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Chronology of Rock ‘n Roll
1931 -1965
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To the British public, Rock ‘n Roll began
in 1954 with the release of Rock Around the Clock by Bill Haley and His Comets.
The term Rock ‘n Roll and the musical style
had been around in the
Rock ‘n Roll had been a popular term, for
decades, in Black American Culture to refer to dancing or sex and had been used
in many songs.
Prior to the late 1940s the term used to
denote music by black American artists for black audiences was Race Music. The
record industry introduced the less emotive term Rhythm ‘n Blues as a marketing
ploy to sell black music to white audiences.
The term Rhythm ‘n Blues has run side by
side with Rock ‘n Roll since that time.
In 1951 Disc Jockey Alan Free used to term
Rock ‘n Roll to refer specifically to music when he started his radio show
“Moondog Rock 'n Roll Party” which played black music for a white teenage
audience.
Bill Haley and His Comets
The term Rock ‘n Roll became mainstream
with Bill Haley and His Comets in 1954 but the style he adopted was very close
to that of Louis Jordan who had been playing in that style for a over a decade.
Bill Haley’s popularity burnt out after a couple of years, although he had
several revivals up to 1974, and Rock ‘n Roll was carried forward by Elvis
Presley, Little Richard and others.
Chronology
1931
Adolph
Rickenbacker invents the electric guitar.
1936
Billboard
puts out its first record sales chart in 1936.
1938
Bluesman
Robert Johnson records his first record.
Pete Johnson
and Joe Turner cut their first boogie records in
Boom of
boogie woogie in
Telefunken
helps develop magnetic tape for use with tape recorders.
John
Hammond's 'Spirituals to Swing' concert in NYC
Saxophonist
Louis Jordan leaves Chick Webb's sax section to form his Tympany Five. This
might well mark the beginnings of what we know as Rock and Roll.
Louis
Jordan
1939
Leo Mintz
founds a record store in Cleveland, the "Record Rendezvous",
specializing in black music. This was a revolutionary and bold step in selling black
music to white customers
1942
Louis Jordan launches "jump blues"
(rhythm and blues) with "Choo Choo Ch'Boogie "
1943
King Records
is founded in
1945
Les Paul
invents "echo delay", "multi-tracking" and many other
studio techniques
Johnny Otis
assembles a combo for "
Jules Bihari
founds Modern Records in Los Angeles, specializing in black music
1946
Muddy Waters
cuts the first records of
Carl Hogan
plays a powerful guitar riff on Louis Jordan's "Ain't That Just Like a Woman"
Lew Chudd
founds Imperial Records in Los Angeles, specializing in black music
Specialty
Records is founded by Art Rupe in
1947
Billboard
writer Jerry Wexler invents the term "rhythm and blues" for electric
blues
Roy Brown
writes and cuts "Good Rockin' Tonight" in
Chess Records
is founded in
Ahmet Ertegun
founds Atlantic Records in New York to promote black music at the border
between jazz, rhythm and blues and pop
1948
John Lee Hooker
records Boogie "Chillen'" for Modern Records, a a single, which
topped the
R&B
charts in 1949.
Homer Dudley
invents the Vocoder (Voice Operated recorder)
Memphis'
radio station WDIA hires Nat Williams, the first black disc jockey
The magazine
Billboard introduces charts for "hillbilly" and "race"
records
1949
Fats Domino
cuts "The Fat Man," a new kind of boogie.
Hank
Williams' "Lovesick Blues" reaches the top of the country charts.
Scatman
Crothers cuts "I Want To Rock And Roll" (1949), with Wild Bill Moore
on saxophone.
RCA Victor
introduces the 45 RPM vinyl record.
Todd Storz of
the KOWH radio station starts the Top 40 radio program.
The Billboard
chart for "race" records becomes the chart for "rhythm and
blues" records.
Aristocrat
changes its name to Chess.
Dewey
Phillips (white) deejays race music show 'Red Hot and Blue' in
1951
The white
Cleveland disc jockey Alan Freed decides to speculate on the success of
LeoMintz's store and starts a radio program, Moondog Rock'n'Roll Party, that
broadcasts black music to an audience of white teenagers.
The first
rock and roll record, Ike Turner's Rocket 88, is released.
The first
juke-box that plays 45 RPM records is introduced
Howling Wolf
and Joe Turner popularize the "shouters"
Gunter Lee
Carr cuts the dance novelty "We're Gonna Rock ".
1952
Bill Haley
Saddlemen become the Comets.
Bob Horn's
Bandstand TV program airs from
The
Les Paul
invents the first solid-body electric guitar, named the 'Les Paul', for the Gibson
Guitar Company.
Sam Phillips
founds Sun Records and declares "If I could find a white man who sings
withthe Negro feel, I'll make a million dollars".
Charles
Brown's "Hard Times" is the first hit by Jerry Leiber and Mike
Stoller to enter the charts.
Little
Richard's first records released.
Little
Richard
1953
Bill Haley's
"Crazy Man Crazy" is the first rock and roll song to enter the
Billboard charts
The Orioles'
"Crying in the Chapel" is the first black hit to top the white pop
charts
Leo Fender
invents the Stratocaster guitar
Sam Phillips
records the first Elvis Presley record in his Sun studio of
The black
market constitutes 5.7% of the total American market for records
Vee-Jay
Records is founded in
Elvis Presley
makes his first (private) recordings
1954
Boom of Doo
Wop
Bill Haley's
"Rock Around the Clock" is the first rock song used in a movie
soundtrack
The record
companies switch from 78 RPMs to 45 RPMs
Japanese
electronic company TTK (later Sony) introduces the world's first transistor
radio
Ray Charles
forms his band
In 1954, Big
Joe Turner recorded the original version of the 1950s hit, Shake, Rattle and
Roll.
