black and White musicians didn't intermingle very often.Records were relatively expensive.Technology, the interstate, a new social awareness, 45 rpms, and transistor radios are all factors to the birth of Rock and Roll. Record companies were very keen on these changes 'specially Sun.
lemonite1 2 years ago
@lemonite1
Yes it was different but a lot of black and white musicians did mingle.Elvis was one of them,he started hearing the blues on Beale Street and listening to a lot of country.
Most people had radios in the 30s and 40s I think television took off more in the 50s as 10yrs after the war more people could start to afford one.
In the UK there was a change of style to what teenagers perents were listening to.
King Edward died in 52 and Elizabeth became queen being crowned in 53.
.ctd.
195477 2 years ago
@lemonite1
"Teddy boys" as they were known in the 50s and 60s were called so because they were named after King Edward{Ted for short} and they were the generation born or were kids in his reign and were now the teenagers of the 50s who were now not listening to what their parents wanted and now had more freedom nad money to buy music,although not much as the 60s.The 60s changed in the UK after national service was abolished.The Beatles all missed being drafted, Ringo by only months.
195477 2 years ago
@195477 Yes, I've heard of this generation and its very interesting to compare it to its U.S counterpart. A friend of mine made an interesting analogy between post-war British youth and California suburban-decay punks of the late 70s' and early 80s'. The similarities are there. Both are byproducts of rotting old, traditional values, a failure of modern industrialization and out of the rubble they both created their own identity.
lemonite1 2 years ago
@lemonite1
Here is a bit of the session.
watch?v=0EJuMjHm33U
195477 2 years ago
@195477 Wow, I heard about the "Million Dollar Quartet" just never heard it. Great Gospel song!
lemonite1 2 years ago
ahem..... Sam Phillips dubbed the genre
rock-n-roll refering to Rocket 88. Of course it's Boogie but it's a fact that Rocket 88 was the the first song to be called a Rock-n-Roll song years before Haley's Rock around the Clock. In fact Haley covered Rocket 88 before he did Rock around the Clock.
I hope this was helpful.
xaniphir 1 year ago
Rolling Stones magazine has just made Elvis's version of That's alright the first official R&R record.
There were songs with the words Rock and Roll long before but that was a sexual refrence.Regarding the music NOTHING pre 50s was R&R and by 54/55 it was fully established,it's the years inbetween which are a grey area.
Rock around the clock is considered by many as the first R&R song but others will say its rockabilly,it's the same with Carl Perkins Blue suede shoes.
195477 1 year ago
This was done in 49-released in 50-to me it's not R&R but if anyone believes Rocket 88 is then can they explain the difference between this song and Rocket 88 in style.
Watch?v=alz1cPftRW4
195477 1 year ago
My ass that blues is rock. The first true rock and roll song is Bill Haley's "Rock the Joint," which mixed Western swing with R&B. Even Little Richard--who was there during the birth of rock--says Haley invented it.
rtghffdfdg 2 years ago
Rhythm & Blues had a baby....
They called it Rock n Roll...
HighMaintenance2099 2 years ago 2
The claim is musicological nonsense. There is no such thing as a "first" rock-and-roll song. Rock-and-roll grew out of the mixture of country music and various blues substyles and plenty of folks were doing it all at the same time. As to the "fuzzy" or "buzzy" sound produced by the broken amp, that timbral quality is a common and desired quality in a number of West African and West-African-derived musics and can be identified in much African-American music before and after rock-and-roll.
Bluesman227 2 years ago
shitty music. you should have used rocket 88
stefdebest 2 years ago 11
What is this CRAp I'm listening to?
As for the first Rock and Roll song... I think that "Rock and Roll" (yup that was the title) recorded by La Verne Ray on Jubilee Records in 1949 beat this shit.
shinotora1X 2 years ago 2
Yeah, but if you have to play a replacement song, couldn't you have selected a better song than this one? I guess it's okay if you like mediocre power pop, but it doesn't even get close to the era or the spirit of Rocket 88.
bluesmandoc 2 years ago
yes it was the first song black people invented rock and roll ad today its gotten out of hand, know your facts Ste637
s18471gkev 2 years ago
Its not the first rock song ever, Rocket 88 is R&B (Note Ike Turner being a black R&B artist) some douche just got it wrong and should change the whole video and lose the gay song on it.
