History of Rock n Roll Part 1 of 5

[@daniellemusella1594]

Glad I found this. I really liked it when it 1st aired, & I've been itching to see it again ever since. Even though I'm 25, I still wish I could've been around to hear these songs as they came out.

[@clubberlang110]

The earliest known recording of the phrase "rock and roll" in use was on a 1904 Victor phonograph record "The Camp Meeting Jubilee" by the Haydn Quartet, with the words "We've been rockin' an' rolling in your arms/ Rockin' and rolling in your arms/ Rockin' and rolling in your arms/ In the arms of Moses." Another version was issued on the Little Wonder record label in 1916.

[@waakkeuppp]

I LOVE how music brings people together :) works every time.

[@kichigan1]

That's the beauty of Rock 'n' roll, whites, blacks, hispanics, whatever we all love it. We love Jimmy Hendrix, we love Elvis, we love the beatles and Van Halen.

[@troymcclure4971]

??????????

[@troymcclure4971]

GEE4 years agoHoly shit how can you turn a nice educational video into a race war? Some of y'all need help ! I've learned a lot from different cultures and y'all can too if you get off it!

[@EL_SEBAS101]

Not really👎

[@We_All_Seek_Truth]

Music can be divisive also. Bob Dylan pissed his folk fans off when he went electric. Rock and roll was divisive in the 50s and 60s between rednecks and hippies. Buddy Holly ran into friction trying to play bop. The racists down south were going to put an end to that "vulgar, nigger bop, rock and roll". The guys trying to put Woodstock on ran into problems IN WOODSTOCK NY! They had to move the festival!! Woody Guthrie was almost killed playing his music. He supported worker's rights. John Lennon was hassled for his music's messages. Bob Marley, on and on.

[@peturdobrev1196]

THIS IS EARLY ROCK'N'ROLL "GREAT YEARS " GREAT DECADE FOR MUSIC. GREAT VIDEO! BEST DOCUMENTARY ON THE HEART OF ROCK'N'ROLL AND THE BLUES THAT I HAVE SEEN IN A LONG TIME.

[@ericmadeoftin8206]

My favorite color is the pale yellow of a pilsner beer in a frosted mug on a hot day relaxing in the shade. Oh yeah, also with some classic rock music in the background.

[@TomBarradas]

For those curious, this documentary was called "Rock and Roll: The Early Days". It was released in 1984. The narrator is the late actor John Heard, whom you might better remember as the Dad from the Home Alone movies.

[@RobertoGinsburg]

Big Joe Turner was a great R&B artist..his "Shake, Rattle and Roll" was covered by Bill Halley and His Comets.

[@thebrazilianatlantis165]

Bill Haley popularized rockabilly (which is rock and roll mixed with "hillbilly" music). Bill Haley did not start rock and roll. Little Richard's "Tutti Frutti," for example, is rock and roll but is not rockabilly. Billboard magazine was already referring to tunes with lyrics about rocking and rolling as "rockers" in 1949, a year before Bill Haley personally first got interested in those rockers. Two of the earliest rock and roll recordings (among others) were Jimmy Preston's "Rock The Joint" and Albennie Jones' "Hole In The Wall," both recorded in early 1949 before any country artists were singing about rocking over a backbeat. Rock and roll started as a new fad kind of jump blues, top ten on the R&B charts, before country musicians got interested in it.

[@latengocomoburro]

Not to take away the contributions that back people have done to the music. But the music Bill Halley started playing sounded nothing like all the other songs played before in the documentary. It is clearly a totally different rhythm.

[@cortezfernandez7475]

"Not to take away from " means to take away from 🙄 He copied music almost exactly from African American musicians. Rock started before the 1950s.... STUDY

[@Jantv81]

Haley's rock around the clock was the first to top billboard. In 1954.

[@Savadorason1]

-I saw this documentary in it's entirety on Chan.13 years ago. It's good. But why couldn't it be posted here on YT the same way like most other programs & movies instead of in parts?

[@lawrencejohn8541]

It's mainly bands that weren't rock or rock and roll, but helped influence bands that would become like that.

[@gabby18162]

What is the name of this documentary? I would like to purchase it. Thank you!

