[78-L] World's First Rock & Roll Song Identified

[Cary Ginell]

This guy Burns (who has the misfortune of sharing a surname with another musical revisionist) has got the gall to say he has "identified" the first rock 'n' roll record as if it were an archeological dig that everyone else missed. Although it's plausible to rate Crudup's "That's All Right (Mama)" as a progenitor of rock 'n' roll, he lost me when he said that one of the criteria was that the song has "the first ever guitar solo break." Without even breathing hard, I'm sure most of us could identify dozens, if not hundreds of guitar breaks that preceded Crudup's (and he basically only had one at that, which he repeated on all of his records). That statement shows Burns' ignorance and points out that he's merely out to grab a headline rather than treat musical history with any kind of seriousness.
 
When are these pseudo historians going to realize that there is no such thing as THE first rock 'n' roll record? There doesn't have to be one at all. Rock 'n' roll, like most other musical genres, was the result of a process that took time to develop and change. You can't say that the music wasn't rock 'n' roll one day and it was the next. 
 
The article also spells Sister Rosetta Tharpe's name wrong and says Alan Freed's nickname was "the Moondoogie." That should say enough about this quack's credibility.
 
Cary Ginell
 
> From: saxmania at ripco.com
> Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 16:02:52 -0600
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> interesting article
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> http://news.discovery.com/human/worlds-first-rock-and-roll-song-identified.html
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