Ste637 2 years ago
Explain why is this the first rock song ever?
youngcgunz81 2 years ago
I'D LIKE TA SAY THANK YOU TO THE PERSON THAT TOOK TIME TA DO THIS FOR MY GRANDDADDY.....M,BRENSTON aka SHAMEKA71174
shameka71174 2 years ago
MY GRANDFATHER **JACKIE BRENSTON** WROTE AND SUNG THE SONG **ROCKET 88* FIRST,...M.BRENSTON(granddaughter)AKA...SHAMEKA71174 !!
shameka71174 2 years ago
Sorry but as a FACT the fist rock and roll song (that is down as fact) was by Great Blues Artist Charlie Patton
DylanMusic27 2 years ago
LOAD OF SHITTTTT
parisboogie 2 years ago
Where is Alen Freed lol!
oramikleepunk 2 years ago
u sir r wrong the first rock song is from 1929
jasonboycot 2 years ago
Yep By Charlie Patton! Great Song too
DylanMusic27 2 years ago
for your information sir..**rocket 88** was writen and sung first by my grandfather JACKIE BRENSTON...YOU FUCKING GOOFY!!
shameka71174 2 years ago
Jackie Breston didn't write a thing. Rocket was written by Ike Turner. Do your research. Jackie was in Ike's band & sang the song, which is why copyright belongs to Ike Turner.
chasmi50 2 years ago
It's impossible to label a song as the first rock song.
peskeyplumber 2 years ago
Your right...Rock n Roll is mixed,so you can't just say there was a first song.
oramikleepunk 2 years ago
It was actually Dame Clara Butt with "Rock? My Arse!!" recorded in 1905
eruptionista 2 years ago
It's not the first rock and roll song , it's Glenn Miller in 1946 with In The Mood
seiyar70 2 years ago
in the mood was swing not rock
beverleye 2 years ago
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sexyfatbastid 2 years ago
this is terrible. ike turner sung this song first. this sucks!!
NavyROTC09 2 years ago
There was a great documentary about this on youtube that was released somewhere between the 60s, that's how I know so much but I've always had a clue before hand though.. These days, "Rock" has everything in it though.. From classical to even Hip Hop, which is called Nu-Metal when fused because it had to be Metal in order for it to fuse with Hip Hop? LOL.. It's like Physics, certain elements can't mix lol.. Lots of bullshit though.
Shimiz 2 years ago
So the music became more accepted to the public ear, almost to the point where it's white-washed.. No offense. Music knows no color, which is a fact but there was a color that seeded/gave birth to that music.. It just wasn't accepted to the mainstream public, so things had to change. Once these things changed, the music became accepted.. It's crazy, but people were VERY racist back then, even today though there are alot of racists lurking around.. It shows on youtube alot.
Shimiz 2 years ago 6
@Shimiz Rock'nRoll was a unique combination which is still going strong today !!
rocknroll56able 1 year ago
@Shimiz Man, the origins hardly matter when rock of today has gone through so many changes and styles.
aurrorra 11 months ago
@aurrorra so history doesn't matter...? does to me!
susaninmaine 6 months ago
Yup, people need to learn history.. RockNRoll is basically just RhytmNBlues.. It has always been refered to as "Rock N Roll" in RnB songs but never was actually permanently called Rock N Roll until the Alan Freed era came along.. Started playing RnB for the "white audience" and he began calling it RockNRoll, basically covering up the obvious.. Elvis and other white musicians came along and basically started covering tons of these old RnB songs and bam.. Here we are 2day, confused peeps..
Shimiz 2 years ago 9
Rocket 88 was not the first Rock'n'Roll record. The first R'n'R record was Fats Domino's 'The Fat Man', recorded by Fats in 1949 on Imperial Records. Check it out.
