*ROCK STARTED HERE?* FIRST TIME HEARING Billy Haley & His Comets - ROCK AROUND THE CLOCK REACTION
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- ROCK STARTED HERE? FIRST TIME HEARING Billy Haley & His Comets - ROCK AROUND THE CLOCK REACTION
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If you’re, cough cough, older like me, lol, raise your hand if this automatically reminds you of the tv show “Happy Days”…
Opening credits
Definitely!!!
KID!!! Happy Days my a.... ED SULLIVAN!!!
My arthritis prevents me from raising my hand over my hand, but yeah.
Only the first season though
Early rock is personified in mr. Chuck Berry. “ Johnny be good “
If aliens came to earth and asked me 'what is rock and roll?' That's the song I'd play for them.
That is true.
that song was late rock n roll song tho, it came out in 58. Elvis had Heartbreak Hotel 2 years before johnny be good. rock was a few years before mr berry came out with that song
I love that song.
@@duff0120 early as compared to Metallica. Ect. The 1950’s is early rock. You don’t have to be first at something to be early
At 83 years old this year, I can still remember hearing and dancing to Rock Around the Clock in 1954....Elvis followed in 1955.
That is so cool!
The national anthem of rock and roll, as Dick Clark put it.
It's really cool! "Rock Around the Clock" was released in May 1954, but gained popularity only a year later.
You are loved.
Remember dancing to this!
Anything by Buddy Holly...he was a genius, way before his time. Also the Beatles "I Saw Her Standing There" would be a fun reaction for y'all!
I totally agree...
Buddy was do badass it wasn't believable
Jerry Lee Lewis-Whole Lot of Shakin' Going On This would be the one
Great balls of fire
Buddy Holley and His Crickets “Oh Boy” czcams.com/video/j53OPR-cuYY/video.html
Jerry Lee Lewis is a good choice for early rock and roll.
Heck yeah! Jay will love the fire coming from the piano!
@@anthonyunderwood2068
Jerry was simply a blast. Buddy Holly was surreally brilliant. Great music lasts forever
Buddy Holly and the Crickets "Peggy Sue", Ritchie Valens "La Bamba" Chuck Berry "Johnny B Good", Little Richard "Long Tall Sally"
I would add Hank Williams - Move It On Over, Eddie Cochran = Something Else and Summertime Blues to this list.
"Splish Splash" is my favorite 50's rock & roll jam.
Going back even farther check out Sister Rosetta Tharpe, A black woman often cited as the originator of the rock ‘n’ roll sound. She combined gospel and blues with an electric guitar and was absolutely incredible and not known enough! There are CZcams videos of her performing.
Some of her videos have been posted in Facebook recently. She was real good!
Hey I've heard of her Janis Joplin liked her
Thanks for this, will check her out!
Alot of people do not realize the what is considered to first all female Heavy Metal band was a band called FANNY originally out of Sacramento California but transplanted to Los Angeles. They were incredible. Other bands had tremendous respect for them. Despite support from other musicians like Eric Clapton, David Bowie and Paul Stanley, the record labels didn't really give them a chance. If you listen to the song "A Place in the Country" you will here "METALLICA" style riffs. Years before there was a METALLICA
Chuck Berry once said, my whole career was one big rip off of Rosetta Tharpe
I strongly recommend Elvis Presley "Jailhouse Rock", Chuck Berry "Johnny B Good", or anything by Buddy Holly and the Cricket's
Totally agree!
Preach
I wish I could like this comment like a hundred times so they would notice it
Big Momma Thornton doing “Hounddog” before Elvis & Carl Perkins “Blue Suede Shoes” before Elvis is TRUE Rock
@@KathySandru Record reviewers coined the term rockabilly-literally, rock and roll played by hillbillies-to describe the intense, rhythm-driven musical style introduced by Elvis Presley on his first recordings.
Long Tall Sally by Little Richard or Roll Over Beethoven by Chuck Berry. Majority of early rock and roll came from the blues and was created by black musicians like those two
Long Tall Sally is the real deal! Little Richard is the REAL "King of Rock n Roll!"
I was hoping that someone chimed in early to set it straight for the kids. This theme repeats itself here and there throughout music. Gotta know the truth!
