Posted on 03/27/2011 5:41:19 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
Perhaps the official start of the Rock 'n' Roll era should be moved back from 1954's release of Bill Haley's "Rock Around the Clock" to 1946 to this Tex Beneke (formerly with the Glenn Miller Band) song, HEY-BA-BA-RE-BOP.
Call me crazy but this sure sounds like Rock 'n' Roll except it was a full 8 years before what is generally acknowledged as the beginning of the Rock era.
I didn’t say it WAS R&R, only that it was much closer than the Beneke tune. Listen to the guitar.
What will the last rock and roll song be?
WOW. Great comments here.
There really was a fairly seamless style evolution from swing (for example, 1941 “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pfCFU3Mqww ) and modern rock.
What primarily characterized Rock-n-Roll was the transition from “big band” to electronically-amplified instruments like electric-guitar, but today we have singers who have full-size band accompaniment who we still characterize as rock.
If It wasn’t Rock Around the Clock then it had to be Sh-Boom which was also released in 1954. A huge hit. 1954 was the year Rock N Roll was launched.
The term “folk music” as it is normally used is meaningless. Every culture and era has it’s own folk music, or “music of the people”, and it was almost never the insipid crap that Bluto smashed.
Good stuff, thanks for posting. The page in the link also had Wynonie Harris tunes on it. I discovered him in the 80s and loved his stuff - pre Elvis rock and blues.
Long John Baldry~ Don't try to lay no boogie woogie on the King of Rock and Roll
Les Paul invented Rock and Roll
http://www.dipity.com/timetube/YouTube_Les_Paul_Guitar/
I’d call it “scat.”
I was taking piano lessons when I was 5 years old in 1947-
My piano teacher had some trouble with teaching me classical right off the bat, so the she taught me me boogie woogie first a` la the above.
Bill Haley and his Comets had several other rock songs hit the charts long before "Clock", such as "Rocket 88" (1951), "Rock the Joint" (1952), and "Crazy Man, Crazy" (1953).
There was rhythm back then.. not everything sounded like Spike Jones' popular "Never Hit Your Grandma With A Shovel." (It will leave a bad impression on her mind.. besides she might respond in kind.. use a rock.. a big rock. BTW, in those days everyone knew that it was just kidding.. well most everyone.)
Holy smoke!
When I joined the Army in 1970, one of our favorite Jody calls while marching to the field was,
“Hey, Ba-ba-ree-bop! Hey, Ba-ba-ree-bop!
“I wish all the ladies, were pies on the shelf!
(Family thread here)
Anyway, R&R didn’t start in 1946. Heck, the word “teenager” wasn’t even in usage yet. Teenaged girls were “bobby-soxers” or “viddle vops” (said mostly about Sinatra fans).
I thought “Rocket 88” was a song by “The Cadillacs.”
loved it!
Once again, classic boogie woogie. Rock is guitar. Real Rock is electric guitar and electric bass without the boogie woogie bass line.
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