[@a3766]

rock n roll is for everybody and evey human race this is why rock n roll is all about

[@karatekid1422]

Music like this will always never dies

[@thebrazilianatlantis165]

In '49 and '50 Billboard was using the word "rockers" referring to the new fad for singing about rocking with a backbeat. Four hits with that sound during '48-'49 were "Good Rockin' Tonight" Wynonie Harris, "We're Gonna Rock" Bill Moore, "Rock The Joint" Jimmy Preston, "Boogie At Midnight" Roy Brown. When Bill Haley switched to material like "Rock The Joint" he was adopting a fad sound that hadn't existed in 1945. (There were uptempo blues recordings by black and white bands before Mamie Smith.)

[@curtisplights4028]

Don’t you just love rock and roll? The kind of music that would bring everyone together and not create really hateful comments.

[@williamboer2560]

good ol' rock n roll, i listen to Stray Cats sometimes, but AC/DC is IT for me

[@wxsawxsa2941]

STRAY CATS FOR ME HOT ROD LINCOLN HITS MY COMMADER CODY SPOT 70s AC/DC PLAYED Lp FROM AUSTRALIA A YEAR BEFORE IT WAS RELEASED IN USA KEEP ROCKING!

[@dondamon4669]

ACD/DC aren’t exactly rock and roll are they just boring ROCK

[@RobertoGinsburg]

Earl Palmer at the 10:55!! He was the First Funky Drummer with his work along Profesor Longhair

[@dman7619]

For a race so despised and hated our music and culture has been diluted yet has underpinned the popular music industry for way over a 100 years

[@wanpotutu1285]

They often say rock is dead or to boring refine.....to resurrect a raw rock n roll we need the help of the blacks to spiced up todays rock with their magic and soul. As they were the creators!!

[@johnwest4504]

So inspirational, inspired me to become a fireman.

[@lastnamefirst4035]

? How so?

[@kichigan1]

Rock 'n' Roll a gift from the blacks, expanded and polished by white kids and enjoyed and expanded further by all races in the world. The One Thing that Unite Us. Thank You for the awesome music. For Those About To Rock, We Salute You!

[@natashihijimaru3427]

Don't worry guys, as long as Wikipedia is there, African American musical history won't vanish

[@thebackpackerschannel3580]

Wikipedia has been taken over by the dam CIA.

[@jorgeradelat4501]

Did you know that Bill Haley was a little cross-eye…but he was soooo good!!!

[@JarmezGD]

Forced to watch for school gang

[@jsuwheiwnwsa3570]

yo Jamie?

[@JarmezGD]

Yes

[@unwaryllama6821]

hey

[@jsuwheiwnwsa3570]

@@unwaryllama6821 lol

[@GarwinWayne]

At 2:06 The Larks, 2:11 The Flamingos, 2:16 The Clovers, 2:20 The Rays, cut the clip of The Five Keys

[@keith2002a]

this is obviously from two different documentaries...can you tell me the names of the two please.

[@christopherdodge]

Rock n' Roll: The Early Days (1984) - kzbin.info/www/bejne/nXWVgKBnnJh1adE

[@lynettekomidar]

Saw Brian at the Blues Festival in Byron Bay, NSW ... he was amazing.

[@CoachBakerOnline]

Exactly what aspect is relevant? Rockabilly being a mixture (Rock Around the Clock) is a combination of two genres and not a remake of an R&B.

[@wesleycook7687]

This was shown on PBS in it's enternity 30 years ago.

[@Kohntarkosz]

Also, anyone remember Chuck Berry's piano player Johnny Johnson suing Chuck in the early 90's over the authorship of Chuck's classic songs?

[@darrowcelaya4310]

Yes. Johnson originally hired Berry to play in his jazz band and Berry formed his guitar playing by copying Johnson's piano licks. Berry took songs the band composed to Chess Records and they offered him a solo contract. Berry never gave Johnson credit for songs he co-wrote.

[@Heavnnx]

How delightful.

[@wildhorses1339]

Interviewer: Fats, how'd this Rock n Roll all get started anyway? Fats Domino: Well, what they call "Rock n Roll" now is Rhythm and Blues and I've been playing for 15 years in New Orleans. THE SHADE, you tell em

[@wxsawxsa2941]

YES WTIX690 NEW ORLEANS KEEP ROCKING !