@@gymeni
Only version of Long Tall Sally that comes close and even equal to Little Richard is The Beatles version. Paul blisters the paint off the wall when he sings. Proper and intended homage to Little Richard. They knew where the roots of real music came from and carried that torch
Have to point out I’m a white guy in my 60s from Hampshire in the UK. But I was brought up ,listening to BB KIng, Little Richard, Chuck, Buddy Holly and Sam Cooke as my brother was a big fan. Then The Beatles happened, the Stones and the world went crazy. I listen to the blues most days still. Everything comes from that genre of music. Regardless of the colour of the musicians but fact is the black communities from gospel to the blues is the heart and soul of all music. The chords, the notes, the riffs. It’s all in there somewhere. Music evolves, thankfully, but it’s history is something to study and be in awe of
Little Richard and Chuck Berry are true innovators of early rock (actually had a chance to see Chuck perform live. Truly memorable). And as others have commented, there are many more. It's a good question - when did it switch/change/evolve (devolve as some at the time suggested) to the so-called Rock we recognize today. The Beatles did several covers of early Rock before they found their own sound. Some have suggested that their influence helped accelerate the transition.
I love your channel and I love how you're asking these questions!
@@CreatorInTrng
For sure the great bands of the sixties were also brought up listening to American soul and blues and of course rock and roll. The Beatles still wrote rock and roll till their end. Changed slightly but still recognisable. I love this channel for the same reason
Oh, if Jordan and Amber have seen Back to the Future then the song Marty sings on stage , Johnny B Good was a Chuck Berry hit
You guys, that was 69 years ago. Rock was in its infancy and this is widely regarded by many as the first real rock song. It has expanded mightily since then. You must pay homage to this song. It's the granddaddy of most of them.
I saw the Comets (Bill Haley had already died) around 2002. It was their last tour, the youngest was 72 and the oldest was 82. This video didn't show what they were really like live, they were far more energetic than what you saw in the video. My husband and I were surprised to see how many 25 or so year-olds were there, all dressed up in poodle skirts and "greaser" clothes! Those old men up on that stage took it to those 25 year-olds and ran them into the ground! They didn't do one single slow song all night and my husband and I laughed our asses off seeing these kids half our ages staggering off the dance floor!
This song means only one thing to me.............Happy Days!!!!! (70's sitcom set in the fifties) 👍
Yes!!
or the beginning of American Graffiti. Either way I think of Ron Howard.
@@Golf8802 exactly!
This is 1950's rock and roll.
And there is a bass. Old style bass as tall as the guy playing it. The guy on the left.
Another early rock pioneer--- Chuck Berry! Check out the song Johnny B Good.
I didn't realize Chuck Berry was one of the Comets. Next somebody is going to tell me Jimi Hendrix played for Little Richard! Oh. Wait.
@@patriciaburroughs Record reviewers coined the term rockabilly-literally, rock and roll played by hillbillies-to describe the intense, rhythm-driven musical style introduced by Elvis Presley on his first recordings.
I think you mean Marty McFly. 😅
@@TXplowgirl No
Don’t forget the Everly brothers, early rockers , Lucille, bye bye love, wake up little Susie
It was like people who were playing music in the “big band” era of swing and jazz discovered electric guitars were a thing and off they went. It was such a gift to live in a time where I could listen to the music my parents loved (big band era music and these early rock bands 30’s 40’s & 50’s) while at the same see the music of my generation 60s 70’s and 80’s expand and experiment.
Hi, you two. I just finished a new biography of Bill Haley, commissioned by his estate. My editor turned me on to your video. It was a kick seeing a couple of young people's first reaction to someone us authors have been researching collectively for over 40 years.. You hearing the jazz influence in the Comets is spot on and something we have gone out of our way to prove; several members had a strong jazz/swing background, though Bill himself was actually a cowboy yodeler that adopted 1940s R&B.
Will it be widely published? I'd love to read it.
Did you include the part where Bill Haley backed out of a concert in Atlanta because Chuck Berry was not allowed to stay in the same motel as him. Chuck had to sleep in his car, so they all left early the next morning and went to the next gig.
That’s laudable that you’ve done a biography of Bill Haley. I’ll check it out. However…
Although your research shows that many of his band members had a jazz/swing influence, the MAJORITY of people were raised on jazz! Everyone had a jazz influence.
However, you CANNOT say you can HEAR jazz in their playing. There is NO solid connection between jazz and rock’n’roll. I know music… They are TWO COMPLETELY DIFFERENT GENRES.
The premise in your assertion is the warped analogy that you can taste ice cream and strawberries in your fish’n’chips.
I had my own rock’n’roll band in the late 1970s and we played some Bill Haley. I progressed on to now sing jazz. Jazz snd rock’n’roll are totally separate.
Rock’n’Roll was NEW in the early to mid 1950s..
@@BlueShadow777 Before it was Rock and Roll, it was called "Bebop", kind of a simplified Jazz with a large Country, Blues, Gospel, and R&B influence. It was played around cities such as New Orleans and other south Mississippi River cities in the 1940's.
