Who Invented Rock and Roll? | The Breakdown with Dara Starr Tucker

The question of who invented Rock & Roll is one that has been debated for decades. And it may not be as easy to determine as some people believe. The roots of Rock & Roll go much deeper than many people know. In this extended Breakdown, I examine the deep roots that led to the development of one of the most enduring musical genres of all time.
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[@gary9426]

This is the best, most succinct explanation of the history of Rock and Roll I have ever heard, Dara..loved it. Hat's off to you!👍👍

[@christinamaroon2615]

You are incorrect completely. You are calling Blues music as rock n roll. Incorrect. Rock and roll was entirely different. Elvis style was more of a rock and roll. He is the one who broadened the Blues into a different style.

[@TheRunoben]

She’s wrong, rock was a thing since Chuck Berry‘s childhood before he started playing music it was underdeveloped, but it was already a thing, when Chuck came, he developed it, but so did a lot of white musicians during his time, and after him just like black musicians after him and during his time

[@jordanyoussef3886]

Thank you for always including subtitles in your videos. Every effort you take, from the great editing to the accessibility measure are very appreciated by me and your other viewers. Love all that you do :)

[@DaraStarrTucker]

Thank you so much for your acknowledgment of this. It’s pain staking, and adds a lot of time to the editing process, but it’s important to me that the videos as accessible as possible. I’m so glad to hear that it’s helpful for you. Thank you for watching.

[@christinamaroon2615]

You are incorrect completely. You are calling Blues music as rock n roll. Incorrect. Rock and roll was entirely different. Elvis style was more of a rock and roll. He is the one who broadened the Blues into a different style.

[@horstdunoch3546]

@@christinamaroon2615mayyyybe there ain't no right or wrong, but... mayyyyybe rewatch the video 'cause her explainations are really well built and coherent !!

[@TheRunoben]

@@DaraStarrTucker a lot of what you say is incorrect rock did not come from blues, but it was developed with the influence of blues by Chuck Berry as the electric guitar and rock music or at least this precursor was already being played by the white musicians who invented the electric guitar

[@TheRunoben]

@@horstdunoch3546 it’s really cherry picked and biased as rock was already being existing when Chuck Berry was a little kid it doesn’t come from blues or jazz it doesn’t have a set style Chuck Berry developed it using blues though

[@jeremiah.ereedii1663]

I’m a upcoming rock player I appreciate you teaching everyone how it’s supposed to be

[@TheRunoben]

Please don’t rock did not come from blues it was already there. The electric guitar was invented by two white musicians, singing rock I’m pretty sure Chuck Berry had influence from these since he liked the electric guitar he combined this with blues, which developed it into rock ‘n’ roll It doesn’t have an inventor

[@chrissharkey9644]

As a jazz musician this has to be the best summary of the subject that I ever heard! Thank You

[@EarthWindandFirepower0990]

THIS THE BEST VIDEO I'VE SEEN ON KZbin IN A LONG TIME.THANKS FOR ALL THIS INFO.

[@RashBold]

This channel deserves more subscribers! Dara really knows what she's talking about.

[@TheRunoben]

Ehhh it’s biased rock was already a thing It didn’t come from blues it has influence from blues Rock or an idea of rock was already around when Chuck Berry was a little kid unless you’re telling me that when he was like four or five years old he was making music and people were hearing him then she doesn’t know what she’s talking about or she does and is just biased

[@user-xy5ic8fy3b]

Kudos to a great video, and even more for the considerable amount of research that went in to it! Thank you.

[@ripplesandleaves]

Fantastic video. Informative, interesting, and important. Thank you so much for making it, and sharing it!

[@TheRunoben]

And cherry picked and biased as rock doesn’t come from blues and existed when Chuck Berry was a little kid like four years old he developed it using blues, but it already existed

[@rebeccamckenzie8263]

I loved this video so much! Thanks for sharing your research and knowledge. ❤

[@mr.mirchenstein6549]

You really did an excellent job with this. Very thorough & educational!

[@GeneralTarik]

WOW Sis, you did your thing with this. I’ve been studying and collecting this music since the early 2000’s and have been a Louis Jordan fan since the late 80’s. You taught me something because I never heard the term “Fast Western”. You even picked out all the songs I love and would pick like “Rock Awhile” and “Rock the Joint”. This was amazing. Thank you!

