When did Rock Roll start?
Some people think it started in 1953 with Ike Turner’s “My Rocket 88,” or Big Joe Turner with “Honey, Hush” in 1953, or “Shake, Rattle and Roll” 1954. Personally, I believe it started with the premiere of the movie Blackboard Jungle in theaters across the country, in 1955. This movie featured the song “Rock Around the Clock” by “Bill Haley and his Comets,” which helped to propell Rock and Roll as a musical genre. It was reported that teenagers jumped from their seats to dance to the song. It is Alan Freed, in 1952-53 who is credited with coining the phrase “Rock’n Roll.” He visited a Cleveland record store and learned that R&B records were being snapped up by white teenagers, and immediately sensing the makings of something big, he changed the name of his popular music show on radio station WJW from “Record Rendezvous ” to “Moon Dog’s Rock ‘n’ Roll House Party” and began playing R&B tunes. Freed apparently used the term “Rock ‘n’ Roll” to describe the music because he thought the racia
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