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

[@chrissharkey9644]

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

[@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

[@TheRunoben]

@@christinamaroon2615 not only that but rock ‘n’ roll was coined by somebody way after Chuck Berry was playing not only that but both White and Black people both played before Chuck Berry, what was considered rock ‘n’ roll was singing while playing electric guitar the first genre that was played was not blues. It was country which came from European folk music the people who invented the electric guitar were two White American musicians so I don’t know why this video wants to claim that it was Black people

[@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

[@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

[@EarthWindandFirepower0990]

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

[@charles-iii6759]

Most other videos are full of bias, misleading stories that if you are not careful and don't know the history, they lead you think that we had very little to do with what we created.

[@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

[@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!

[@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.

[@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.

[@gracesusanotte5474]

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

[@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

[@StanleyM-z3k]

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

[@lisapalmeno4488]

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

[@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

[@Eric-gc4xj]

@@christhebonnetmann6 No, there's no evidence of that, I love her records from the late 30's but that was not rock'n'roll,even though one of her songs was called Rock me..

[@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. 🤎

[@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.

[@eriveltonsantos5039]

@@TheRunobenLmao

[@johnjomennelson8631ForEveryone]

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

[@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.

[@mr.mirchenstein6549]

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

[@rebeccamckenzie8263]

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

[@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.

[@raanangeberer1903]

You're neglecting the influence of "hillbilly" artists like Hank Williams, especially numbers like "Move It On Over."

[@fk90-b9z]

Hillbilly music is watered down sloppy version of blues and Country aka black American music. Rockabilly was copied from rhythm and blues.

[@blacksantaria3642]

Hank WAS A STEALER OF BLACK SONGS . HE AND THIS BLACK GUITAR PLAYER WENT AROUND THE COUNTRY SIDE AND ASK BLACK PEOPLE DID THEY HAVE ANY SONGS. ALL OLD HANK DID WAS PUT YOLDELING WITH THE BLACK SONGS HE HAD STOLEN.

[@tomloverin9073]

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

[@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]

🙏🏾👌🏾

[@michaelmitchell5098]

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

[@scxrae]

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

[@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.

[@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!)

[@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.

[@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

[@patbrennan6572]

I will never argue that Chuck Berry is the King of Rock And Roll. He changed the fact that you didn't need a bunch of people with you'

[@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!

[@HAMMERHEAD-g3h]

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.

[@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 ✌️🖤🦾🙏😉

[@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.

[@leduck1938]

Styles of music are not invented. They develop with contributions from various sources.

[@superluminal89]

Not today colonizer.

[@timcarr6401]

@@superluminal89 Your hateful remark is noted.

[@superluminal89]

@@timcarr6401 So is your ability to be easily offended.

[@timcarr6401]

@@superluminal89 Nope. I am just stating the obvious bitterness you have.

[@superluminal89]

@@timcarr6401 No Tim. You’re just soft. Not much of a man, are you?

[@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.

[@richardbritt5780]

Thank you!❤

[@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?

[@charles-iii6759]

He might have, but only because blacks were kept away from mainstream. Whites loved the new sound, but due to their racism against blacks they didn't want to hear it from the blacks but rather listen a water down version of it interpreted by whites. This happens with anything we create. Dreadlocks, afro, cornrows, Bantu nuts were looked down until white people and others started wearing those hair styles. Thick lips were a subject of mockery until botox was created. Now they pay money to have thick lips, so now thick lips are ok. And it never stops, it goes on and on to no end.

[@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

[@dolphus32]

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

[@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.

[@nilantive]

Brilliantly presented, thank you for sharing such a powerful resource towards understanding the landscape of early rock and roll !! Had been looking around the net for a while to really grasp it all but your explanations were so thorough and helpful

[@oneafter9095]

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

[@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!!

[@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.

[@pommie5093]

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

[@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

[@henrysonnemann2597]

For me Robert Johnson laid the roots of Rock & Roll. 🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤

[@mikehenson819]

I think you nailed it ! Rock this Joint tonight, is in my opinion the first R&R song, that jump started it all. It doesn’t matter the color of the individual or group who started it. It was an individual thing that changed with the influence of all kinds of music throughout time.

[@umohluna]

It does matter. As soon as you say ablack person started or invented something white people say it doesn’t matter. How come I never hear this when it’s about white inventors?

[@albertsitoe7340]

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

[@ethelricks2418]

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

[@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.

[@mindfulparadigm]

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

[@DaraStarrTucker]

🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

[@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.

[@datboi42]

Give Black people credit without all the bullshit

[@umohluna]

How convenient Wanda

[@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]

🙏🏾🤎🙏🏾

[@ladiva0128]

Brilliant information! Thank youuuu

[@acethegreat3963]

Black musicians in the 30s: "life is tough, it was a long hard day working the fields, let me go to church pray for good fortune, get drunk, and maybe even get laid." Robert Johnson: "i got hell hounds on my trail and the devil at my door!" As a young person who loves the delta blues this video was eye opening and informative seeing the thru line of all these genres. Amazing job!

