[Fiji Hill]

There was a lot of rock and roll before Chuck Berry.

• Rock Around the Clock--Hal Singer (1950)

• Good Rockin' Tonight--Roy Brown (1947)

• We're Going to Rock!--Wild Bill Moore (1948)

• Cadillac Boogie--Jimmy Liggins & His Drops of Joy (1948)

[RoosterRedux]

Bob Wills was in 1938. Check out the song (link upthread)...it is pretty amazing.

[Boogieman]

You could even go a decade earlier - Big Joe Turner & Pete Johnson - Roll Em Pete (1938)