Johnny Cash
forms the
1955
Chuck Berry
cuts his first rock and roll records, the first ones to have the guitar as the
maininstrument, and invents the descending pentatonic double-stops (the essence
of rock guitar)
Bo Diddley
invents the "hambone" rhythm
The
Chordettes and the Chantels are the first girl-groups
Ray Charles
creates "soul" music with "I Got A Woman," a secular
adaptation of an oldgospel
Ace Records
is formed by Johnny Vincent in
The
Blackboard Jungle is released featuring Bill Haley and His Comets "(We're Gonna)
Rock Around the Clock"
RCA signs
Elvis Presley
The Everly
Brothers make their first studio recordings
Alan Freed's
Rock 'n' Roll Ball" draws huge, half-white audience
Carl Perkins
records "Blue Suede Shoes"
Sales of 45
rpm records finally outsold 78s.
1956
Colonel Tom
Parker signed on as Elvis Presley’s manager
Heartbreak
Hotel starts Presley-mania
Presley's
first film, Love Me Tender
The rock 'n'
roll music of white rockers is called "rockabilly" (rock + hillbilly)
Screamin Jay
Hawkins' "I Put A Spell On You" introduces
voodoo into Rock'n Roll
Wanda Jackson
is the "Queen of Rockabilly"
The
popularity of rock and roll causes the record industry to boom and allows
independentlabels to flourish
In impromptu
recording session occurs at Sun Studios with the million dollar quartet
consisting of Jerry
Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash
Elektra
pioneers the "compilation" record, containing songs by different
musicians
Buddy Holly
had his first official recording session in 1956. It was held in
Owen
Bradley’s, Barn Studio.
Brenda Lee
signs a recording contract at the age of 11, after five years of singing
professionally
Gene Vincent
made his first appearance on national TV by performing on The Perry Como Show
American
Bandstand first aired on nationwide TV
1957
Chuck Berry
releases "School Day" and "Rock and Roll Music"
Golden Age of
the teen-idols
Link Wray's
Rumble invents the "fuzz-tone" guitar sound
Buddy Holly
recorded, That’ll Be the Day, at a Norman Petty's
Billboard
begins the Hot 100 singles chart
Buddy Holly and Sam Cooke made
their first appearances on the same The Ed SullivanShow
1958
Elvis is
drafted into the Army
Carl Perkins
left Sun Records in 1958,becoming the first big
rockabilly artist on the
Golden age of
instrumental rock
Eddie Cochran
overdubs all instruments and vocals on "Summertime Blues" and
"C'mon Everybody "
Lowman
Pauling invents guitar distortion and feedback on the Five Royales' "The
Slummer"
RCA
introduces the first stereo long-playing records
Don Kirshner
opens offices at the
David
Seville's "The Witch Doctor" and the Tokens' "Tonite I Fell In
Love" are the firstnovelty hits
Bobby Freeman's
"Do You Wanna Dance" begins the "dance craze"
Stax Records
is founded in
Little
Richard quit rock and roll in 1958 to attend Bible college.
Dion and The Belmonts and Laurie Records both had their first hit
when the band’s, "I Wonder Why," made the Top 40
Jerry Lee
Lewis had 34 of his 37 concert dates in the
Buddy Holly
makes his final studio recordings " It Doesn’t
Matter Any More," "Moondreams," " Raining
In My
Heart" and "
The Dick
Clark Show TV Show began
1959
Rick Hall
founds the FAME studios in Muscle Shoals,
The Drifters'
"There Goes My Baby" introduces Latin rhythm to pop music
600 million
records are sold in the
Buddy Holly
dies at 22 in a plane crash
Since 1955,
the
Since 1955,
the
1960
Elvis appears
on the Ed Sullivan Show following his release from the Army.
Twist is the
biggest dance-craze in the year of the dance-crazes
Larry Parnes,
Britain's most famous impresario, arranges a show for the Silver Beetles in
Sam Cooke
signed with RCA Records in 1960, bringing his hits on Keen Records with him
The
Shirelles' "Will You Love Me Tomorrow" coins
a form of romantic multi-part vocal harmonies
The British
producer Joe Meek uses the recording studio like an instrument for "I Hear
a
Eddie Cochran
dies at 22
Ray Charles
has his first Number 1 hit "
1961
Dick Dale
uses the term "surfing" to describe his instrumental rock and roll
Stax begins to produce soul records in
The
Peppermint Lounge opens in New York
Roy Orbison
has his first number #1 hit, "Running Scared"
Phil Spector
and partner Lester Sill released the "Oh Yeah Maybe Baby" on their
new label Philles
1962
The Supremes
first recordings are released.
James Brown
record his famous Live At the Apollo album
1963
Surf music
rules the airwaves
Little Stevie
Wonder recorded his first Number 1 hit, "Fingertips – Pt. 2,"
1965
Alan Freed,
the man who gave rock ‘n’ roll its name, dies at the early age of 43
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