What are the origins of Rock and Roll music?
Please Login to ask or answer a question, or Register if you do not have a SearchWarp Account. Answers to this question: » Answer from 206 days 18 hours ago. More questions answered by this person) Selected as Best Answer! The name came from a disc jocky in Cleveland, Ohio in the early 1950 – Alan Freed I believe was his name – and he went by the name Moon Dog. My father hated that music. » Answer from Kenny St.pierre (416) Kenny St.pierre 187 days 23 hours ago. More questions answered by this person) “The Camp Meeting Jubilee” was the first recorded pairing of the words “rock” and “roll” in 1916 – issued by Little Wonder Records. Years later as a term to mean something similar to spiritual ecstasy – gospel singers in the American South called it “rocking.” Disc jockey Alan Freed began playing this type of music for white audiences in 1951, and it is Freed who is credited with coining the phrase “rock and roll” to describe the “roll”icking R&B music that he brought over the airwaves. F
