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Origins of rock and roll

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Rock and roll emerged as a defined musical style in the United States in the early to mid-1950s. It derived most directly from the rhythm and blues music of the 1940s, which itself developed from earlier blues, boogie woogie, jazz and swing music, and was also influenced by gospel, country and western, and traditional folk music. Rock and roll in turn provided the main basis for the music that, since the mid-1960s, has been generally known as rock music.

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Howlin' Wolf - How Many More Years.ogg Jackie Brenston and His Delta Cats - Rocket 88.ogg Goree Carter - Rock Awhile.ogg

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88.0 Crammer: A lively cram course on the history of rock and some other things Howlin' Wolf – "How Many More Years" Goree Carter - "Rock Awhile"

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Goree Carter's "Rock Awhile" is considered a strong contender for the "first rock and roll record" title, featuring an over-driven electric guitar style anticipating Chuck Berry. 88.0 Howlin' Wolf's "How Many More Years" introduced distorted power chords, played by Willie Johnson on the electric guitar, and has been cited as a candidate for the "first rock and roll record" title.

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Rock and roll emerged as a defined musical style in the United States in the early to mid-1950s. It derived most directly from the rhythm and blues music of the 1940s, which itself developed from earlier blues, boogie woogie, jazz and swing music, and was also influenced by gospel, country and western, and traditional folk music. Rock and roll in turn provided the main basis for the music that, since the mid-1960s, has been generally known as rock music. The phrase rocking and rolling originally described the movement of a ship on the ocean, but was used by the early twentieth century, both to describe a spiritual fervor and as a sexual analogy. Various gospel, blues and swing recordings used the phrase before it became used more frequently – but still intermittently – in the late 1930s and 1940s, principally on recordings and in reviews of what became known as rhythm and blues music aimed at a black audience. In 1951, Cleveland-based disc jockey Alan Freed began playing this music style while popularizing the term rock and roll to describe it. Various recordings that date back to the 1940s have been named as the first rock and roll record, including the frequently cited 1951 song "Rocket 88", although some have felt it is too difficult to name one record. Bill Haley's "Rock Around the Clock" is often cited as the first rock and roll record to achieve significant commercial success and was joined in 1955 by a number of other records that pioneered the genre.