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Rocket 88 (Original Version) - Ike Turner/Jackie Brenston

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Uploaded by on Nov 9, 2007

Widely acknowledged as the first "rock and roll" song.

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  • This is one of the things that an old guy like me can dig about computers and youtube.That being the access to this great song and the info that people provide.Just reading a book about rnr and read about this song "rocket88 and so i came on here to check into it further on youtube.And once again thanks to the people who post i found what i was looking for....thx.

  • Somewhere, there are 29 villages in search of their idiot.

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  • @MeYouView "Bill Haley's '(We're Gonna) Rock Around The Clock' is classified as the first rock and roll song to appear on a pop chart in 1955." Haley's "Crazy Man Crazy," the Dominoes' "Sixty-Minute Man," and Kay Starr's "Oh Babe" all charted pop earlier.

  • @PurpleLemonTV There was no distortion back then. It was mostly reverb. That didn't happen 'til the 1960's!

  • Rock and Roll (Black slang for "Sex") which was coined by Cleveland DJ Alan Freed can be traced back to recordings even before the 1950's. It's always been a debate on who was the first to play it. "Rocket 88" is up there but it's not the first. Bill Haley's "(We're Gonna) Rock Around The Clock" is classified as the first rock and roll song to appear on a pop chart in 1955.

  • good song but i thought "move it on over" by Hank Williams Sr was the FIRST rock and roll song

  • @hater38100 NOT the first. What about THE FAT MAN from Fats Domino (1949)

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