Artists such as Bill Haley, Little Richard and Chuck Berry who played Rock and Roll in the mid 1950's weren't so much the inventors of it, as they were the ones who popularized it to a nationwide audience, so people know their names.
Amazing comment David. Bill was an rock-icon. Greetings from México.
Originally Billy Haley was a country artist but got into what became known as rockabilly.
Rock Around The Clock was featured in the 1955 movie "The Blackboard Jungle" and was responsible for bringing Rock N Roll to the general public.
There is definitely no hint of jazz within this. Country yes. Try Jerry Lee Lewis "High School Confidential".
Kevin said it really well...no jazz here I'm afraid....try out Bills earliest tracks on Essex records!
There’s a couple Jazz licks in the guitar solo (he was clearly a jazz guitarist), but I agree that in the structure of the song itself, there is ZERO jazz
@@ZoeyPaigeLunaPhD Record reviewers coined the term rockabilly-literally, rock and roll played by hillbillies-to describe the intense, rhythm-driven musical style introduced by Elvis Presley on his first recordings.
Bro here loves piano. High School Confidential is a good choice. But he hasn't reacted to Great Balls of Fire yet.
Bro will love boogie-woogie piano!
There is a definite swing vibe, it's probably what they mean. Unless you're into this type of music most most people can't tell the difference between blues swing, or jazz.
The dancing you're talking about is really a variation of the jive--a dance that was a combination of jazz and rock. It's high-energy and great fun to do, and yes, early rock'n roll was a lot of teenagers dancing like that. And yes, they DID use this song to open the TV show HAPPY DAYS, decades later.
That's absolutely correct. This giant dancing was dance to the jazz big bands from the 20s through the 50s. Once The Twist came along, bye-bye jive.
Makes me miss the good ole days .. "Happy Days" was a great show and I watched it faithfully.. Thanks..
The era is more known as “Rock n roll “ rather than just the term rock. Rock grew out of this.
There are seeds of this music in earlier stuff from the 1920s/30s/40s in some country music , rhythm and blues ,boogie woogie ,jazz ,gospel music.
This is where at least commercially it came together in the 1950s.
A question to ponder. What current music do you see couples dancing together when they go out ? That’s in ,physical contact rather than just doing your own thing alongside / near a partner.
It would be slightly more accurate to say that the Rock n Roll "sub genre" was one of the first, if not the first Rock subgenres to be created. Rock music basically happened when musicians combined blues (and to a lesser extent folk and jazz) themes and lyrics to the country music beats. Eventually they worked on different and more complex melodies, harmonies and such.
To answer your question: Soca music
SWING
@@thtadthtshldntbe That's not quite right. "Rock and Roll" was the original name for this new music that combined the elements you stated (except for folk). "Rock music" became a term in the mid-1960's for the overarching genre when the original music started branching off into other sub-genres (like "folk-rock"). It was only then that "rock and roll" became it's own sub-genre of the "original" type of rock music.
@@chrissygerwitz520 I think that we are saying the same thing in different ways.
Eddie Cochran: "There Ain’t No Cure For the Summertime Blues” and The Big Bopper: "Chantilly Lace”.
Eddie Cochran’s Somethin’ Else.
Love "Chantilly Lace"!
The Brian Setzer cover of Summertime Blues from the film "La Bamba" is pure 🔥🔥🔥
Rock and Roll is a combination of music Jazz, Blues, Country
This is the first Rock & Roll song ever. Thats why bill is an icon !!!!
Hi " SQAD", you might try some early Chuck Berry or Little Richard for a good sample of early rock+rool!☮☮☮
1954 this might not be the first Rock n Roll song but is one of the first commercially successful Rock song
Yeah, it was the first US#1 that was considered "Rock'n'Roll". Earlier examples of the fusion of styles that would come to be known as "Rock'n'Roll" go back as far as the forties. The most commonly agreed upon "first Rock'n'Roll single" though, was probably Ike Turner's 1951 song "Rocket 88" (originally, and confusingly, credited at the time, to Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats). It was written by Brenston and Ike Turner (best known as Tina Turner's abusive ghoul of an ex-husband to most folks these days) and it was produced by Sam Phillips who would go on to "discover" Elvis, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, and Jerry Lee Lewis a few years later, signing them to his Sun Records label for their earliest recordings.
Yes, please turn him on to GREASE! (1978 movie about 1955-era high school Los Angeles). It is required viewing!
Amber, I have to commend you on your awareness of various types of music, and other historical information. I'm impressed you knew about Poodle Skirts and Andy Griffith!
