Re: I Need You Help - Who Started Rock'nRoll? & What Was The First Rock'n'Roll Record

John Wheaton scribed:


"Peter D" <please@.sk> wrote in message >>
In the 60's when White Radio "discovered" Black Artists it suddenly
became quite the vogue to either be Black or English, and the English
Acts were unabashedly copying American Black Artists. You suddenly had
White American Acts pretending to be English, like the Sir Douglas
Quintet, or trying to be Black like the Righteous Brothers who's name was
made to make the impression that they were Black and to support the
illusion, their first album had NO pictures of them!

Was this when the term "blue-eyed soul" was coined?

Yes but while Blue Eyed Soul was to describe Whites doing "Black" music but
the term really didn't get used much until the Hall & Oates era.

This whole discussion begs the question, "What is Rock 'n Roll?" My
succinct answer would be 'the music they played on the pop stations in the
2nd half of the 50's.' I find that most definitions are essentially the
same...the style of the 50's. I like a more technical answer.
Interesting read at <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_and_roll>.

From wikipedia:

" if the heart of rock and roll is the beat, then rock and roll and boogie
woogie are nearly the same. Both are 8 to the bar, 12-bar blues; the
essential difference is that rock and roll has a greater emphasis on the
back beat than boogie woogie..."

"if you take any boogie woogie record of the 1930s or '40s, and sit a
drummer down to play snare on the back beat, then you have turned it into
Rock 'n' Roll."

"Little Richard exploded onto the music scene combining boogie-woogie
piano with a heavy back beat...He has been credited by Ray Charles, Smokey
Robinson and many other artists for starting a new kind of music."

"The first artists to score in a big way with secular rock 'n' roll hits
in 1955 were the influencial and pioneering: Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry,
Little Richard, and Bill Haley and Elvis Presley."

I don't see Gene Vincent's name anywhere.

Off the wall question: Do you consider wikipedia authoritative expertise?

Should all of the quoted material be accepted without reservation because
it came from wikipedia?

Aah...boogie-woogie with a heavy back beat, swung eighths, played nice and
slow... :-)
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Ed Jay (remove 'M' to respond by email)
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