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Sharecropping
Sharecro[p[ing began in the 1910's and this stared the genere of blues which eventually lead to Rock. -
Chuck Berry Is Born
Chuck Berry, the father of Rock, was born in St. Louis, Misouri. -
"Bo Weevil"
A Bues song "Bo Weevil" was releases in 1929 by Charley Patton that disscussed the sadness the farmers felt because of share cropping. -
Muddy Waters Moves
In 1943 Muddy Waters moved to Chicago from his home plantation to start his music career. -
Waters Brings the Electric Guitar
Muddy Waters first brought his electric guitar to his recordings and cahnged the whole dynamic of BLues entirely. -
"Blue Moon Kentucky"
"BLue Moon Kentucky" by the Blue Grass Boys was released in 1946. -
Rythym and Blues Billboard Chart
The Billboard charts made this chart listing the top Blues and Rythym songs and it was a huge hit. -
Elvis's First Song
THis song was entitled "Thats All Right" and it was taken from the previous recording by Arthur Crudup. Elvis was a huge hit with the public because he got the certain Rock and Roll vibe acroos but he was white and not descriminated against. -
"Bo Didley" By Bo Didley
In 1954 Bo Didley releaesd a song called "Bo Didley' and it was a huge change in the world of Rock and Roll. He creatyed a new way of using the acustic guitar and making it a precution instrement. This added a new aspect to Rock. -
Maybalene
In 1955 Chuck Berry put out the song Maybelene with the help of Muddy Waters. Many historians think of this song to be the first true Rock song, -
Introduction of Doo Wop
"Would I be Crying" by the Flamingos was one of the first Doo Wop songs and this genere set off many other genres t be formed. -
"Loveable" By Dale Cook
This song along wiht the genere of Gospel added a lot to Rock and Roll fundemntally. This song was like by the black community and ths genere kind of melted into Rock as a genere, -
"Ain't Got Nobody" By The Mills Brothers
From barber shop quartets the Mills Brothers created a quartet of siblings and released "Ani't Got Nobody" in 1957. They first started perfroming in the 1920's -
The Piano In Rock and Roll
"Who Lotta Shakin'" By Jerry Lee Lewis used one instrumen that rock never really had a part of, this was the piano. The piano like many other infkuences add a crazy cool new sound to Rock, -
"Jonny B. Goode"
In 19 58 "Jonny B. Goode" sang by Chuck Berry was number 8 on the bilboard charts. This song was great and it was one of the many Rock and Roll songs introduced in that period. -
"Rolling Stone"
"Rolling Stone" by Muddy Waters was released in 1960 and gave people another artist that was like Chuck Berry to admire.