You guys are awesome, and Amber's smile could light up any room! Congratulations on the upcoming addition. Btw, rock evolved from jazz so that is how it was familiar to you.
Rock is a fusion of many styles of music..Jazz, Blues and even classical
Bluegrass, Country & Pop,too.
Pop wasn’t a genre prior to rock n roll.
@@ZoeyPaigeLunaPhD Wrong..Shows How much you Know ..it Goes back to Bing Crosby & Frank Sinatra..The Term came out in 1926.
@@666kinski Oh my bad. I stand corrected. But maybe next time don’t be an asshole about it
@@ZoeyPaigeLunaPhD Record reviewers coined the term rockabilly-literally, rock and roll played by hillbillies-to describe the intense, rhythm-driven musical style introduced by Elvis Presley on his first recordings.
If you would like to go back even farther, try the Andrew sisters “ boogie woogie bugle boy “. That would take you back to the age of swing. ( 1940’s )
Good music but definitely not rock and roll.
@@LizJasonHEA No, that was Big Band.
Rock and Roll's grandpa. ☺
Yes! And then, after that, react to Bette Midler's awesome cover version!
@@LizJasonHEA this is why I wrote “ swing “.
Try this version. czcams.com/video/lr6YbKVdaR8/video.html
Rock was any music that made you want to get up and dance!! YES SIR!
1954, I was 1 yr old. Definitely the beginning of music.
Listen to BOOKER T and the MGs GREEN ONIONS, 1962. I danced with my old granny to it a million times and still listen to it. Blessings, julie
The groove is Swing. The chord progressions are Blues. So it does feel like jazz. But actual Jazz of that era was MUCH more complex than Rock would ever be.
Also the electric guitar playing riffs and at a louder volume than was typical in jazz.
@@netzahuacoyotl And in Rock'n'Roll the saxophone was used for basic rhythms, riffs, and occasional, brief solos instead of carrying lead lines, like in Jazz.
Honestly, the upright bass is the Jazziest thing I am seeing and hearing, but upright bass was used in most Popular genres back then.
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Larry -
Agree. Big Band era Swing jazz was breaking away from the full ensemble melodic sound to a much more driven sound - Bebop, using smaller units - quartets, quintets, sextets - with emphasis on solos and blazing speed. This before breaking away again toward Modern Jazz and Cool Jazz. But the emphasis on all jazz was sophistication and actual musicianship. Rock was pretty much considered by jazz musicians as low brow. There may have been a bit of borrowing back and forth, but there was never an actual meld till the Fusion Jazz of the 70's.
The beginning of rock and roll is a truly great story we can all share with great pride. After World War 2 Western swing became very popular. All sorts of new young musicians (such as Milton Brown) were appearing on local and regional radio shows all over the country. The nature of dance music was beginning to change. You started to hear the influences of blues, honky-tonk, jazz (as Blue noted below), bluegrass, and more. Around 1952 Les Paul came out with his version of the electric guitar. It was a total game changer. As the 1940's turned to the 1950's, yet another wave of young musicians appeared. Young Rockabilly musicians like Chet Atkins, Elvis, Johnny Burnette (before they commercialized him), Wanda Jackson, Brenda Lee, Gene Vincent and his Bluecaps, and so very many others. Rockabilly was the really edgy, dangerous music of it's time. People like Bill Haley and Chuck Berry helped really shape the music into Rock and Roll.
You have to do Dion ~ "Runaround Sue" and "The Wanderer"....!!!
For sure
Most definitely
Good call. A focus on doo wop would be a good idea.
THE First rock and roll ever made.
This was the first Rock and Roll song to reach number 1 on the charts.
Fats Domino is another important rock pioneer. “Blueberry Hill”, “Ain’t that a Shame”, and “The Fat Man” are great songs. The latter being considered one of the first rock and roll songs.
SABac is very right. Fats was one of the cornerstones of what rock is founded on.
And Little Richard.@@Babbleplay
@@Lizzard85351 True, but, Little Richard came later. He's important in the history of rick, but, not one of the original founders of the genre.
Absolutely Fats Domino.
You've got to go back in time to the 1930s to find the origins of rock and roll. Fats Domino was only 10 years old when Sister Rosetta Tharpe started recording the electric guitar blues licks that the rockers of his era copied.
A lot of the early rock musicians were jazz players. Pioneers of early rock, Chuck Berry, Little Richard. The music evolved significantly in the 60’s, especially after the British Invasion.
this moron thinks this is jazz music what an idiot
Well Bill Haley and his band was a country and western deal before they discovered back beats.