[@scxrae]

This was phenomenal; please keep up the great work! You helped me so much for this final I have to take tomorrow!

[@Laddybug_ug]

Thank you so much for this video! My school puts on a Black History Program every year and I’m a black person who really enjoys rock/alternative music, and I knew that it was created by us. I wanted to Pat homage to and honor that since it’s so important to me. This video is so helpful for my research!

[@khichfy]

And Basquetbol?

[@Ziorix]

​​@@khichfyand sunscreen?

[@S4v3_w3st]

Not created by y’all. Every instrument from Europe. Inspired by classical and mixed with European cords. Modern popular rock sounds nothing like chuck berry.

[@TheRunoben]

It wasn’t since rock already existed before the Carnegie hall thing influenced doesn’t mean created

[@TheRunoben]

@@S4v3_w3st you also leave out that it was already a thing and that Chuck Berry influenced and developed it, but it already existed. The sound were already there. People were already singing with those sounds

[@chorseschorses4381]

im a young punk getting into a lot of rock associated and derived genres and i loved this!! i really like how you line it all out and gave both intellectual(explaining the emphasis on beats two and four) and musical(than playing the clips showing that) examples for a lot of the points you make! im a huge nerd, so if anyone has any recommendations for music education videos like this please throw them at me. i also really like that i didn’t have to unlearn a lot of this and was able to learn with mostly-fresh eyes(unlike a lot of history) about Black music(and how white music owes much of its beauty to Black and other POC music). If you read this, thank you so much! i enjoyed learning from you(the subtitles help a lot).

[@DaraStarrTucker]

Thanks so much for letting me know that you appreciated this video. Wishing you the best of luck with your music. ❤️❤️❤️

[@The_Other_Ghost]

Check out folk punk.

[@roninjolin7687]

I'm a metalhead but I also love punk. They both gave birth to crust punk, thrash, grindcore, and a lot of other stuff.

[@wileym]

That video of Sister Rosetta Tharpe playing Didn't It Rain gets used a lot but it's from 1964.

[@christhebonnetmann6]

She was doing rock n roll in the 30s

[@wileym]

@@christhebonnetmann6She was doing Gospel in the 30's. But that song was released in 64 and that's all I meant.

[@christhebonnetmann6]

@@wileym she was doing both gospel and rock n roll in the 30s

[@ardvarksimmons]

These videos are so well made and well researched its astounding!

[@DaraStarrTucker]

🙏🏾🤎🙏🏾

[@TheRunoben]

@@DaraStarrTucker did you research it fairly because all the elements you talked about in the Carnegie Hall part influence rock ‘n’ roll it was already a thing before that though it was years after till a guy coined the term by the way rock ‘n’ roll has been a thing since the early 30s went two white musicians invented the electric guitar and were singing with it chuck berry developed it using the elements you talked about but it already existed developing does not mean inventing

[@popvoid]

Best breakdown on the subject I've seen. Thanks, Dara.

[@pommie5093]

Thank you for this awesome and informative video-much appreciated!

[@gracesusanotte5474]

Good, complete, succinct piece! Love them all!🎶👏

[@ladiva0128]

Brilliant information! Thank youuuu

[@hostyleone163]

This is amazing info. Thank you so much for digging this up for us all. When I say all, you know who I mean.

[@johnjomennelson8631]

A very well put together documentary of the growth of various musical genres.

[@tomloverin9073]

This is the best analysis of the birth of rock and roll I have ever seen.

[@lisapalmeno4488]

Great treatment of this topic. Love it. That Elmore James guitar sound, that's my favorite in blues.

[@walterrizotto8668]

This is great. Thank you very much!

[@jeffrey322]

Great documentary! TY!

[@terancecoffee2696]

This is a great outtake on Rock & Roll. I am sharing this my Mass Communication students. I am lecturing on Sound Recording in America.

[@jeffpowell4125]

Thank you so much Dara . For breaking down how the Evolution of RocknRoll in such detail & allowing us to hear the music that your speaking about . Thank you for your hard work and detailed information .

