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ROCK 'N' ROLL
It had its roots in black music and much of
it coming from the south was referred to as "race music".
In 1953 Sam Phillips, a Memphis recording man immediately
recognized a special quality in Elvis Presley. On July 5,
1954 in the middle of a session at Sun that wasn't going particulary
well, Elvis started picking on a piece, by a famed black bluesmannamed
Arthur Crudup, called "I'm All Right, Mama" . Legend
has it that Elvis suddenly let go while he sang, jumping around
the studio like gospel singers he had seen at church. Sam
Phillips loved it and got it on a tape. They turned it into
a record with the Bill Monroe's "Blue Moon of Kentucky"
on the flip side..
"In 1959 popular music in the United
States reached a new low of illeteracy, vulgarity and dullness...."The
menace of "rock 'n' roll"continued through 1959,
although it showed some signs of weakening, Elvis Presley's
military service did not interfere noticeably with his standing
as high priest of the cult, and his popularity with teen-agers
accounted for at least three hits, "A Big Hunk o' Love",
"A Fool Such As I", and "I Need Your Love Tonight"...."One
of the big hits of 1959 was a vulgar, worthless tune called
"Mack the Knife" recorded by Bobby Darin"
Source: 1960 Britannica
Book of the Year
Rock
and Roll, rock-'n-roll: a style of popular
music of Afro-American origin, characterized by an insistent,
heavily accented syncopated rhythm and the obsessive repetition
of short musical phrases, tending to build up tension in an
audience and induce a state of group frenzy when played very
loud.
Source: Deluxe Edition
of The New Lexicon Webster's Encyclopedic Dictionary Of The
English Language
In its early years, rock and roll music was
believed to make teenagers crazy, drug-deranged, and/or promiscuous.
The Los Angeles Mirror printed a story in 1959 that announced
that rock music "tightens the cow's glandular system
and deters milking," with a strange headline that claimed
"Rock 'n' Roll Makes Cows Tighten Up."
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In the
early 1960s, opinionist William F. Buckley, Jr.
wrote the following about the Fab Four: "The
Beatles are
not merely awful, I would consider it sacrilegious
to say anything less than that they are godawful...They
are so unbelievably
horrible, so appallingly unmusical, so dogmatically
insensitive to themagic
of the art, that they qualify as crowned headsof
anti-music.".
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