Rock 'n Roll before it was a popular genre

[BluesHawk]

We know that there was a genre overlapping the earliest Chicago Blues (the late 1930s through the 1940s) and the emergence of White Rock 'n Roll (around the early 1950s with Bill Haley and The Comets)...

...that this genre was called "rock", "rockin Blues", "Jump Blues" and was occasionally referred to as "Rock 'n Roll" in Black communities.

It was relegated mainly to "Race" catalogues or "Rhythm and Blues" catalogues until it was appropriated by the White music industry and named "Rock 'n Roll".

It was and is our beloved Rock 'n Roll and the guitarists were amazing Rockers, some leaning toward jazz, some leaning toward Blues...but when ya listen to these examples, the music is our earliest Rock. Just so amazing:

https://youtu.be/2_6uwMIoG6g

https://youtu.be/R_qlXRXr5yA

[BluesHawk]

Check this out...I believe it's 1954

https://youtu.be/sM2VIgrakSw?list=PL...xOf7YxCgir_Dk5

[Slideman]

I'll recommend a book:The Chitlin' Circuit: And the Road to Rock 'n' Roll by Preston Lauterbach.

[BluesHawk]

I'll recommend a book:The Chitlin' Circuit: And the Road to Rock 'n' Roll by Preston Lauterbach.

Okay, Slideman. Glad you're here, and you know this history. I agree, The Chitlin Circuit is a carefully documented early Blues & rock history, along with Peter Guralnick's recent bio of Sam Phillips.

Just the other day I heard an old Jump Blues on Atlanta's Radio Free Georgia,,, the singer was referring to "rock 'n roll". The Dj said the recording was from 1949.

[BluesHawk]