Bo Diddley, Buddy Holly, Carl Perkins, in addition to Chuck and Little Richard, for sure.
@@fredtello why are you calling people names?
@@stpnwlf9 Record reviewers coined the term rockabilly-literally, rock and roll played by hillbillies-to describe the intense, rhythm-driven musical style introduced by Elvis Presley on his first recordings.
I actually grew up on this music. My mom had a bunch of records from the 1950's and early 1960's and as a kid I would just sit in the living room and spin records for hours. I didn't start listening to "modern" (at the time) music on the radio until I was probably about 10 or 11. There was a band in the 80's called the Stray Cats that had a throwback 50's vibe and sound to them. Check out "Rock This Town" and "Stray Cat Strut" by them.
Stray Cats was definitely a rockabilly group. I saw them live, back in the day. 🙂
Love the Stray Cats!!! You should definitely check out the two songs listed here!
They also did Sexy and Seventeen that had a rockabilly sound.
Rock and jazz have a lot more in common than people realize.
Dude this is 50’s Rock...it ain’t Jazz! 😂 It’s called the Jitter Bug!
Exactly. There was a band. The music wasn't just falling out of the sky.
Jitterbug is thirties but they wrre dancing that style yes
The Jive is the early rock and roll dancing.
My turn. It's 50s Rock n' Roll not Jazz or Rock. Beatles introduced Rock in the 60s
@@shawnsnow2655 I was thinking Jitterbug too.......and 1953 is not that far from the 1930s.
If you're doing a series on early rock, be sure to try Chubby Checker's "The Twist" and something by Chuck Berry, like "Roll Over Beethoven."
In terms of categories, you might consider Rock Around the Clock to be "Rockabilly." It has a bit of country twang, and the beat borrows from an earlier musical style called Swing.
Fifties rock and roll was the best. So pure and simple.
Bill Haley was a part of a transition following up on the Swing of the 40's and starting to incorporate Blues elements. Les Paul (and Mary Ford) were just introducing the world to an electrified guitar. The essential elements were there but the bass was still a standup. Try Elvis Presley's cousin, The Killer, Jerry Lee Lewis, "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On".
Jerry Lee wasn't Elvis' cousin. They both started out on Sun Records, but Jerry Lee's cousins were country artist, Mickey Gilley, and televangelist, Jimmy Swaggart.
@@nuwavedave They were cousins by marriage. Elvis’s mother, Gladys, was married to Jerry Lee’s first cousin, Vernon Presley.
This is the music my mom listened to in high school. She made sure we were exposed to all kinds of music. You should also hear Ricky Nelson and some of the big band era, count Basie Jimmy Dorsey. Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valenz have music closer to what you're looking for and they're different too
You nailed it about jazz influence. You want to go back even farther. Glenn Miller band "in the mood" will show the jazz/swing and big band influence of rock. All the way back in early 1940's.
One of the earliest pioneers of rock is Fats Domino. Check out his "ain't that a shame".
Yes trad jazz. The big band influence turned into Rock 'N' Roll.
My Dad loved both.
rock started as a mixture of blues, jazz, country music and rock a billy melded together
The first rock'n'roll record to go to #1 on July 9, 1955. MASSIVE hit worldwide!!!
Suggestion: Look up the top 10 songs of any year or top 20 in a decade per genre (if available) and pick from those lists. It should help you find what was popular during the time, especially the 50s and 60s. As time goes on we forget this song or that artist until we hear it again. Lots of good music that fewer and fewer people remember. Hope this suggestion helps.
That’s a fantastic idea
A great “sax” song is Jerry Rafferty “Bakers Street”
Gerry Rafferty
Great song
Oh yeah, and “Get it Right next time” as well.
The extended version
@@ericmorgan204 Good one also..!
This was a commercial breakthrough, but perhaps the true start is Ike Turner's "Rocket 88" from 1951.
That song was named after the high-powered engine in the new Oldsmobile automobiles. So that was the start of Ransom E. Olds having an unwitting musical legacy. (After Olds was forced out by the Oldsmobile board of directors, he founded R.E.O. and made trucks, including the famous "REO Speedwagon" fire engine that Neal Doughty ended up naming his long-running group after.)
If you think that anecdote is my subtle way of saying you should react to some REO Speedwagon ("Like You Do", "Golden Country", "Son of a Poor Man", "Ridin' the Storm Out", etc)…you're not wrong. Get the live versions, though; they were amazing in concert. (Just make it pre-1989, so you have original guitarist Gary Richrath playing.)