[@TheRunoben]

She laughed out a lot of stuff another influence for rock ‘n’ roll is country music The first people to invent the electric guitar were white and they probably used American folk music, which wasn’t only a continuation of European music, that’s an incorrect thing to say it had its original things it was a combination of black and white musicians that made rock ‘n’ roll

[@funkyluvit]

I love being educated by you. You missed one genre that many people don’t know about. It’s called Skiffle. African Americans need to learn more about Skiffle. It’s their heritage. 🖤

[@lisapalmeno4488]

I watched a documentary about Jimmy Paige that said that's what was popular in England when he was a kid.

[@funkyluvit]

@@lisapalmeno4488 yep. Beatles were into it too. If you Google skiffle, you’ll find mostly info on white British men

[@corkbour7708]

Very true. Skiffle was Main Street in the UK. Blue’s was brought to the UK in records from the US. Groups like Beatles, Stones, Kinks, etc left skiffle and reinterpreted those records into their version of rock, which introduced the British Invasion.

[@philipcone357]

It goes a little deeper some enterprising British kids discovered you could write to an American Embassy and get albums of early blues that had been recorded out in the fields of the American South during the 1930’s. For free!

[@mikeymutual5489]

"African Americans need to learn more about Skiffle. It’s their heritage." What kind of nonsense is this? Skiffle is just a British take on American pop and R&B played on household items, and is not anyone's "heritage," except for British kids in the 1950's.

[@michaelmitchell5098]

Lady, thank you so much for your input. You are saying everything I’ve been saying since at least 1976.

[@TeethCollect]

Doing some research on Rock and Roll and electric sound for a character design course I'm in. this video, with how well is explains the influence of the music through other genres and time, really helped me understand what makes Rock and Roll what it is. Thank you!

[@DaraStarrTucker]

🙏🏾👌🏾

[@jeffsnow7749]

Thank you for this educational video!

[@krzysztofmichalski987]

Thank you, that was extremely informative.

[@jflaugher]

I'm an amateur Rock 'n' Roll historian and absolutely loved your video. It was well-documented, well-written, and presented the material respectfully.

[@DaraStarrTucker]

Thank you so much.

[@auldthymer]

@@DaraStarrTucker This video was very impressive. While I knew at least half of the names, I didn't realize their music started as early as it did. (PS: Love the shout out to Scott Joplin!)

[@Awesomebaconman123]

An hour ago I had an idea "What if I made a video detailing how rock was invented?" I look up if anyone had the same idea and here it is. Done in a quick and coherent ways. The theme that genres are a combination of what came before.

[@epalazzo]

Great video. Love.

[@glw9675]

Just found this video. Wow, it's extremely well done and thoughtful; I learned a lot. (About a topic that is very difficult to define and tends to attract gatekeepers, no less.) Thanks for the hard work of actually defining the relevant genres, digging up the audio clips, and comparing them. Also, I love that fact that you don't cop out on the question of where rock & roll can really be considered to have started. You suggest an artist and then a song, and back that up with musical evidence, yet still allow viewers to make their own judgments. Well done!!

[@michaelvaleras7822]

Brilliant Dara!

[@tedperle8007]

We’ll done, concise, and accurate!! Thank you!!

[@richardbritt5780]

Thank you!❤

[@ethelricks2418]

Thanks I really never knew the history behind that type of music.

[@RocknRollkat]

Excellent presentation, thank you ! Bill P.

[@DorianKYounger]

great work

[@davidlarson1602]

Brilliant. And important.

[@mindfulparadigm]

Thank you so much for making this! It’s fucking incredible.

[@DaraStarrTucker]

🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

[@FrankNStein-pf9rr]

Thoroughly & beautifully explained!!

[@NoRockinMansLand]

Thank you for educating me😃 I knew a bit of this but nowhere near as much as you

[@calvinguile1315]

Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis said Chuck Berry was a black man that played country music

[@LovelyLonewolf-mc3ld]

​@@calvinguile1315Jerry Lewis is white as snow honey

[@rodgailey3027]

Fantastic! Thanks!

[@Jonesnaltitude]

This was outstanding

[@ricklocke1187]

Fantastic work Dara

[@cricket555]

THANK YOU. This is incredible.

