Happy 70th Birthday Rock n Roll?

Algarveaddick

Some say "The Fat Man" by Fats Domino was the first Rock n Roll record, but for many it is this. Recorded seventy years ago today by Ike Turner's Kings of Rhythm, featuring Jackie Brenston on vocals it was released under the name Jackie Brenston and His Delta Cats. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=260hXID0Yo0    

Blackheathen

Interesting.  Good listening too.

Bill Haley and the Comets was the first in my memory.  Seem to remember seats in the Gaumont Lewisham getting ripped up when “Rock around the Clock” screened. Same up and down the country.

Stig

Good track that. Don't remember hearing it before.

Algarveaddick

Blackheathen said:

Interesting.  Good listening too.

Bill Haley and the Comets was the first in my memory.  Seem to remember seats in the Gaumont Lewisham getting ripped up when “Rock around the Clock” screened. Same up and down the country.

This is the version by Bill Haley and the Saddlemen (who would later become the Comets), recorded a few months later on June 14th 1951.  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Oo2O8SYa04

Algarveaddick

Even earlier is this Charlton friendly number - and this is a cover version of a tune recorded a few months before by Jimmy Preston (not so Charlton friendly). 

This is Chris Powell and the Five Blue Flames.  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOMvCbm8o30 

Raith_C_Chattonell

I find it hard to distinguish between boogie woogie and rock and roll.  Boogie woogie started way back around 1900. 

I'm sure there is a difference, but it seems quite subtle to me. Brendan Kavanagh tries to explain it here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSozPRgck1c

Brendan has dozens of Youtube videos where he turns up at Street pianos in London and just plays boogie woogie.  I quite like them, but he is a bit of a big head.

Henry Irving

https://www.amazon.co.uk/First-Rock-Roll-Record-VINYL/dp/B00WO4D0TS/ref=asc_df_B00WO4D0TS/?tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=310886308247&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=12158873087055451700&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9044978&hvtargid=pla-563961867264&psc=1&th=1&psc=1

Rocket 88 is on this compilation.

I've only got on the iPod but some great tracks all of which pre-date Elvis and Haley.

Blues, boogie, R&B, Gospel, j*zz