[@Grisbi6]

What a great honest history of Rock music....I was there, and this was how it happened....

[@HarryWebb46]

Eddie Cochran was the artist who really exported Rock 'n' Roll to the UK

[@CoachBakerOnline]

What different documentaries did you use to create this?

[@sparkman1314able]

if we subtract color from the equation or at least ignore the issues. its beautiful interracial history just like all American history.

[@PhuckHue2]

+Brandon Sparkman bullshit

[@sparkman1314able]

PhuckHue2 not really America is the only black and white country that rocks with both having achievements. Even if the blacks had too face much harder challenges.

[@sparkman1314able]

PhuckHue2 Yes they stole. All the races steal from one another. Japanese are doing rock and roll too. So just call it appropriation. The evil in this is the racism. That white people had to be the face of rock and roll and profited.

[@PhuckHue2]

stupid trash making excuses for being evil thieves. obviously uneducated. living in your own fantasy world devoid of reality

[@PhuckHue2]

***** wrong stupid trash. obviously uneducated trash living in a fantasy world. when you get your GED maybe we can have an intelligent discussion.

[@billyonions6024]

I have got the original, original of the original Rock n Roll record and this argument will go on forever and is a lost cause

[@jnjumpy73]

The real History of Rock and Roll, for Lester, bill Haily in now way invented Rock and roll: Proof: The no. 2 record of 1951 was "Rocket 88" by Jackie Brenston, produced for Chess Records by Ike Turner. It is about a new car and considered the first rock 'n' roll hit by most experts.

[@thebrazilianatlantis165]

"'Rocket 88' by Jackie Brenston[... is] considered the first rock 'n' roll hit by most experts." "We're Gonna Rock" Bill Moore #3 R&B 1948, "Rock The Joint" Jimmy Preston #6 R&B 1949, "Boogie At Midnight" Roy Brown #3 R&B 1949, "Oh Babe" Kay Starr #7 pop 1950, among others. The story that "Rocket 88" was the first rock and roll recording, which is years off, was started by Sam Phillips because he produced it and he liked the idea that he was quote "the man who invented rock and roll" (not unlike Little Richard, who wasn't either).

[@bigrobtheactor]

When blacks sing opera, dance ballet or write symphonies how come no one complains about theft?

[@bigrobtheactor]

"Don''t nobody want that shit"? LOL!!! are we still on the plantation - or is it the housing project? Whatever, no one wants it, ok, if you say so. Making up false history won't help - neither will speaking broken gutter-English. Take off the thorn of crowns and climb off the cross - you're no better than anybody else, no one feels sorry for you except you, and "the Moors" disappeared a long, long time ago as you will too at this rate. They will have museums to remember you but no one will go. You want pity... No pride except false pride? Go ahead, stay angry.. Stay a victim.. Make our day. LOL!!!

[@kingjay4684]

i think it different when blacks credit was purposely hidden because blacks were considered less you have to actually look in to it

[@generationofswine-ge5rw]

The people who wrote those things are dead. If you have the chops you'll get hired to do it and color doesn't matter: talent and ability does.

[@Woody31494]

what is the name and info of this documentary?

[@michellepitts3556]

Look at the blues, swing, jazz, hip hop and R and B today. Our culture is gone. Eminem is going down as the greatest rapper in history ( we all know he's far from it) just like that culture bandit Elvis is the 'king'. Smdh

[@WarPigs413]

Michelle Pitts Eminem is simply better than black rappers. Just admit it, you know you want to

[@West-Telecom]

Thanks to Elvis you all know that there's a thing called rock&roll what blacks danced with their "asses"

[@masterhalo125]

Does anybody know the song played at 5:10 ?

[@jarethcruz2627]

It's sad that what happened to Rock and Roll and jazz is happening to hip hop AGAIN, in the future people gonna forget hip hop was a black genre and they gonna say Eminem was one of the rappers who started the genre lol

[@WarPigs413]

Don’t be ridiculous, Eminem is clearly better amongst rappers it’s not even close. Most blacks I know know ems the goat

[@acemandave7726]

Lmaooo no fking cap

[@lynettekomidar]

Arthur Cruddup, the 'Daddy of Rock". Saw him perform in the 60s in Sydney.

