Who invented Rock and Roll?
 

I know, I know evolutionary process...

But if you had to point at one band or performer who would it be?

rocket 88 Ike( that low life tina beaten Scum Byotch ) Turner

1948

That tune is clearly rock and roll. For an asshole Ike rocked.

The big 3 were Elvis, Chuck and Little Richard, i guess.


Chuck brought the guitar forward, though, and to me... THAT's rock-n-roll.



So... it was actually Marty McFly

I would say Fats Domino.. I had an album from him from the 50s but it was not the original MONO record,it was "RECORDED IN STEREOPHONIC SOUND" and it sounded horrible.. I got rid of it........

If a record is mono,LEAVE IT MONO!!!!!!!!!

If I can find it again IN MONO like it was recorded,I may get it again.... Most all Fats albums are highly priced!! ($30 or more)

The One I had was called "This is fats domino" with a red cover......

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The fact that this is not obvious is the really interesting part.

Like LJ said it was Marty McFly that invented Rock n Roll.

This almost always comes down to the guitar, or the drums.

I'm not a guitar player, so I don't know what the "qualifiers" are, in sound or technique. What are they?

For drums, I would say it's 1) straight--not swung--8th notes, and 2) heavily accented snare on the 2 and 4.

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I think it would be BOTH of these. If you're playing "rock guitar" over a shuffle, that's blues. If you're playing a backbeat to a big band, that's jazz.

Well on mine it was buddy,it said "RECORDED IN STEREOPHONIC SOUND" on the cover.....


The original release of that is mono......

Give this a few minutes.

i wan't to change my vote.

Pretty sure there are no wrong answers.

You're prolly rite.

I don't have a vote, I'd just like to remind everyone of the fun fact that "rock'n'roll" was originally slang for fucking. It would be like if an entire genre of music were called "horizontal mambo."

"Oh man, I saw an awesome horizontal mambo show this weekend."

Both of them are correct, y'know. On all counts.

Amanda and I watched the whole thing. Never heard of her before.. Thanks for this. Amanda had seen the train station clip, but no context. Amazing that I didn't know her name. January 11th is her day. And she's buried in Philly. What?

She's probably Rock and Rolls mother. There's a story that Richard Penniman was outside one of her shows singing back in his gospel days. She brought him in exposing him to her high energy show and eventually we get Little Richard.

It makes me wonder about all the players around the country who never made a disc but for sure made music.

I dunno. Little Richard was born in December 1932 and was only 15 years old on March 31, 1948 when, rumor has it, a baby was born that came out of the birth canal crying Wop bop a loo bop a lop bom bom!

Al Gore.

Alan freed.

I saw a shown last week ago called the Million Dollar Quartet, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, and Jerry Lee Lewis. The set was Sun Studio with Sam Phillips MC-ing and he said he invented Rock and Roll. Since he recorded Rocket 88 at Sun I guess it’s not that outlandish a claim.

See Bruce agrees !!!

The lights are on in the garage...

We saw that on the cruise we went on. And watched the show, Sun Records on CMT?

Good show. Sam definititely had a hand in it.

I saw it at the Welk Theater in Branson MO, they looked pretty close at a distance but the sound was right on the money.

Big Bill Broonzy and Memphis Lil.

Nice!