Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll or rock 'n' roll) is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s, from African American musical styles such as gospel, jump blues, jazz, boogie woogie, and rhythm and blues, along with country music.

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The term Various Artists is used in the record industry when numerous singers and musicians collaborate on a song or collection of songs. fm, compilation album tracks appear under the name of Various Artists erroneously because the individual artist is not listed in the album's ID3 information.

Where is either the chicken or the egg that begat rock & roll? It's a bit like deciding which drop of water really started the river flowing to the sea. This three-disc, 82-track collection tries to find that drop of water and trace it forward, but it's an impossible task - the river flows all at once everywhere. So, what came first, the rock & roll chicken or the rock & roll egg? No matter.

All of the bands on this record performed at the 1991 International Pop Underground Convention or are from Olympia. The album was re-issued on vinyl in limited quantities as a Record Store Day exclusive in 2011.

This 3CD set attempts to map out the most exhaustive pre-history of rock'n'roll so far committed to one album, and for the most part it does a pretty decent job, tracing the line back as far as the 1916 "The Camp Meeting Jubilee", a pre-blues minstrel-tent recording of such scratchy authenticity it sounds like a parody

Artist: Various Artists. Album: 100 Hits: The Best Rock ‘N’ Roll Album. Genre: Rock and Roll.

The Boswell Sisters - Rock And Roll 12. Benny Goodman And His Orchestra Feat Helen Ward - Get Rhythm In Your Feet 13. The Harlem Hamfat - Oh Red! 14. Mississippi Jook Band - Skippy Wippy 15. Robert Johnson - Crose Road Blues 16. Benny Goodman And His Orchestra Feat Gene Krupa - Sing! Sing! Sing! (With A Swing) 1. Our very first release 'The First Rock And Roll Record' has been given the deluxe box-set treatment: 4 LP, 3 CD, 32-page booklet, download postcard AND the ultimate argument settler, the first rock and roll record itself on double A-side 7 inch. or does it? Includes unlimited streaming of The First Rock And Roll Record via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. ships out within 2 days.

The question of what constitutes the first rock'n'roll record is controversial and highly emotive. It takes in serious issues about attitudes to race in 1940s America and interminable nitpicking internet arguments about snare drum accents and eight-to-the-bar boogie-woogie rhythms. It began decades ago, when Sam Phillips announced he had discovered the sound that changed the world years before Elvis Presley had fetched up in Sun Studio, offering Jackie Brenston's admittedly amazing 1952 single Rocket 88 as evidence.