[@michaelvaleras7822]

Brilliant Dara!

[@davidlarson1602]

Brilliant. And important.

[@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."

[@kevinsysyn4487]

I almost can't believe it. Just before watching this video I saw Rocket 88 video as first R&R song...my comment was... Louis Jordon invented R&R.... he's the man.

[@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!!

[@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 : )

[@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?

[@walterrizotto8668]

This is great. Thank you very much!

[@mjb7015]

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

[@edouglaspratt]

Let's honor the passionate talent and intrepid courage of Tina Turner, who passed May 24, 2023. And as part of our honor for her, let's put Tina, and Ike Turner, and the iconic "first ever Rock recording", Rocket 88 in their true context. Ike Turner's Rhythm Kings' "Rocket 88" is truly iconic. A declaration of teen freedom and especially of African American freedom, empowered by the hot car, the torn amp speaker, and Sam Phillips' manic genius, "Rocket 88" can be revered as "the first rock recording" by everyone forever. And just as important is our reverence for the long list of Rock ' Roll musicians who preceded The Rhythm Kings: Ruth Brown, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Big Maybelle (Mabel Smith), Roy Brown, Little Miss Sharecropper (LaVern Baker), Amos Milburn, Wynonie Harris, Ivory Joe Hunter, Little Esther, Johnny Otis (drums on Hound Dog! and The Johnny Otis Show KTLA TV), Big Joe Turner, Wild Bill Moore, Billy Wright (mentor to Little Richard), Earl Bostic, Percy Mayfield, Gatemouth Brown, Doc Pomus. And so many more, most of 'em workin' The Chitlin' Circuit between the Depression's destruction of Big Bands and the cross-over of Jump Blues & Rock to the white teen market... enter Ike and Tina Turner... Check this out: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aJCZpqqDftR6bMk -Doug Pratt, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

[@JTCurtisMusic]

I maintain that Wynonie Harris’ “Good Rockin’ Tonight” is the prime candidate for first rock and roll song, including the very distinct backbeat which was not often hear in jump blues before that. But Louis Jordan’s “Caledonia” is another good place to start (as I did in my own History of Rock series).

[@malaquiasalfaro81]

In addition to JT’s point, I’ve found Rock & Roll to largely gain its identity when it was -repurposed- for white kids by Alan Freed and others including Chuck Berry. When one views rock and roll through the definition of R&B repurposed for white teens in the 50s, it gives proper credit for those like Fats Domino and other other artists who had only striven to record in the “R&B” or “Jump Blues” style. Often when a genre is born, it incorporates more than just musical elements. The socioeconomic background and other backgrounds of the people recording and experiencing the music often play a measurable role in the music, whether they include politics, whether they play joyfully or angrily, or what other elements they incorporate that may not always fit when describing genres using music theory terms. Great videos 🎉

[@eliahfloyd3429]

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

[@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

[@stewartfenton7660]

Yes, it's an argument that will never end. Great programme,Dara, I haven't seen you before. You came up with all the things I'd have expected,and far more, because I know f*** all anyway.. One record you missed, not a criticism, it's an endless list, isn't it? But "Roll 'em Pete", the classic Boogie/jump blues track from Pete Johnson and Big Joe.

[@DaraStarrTucker]

Thanks!

[@andrewcampbell1129]

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

[@ThePlaySpace-CurtainCall]

I teach rock and roll and guitar. This is probably the best rock and roll history video I've ever seen. I DO have to take one issue though. When you first talk about the earliest country and western taking from slave music, that's actually backwards. Slaves started blues and other similar music by listening to Irish and Scottish folk and adding an African rhythm to it, as well as their own feelings. The 1-4-5 stuff came from white folk music. That's where we get the first country. The idea of making it groove, comes from slaves. Otherwise, I think you nailed it better than anyone. And if you think I'm saying that black folks appropriated music first, no. They just made the best of what they had and what they were allowed to be exposed to. White musicians stole way more and still do. Personally, I like American music and that will always be a mish-mash of black and white styles. That's the good stuff.

[@rockinbones8508]

You hit on some main points, and I doubt we can find the first Rock and Roll as there really wasn't one. As far as Rockabilly- its not just "white kids doing their versions of Jump Blues and RnB", as Rockabilly music never used horns. Rockabilly has a distinct sound and feel of its own, fusing Blues, Bluegrass, and Hillbilly styles. Even Elvis turned Pop songs like Joni James "Hearts of Stone" and Bill Monroe's Bluegras song ' Blue Moon of Kentucky" into rockabilly style of songs Haley, Berry and Lewis aren't really considered Rockabilly by purists. The traditional 3 piece Rockabilly sound was pioneered in Memphis by Elvis, Carl Perkins, and a band called Johnny Burnette and the Rock and Roll Trio. They set the standard of Rockabilly., not only instrumentally, but the vocal style of singing Rockabilly as well. Artists like Buddy Holly and Eddie Cochran cut rockabilly style songs early in their career before expanding their sound to a more traditional, fuller Rock and Roll sound. Rockabilly is another integrated form of music, and an early style of Rock and Roll in it's own right.