[@numerical25]

This is in accurate. Chuck Berry was playing before "Country Swing"

[@thebrazilianatlantis165]

"Chuck Berry was playing before 'Country Swing'" No, country mixed with swing was big when Chuck was a little kid. But early rock and roll didn't come from country mixed with swing, or from Berry. It came from jump blues like Louis Jordan's and Roy Milton's mid-'40s jump blues, altered to sound more like gospel music (e.g. the backbeat), as a joke. Three of the inventors of the rock and roll sound were Wild Bill Moore, Wynonie Harris, and Roy Brown. An example of a rock and roll recording from 1949 is "Boogie At Midnight" by Roy Brown.

[@s2httajpalmermm689]

Anthonyg Gordon Chuck was making music since the 1940s

[@bryandiaz7054]

@@s2httajpalmermm689 He was not. His first song was released in 1955. Elvis came before Chuck Berry. Elvis and Chuck did not invent rock n roll. Rock n roll was invented somewhere around the late 40s. Brazilian Atlantis does a fantastic job explaining how rock n roll came to be but you definitely won't listen. Can you find me any recordings of Chuck's from the 40s? I would like to hear one. He started in 1955.

[@thebrazilianatlantis165]

People of all ages who are really interested, start with these. "We're Gonna Rock" Wild Bill Moore 1947 (#3 R&B) "Good Rocking Tonight" Wynonie Harris 1947 (#1 R&B) "Rock And Roll" Wild Bill Moore 1948 "Man Eater" Jay McNeely 1948 "Hole In The Wall" Albennie Jones with Sam Price and his Rockin' Rhythm 1949 "Rock The Joint" Jimmy Preston 1949 (#6 R&B) "Rock That Boogie" Jimmy Smith 1949 "Boogie At Midnight" Roy Brown 1949 (#3 R&B) "Butcher Pete" Roy Brown 1949 "Rockin' All Day" Jimmy McCracklin 1949 "All She Wants To Do Is Rock" Wynonie Harris 1949 (#1 R&B) "Little Red Hen" Johnny Otis 1949 "Jump And Shout" Erline "Rock And Roll" Harris 1949 "Oh Babe" Kay Starr 1950 (#7 pop)

[@ysaiyad]

whose version of bottle up and go is that about 6m 30 sec ??

[@kyleelsbernd7566]

Music consists of rhythm, melody, structure and harmony. African American music typically emphasizes simple rhythm. A dance teacher once told me that African dance is down toward the earth, toward the hips, whereas European dance wants to float above. You see this in ballet, which tries to achieve escape velocity from gravity. Even European polka and waltz have a floating quality. Also think of the marvelous melodies of Swedish group Abba, floating in the ethereum. Their best song Dancing Queen adds a strong African American rhythm. Anyway, this documentary reminds me of the cultural changes from a very white bread 1950s to a more funky interesting, racially integrated modern era. I do think a strong balance between both traditions broadly is healthy and stimulating. The exact mix is up for debate.

[@kosmicrhythm4366]

Hey, if all the hate and fighting is over, can anyone help me by telling who is that country singer @ 7:04 ? Thanks

[@minuteman0194]

I realize this is a old post but that is Ernest Tubb.

[@lynettekomidar]

I was referring to Gene Autry's version of "Blueberry Hill" as not being RnR. I first heard it from Glenn Miller Orchestra on 78

[@lynettekomidar]

I think you'll find there are earlier versions...

[@Jantv81]

To Joseph Scott, you missed my point. It took more than one genre to invent modern day rock.

[@Gunfighter200077]

Thanks for your input, Albert?

[@Collects_sharpeners]

Rock and roll !!!

[@thomasfarmer1730]

decades later jazz and blues would give birth to two bastard grandsons HEAVY METAL and PUNK ROCK

[@Darjeelingla]

As an authentic Boomer, R&R nurtured and sustained me. Today’s pop music … 😠🤬😤

[@guspeterson3134]

Ike Turner played piano on Rocket 88 recorded by Sam Phillips in 1949...some consider 88 to be the first RR record.

