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Title: Rock and Roll is Sixty Years Old !! nsc
Post by Edith Grove on Mar 3^rd, 2011 at 7:17pm

On either 3 or 5 March, 1951, the "first rock and roll song" was recorded at Sun Studios in Memphis, Tennessee.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_88

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcFIj8OuIEI

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Post by Paranoid Android on Mar 3^rd, 2011 at 8:09pm

OKAY...I get that...but when did The DJ Allen Freed first say the words..."Rock and Roll" ?

Sometime in 1951 according to WIKI...

Anyone???

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Post by Sioux on Mar 4^th, 2011 at 8:04am

Ok, evidently The Dominoes recorded a song, "Sixty Minute Man" in Feb. of 1951. It wasn't released until May of that year...when Alan Freed began playing it, he realized how suggestive the lyrics were. The term "rock and roll" were in the song, so, about a month later {that would have been June 1951}, Freed started using the term "Rock and Roll" to placate those who were prejudiced against "race records".

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Post by corgi37 on Mar 6^th, 2011 at 4:16am

So we all agree that rock began in 51, and died when?

69?
91?
now?

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Post by Sioux on Mar 6^th, 2011 at 4:03pm

Not dead yet.....but struggling.... :'(

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Post by Sioux on Mar 6^th, 2011 at 4:03pm

It's also nice to know that SOMETHING is older than I am! ;D

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Post by Paranoid Android on Mar 6^th, 2011 at 4:36pm

Sioux wrote on Mar 6^th, 2011 at 4:03pm:

Not dead yet.....but struggling.... :'(

I agree...it's on life support...with the blanket up to it's neck...