[@roninjolin7687]

As a Salvadorian American Metalhead, I appreciate this. Thanks to the African Americans that brought rock n roll to the world

[@minathepinkpigglet2812]

Mexican American metalhead! I’ve been doing research on the history of metal and wanted to take a step further in the history if rock itself! This video made me feel so seen. Tho im not black it’s good to see a historical documentary that’s of poc experience!

[@walterrizotto8668]

Meathead?

[@TheRunoben]

She left out a lot African-Americans weren’t the only ones who brought rock ‘n’ roll as another influence of it is also country and the people who invented the electric guitar were not black Both white and African-Americans brought rock to the world

[@TheRunoben]

@@minathepinkpigglet2812 I’m also Mexican and please don’t lump people in just because they’re not white that’s freaking weird so second of all country is also one of its influences, and the people who invented the electric guitar were probably singing that and the people who invented it were white it was a combination of white and black musicians that made rock ‘n’ roll not just black. She left out a lot of things.

[@KarinLynnBates]

This is AMAZING work, Dara! Thank you so very much for pouring time and energy into this teaching. I’m so excited about this and can’t wait to share with others. Hopping over to Instagram now to look for posts of yours I can share right now! 🎉🎉🎉

[@DaraStarrTucker]

🙏🏾🤎🙏🏾

[@mjb7015]

Woo! SO happy to see some appreciation for Jimmy Preston.

[@dollydiamond426]

I think rock music wouldn't exist without Elmore James and Louis Jordan.

[@neilsoulman]

There is much truth in that! Lol; Jordan realy dosnt get a lot of the credit he deserves, while its true he never really left the jump blues/swing scene, he is responsible for some of rock & rolls most recognizable songs, like, you keep a knockin, the opening riff for Chuck Berries, "Johnny B Goode", let the good times roll, and his band "tymponny five" contained some of the most renown and prolific pioneers of jump blues & early rock; Hogan, Chris Columbo, and the legendary keyboardest, Bill Doggett, who wrote what many call the jump blues anthem, "honky tonk"

[@TheRunoben]

Not the case either, but I think they made it recognizable and what it is today because country which is distinctly American not just a continuation of European music that is wrong is another influence of rock rock ‘n’ roll. The people who invented the electric guitar were white musicians, two of them to be exact and they would play while singing, American folk music both white and black musicians developed rock

[@TheRunoben]

@@neilsoulman you also leave out that country is another influence and the people who invented the electric guitar were two white musicians who would sing country while playing it both white and black musicians developed rock

[@TheDuncanify]

Brilliant!

[@terrencebushell9588]

Thanks for telling these stories about the history of modern music Dara! I think it's amazing just how much of popular music we owe to African American artists everything from, Blues, Jazz, R&B, Rock, Funk, Gospel, Disco, Hip Hop, Rap, House and Techno and everything that came from those... There must be something very powerful about the Black American experience good and bad that inspired so much creativity. It's a shame that many of these artist never got the credit but at least they Inspired so many. We would live in a poorer world without their contribution to music...

[@christinamaroon2615]

You are incorrect completely. You are calling Blues music as rock n roll. Incorrect. Rock and roll was entirely different. Elvis style was more of a rock and roll. He is the one who broadened the Blues into a different style.

[@West-Telecom]

Not the rock

[@Enoch-uw3lb]

​@christinamaroon2615 You are completely IGNORANT. Please do your homework & see the video HOW ELVIS COPIED THE STYLE OF ROY HAMILTON. You wont be able 2 refute that. If you'll UNBIASELY RESEARCH the inventions & contributions of so called BLK AMERICANS in the U.S. you will be blown away. After almost 400 yrs of forced illiteracy BLK ppl have more substantial contributions than most others combined. FACTS. Even the technology that lead 2 the GAMA cell technology starts with us. Even the ranch dressing, french fries, potato chips & home security system that you enjoy comes from BLK EXCELLENCE. Not 2 mention that Automatic gear shift in the car you drive everyday. Or the Electric Railway if you don't drive ✌️🖤🦾🙏😉

[@brucebennett8584]

I dig this the most thanks for sharing

[@robertlevasseur6843]

Outstanding review and analysis. Western swing is often forgotten in these pieces because it's a branch that comes out of left field and is hard to fit in the narrative. You weave it in perfectly.