[@glennso47]

455;Rocket by Kathy 😊Mattea.

[@twoslices]

could be that the African drum rythmns were centuries old, just a guess that might have been a contribution.

[@williamboer2560]

Elvis Presley, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin made Rock 'n Roll a famous music genre!

[@twright628]

All of them influenced by black artists that couldn't get the same recognition because of their skin color, what a shame.

[@glennso47]

Yellow Sun Record from Nashville

[@glennso47]

Fat Dominos

[@glennso47]

Blueberry Hill reminds me of the Fonz

[@lynettekomidar]

I always believed it was Mamie Smith with "Crazy Blues" ... others beg to differ

[@MAD_1979]

I love rock n' roll.

[@LeviBulger]

So put another dime in the jukebox baby

[@romegee1984]

Holy shit how can you turn a nice educational video into a race war? Some of y'all need help ! I've learned a lot from different cultures and y'all can too if you get off it!

[@VIKDR1]

Great post. People don't get how rock really pulled us together. Putting a white face on it wasn't so much stealing as it was making it acceptable to idiots of the day. Once you had the white people making it acceptable, then you could "sneak the black musicians in the back way." It wasn't perfect, but it was a step. And it was followed by another and another. Also history is history. It isn't something to get upset about but something to learn from. It wasn't an easy road for people like Fats Domino and Chuck Berry. And I am sure that Sam Phillips sure got a lot of push back doing what he did. When looking at history, let's focus on the heroes. It's easy to find the villains, but those villains are too often just people following the status quo trying not to rock the boat. The hard part is being that person who does, the first person to stand up. There is a lot of fear with change, especially when trying to change something that is centuries old.

[@Sttephy30]

Rock = black music, period. So blacks definitely deserves to be apart of the rock hall of fame. I don't care if it's pop, R&B or hip hop artists. They ALL deserve to be inducted.

[@West-Telecom]

Rock-white music.Rock&roll's black.

From far far way; I love jazz and blues

[@thebrazilianatlantis165]

Thanks brother

[@Joesfosterdogs]

Pat Boone was such a hack!

[@robertsmith5095]

Search: 1935 The Twelves playing kokomo arnold then hear 1938 "That's All" played by sister Rosetta. Then see the branch that evolved in another direction in Africa like Angola kzbin.info/www/bejne/opism2amftiLqqs it's was traditional to make your own. Atabaki (don't know the spelling) so they would make instruments on the plantations of the US to get a taste of the land they were taken from since they didn't want to leave but were taken they didn't try t conform but to recall instead the distorted string song the atebachi made with the soulful crying out sound. The singing out screaming out started in the churches when The HOLY GHOST took over the musicians and pastor (who often lead praise and worship songs) But the singing our rock and roll started in church when the musicians would get THE HOLY GHOST so actually it started in Heaven as the guitar is a harp that YESHUA taught King David to make that was already an instrument in Heaven. The seed of rock and roll was first seen in the planes of Africa carried to the US in the bottom of slave boats through singing and hearing the instruments in their minds later making atabachis to produce that signature slightly distorted overdrive sounding string sound and was germinated in black churches ( kzbin.info/www/bejne/rpTCeZVte759kNk ) in the US before cameras. The sound of rock and roll you hear today came from The HOLY GHOST in southern churches. The cameras got Sister Rosetta stone gospel artist with the sound but missed those before her.

[@opencarrydrift6308]

Early rock is literally based off of what chuck berry himself described as “hill billy” music rock didn’t come out of thin air but as we know it today, yes blacks undoubtedly created rock n roll

[@whydontyouwork]

This is not the original documentary it has been heavily edited.

[@emilianorueda1049]

Do you happen to know what the original documentary is called?

[@mightylion1442]

Jamz from Judah.. Of course

[@gabby18162]

Where's 4 of 4?

[@vlcahvv]

So the inventor of the wheel created the lamborghini?

[@glennso47]

Not necessarily.

[@evanhansen5064]

This is an unnecessary war that completely throws out the saying "music brings people together" some of you people need help.

[@ZachMJAndSonicFan]

What about Conway Twitty?

