Colegio de Bachilleres del Estado de Baja California Sur
Plantel 04 - Cabo San Lucas
Teacher: Cristina Muñoz
Students: Angel Osbaldo Bernal Garzon
Cecilio Emmanuel Cota Gonzalez
Juan Angel Leggs Vargas
Edgar Antonio Medina Sanchez
Group: D
Decade of the 50´s
The rock & roll
Sixty years later, today there
are still different opinions about the origin of the term rock and roll though
frequently quotes the radio announcer Alan Freedman, but the truth is that many
of the first songs that were propping gender and They included those words in
his lyrics, as Rock and Rolling (1939) Bob Robinson and Rock and Rolling Mamma
(1939) Buddy Jones and Cherry Red (1939), or directly were named (Paul Bascomb
in 1947, Wild Bill Moore Doles Dickens in 1948 and 1949). Those songs are still
branded him as rhythm and blues and be with the arrival of the great white
artists (remember that racial segregation was still important in those years)
when they begin to use massively rock and roll label to differentiate them from
those who did rythm and blues, which were black. The other explanation is that
the rock and roll mixed black with white country music. It all depends on the
perspective from which you look ...
Since the early years of the 50s
are a few artists who were already totally immersed in what we call rock: the
indispensable Little Richard and Chuck Berry, Bill Haley & The Comets with
its classic Around the Clock, the flamboyant Jerry Lee Lewis Bo Diddley, Fats
Domino or the great Buddy Holly. But the star and the figure who popularized
the genre was undoubtedly Elvis Presley. His first hit, That's All Right,
already he showed what it was all about: the theme was original Arthur Cudrup a
bluesmen of the Mississippi region.
The rock is still largely tied to
the image of youth and rebellion that exploded Elvis, but especially his great
success was to adapt music that was already invented in the tastes of the
target audience. As you said the music teacher at the University of Westminster
Mykaell Riley "the uniqueness of Elvis is that he was a white American who
could play well what was essentially a music and African style".
At about the same time as Elvis
Presley took off his brilliant career, also appeared other relevant names like
Eddie Cochran and Gene Vincent. Both big influences on the development of
rockabilly in successive years and composers of some of the most versioned of
all time, as Cochran Summertime Blues, or Be-Bop-a-Lula Vincent topics.
Chess Records
In the 50's blues he was in full
maturity and rock that was coming into being, found in the recordings of Chess
the perfect place from which to start working and developing this new sound.
The importance and influence of the work of this stamp in the early rock &
roll, despite its "dark" organizational and management practices is
unquestionable and test them is the huge list of engravings by brothers Phil
and Leonard Chess artists Willie Dixon, Sonny Boy Williamson II, Muddy Waters,
Little Walter, which was Muddy Waters-harmonica, Jimmy Rogers, Buddy Guy,
Howlin 'Wolf, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, The Flamingos, Gene Ammons and many
others.
During the 50s much of the
success of his productions were due to the work of Willie Dixon, who was
involved as a composer, arranger, performer and lyricist in a huge amount of
recordings. The other figure is essential Muddy Waters, who was a teammate of
Leonard Chess lifetime seal and recommended him to Chuck Berry. There Berry
recorded his first hit Maybellene, which initially was to be named Ida Red, but
Leonard was determined to find a catchier name considered.
