for those who never gave up their turntables
’50s ROCK & ROLL includes articles about the music that people accepted as rock & roll at the time, which was a much more accepting definition than the ones used by historians and record collectors sixty years later.
Whatever definition you believe in, in May 1954, Bill Haley and his Comets recorded Rock Around The Clock. In July 1955, it hit #1 on both the Billboard and Cash Box Top 100, after which there was no going back! Discographies and price guides are included in some articles.
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I AM WORKING ON A PIECE for this blog that inspired this brief piece below. It’s titled “What Was the First Rock & Roll LP Album of the ’50s?” and at one point I turned to Wikipedia for information. Specifically, I was interested in determining the release date of Fats Domino’s first album, Rock And Rollin’ With Fats Domino. [Continue reading]
I KNOW, IT’S ONLY ROCK & ROLL, but I like it and so do millions of others (although the number of faithful may be dwindling as we age and the Hip-Hop Era endures). The phrase “rock & roll” as it refers to music and dancing has been with us for almost seventy years and appears to have originally been a black American euphemism for sex that goes back even further. [Continue reading]