[78-L] Escott, was Arnold Covey

[Joe Scott]

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[...]I think it was almost entirely how it was marketed and brought into prominence.Bill Moore's "We're Gonna Rock" was #3, Jimmy Preston's "Rock The Joint" #6, Roy Brown's "Boogie At Midnight" #3 on the black charts (etc.). That was early prominence for rock and roll, before Bill Haley or Alan Freed, for example, had taken an interest in it. (For comparison, on that same 1945-1957 Billboard jukebox chart, Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, and Saunders King had no top ten hits, and Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington, Guitar Slim, Earl King, and Otis Rush each had one.)[...]possible taken on as a symbol of independence to an emerging adolescent culture[...]Wild Bill Moore's "Rocking With Leroy," recorded at the same session as "We're Gonna Rock," was a tribute to black deejay Leroy White. The black poet Al Young recalled that responsible black parents didn't approve of his show, Rocking With Leroy. Rock and roll was about black kids rebelling against their parents before there was significant white interest in rock and roll. For instance, although Jay McNeely had an increasing number of young white fans throughout the early 1950s, he already had young black fans in 1948 when he recorded "Man Eater" (which wasn't their parents' Mills Brothers).Joseph Scott