[@mikeymutual5489]

She probably meant that the country artists incorporated the beat and feel of Jump Blues and R&B into their sound to create Rockabilly. But then she says that Chuck Berry switched from R&B to Rockabilly and then cites his influence as Louis Jordan. So yeah, maybe she doesn't understand Rockabilly at all, and is probably using it as a euphemism for "white people's music." Good summation.

[@rockinbones8508]

​@@mikeymutual5489 Sure. This new video she does is perhaps expanded more than some previous, and it's very well done. I've been saying most of what she is saying for years. I believe I've discussed some things with her on other social media and You Tube videos in the past so I give her kudos for her even including the style of Rockabilly as well as Berry's Bob Wills influence My only critique would be that she leaves out the importance of Carl Perkins Rockabilly anthem ' "Blue Suede Shoes" as being the first Rock and Roll song to hit number one on all three charts however. I don't know if she's heard of Carl Perkins' influence. My main point is always that RnR of the mid 50s is an integrated style, from a tradition of integrated styles where musicians influenced each other. The race issue should not be that white rockers stole music from black rockers. In every interview, guys like Jerry Lee Lewi, Perkins, Presley and Haley always stated their respect for, and influence of black musicians. They just added a bit of their own personal style to it, as all musicians do. It should be about the music industry not giving the chance for black rockers to shine and get their music to a larger audience.

[@mikeymutual5489]

@@rockinbones8508 You know that the short answer to the question of "who invented Rock and Roll" that she really wanted to say was, "black people." It was practically oozing out of her.

[@whisky_icarus8731]

@mikeymutual5489 because that who invented it. Credit where credit is due. The same thing that happened to blue's, Jazz, rock and roll, etc is happening to Hip-hop. It is what it is.

[@rockinbones8508]

@@whisky_icarus8731 There wasn't one person who sat down and invented anything. The rhythm and chord patterns goes back to the country blues, but since the 20s, white and black artists, producers, song writers, record label owners all created what eventually would call Rock and Roll in 1955. It reached critical mass when they used Bill Haley and his Comets "Rock around the Clock" in the movie Blackboard Jungle. The sound then became synonymous with teenagers, and the lyrics and songs were then aimed purposely at teenagers. It wasn't RnB- it was a product for the teenage market. Presley came along at the right time with the right sound,attitude and charisma. The main consumer of this music became mostly teenage girls, same as any Pop music since him, still to this day

[@tedperle8007]

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

[@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.

[@armandorojo4113]

You really know music or did your research, either way, it's impressive!

[@jeffsnow7749]

Thank you for this educational video!

[@SHANECatLovinActivistHistorian]

john fogerty said he met little richard and all he could think to say to him was, thanks for inventing rock and roll

[@jeffrey322]

Great documentary! TY!

[@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

[@michaelhughes8057]

Alan Freed is originally credited for first using the term, "Rock and Roll ". It originally came from Black Rythm and Blues and Country Western Music.

[@dreadallans1]

listen carrefully the song of Wynonie Harris" good rocking tonight(1949)"

[@seanalexandermedia]

Thank you so much for this. You ate.

[@Jonesnaltitude]

This was outstanding

[@RocknRollkat]

Excellent presentation, thank you ! Bill P.

[@blacksantaria3642]

YOU ARE ON IT BABY GIRL. I PLAYED WITH TYRONE DAVIS JACKIE WILSON AL GREEN AND THE EMOTIONS AND I HAVE BEEN TELLING PEOPLE THAT LOUIS JORDAN WAS THE REAL CREATOR.

[@sibastueldesconocidothaunk8006]

Thank you for your great explanation, greetings from Spain.

[@dreadallans1]

thanks!!!( don' t forget big Arthur Cudrup,the Drifters in 1953 imitated by gene vincent...)

[@PISStopherNolan]

Love the video! Credit is due for these people. Y'all really need to check out Ike Turner's 1951 track "Rocket 88". It's the first recorded rock and roll song EDIT: just finished the video, i see you already mentioned it lol

[@Charro76]

Mid 1950s , with record release "tutti frutti" L R. Heralded to the world of music that Rhythm & Blues had a baby, and they called it Rock & Roll 😊❤

[@davidzimmerman]

Awesome video! Thank you!

[@cricket555]

THANK YOU. This is incredible.

[@FrankNStein-pf9rr]

Thoroughly & beautifully explained!!

[@krzysztofmichalski987]

Thank you, that was extremely informative.

[@ricklocke1187]

Fantastic work Dara

[@TheAdam159]

Fascinating history lesson. Thanks a lot for this.

[@rabbisandra]

Thank you

[@neilsoulman]

First time "rock & Roll" as a lyric in a recorded song was in 1922, early blues/ragtime number by Trixie Smith, "Daddys rockin' me (with a steady roll) #funfact