[@kellywilliams3715]

Thanks for pointing so strongly to Louis Jordan. To me "Saturday Night Fish Fry" is his most rocking (maybe because of the chorus lyric). His music was very light-hearted and fun, another important part of rock. Johnny Otis (no slouch himself) had a great radio show in the 90s that celebrated this birth-of-rock period.

[@understandingelvis2675]

Holy cow --- your intellect blows me away. I wish I had the historical and musical knowledge and understanding you have regarding how these genres evolved over time to eventually become rock 'n roll. I began casually self-studying this stuff a couple of years ago, but I have a long way to go to get even close to your level of knowledge. I have a few comments/reactions to your video. I'd love to hear any reaction you might have to what I write. First, I just want to mention this --- I watched some video a couple of years ago of Cab Calloway when he was a very young man, and it struck me that he MOVED like Elvis. Just physically --- his posture, the way he walked, surrendered his physical body to the music --- his very specific physical mannerisms. I began to wonder if Elvis might have either studied him, or, passively absorbed his physical style. Second, in the course of this self-study, I just in the last month was exploring some old spirituals, and one of the songs I listened to was a very old recording of the Fisk Jubilee Singers singing "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot". They have a female lead, with the beautiful, high voice. And they sing the song very slowly --- much more slowly than I've ever heard the song played. And with that female lead and the slow tempo --- it just elevates the to a sublime level. Have you heard it? (link at the bottom of my comments). Third, I spent a lot of time studying many of the rhythm and blues songs that Elvis covered early in his career. I compared some of the ones you mention in your "Why Many Black People Don't Like Elvis" video. So, Junior Parker's "Mystery Train", Big Mama Thornton's "Hound Dog", Jimmy Reed's "Big Boss Man" (which Elvis recorded in the '60s), and a few others. And I have analyzed and compared Elvis' versions with the original artist's, and I have figured out a basic formula that Elvis consistently applied to each song to remake it in his personal style. He did the following 3 things: (1) he sped up the tempo a lot (2) he sang with legato, whereas the black artist tended to sing more staccato (3) and he either eliminated the syncopated back-beat rhythm that dominated the black artist's version, OR, he kept the syncopation, but toned it down substantially so it almost became subtext, and then layered over it a much stronger, more dominant even rhythm. So that even rhythm dominates the song, and the backbeat becomes just sort of a delicate ornamentation. I'd appreciate any comments, insights, criticisms you have of this analysis. Again, I REALLY appreciate your videos, and I will be subscribing. Thanks very much. kzbin.info/www/bejne/gp3Vq6Kkdr14jZo

[@understandingelvis2675]

Oh, I had another comment on the point you make about --- was it the Blues rhythms mimicking the rhythm of the trains. I noticed that years ago. But here is an interesting psychological insight about that train rhythm. The musical rhythm literally sounds like the sound a train makes, but it also mimics in sound the VISUAL rhythm you get when you travel fast, whether in a train or in a car on the highway. When you ride fast like that there is the fast visual rhythm of the road straight ahead coming at you, and then a secondary, slower visual rhythm of the trees, rocks, telephone poles, signs in your periphery on the side of the road. Country Western music also creates movements that suggest the various paces a horse moves. For example, if you listen to Elvis' version of "Tomorrow Is A Long Time" he creates the rhythm of a horse slowly, lazily walking, and swaying side-to-side. And he suggests it's a Western theme also by having the tambourine rattling at key moments, sounding like spurs rattling, or the horse's reins.

[@DaraStarrTucker]

Thanks for taking the time to watch this and thoughtfully respond. I will say as far as Can Calloway goes, I’m sure Elvis studied him closely. He was revolutionary in terms of the physicality he displayed & his showmanship. And I am pretty familiar with the Fisk Jubilee Singers. I moved away from Nashville a few years ago after living there for over a decade. They are legendary in that city and not talked about nearly enough. I hope this video has given you a few more rabbit holes to explore. There are so many more layers, and it’s all quite fascinating. Thank you for subscribing. 🤎

[@eliahfloyd3429]

Great video while having info to back it up. History cannot be ignored

[@TheAdam159]

Fascinating history lesson. Thanks a lot for this.