I was going to make that comment. Rock and roll was an evolution and amalgam of several musical styles so there really was no "first" rock and roll song, but over the years I've heard and read the opinion that Rocket 88 should be in the running for one of the first. It came four years before Rock Around the Clock.
@@RMBB4202 "Rocket 88" was produced at Memphis Recording Service by Sam Phillips. Jackie Brenston called his song a reworking of Jimmy Liggins’ 1948 record, "Cadillac Boogie". But, for my money, Rock 'n' Roll can also be traced back to Harry "The Hipster" Gibson's 1944 hit, "Piano Jump Boogie". This is 13 years before Jerry Lee Lewis! Here's Harry's "Soundie": czcams.com/video/VlK0y8TlzUE/video.html&start_radio=1
This is the first rock and roll song I ever heard, I was 6 years old, the birth of rock!
Chuck berry was one of the early rock pioneers add buddy holly, fats domino and little Richard to the mix
When you're ready for another golden oldie, I think you'd enjoy Chantilly Lace by The Big Bopper!
Oh yeah!
I was gonna say that too!!! One of my favorite oldies!!! I would play this song whenever we’d go to the bars with my dad!!
@@tinakeith5822 The humor/joy one gets when hearing a friend receive a booty call transcends generations 😘
(The Big Bopper was everybody's friend!)
No, "Rocket 88" is considered by most to be the first rock 'n' roll song (it was called "rhythm 'n' blues" in the early 1950s). "Rock around the clock" was the first rock 'n' roll song featured on a motion picture.
It may be old fashioned, but you CAN'T sit still listening to this!
Stray Cats....brought this style back in the 80's(Rockabiily)
Yes!!! STRAY CATS!!!!!!
Check out Brian Setzer Orchestra "Jump Jive and Wail" if you like dancing and Horns.
Brian's is a cover. This was written by the GREAT Louis Prima!
Rock n roll. A combination of blues, jazz, gospel, rockabilly. They threw everything in the mixer and RnR was born
You will have to wait a few years from this to have the typical familiar rock band lineup 2 guitars, bass and drums with Buddy Holly and the Crickets.
This song came out the year I was born. It is iconic. Probably the most famous rock and roll song ever. It was a natural progression from Swing (1940s).
That dancing is called swing, and many of the people are doing the lindy hop
Even Elvis Presley himself, when he was stationed in the Army in Germany, liked listening to Bill Haley & His Comets!
The film "American Graffiti" (1973) had brought me here. This was played during the opening credits.
Whooooo! You guys went early on in this one! This is the birth of Rock era. Go ahead on! The sound is reminiscent of the Big Band era which closely preceded it. It continues to evolve from there.
Danny and the Juniors, At the Hop and Rock n Roll Is Here To Stay.
When I was in high school and college in the mid and late 80's they still played this song at dances and clubs, and we would all hit the floor and bust our our best moves together. It was a great song to stay in shape too.
I know I will never hear my comment mentioned here but I LOVE what you two do and that you are so open to all eras and all genres. There is a reason some of these groups are popular after 70 or 80 years. Can you imagine this?
Rock Around the Clock is so similar to Move It on Over by Hank Williams that some people credit Williams with being a creator of rock and roll. Williams wrote Move It on Over in 1947, five years before Max Freedman and James Meyers wrote Rock Around the Clock, and seven years before Bill Haley recorded it. Listen to Move It on Over to hear how similar the two songs are.
Some consider Rocket 88 by Ike Turner in 1951 to be the first rock and roll record. Others credit Sister Rosetta Tharpe's 1944 recording of Strange Things Are Happening Every Day. But rock and roll was a development, not an invention, with contributions from many performers over a long time.
You say this sounds like jazz, but it's missing some of the main elements of jazz, particularly swing, syncopation, and improvisation. What it has is a back beat, which helped make rock and roll different from other pop music of its time. That is, it's main emphasis is not on the downbeat (ONE two three four), but on the third beat (one two THREE four). Possibly it's the instrumentation that makes it sound like jazz to you (a stand-up bass is common in jazz, but rarely used in rock these days).
Yeah, exact same melody.
Early rock gods:
Chuck berry - Johnny B Good
Bo Diddley - who do you love?
Elvis - jailhouse rock
Little Richard - tuttie fruitti
Jerry Lee Lewis - great balls of fire
For early "hard rock" sounds with distorted guitars like you're more used to hearing you'd be looking at more of the psychedelic rock bands from the 60's. That's kind of where the music started to evolve away from this and became more guitar driven. Songs like "Born To Be Wild" by Steppenwolf, "Travelin Band" by CCR, "You Really Got Me" by the Kinks, "Revolution" by The Beatles, "My Generation" by The Who, "In A Gadda Da Vida" by Iron Butterfly, "Satisfaction" by the Rolling Stones, and others from that era like Jimi Hendrix and Cream. From there, psychedelic rock started to evolve more into hard rock during the 70's with bands like Led Zeppelin and into heavy metal with bands like Black Sabbath and Judas Priest.