[@michaelfacenda9293]

the music we know today from the 70s up as Rock music isn't what this is. Rock N Roll to me has always been at that time more up beat blues as you can see they have a cello and horns.

[@ringokidd387]

Through the 40s and the early fifties you can hear what Hank Williams Sr was doing in his music in that era we were not so hung up on titles but Hank Williams crossed every genre of music Hank Williams wrote the greatest gospel the greatest country, blues bluegrass ,folk music and yes the sound of rock and roll as you'll see in 1950 when you listen closely to Bill Haley and the comets you can hear Hank Williams influence throughout all of the up and comers Bill Haley in the comets Elvis Presley Carl Perkins Buddy Holly and the list is endless very strikingly similar chord progressions and melodies Hank Williams is the definitive godfather of all Music! 🎵🎶🎵🎶

[@niagaramedia7007]

This is only conjecture

[@manckuzzo]

el rock es lo mejor que existe!!!

[@cortezfernandez7475]

European American fasctination and mimicking of African Americn styles, dances and music began long before "Rock". Jazz, Boogie, Jump, Skiffle, DooWop and Blues were all mimicked by European Americans, even encorporated it into "country". Vaudville stole music from African Americans. Rock likely started as early as the 1930's but certainly there were Rock songs in the 1940's. Big Joe Turner with Pete Johnson, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Roy Brown, Wynonie Harris, Wild Bill Moore< Joe Liggins, Erskine Hawkins, Fats Domino and louis Jordan were all doing Rock in the 40's. Some in the 1930's........during John Hammond's Spirituals to Swing concerts in 1938 which served as the first Woodstock, jam sessions between the various artists solidified the coming recordings of actual Rock in the 1940's

[@acemandave7726]

Ahh man the shit that happened to rock is gonna happen to Reggae & Hip Hop.

[@lastnamefirst4035]

Glad it got better

[@kennethberoid3791]

Skyrilla you don't know what you are talking about the suits stole the music and the money that went with it. In order for the record to get played on the radio the artist had to give half of the record to the DJ. The DJ took the record and sold it to white artist and the black people who wrote and created rock and roll music were left out without a dime. This has been documented throughout the history of so-called rock and roll music. As far as blacks singing opera where do you see blacks owning opera music. Whites still own opera music and they still own the music business.

[@dougie1943]

Rock 'n Roll only became "rock 'n' roll" when someone decided to give a name to what was happening in the youth music industry of the time. The artists that came under the banner were wide and diverse. Country, r&b and ballad artists all had recordings that were dubbed rock 'n roll. R&B was a music in its own right and had its roots in the music played by black artists. Rockabilly had its roots in country music (which had its roots in European folk music) and was played by white artists. Rock n' roll became a fusion of the two music styles and to claim that it was from black artists alone is erroneous.

[@thebrazilianatlantis165]

You're mistaken. Erline "Rock And Roll" Harris (who was black) was going by that nickname when she recorded the rocker "Jump And Shout" in 1949. An Eddie Mack record (he was black) was advertised as "Rocking, Rolling..." music in 1950. The Dominoes ("Sixty-Minute Man," they were black) were publicized as "Rock and Roll performers" in 1951. Hardrock Gunter, who was white, made what we call rockabilly music in 1950 by combining the pre-existing black rock and roll style (e.g. "Rock The Joint" Chris Powell 1949 and "Rock That Boogie" Jimmy Smith 1949 -- no white performers made rock and roll recordings before mid-1949, but e.g. Jimmy Preston and Wild Bill Moore did) with "hillbilly" music, and Bill Haley got interested in doing the same thing shortly after that. "Rockabilly" got its name by combining "rock" with "-billy" because people knew there was rock and roll that wasn't "-billy" (such as what Little Richard kept making throughout the late '50s), and they knew the two styles were being combined.