There were other claimants, like Sticks McGee's 'Pass That Bottle of Wine', but that wasn't really R'n'R ... more like jazz-inflected Rhythm' 'n' Blues. @The Fat Man', a rocked up version of an old New Orleans R'n'B song called Junker Blues, was the first. It still sounds great all these years later.
juniormcfadden 1 year ago
@juniormcfadden listen to Jimmy Liggins Cadiliac Boogie (on youtube)....i think it is earlier than 1949, (possibly 1947) and it is where ike turner got the "inspiration" for Rocket 88. I'll bet there are even earlier examples of rock (before it was called rock) if you had time to listen to hundreds of old tunes
inkey2 1 year ago
@Shimiz You can trace back to the 40s from transition from 'bebop' to rocknroll. A big melting pot from delta blues to country and hillbilly and then electric chicago blues from early 50s. Wynone harris,Amos Milburn,Big Joe Turner to name a few that got the thing moving
twoslices 1 year ago
@Shimiz Freed didnt call it Rock and Roll for the white audience, he did it for the teenage audience, so they felt that they had their own style of music. Selling Rock and Roll as a new form of music was what he wanted-andy many white parents knew nothing of RnB anyway so it seemed like a new style, and the artists like Presley and Bill Haley ( and even Chuck berry ) added some country influence.
rbound827 1 year ago
@Shimiz Rock'nRoll was a combination of country/swing/and r'nb.It wasn't more one than the other.The likes of Little Richard and fats Domino leant more on the rhytm n blues. Haley, presley,holly,perkins were closer to country!!
rocknroll56able 1 year ago
@rocknroll56able + Boogie Woogie, Jump Blues & Blues.
JRussoBuffaloNY 1 month ago
I don't think so......listen to some of Louis Jordon from the 30s and the 40's
pirrung123 2 years ago
wtf.
punkrockefeller 2 years ago
I thought this was excellent disc-ography - don't get what's with hostile comments about "animals" and "the devil" and "getting a tan" and "a**hole". Anyway, thanks for the video.
AmyReuteler 2 years ago
damn every where I go now it's whitey this and blackey that and drugs came from where ever.Back in these days people were screaming for freedom no matter race.There were hyprocrites controlling shit.We stiil have these problems only they want to control more than music.They don't care what music u listen to they just want u to be under their control.If u think Dems r goin to legalize drugs get a life.Vote out all Repubs and Dems.Vote Libertarian.P.S I don't smoke pot or shoot or snort,but u can
dayroemer 2 years ago 2
right on man
dopestarinc9868 2 years ago
did YOU HEAR WHAT I SAID< GO GET A TAN
gm78cc 2 years ago
Actually, Sam Phillips didn't start Sun Records until '52. In '50 he started his Memphis Recording Service and sold licenses to other labels. "Rocket 88" was recorded by Sam in '51 and the rights were sold to Chess, which is why Chess is on the original album.
qualifyify 2 years ago
Rock n roll is R&B but was given a different name for white audiences. The African slaves brought their hymns to American, gospel music or spirituals, blues, R&B, and rock. Then the British Invasion altered rock forever as the British groups added their sounds to it. It got harder and harsh by the mid-sixties. So it was no longer considered music, only layers of noise...lol
jpsmart59 2 years ago
Excuse AllBobsAllTheTime! I don't mean to bust your bubble, but Rock 'n' Roll's roots were originally the blues and the inventors of Rock 'n' Roll were originally Blues singer Roy Brown and jazz singer Louie Jordan (who inspired both James Brown and Little Richard) and they both came out during the 1940's before the year 1950 even emerged. Please get your music history straight before you pull the race card on black-american music. THINK ABOUT IT!
jazziccoolcat 2 years ago
When we were kids "Rag Mop" was considered the first rock'n'roll number which was recorded by the Ames Brothers a year before this and by others before that. From what I understand it's a variant on the old country tune "The Osage Stomp."
AllBobsAllTheTime 2 years ago
Rythm & Blues was rock 'n' roll. It was the white man that named it rock 'n' roll, Alan Freed did this but R&B is where that type of music originated from then combined with country & western. But the beat comes from Africa so it is the beat that is a voodoo beat and used centuries ago there.
jpsmart59 2 years ago
i always find the name ironic as "rock n roll" is black slang for sex, but it was named by white people
metalicdemon 2 years ago
Little Richard laid the architect for "rock n roll" as he said himself so he is the father of it. "Rocket 88" was r&b and not rock 'n' roll but similar to it.
No one knows who made the first rock n roll record as it isn't known.
jpsmart59 2 years ago
Well I hope the architect (whoever he was)enjoyed being laid by Little Richard...