I actually have a video on my channel where I kind of go into the evolution of heavy metal, if you're interested.
You are playing all my fav oldies but goodies.
this was considered Rock-N-Roll, after the mid sixties it was just Rock,, Some early Rock-N-Roll stars was Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis
@@PhysicalGraffiti97 On 5 July it is 67 years since Elvis Presley recorded his first single, a rockabilly version of the 1946 blues song That's All Right at Sam Philips' Sun Studios in Memphis, Tennessee. With this record, Elvis captured lightning in a bottle. That’s All Right has become the lodestar of rock ‘n’ roll, the song by which every other rock song should be judged. It would be wrong to say that before this there was nothing - there was jump blues, R&B, hillbilly, urban swing, Ike Turner and even Bill Haley - but this song was the line in the sand, the vortex through which the teenage demographic came of age.
if it was recorded today, it would be called Rock-A-Billy
Record reviewers coined the term rockabilly-literally, rock and roll played by hillbillies-to describe the intense, rhythm-driven musical style introduced by Elvis Presley on his first recordings.
Thank you!!! Bill Haley and the Comets , were originally a Country Band.
Which, makes sense.
As a boy, there were 2 movie theaters in our town. On Saturdays one would show old movie serials like Flash Jordan and cartoons (known as the Kiddie Matinee). The other showed all B monster movies (The Blob, I was a teenage werewolf, etc.). So Mom would give me money for the Kiddie Matinee and I would walk the extra mile to the other theater. They played this song the first time I went there and I was electrified. Great times and memories. Thanks for playing this.
Little Richard is usually mentioned when talking about the origins of rock music.
Their would be no Little Richard without Presley.
@@mariogmajner6549 And no Presley without Sister Rosetta Tharpe.
Love 50's rock, my favorite artis. Elvis, came from there.
Shake, rattle, and roll.
Years ago in Seattle a local radio station brought a Rock and Roll Revival to town. I got to see live, on stage Bill Haley and His Comets, Chuck Berry, The Shirelles and others. It was great entertainment. These artists were not well-known then but they still had the gift.
Amber is so open minded, love her! Before Rock n Roll was Swing and Boogie Woogie. It amazes me that today's young black people don't know Rock N' Roll was originally 'black' music except at the time a much more vulgar word was used. The old folks called it Devil's Music and it was banned in many places and radio stations. Which *of course* 😏 enticed rebellious teeny boppers. The term itself had a sexual innuendo that shocked their Bible thumping parents. Rocking and rolling was what couples did in the hay when they would sneak off to the barn. wink wink😉. Thanks to the Beatles 1950s Rock n' Roll evolved into 1960s Rock
Turned out them old folks were right.
You really need to watch Cab Calloway and the Nicholas Brothers."Jumpin Jive." I promise you will be amazed.
Yes Yes Yes and a big ol HELL YES!
Hi, hi, growing up I used to love to watch my mom and dad dance. My mom was a big woman, over 200lbs. but she was so light on her feet, and she was graceful.
This song was the beginning, the rocker's big bang.
After this all the stars started to born and shine.
For a good representation of that early rock and roll music, try the movie "American Graffiti" - the soundtrack is all that great early rock and roll.
THERE'S A REASON ELVIS PRESLEY IS CONSPICUOUSLY ABSENT FROM THE SOUNDTRACK.
The reason, of course, is money. To mitigate the cost of licensing so many songs, Universal offered a flat rate to all of the labels involved. Everyone went along with it except for RCA, which meant no Elvis. The kids in American Graffiti are therefore probably the only teenagers in America who could listen to the radio all night in 1962 and never hear an Elvis song.
Try out some Little Richard "Roll Over Beethoven" or "Good Golly Miss Molly" for some really history-making highly influential Rock'n Roll!
Elvis inspired Little Richard
Roll over Beethoven was done by Chuck Berry not Little Richard.
Hello to great music!!!! No nasty language, just good fun and great dance music!!!!! Us “oldies “ remember the fun!!!! It’s nice to hear “youngsters “ hear this for the first time and enjoy the music 🎵!!!!!!
Here are a couple of very early songs that influenced rock: 1946 "It's Alright Mama," by Arthur Crudup (famously covered by Elvis some years later), “Good Rocking Tonight” - WYNONIE HARRIS (1948), "Didn't it Rain" Sister Rosetta Tharp (1944)...