[@dougie1943]

Yes, I realise all of that, having had an interest in r&b, blues, jazz and folk music since being introduced to it in the early/mid sixties.by bands such as the Rolling Stones who had exposed me to those genres in the early/mid sixties. The artists that you mentioned were not calling their music rock 'n' roll at the time they were playing it even though the phrase 'rock and roll' was occasionly used in its lyrics. It was being called something else. Boogie woogie, race music, rhythm & blues amongst others. It was aimed mainly to a black audience though the white audience was occasionally exposed to it via the popular bands of the 30s' and 40s' via Woody Herman (The Band That Plays The Blues), Tommy Dorsey and Arty Shaw amongst others. I still maintain that it did not become rock 'n roll until the label was put upon it by the industry to encompass all that the youth, black and white, was making popular at the time.

[@thebrazilianatlantis165]

dougie1943 "The artists that you mentioned were not calling their music rock 'n' roll at the time" What part of "The Dominoes ('Sixty-Minute Man,' they were black) were publicized as 'Rock and Roll performers' in 1951" do you not understand?

[@twright628]

It was.

[@FirstnameLastname-ww8ry]

Rosetta Tharpe first Rock n Roll record 1944.

[@jefflh9200]

There's such superiority complex with these people that even watching a video where it clearly shows how black people invented rock n roll period They still try to argue they somehow had a hand in it by reading these comments , rock and roll would have never existed without blacks you don't have enough soul and Rhythm to come up with something like this, you guys can have river dance

[@generationofswine-ge5rw]

I've had it with white Americans, especially in the Trump era, trying to promote this historical revisionism that downplays any positive contribution by black people and denies the horrors or slavery and Jim Crow. This is coming from the "I'm not a racist" crowd, who are clearly racist but deny it all the time and imply that past oppression of black people and natives is "fake news." These same idiots believe middle class white men are an oppressed minority and talk about anti-white racism. It is so childish and false a narrative it makes me angry when I hear someone espousing it. There is no "white genocide," but I wouldn't mind seeing a Trump supporter genocide. These people have lead an assault on truth, making up their own reality as they go along, and pretending that what they made up about history is just as valid and true as what a historian wrote his Phd. on.

[@SneakySnake133]

@@generationofswine-ge5rw Imagine unironically believing in the genocide of a group of people that disagree with you and justifying it because of a small percentage of people. Literally no one denies the horrors of slavery or Jim Crow laws, but you'd be a fucking moron to suggest that, compared to the rest of the world, people of color suffered more in America. "white genocide" IS happening, just not in the US, but rather Africa. If you knew anything about history instead of just being angry all the time, you'd know that the contribution of blacks ISN'T downplayed, and despite what you want to believe, black people didn't build America. Americans built America, white, black, Asian, whatever. America is and always has been a melting pot, and white people never "stole" music, the record sales speak for themselves.

[@thebrazilianatlantis165]

@@generationofswine-ge5rw I think for many white people the beliefs e.g. that whites must have helped invent blues music (zero evidence supports that) or whites must have helped invent rock and roll music (zero evidence supports that) is not a desire to hurt black people but the assumption that any time anything important happens, white people must have been there. A longstanding white assumption (basically subconscious, generally) created by extremely long continuous white privilege. Ultimately a racist arrogance, but not felt as a racist arrogance because the white person sincerely doesn't notice he's doing it.

[@West-Telecom]

@@thebrazilianatlantis165 Oh you wanted to say whites made a strong& philoshopic genre from the "fun object for ass dancing" ???

[@thebrazilianatlantis165]

@@West-Telecom Sure didn't.

[@yourforgivenrepent]

We got more flavor than a pack of Now-a-Laters.

[@trip866]

7:42 Pat Boone stole that song from Cheap Trick

[@glennso47]

Cheap Trick wasn’t born yet when Pat Boone and his brother Richard were singing.

[@kerreill]

Where's Sister Rosetta Tharpe?

[@rogeralsop3479]

Life could be a dream.

[@glennso47]

Life could be a nightmare too.

[@EBAYBONNIE]

They stole everything now they want to act all civilized. R. I. Piss Elvis Presley.

[@bryandiaz7054]

R.I.Piss Elvis Presley, that's just messed up. If it makes you feel better, he died way back in 1977 and he was doing concerts every single year from 1970-1977 with a hugely heavy touring schedule. He got fatter and more bloated throughout the 70s. Fun fact, Whitney Houson's mother used to be a backing vocalist for Elvis in the 1970s. Cissy Houston was singing in a vocal group called The Sweet Inspirations for Elvis in the 1970s.