I would've said rock and roll is characterised by a more straight-on chugging beat, like 'Lucille' or Johnny B, Goode, as opposed to a swing-based beat such as Rocket 88 - to me that song is still R&B.
BackToTheBlues 2 years ago
well your obviously an asshole, did you read what the guy said and how it changed to rock, stupid. This sounds like a rock song to me. Lol,
gm78cc 2 years ago
Well, gm78cc, I don't think I'm going to let some grammatically challenged bastard like you dictate to me what I should call the musical style of this song. I've told you why I think it is R&B, give me your reasons you think this is rock and roll. What makes it different from other slices of R&B, huh? The fuzzed up guitar? That was being used before this. The title was given to it as a way of turning it into a classic, and it has worked.
BackToTheBlues 2 years ago
why i think its rock n roll, a fast beat, singing, and style, bluesy, loud as well, an african beat is nothing, that is some stereotypical bullshit, go back to your shitty history books and shut your damn mouth, the first rock n roll musicians were R&B and doo-wop groups,
gm78cc 2 years ago
It is the first beat, accent the second beat then 3, then 4th beat is accented so it makes for beat that is not found in nature. You're just jealous because I am an expert in music and you're not...lol
jpsmart59 2 years ago
Not found in nature? I didn't know animals made music.
warrkrymez 2 years ago
I read this article on the internet about how music is based on nature and rock 'n' roll isn't. Classical music is based on the rythmn of nature which is a natural one while the rock beat isn't because of its
accented first and fourth beat. It also said that the devil made this type of music so you can look it up.
jpsmart59 2 years ago
You're just repeating what you've read and taking credit for it and can't explain why: That is the hallmark of plagiarism. Asshole!
warrkrymez 2 years ago
You're just jealous you can't come up with anything as I have. Go back into your cave where you came from and start all over again or is that too hard for you?
jpsmart59 2 years ago
Btw I've never heard any rock song that accented the 1st and 4th beat, lol. That doesn't sound very catchy don't you think? Go back and read some more and maybe just maybe you can tell us all about "the rhythm of nature". Hahahah.
warrkrymez 2 years ago
rofl stfu you mentally challenged idiot you got it all wrong...don't trust the internet fool...or just go back to the fuckin 20th century..."It also said that the devil...blah blah blah" grow up and get the fuck out of whatever pastime you're in
nitsudcobb 2 years ago
You moron, you don';t know shit about music.
Let's drop this subject as I have moved on.
Get a life, you got nothing better to do than to insult my expertise. Voodo man!
jpsmart59 2 years ago
i don't know shit about music??? HAH! i'd like to see your musical talents...expertise my ass...and where the hell did voodoo man come from??? wtf
nitsudcobb 2 years ago
I read and write music. Did I worry you with the voodoo man. Just to get a rise out of you and it worked. I manipulated you unawares, I can mind control you if I put my mind to it. Right voodoo man.
jpsmart59 2 years ago
beat from Africa, its not only the beat jackass,
gm78cc 2 years ago
Let's see what you know? You don't know anything about music. The best you can do is watch the above video and think you're an expert on rock 'n' roll. It came from Africa. The primitive jungle beat and you don't even know that.
jpsmart59 2 years ago
I know rock n roll, asshole, and they whitened it for you, bitch ass, The primitive jungle beat, whats so primitive about a jungle beat , asshole racist
gm78cc 2 years ago
How do you know if I am white or I could be Hispanic or Asian? So this makes me a racist to state that the beat came from Africa? That's what I read online. I think you're the one who is being the asshole racist.
jpsmart59 2 years ago
hell you could be a racist agaiinst your own race, dont come with that simple crap,
gm78cc 2 years ago
Can I ask you something? What does this have to do with rock & roll? Rock & roll is a black slang term for sex and it was Alan Freed that gets the credit for naming it rock & roll which he didn't even come up with the term himself. Elvis just made it more popular with the white audiences of that time. Beach Boys ripped off Chuck Berry's surfing USA using his "Sweet Little Sixteen" so it seems the white artists were ripping off the black ones.
jpsmart59 2 years ago 2
lol, exactly, but people don't believe that even though that is documented lol, rock n roll almost seems like the hoax of black music, if it wasn't for the british rockers, it wouldn't have its own style
gm78cc 2 years ago
It seems that the British groups brought the drugs
to America when they came to invade the U.S.