1944: Harry "The Hipster" Gibson. He had Jerry Lee Lewis beat by 13 years! czcams.com/video/xm3HdISZLKc/video.html
Jazz, Big Band, and Swing music was big, right before this era. That's why you hear Jazz in it. Obviously, this came before Rock that we have today, so your expectations were based on the reverse standard.
I went a Big Band swing show just out of curiosity years ago. Boy were those guys cooking, you really could feel the ancestral echo of what was to come.
One of the greatest lead guitar sections of all time by the innovative guitarist Danny Cedrone. Danny never lived to see the release of this song. He was paid $21 for the recording, and lived in a small apartment with his wife and kids. He would tell his wife how he wished he could have a hit record and get them out of that lousy apartment. He came home one day and his wife told him there was no food in the house, so he went to a friends restaurant a couple blocks away that was located on the 2nd story of a building to get sandwiches for his family. Upon leaving the restaurant, he fell down the 2 flights of stairs and died immediately. 8 months later, "Rock around the clock" would hit #1 on the American charts, and became a worldwide smash hit. That guitar part would go on to inspire many generations of people to want to pick up and learn the guitar, including Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton, Keith Richards, (and me?). Danny was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2012. Rest In Peace Danny Cedrone.
Peace
I think it’s still the greatest Rock & Roll guitar solo ever.
@@KevyNova Danny had basically played it in an earlier disc of Bill's I think the Comets were paid by the session, one of the normal methods of band employment.
@@highpath4776 yes, the earlier song was “Rock The Joint” from 1952. Its a very similar song so I can see why Danny recycled the solo. Plus, that solo just deserved to be on a hit song!
@@KevyNova Danny was asked to, as the recording time for Rock Around the Clock was short, Miller of Essex Records hated the write of the tune, and stopped Bill Recording it three times. I would try czcams.com/video/SFzXv8jwFMk/video.html Bill Haley and The Saddlemen Jan 1952 as the move toward the first half of Rock from the non Jazz direction
@@KevyNova Cashbox May 1952 review of Rock The Joint images.45cat.com/bill-haley-with-the-saddlemen-icy-heart-1952-6.jpg
This came out in about 1953. This came from a movie called " Blackboard Jungle"
I love it. I remember it being on American Bandstand. Yes they were poodle skirts with crinoline. I wore skirts with crinolines. They were early, early Rock and Roll Little Richard, Elvis, Buddy Holley, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, The Four Tops, and in the 60's The Beach Boys, The Four Seasons , the Supremes. Get a book called Rock On by a DJ named Norm N. Knight from upstate New York. That book will give you all the rock stars from the early fifties thru the 70''s. It worth the effort to get it.
This is Big Band swing with a little twist that made it Rock and Roll. The dancing was a take-off of the "Jitter Bug" that came around during the Big Band time.
One of the best movies to ME is American Graffiti. This song was in it.
So was Ron Howard!
American Grafitti is an American classic. Also had a very young Harrison Ford. Plus all the music from that era. And Wolfman Jack, who I actually remember from growing up.
@@paulb4604 I remember Wolfman Jack from years ago. I grew up in the Detroit area and he was popular there.
George Lucas' masterpiece.
Congrats on your baby boy!!!! Amber, you are currently introducing your son to all of this music. He can hear it and it will be interesting to see what his music interest is as he grows up. Thanks so much for your reaction. I've not heard this song in quite some time and it was enjoyable to hear. Take care and be well. Peace.
One of my mom's all time favorites. She is sick now, music is one of the few things that gives that light in her eyes
Thank you
THE 1st #1 Rock and Roll #1 hit ! luv you guys!!
Interesting as I just hear 'rock' in its pure form when I listen to this. It has beats. When I think of jazz I think of Billie Holiday, Nina Simone, Ella Fitzgerald, etc. My parents were all about this song. They were very much a product of the 50s. Rock Around the Clock was the start of everything in their eyes.
Record reviewers coined the term rockabilly-literally, rock and roll played by hillbillies-to describe the intense, rhythm-driven musical style introduced by Elvis Presley on his first recordings.
Chuck Berry, Little Richard, and even Elvis. Watching the dance sequence in the first Back to the Future will help. Buddy Holly works too.
You have to remember that Rock came on the heels of Big Band music. So this was a step towards what we have now and put the word “rock” into vocabulary as a style.
When I was a kid, I danced with my grandma in her living room back in early 2000’s to this as my grandmother and grandfather loved to dance back when they were younger and even danced in parties and good times like that.