[@businesseast]

Rythem & blues sped up, blacks used their slang edge over musical instruments.. A faster paced rendition emerged… IF YOU WANT TO KNOW WHERE ROCK N ROLL REALLY STARTED… THEY STARTED IN…BLACK CHURCHES !!

[@thebrazilianatlantis165]

"Rythem & blues sped up" No, uptempo blues were popular in the 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, and early 1940s. "WHERE ROCK N ROLL REALLY STARTED" Where rock and roll really started was among black professional jazz-associated musicians who made commercial (to blacks) jump blues for a living and knew what black church music sounded like. Starting in 1948 it became popular on the black charts to hear a jump blues that had been mixed with a church music sound (including backbeat) as a sacrilegious joke. That's why the likes of Roy Brown sang about "deacons" and "good news," to make clear the joke. Rocking meaning partying was an allusion to "rocking in the bosom of Abraham." The black poet Al Young recalled that devout black parents didn't approve of the radio show "Rockin' With Leroy" (black deejay Leroy White, years before Alan Freed's similar show). Because they got the joke.

[@Kohntarkosz]

If we're gonna talk about "stealing" songs from whomever, it's worth noting that a number of blues performers did just that, e.g. Leadbelly claimed authorship of songs that are now known to have been field hollers that predated him. And nowadays, you've got hip hop performers sampling off other people's records, and trying to get away with not paying royalties. I know a guy who runs a record label who had to take Common to court because Common sampled something off a record my friend had released on his label. Not only did Common not seek permission (it took my friend six years to even find out about it), he didn't pay royalties until my friend brought legal action again him. So don't act like it's only white people who've ever "stolen" the music from black performers.

[@darrowcelaya4310]

Chuck Berry was hired to Johnny Johnson's jazz band and copied the piano riffs to his guitar playing. He took songs the band had written to Chess Records and they offered him a solo contract. Berry never gave Johnson credit for songs he co-wrote.

[@Agik123-c2l]

This is rock back then ? O_o

[@lynettekomidar]

Yes, I read that in Wiki also.

[@Merlin-lc4zu]

Whatever your leaning as to which influenced which,the fact of the matter is as human beings we need a starting point and then each generation takes the genre to a different level and style.Its pointless arguing about it.All styles of music are influenced by other styles of music and we all have our own personal favourites and nobody should slag off somebodies choice cos they do not like it personally.Too much bitching going on.

[@Jantv81]

Think: American Bandstand and its influence...

[@MrPisster]

The narrator is a bit off on the history. Young servicemen loved black big-band and in the 40's "jump blues" like Louis Jordan were the heavy metal of the time. When they got back home they wanted to discard everything from the war - the hell they lived through. The sexual promiscuity, the rockin' music. They had PTSD. So the mainstream became milktoast and easy going. A return to the traditional values they abandoned in the service. But the music survived in the black community and on jukeboxes. Drug stores and ice-cream parlors were basically non-alcoholic bars for teens. They started to listen to the more "extreme" music and dance like their parents did at their age. This was "rock and roll". Because of the associations the older generation had with the music - promiscuous sex and violent lifestyles that THEY had lived through the music was in the parlance of 2016... TRIGGERING.

[@Savadorason1]

-True. & back then 50's, early 60's r&b/r&r was fun & enjoyable, playing in teens hangouts & some bars on juke boxes, certain radio stations, house parties, & dance halls, & like most other music genres, there were songs about everything from everyday life, good/bad times, comedy, love, social commentary, etc. But the sound was great, not hi tech or sophisticated, sometimes even primative, but rockin', rythymic & rebellious enough to be trailblazing & revolutionary, with "That Heavy Beat" & style changes, to countless legions & generations that would follow, up to today.

[@Gunfighter200077]

blueberry hill was 1st recorded by gene autry....a white guy

[@jnjumpy73]

The mere term "Rock and Rock, was slang used by Blacks to describe sex, long before the term was applied to " Music "

[@jacopman]

not stupid but very relevent...............rockabilly is a mix of country/blues and rock........like Brian Setzer.

[@MsSamian]

Where's chuck berry?