Do I have to mention their names?....lol
While singing about peace and love, they became high on LSD and started to see things that were not there. Even the devil came into the picture with the Stone's record.
jpsmart59 2 years ago
Did you know The Beatles had never seen hash until they met Bob Dylan who assumed everyone here was doing it :D
waallpaper 2 years ago
I am aware of that. I think it was pot. He heard their recent song, "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" and the line that says, "I get high". So he thought they got high so he introduced them to it. Then a dentist introduced George & John to LSD, Paul was reluctant at first. But in the Hamburg days, they were popping pills.
jpsmart59 2 years ago
First.... I LOVE this song. But I'm not sure I would call it the first true rock song. It's basically a jump blues song with an accidentally distorted guitar (a fortunate accident though). according to Sun Studios they tore their amp transporting it. Rock N Roll doesn't really happen without the marriage of the white country sound in my opinion, something black artists weren't doing on their own. Chuck Berry even said he had to "White it up" to sound Rock N Roll.
masseysketch 2 years ago
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Rock n roll was created by the Beatles as children in the early 1950's. No one knows the real truth.
jpsmart59 2 years ago
no. you are wrong. it was created by blacks and changed over time. dumbass.
pennstaterocks101 2 years ago
I was just being a smartass. In fact, I heard it was the devil that created the blues and rock music, jazz and possibly country music for his evil purposes. I know the blues had a baby and it was rock 'n' roll by black musicians, not white ones. Elvis ripped them off and some other white acts.
jpsmart59 2 years ago 2
Elvis is an anagram of DEVIL if you swap the S for an D. Which, coincidently are next to each other on the keyboard
goldfishal 2 years ago
Elvis is the king of rock 'n' roll as he was called though he didn't like to be called king of anything. He did gospel songs and had a love for them. I don't think Elvis was the devil himself. He made it popular to white audiences, that type of music and it was controversial.
jpsmart59 2 years ago
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BardleyCfan 2 years ago
There is no "Rock & Roll" it was just a marketing name to re-brand "Race Music" in a more acceptable form to sell it to "white" people, in a fundamentaly & institutionally racist state, that had no comparison outside of the European's African colonies. Wise up for f***'s sake!
sproutle 2 years ago 3
I agree with you....if you listen to blues,jump blues,and booige wooige along with C&W you'll know that Rock n roll was nothing new.
oramikleepunk 2 years ago
"Rock and roll" was a rebranding of _some_ "race" music. The fad for shouting about rocking and rolling over a backbeat through a song wasn't around yet in 1946, "race" music was. Freed chose that name specifically because of that fad. Calling the Mills Brothers' "Paper Doll" "race" music makes a lot more sense than calling it rock and roll, for instance. Also, there was rock and roll that wasn't race music before 1954 (although not much), such as "Leave Married Women Alone" by Jimmy Cavallo.
JosephNScott 2 years ago
YuoTube is getting worse and worse
robbabub 2 years ago 4
Good Rockin Tonight was a blues song. but made the word "rock" popular , but still a blues song. I believe "Fat Man" beats our "rocket 88" as the first rock n roll song
KARASCOUSIN 2 years ago
Nice video!
I lern-ed stuff!
mikemc0420 3 years ago
Sam Phillips, who late in his life allowed himself to be promoted as the man who invented rock and roll, liked to talk about "Rocket 88" because he produced it, but there were definitely earlier rock and roll records, such as "Rock The Joint" by Chris Powell.
JosephNScott 3 years ago
The kings of rhythm were a good band....I like how they mixed blues,boogie woogie,and C&W together.They sometimes sounded like pre rockabilly....Ike had a strange sound to his guitar playing.
oramikleepunk 2 years ago
My comments were only based on an article on the incident that I read years ago. In that article the writer claimed that Turner liked the unusal sound but you may be right in that they just had no choice but to go with what they had.
taineasy 3 years ago
TRUE ! Every body credits The KINKS and THE STOOGES with the hard riff sound but they Mimicked it from Ike Turners "Busted AMP" sound Rocket 88
SYNDICADO 2 years ago