Who invented rock n roll?

Question

Elvis is no king, that bastard couldn't even write a song properly. He is responsible for 2 songs. The 1 about kissing cousins and jail house rock..... Some King of rock n roll

Answer 1

Definately Alan Freed the DJ came up with the name Rock 'n Roll but he was playing that music style before Elvis. Most experts agree that 1955/1956 was the year rock was really "born". Carl Perkins actually wrote and recorded "Blue Suede Shoes" at Sam Phillips' studio in Memphis but Sam re-recorded the tune and released it with Elvis doing the arrangement. Elvis' version took off and Carl was pissed because his version was outsold by the Elvis version. But the actual roots of rock go back to the rockabilly style which is what Elvis copied later. Technically, if anyone "invented" Rock, it was Sam Phillips who produced Elvis and changed his style a bit from the traditional rockabilly. In reality, the style evolved on its own with key musicians like Chuck Berry and Bo Diddly making their own contributions along the way.

Answer 2

Elvis was probably the first huge rock n roll star, and some of the first rock n roll bands were The Beatles and The Rolling Stones.

Answer 3

Elvis Presley did not invent Rock n Roll. He became the first Rock n Roll superstar.

In 1954, Elvis Presley recorded the regional hit "That's All Right (Mama)" at Sam Phillips' Sun studios in Memphis. Elvis played a rock and country & western fusion called rockabilly, which was characterized by hiccupping vocals, slapping bass and a spastic guitar style.

Rock and roll began to emerge as a defined musical style in America in the late 1940s as an offshoot of both the rhythm and blues music, or R&B, of African American culture, and of white America's country and western music. Though elements of rock and roll can be heard in country records of the 1930s, and in blues records as far back as the 1920s, it did not acquire its eventual name until the 1950s.

Rock and roll appeared at a time when racial tensions in the United States were coming to the surface. African Americans were protesting segregation of schools and public facilities. The "separate but equal" doctrine was nominally overturned by the Supreme Court in 1954, and the difficult task of enforcing this new doctrine lay ahead. This new musical form combining elements of white and black music inevitably provoked strong reactions.

The phrase "rock and roll" was heard on Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five's version of "Tamburitza Boogie", recorded on August 18, 1950 in New York City. However, there are earlier usages of the term, such as the 1949 record "Rock and Roll Blues" by Erline Harris, and the 1948 record by Wild Bill Moore, "Rock And Roll," as well as a record by Paul Bascomb with the same title, though a completely different song, in 1947. Even as early as 1922, Trixie Smith had a song titled "My Man Rocks Me with One Steady Roll," but the essence of the phrase was first recorded in 1916, on the Little Wonder record label, in a song called "The Camp Meeting Jubilee", where the singers say "We've been rocking and rolling in your arms, in the arms of Moses."

On March 21, 1952 in Cleveland, Alan Freed (also known as Moondog) organized an early rock and roll concert, titled "The Moondog Coronation Ball". The audience and the performers were mixed in race. The evening ended after one song in a near-riot as thousands of fans tried to get into the sold-out venue.

Answer 4

I actually believe that Elvis Presley was the first of the rock and roll musicians.

Answer 5

^I agree. That's why they call Elvis the king of rock n roll. He had a lot to do with it's popularity and diversity.

Answer 6

Allen Freed coined the term but I believe the first documented R&R song was By Ike Turner and it was called Either Olds 88 or Olds Rocket 88, I am pretty sure it was Olds 88.

Answer 7

ACTUALLY A LOT OF PEOPLE THINKS ELVIS DID BUT THE ROOTS OF ROCK-N-ROLL GOES BACK TO THE 1950'S. IT CAME ABOUT WITH THE USE OF THE ELECTRIC GUITAR. THERE IS A GREAT WEBSITE ABOUT THE HISTORY OF ROCK-N-ROLL. IT IS AT SOURCES..

Answer 8

I would say Ray Charles. Then came everyone else like the Beatles. Jimi Hendrix and The Who etc.

Answer 9

I say Chuck Berry

Answer 10

Wasn't it Alan Freed who coined the term???