[@kempfkempfkempf]

Great introduction. It's understandable that he wouldn't merit a mention here, but an interesting figure that connects Louis Jordan with the rock n roll era was his producer, Milt Gabler, who also produced Bill Haley & the Comets' first album, Rock Around the Clock, reorchestrating Tympany Five arrangements and adding a backbeat to turn a western swing aggregation into a rock n roll band.

[@Stefan_der_Oberfranke]

I think you agree with me that a guy by the name of Bill Haley brought it into mainstream. Louis Jordan is one of the pioneers of early rock and roll. Thanks a lot for your video. Great!! What would be rock and roll without black artists?

[@dolphus32]

Authoritative breakdown of who created Rock and Roll. And why. Excellent! Excellent production.

[@thesocraticmethod3223]

Very good exposition. Some of the inferences are tenuous though. While the influence of African American experience on Rock music must not be understated, it almost seems as though the presenter would like to suggest that without African American exposure, music would never have evolved in America?

[@JWNOSNHOJ]

Thank you for an informative, succinct and well delivered , constructed presentation on the subject of Rock and Roll. As an Englishman I would add that for me the subtitles were not necessary.

[@anxofernandez3344]

Absolutely fascinating.

[@brianyoung2683]

This was interesting, thank you

[@sibastueldesconocidothaunk8006]

Thank you for your great explanation, greetings from Spain.

[@woodysdrums8083]

Great show

[@Tysto]

Swapping the shuffle beat for a hard 2-4 backbeat is the thing that got everyone's attention in "Maybellene" and changed music. "Rock Around the Clock" came out the year before, but it didn't get big until it was used as main theme of _Blackboard Jungle;_ and that's because it's a retread of Hank Williams' "Move It on Over" and hardly has drums at all. Retroactively classing Turner's "Shake, Rattle, & Roll" or Willliams' "Move It on Over", or Crudup's "That's All Right Mama" as rock & roll discounts the reality of people at the time hearing "Maybellene" and saying "this is different from what we've been hearing and needs a new name."

[@stevenklein5240]

I love it how you phrase it at the end, that rock is the earth child of the black experience. So eloquent and accurate!

[@Frodojack]

You certainly did your research. I'm very impressed. Personally, I think Goree Carter's "Rock Awhile" is the first rock and roll song. It was released in April 1949, while Jimmy Preston didn't release his song until August. Big Joe Turner's and Louie Jordan's jump blues definitely fathered in the genre, and I'd say their biggest influence was Cab Calloway.

[@christinamaroon2615]

You are incorrect completely. You are calling Blues music as rock n roll. Incorrect. Rock and roll was entirely different. Elvis style was more of a rock and roll. He is the one who broadened the Blues into a different style.

[@oneafter9095]

Probably the best accurate, succinct description that I’ve heard so far…yes, Rock’n Roll is just a label.

[@dannynours]

Thank you !

[@VictorCastroVikman]

Love this explanation. Greetings from Peru.

[@rabbisandra]

Thank you

[@malaquiasalfaro81]

Fantastic script. I must say it took me probably 2 years to find all of the information you provided here. I wonder how long it took you guys to write this script

[@mattik79]

Great video! Thanks for making this. Boogie woogie (piano) is my favourite one!

[@dcloud3791]

WELL done

[@bergerkos]

Great, thank a lot!

[@andrewcampbell1129]

Appreciate it, tbh, never hear of Luis jordan prior to this video! blessings! much respect!

[@acheaves]

Dope. #Subscribed

[@arnoldronning5471]

Thank you for this informative video. I remember having a similar revelation when I was a teenager who grew up watching older "classic" movies and noticed a steady progression from big band to swing to boogie woogie. Rock-n-roll as a new genre was already mentioned in a few films from the late 1940's, not the 1950's as I had previously assumed. I think music had a lot to do with cultural integration in the United States and later Europe (where I happen to be living since 2022 thanks to my Hungarian wife : )

[@wandajames143]

I know where this is going, but honestly I prefer to see Rock n Roll as a unifying art form of a multiplicity of races. It really shows the humanity of it. I just heard Aretha sing Satisfaction by the Stones and it just shows how we’re all one and connected.

