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tideghost
It's ironic that Gene Simmons of Kiss doesn't think N.W.A. should be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame. Rock 'n roll was originally the music of African-Americans. Rock 'n roll probably wouldn't have even gotten its name if it wasn't for this 1948 R&B hit by Wynonie Harris. "Good Rockin' Tonight" started a fad of records about "rocking" in R&B in the late 1940s, and whites started listening to that music around 1954. :)
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johnmcorcoran
If memory serves me well, this might have been the first record to fade out at the end instead of concluding abruptly.
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LondonLouis
I seem to remember growing up to a sanitised Pat Boone version of this. Boone had several hits where he covered Black hits of this era. To my English middle-class ears, they sounded great. .... but it was good to discover the originals.
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LondonLouis
Then there's Flying Home by Lionel Hampton's Band with the first honking sax solo by Illionois Jaquet - around 1942. Some people reckon that should also be included as an R&R track. That may be far-fetched, but that solo laid down the template for R&R sax players.
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LondonLouis
I've been checking my Rolling Stone History of rock and Roll. There really wasn't much earlier than this. There was a Joe Liggins song in 1946 which Billboard referred to as "rock and roll rhythmic music". There was someone like Louis Jordan whose Jump Music was as close to R&R as dammit. Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup was around in 1947 with "That's all right", which I suppose was the "That's all right Mama" which Elvis copied to have his first R&R hit. T-Bone Walker was also around with "Blue Monday" (1948). So, Harris was in at the birth of R&R, even if he technically wasn't quite the first. (But do remember that there is an Ella Fitzgerald song - the title of which I've forgotten - in the late 1930s which specifically mentions "rock and roll", even if the song doesn't come close to R&R).
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LondonLouis
This rolls along very nicely. Re that question of the first R&R record. I'd assumed that would be Rocket 88, but last.fm has that down as 1951. I'll have to go back to my history books.
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