From: http://digitaldreamdoor.com/pages/best_songs40s.html

1. Good Rockin' Tonight - Wynonie Harris
2. It's Too Soon To Know - Orioles
3. Caldonia - Louis Jordan
4. The Honeydripper - Joe Liggins
5. Choo Choo Ch'Boogie - Louis Jordan
6. Straighten Up And Fly Right - King Cole Trio
7. Lovesick Blues - Hank Williams
8. Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee - Stick McGhee & His Buddies
9. Saturday Night Fish Fry - Louis Jordan
10. Hey! Ba-Ba-Re-Bop - Lionel Hampton
11. Till Then - Mills Brothers
12. Who Threw The Whiskey In The Well - Lucky Millinder (Wynonie Harris)
13. Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens - Louis Jordan
14. Chicken-Shack Boogie - Amos Milburn
15. The Hucklebuck - Paul Williams
16. Merry Christmas Baby - Johnny Moore's Three Blazers (Charles Brown)
17. Tomorrow Night - Lonnie Johnson
18. Let The Good Times Roll - Louis Jordan
19. Move It On Over - Hank Williams
20. Cherry Red Blues - Cootie Williams (Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson)
21. Blues In The Night - Jimmie Lunceford
22. God Bless The Child - Billie Holiday
23. Get Your Kicks On Route 66 - King Cole Trio
24. Flying Home - Lionel Hampton featuring Illinois Jacquet
25. Drifting Blues - Johnny Moore's Three Blazers (Charles Brown)
26. Walking The Floor Over You - Ernest Tubb
27. Boogie Chillen' - John Lee Hooker
28. The Christmas Song - King Cole Trio
29. G.I. Jive - Louis Jordan
30. Call It Stormy Monday - T-Bone Walker
31. I'll Get Along Somehow - Larry Darnell
32. Buzz Me - Louis Jordan
33. Confessin' The Blues - Jay McShann (Walter Brown)
34. Jack, You're Dead - Louis Jordan
35. Honky Tonkin' - Hank Williams
36. Don't Cry, Baby - Erskine Hawkins (Jimmy Mitchelle)
37. Fine Brown Frame - Nellie Lutcher
38. Romance In The Dark - Lil Green
39. I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry - Hank Williams
40. Ol' Man River - Ravens
41. I Don't Want To Set The World On Fire - Ink Spots
42. Blues Stay Away From Me - Delmore Brothers
43. New San Antonio Rose - Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
44. Ain't That Just Like A Woman - Louis Jordan
45. Ain't Nobody's Business - Jimmy Witherspoon
46. For You My Love - Larry Darnell
47. Pistol Packin' Mama - Al Dexter & His Troopers
48. White Christmas - Ravens
49. What Are You Doing New Year's Eve - Orioles
50. Blue Moon Of Kentucky - Bill Monroe
51. The Deacon's Hop - Big Jay McNeely
52. King Size Papa - Julia Lee
53. That's My Desire - Frankie Laine / Hadda Brooks
54. Boogie Woogie Blue Plate - Louis Jordan
55. Open The Door Richard - Dusty Fletcher / Jack McVea / Louis Jordan
56. Long Gone - Sonny Thompson
57. Tippin' In - Erskine Hawkins
58. Long John Blues - Dinah Washington
59. Bewildered - Amos Milburn / Red Miller Trio
60. Good Rockin' Tonight - Roy Brown
61. Shout, Sister, Shout - Lucky Millinder (Sister Rosetta Tharpe)
62. Tell Me So - Orioles
63. Trouble Blues - Charles Brown
64. I Wonder - Private Cecil Gant / Roosevelt Sykes
65. I'm Gonna Move To The Outskirts Of Town - Louis Jordan / Jimmie Lunceford
66. All She Wants To Do Is Rock - Wynonie Harris
67. Rockin' At Midnight - Roy Brown
68. See See Rider Blues - Bea Booze
69. I Almost Lost My Mind - Ivory Joe Hunter
70. When Things Go Wrong With You - Tampa Red
71. Cow Cow Boogie - Ella Fitzgerald & the Ink Spots / Freddie Slack (Ella Mae Morse)
72. Why Don't You Do Right? - Lil Green / Benny Goodman (Peggy Lee)
73. Move On Up A Little Higher - Mahalia Jackson
74. Pretty Mama Blues - Ivory Joe Hunter
75. Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby - Louis Jordan
76. Rock The Joint - Jimmy Preston
77. Sweet Georgia Brown - Brother Bones
78. Run, Joe - Louis Jordan
79. Boogie At Midnight - Roy Brown
80. That's All Right - Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup
81. Strange Things Happening - Sister Rosetta Tharpe
82. Stormy Monday Blues - Earl Hines (Billy Eckstine)
83. R.M. Blues - Roy Milton & His Solid Senders
84. My Bucket's Got A Hole In It - Hank Williams
85. Be-Baba-Leba - Helen Humes
86. Blues For The Red Boy - Todd Rhodes
87. Tennessee Saturday Night - Red Foley
88. Blow Top Blues - Lionel Hampton (Dinah Washington)
89. Snatch And Grab It - Julia Lee
90. Corn Bread - Hal Singer
91. So Glad You're Mine - Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup
92. Why Don't You Haul Off And Love Me - Bullmoose Jackson
93. The House Of Blue Lights - Freddie Slack (Ella Mae Morse)
94. (I Feel Like) Going Home - Muddy Waters
95. Junker Blues - Champion Jack Dupree
96. Long About Midnight - Roy Brown
97. That's The Stuff You Gotta Watch - Buddy Johnson (Ella Johnson)
98. Shake The Boogie - Sonny Boy Williamson
99. S.K. Blues - Pete Johnson (Joe Turner)
100. We're Gonna Rock, We're Gonna Roll - Wild Bill Moore
101. I Can't Be Satisfied - Muddy Waters
102. Baby Please Don't Go - Big Joe Williams
103. Down The Road A Piece - Will Bradley / Amos Milburn
104. Jimmy's Blues - Count Basie (Jimmy Rushing)
105. Got A Right To Cry - Joe Liggins
106. Midnight Special - Leadbelly (Golden Gate Quartet)
107. Key To The Highway - Big Bill Broonzy
108. Since I Fell For You - Paul Gayten (Annie Laurie) / Buddy & Ella Johnson
109. I Love You, Yes I Do - Bullmoose Jackson

[Slideman]

I notice Louis Jordan is prominent in your list. What a guy!

[BluesHawk]

I notice Louis Jordan is prominent in your list. What a guy!

"What a guy"...goofy sense of humor. Great Jump-Blues musical talent. And a real sense of responsibility to the WWII troops as well as their families here.

[GarethE]

I love all that Jump stuff! Being a tenor player myself I love flipping my wig with some honking and screaming. If you want a laugh, check out Wynnonie Harris' 'Keep on Churnin" pure filth done so well!

https://youtu.be/d8swz7WFgrU

[BluesHawk]

Never heard that one. Pretty bold. "Leave the sheep, bring me that brown cow"...

BtW, my book order just came in, the autobiography of Jim Dickinson. Just read Peter Guralnick's bio of Sam Phillips and this one will be a good follow-up to that. Seems the roots music of Arkansas and Mississippi Deltas came together in West Memphis and Memphis like a 1940's junction; "East-West for the Chitlin Circuit, or continue North to Chicago".

[chemobrain]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xR_A4Su-TrI
I like this guy, thanks again.