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Alex
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 Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2008 11:32 pm Post subject: Rock and Roll |
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The decade of the Fifties gave birth to Rock and Roll. When Bill Haley's Rock Around The Clock became popular in 1955, the nation learned to swing to a whole new sound.
The feel-good innocence of a lot of the Fifties music reflects on the post World War II optimism in America. The young people of the time, an emerging force called teenagers, hadn't struggled through the war years. They were looking for something more exciting. They discovered that vitality in Rock and Roll. |
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Pru
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| Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 3:38 pm Post subject: |
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| You can't argue with that Alex...really. There are some good songs from the fifties I guess. |
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BOB
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| Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2009 2:43 am Post subject: Rock And Roll Will Never Die,as long as we remember it! |
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| Rock on!!! |
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Kandy Kaine
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| Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2009 1:47 am Post subject: Re: Rock and Roll |
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| Alex wrote: | The decade of the Fifties gave birth to Rock and Roll. When Bill Haley's Rock Around The Clock became popular in 1955, the nation learned to swing to a whole new sound.
The feel-good innocence of a lot of the Fifties music reflects on the post World War II optimism in America. The young people of the time, an emerging force called teenagers, hadn't struggled through the war years. They were looking for something more exciting. They discovered that vitality in Rock and Roll. |
you should know though, anything played and called rock & roll in the 50's was being done for years before that in the blues and juke joints along the Mississippi in the black south. in the 50's it just became repackaged and sold to white teen-age audiences. Everytime I hear Bill Haley and the Comets "invented" rock&roll, I pass it off as ignorance on the subject, and go crank up my Muddy Waters CDs.
Don't get me wrong, there was great stuff being recorded and put out, but it wasn't invented then, it was just repackaged for white suburban teen-agers. Then it was no longer "race" records, it was Rock & Roll |
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John
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| Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 3:25 am Post subject: |
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You know I used to get pissed off that Pat Boone copied Little Richard's songs
and the Diamonds did the Gladiolas. Now I realize they did bring the music along so that the parents could handle it . [/b] |
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Dianna
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| Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 12:18 am Post subject: |
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Agreed but that's all they were "allowed" to listen to. As those teens got older & delved into the REAL history of rock n' roll, etc., they'd come to understand. THEN they'd compare & choose what they wanted to listen to. It's all about "who's in charge" , as it were. NOW there's such a wide variety & it's out there for EVERYBODY! I've always loved doo-wop, R&B and jazz. And I KNOW where it came from and I'm still lovin' it. Makes no diff to me. I like a little flava to my sounds anyway.  |
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