[@stevehurl298]

Dara offers a thoughtful overview of the history of rock & roll and Great Black American music, about as good as the best ones available, and better than most. If you're not going to read several books about the subject and listen to 200+ hours worth of blues, jazz, and early rock & roll, this video is a good 12-min education. Some minor factual errors, but mostly solid, and it comes with an educated Black perspective usually missing in most rock & roll scholarship. Good pacing and production values.

[@martyprice8288]

The very first rock ‘n’ roll song ever was made by Ike turner the song was called rocket 88 in 1951 that was the first rock song.

[@timcarr6401]

A clear NOPE.

[@madamemadame9410]

Thank You for this truth.

[@geraldgreen6278]

Music is magic with the power to heal , unite , inspire , all people. Who was the first to bring joy to humanity ? If we can share the joy of music and share its composers gift I’m happy.

[@blackhistoryofrocknroll]

I dig your video ive tried to reach out to you because of this video. I would like to go live with you speakkng pn this how would i can i do that .?

[@user-zm6yh3ux7l]

I'll tell you what I like about this video, she said something that a lot of people forget. I was born and raised in Southeastern Kentucky and she's exactly right. Back in those days, you got treated like absolute crap regardless of color unless you were wealthy and good looking and marketable. The same things coal corporations were doing to black and white miners in Kentucky and Virginia, it's the same thing that they were doing to sharecroppers in Mississippi. My family migrated from Ireland and Scotland and a lot of them were coal miners that didn't even get paid real money. It was modern day slavery back in those days for all the poor people regardless of color. Even in today's world, it's not about color it's what you can do for somebody else to make them money.

[@stevechrist8622]

young lady you did a great job and i know that took a lot of time so i wil say thanks because it opened my eyes to the different people that contributed to rock and roll. i grew up in the 50's and Elvis fan also Chuck Berry but my favorite is Fats Domino i agree with Elvis i always felt Fats was the king of rock and roll mainly his songs were great to dance to and i was descent dancer. Also regarding Elvis you actually did a lot of homework on him and did a great job of squashing a lot of those rumors regarding racism that unfortunately a lot of people still believe. anyways keep up the great work

[@Radix91]

Robert Johnson- They're red hot. It is the earliest fast and nice guitar and rock vocals I've heard other than rhythm and music itself. You just got a new sub here I love your video!!

[@albertsitoe7340]

I am a South African 🇿🇦 and 27 years old but I have heard most of these classics. 😂 it’s insane.

[@Galactivators]

Has anyone made a KZbin or Spotify playlist of all the songs / artists mentioned in this video?

[@tabesin77]

Just stumbled upon the Bocage Bechet recordings of Lady be good (published Jazz Nocturne 4) - April 1945 Boston, that is earlier than Louis Jordan.

[@neilsoulman]

Excellent job! Would probably take a whole series to cover the topic, love how you gave mention to stride pianno and boogie woogie as setting the stage. In my opinion the true architects of r&r would have been BB King, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Ike Turner review , Howlin Wolf & Bo Diddley, Elvis and Bill were ambasadors.First rock band and sound was actually the underated Granville Stix Mcgee imho, really great exposition, kudos

[@johnwhelan9225]

For me it`s not about who invented what, but that a generation of artists regardless of color who were responsible for taking risks in laying the foundations of popular music, will never get the credit they deserve without people like yourself taking the time to research and articulate accurately a timeline when Rock & Roll was being formulated. Louis Jordon, Big Joe Turner, Sister Rosetta Thorpe and Jimmy Preston are all corner stones in the world of Rock & Roll along with many others no doubt. The question is that without an Elvis, Jerry Lee, Chuck, Little Richard and so on who brought and popularized the genre world wide would we be even having a discussion like this. Excellent video well done.

[@whisky_icarus8731]

@johnwhelan9225 credit should always be given where it's do

[@ayoknightz9037]

Yea sounds about white, with out people Elvis u lot would have hand no choice than to live it, good music is good music and when u steal u give credit

[@LovelyLonewolf-mc3ld]

The hell it does matter,who invented it.

[@JoyHarrison]

​@@LovelyLonewolf-mc3ldThank you. They don't say that about things invented or patented by white folks. They make sure to own theirs while trying to tell us it doesn't matter who created the mainstream music genres.