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Dpm12

(512 posts) Thu Nov 6, 2014, 05:51 PM Nov 2014

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Post some of your favorite '50s rock songs

Post YouTube videos of some of your favorite 1950s rock songs!
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There are others, but I can't think of them right now.

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Post some of your favorite '50s rock songs (Original Post) Dpm12 Nov 2014 OP

All Shook Up -- First 45. Hoyt Nov 2014 #1

This one started it all! femmocrat Nov 2014 #2

Depends on how you define "start." malthaussen Nov 2014 #15

Johnny Otis & The Three Tons Of Joy - Willie and the Hand Jive Brother Buzz Nov 2014 #3

Tutti Frutti antiquie Nov 2014 #4

Elvis Presley--Paralyzed Kingofalldems Nov 2014 #5

No Buddy Holly yet? cemaphonic Nov 2014 #6

Bye bye love rug Nov 2014 #7

This message was self-deleted by its author IcyPeas Nov 2014 #8

My favorite is this group who invented rock. n/t RebelOne Nov 2014 #9

Widely acknowledged as the first"rock and roll" song panader0 Nov 2014 #10

The Drifters.."There Goes My Baby" KoKo Nov 2014 #11

The great Ray Charles from 1953 aint_no_life_nowhere Nov 2014 #12

Rockabilly kwassa Nov 2014 #13

some R&B kwassa Nov 2014 #14

How about some Jump Blues? From 1947 yet? malthaussen Nov 2014 #16

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)

1. All Shook Up -- First 45.

Reply to Dpm12 (Original post)

Thu Nov 6, 2014, 05:54 PM

Nov 2014

femmocrat

(28,394 posts)

2. This one started it all!

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Thu Nov 6, 2014, 06:32 PM

Nov 2014

malthaussen

(17,202 posts)

15. Depends on how you define "start."

Reply to femmocrat (Reply #2)

Fri Nov 7, 2014, 11:30 AM

Nov 2014

First Rock and Roll song to have major commercial success. But not first in the genre, which goes back a few years before '56.

-- Mal

Brother Buzz

(36,442 posts)

3. Johnny Otis & The Three Tons Of Joy - Willie and the Hand Jive

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Thu Nov 6, 2014, 06:49 PM

Nov 2014

Yes, that's Lionel Hampton at the end.

antiquie

(4,299 posts)

4. Tutti Frutti

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Thu Nov 6, 2014, 07:02 PM

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Kingofalldems

(38,458 posts)

5. Elvis Presley--Paralyzed

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Thu Nov 6, 2014, 07:37 PM

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cemaphonic

(4,138 posts)

6. No Buddy Holly yet?

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Thu Nov 6, 2014, 08:08 PM

Nov 2014

He left a legacy in the span of five years that most popular musicians couldn't equal in a lifetime.

In the way that Elvis and others brought the singing style of black r&b and gospel music to white listeners, Buddy Holly did it for the guitar.

rug

(82,333 posts)

7. Bye bye love

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Thu Nov 6, 2014, 08:15 PM

Nov 2014

The boy from New York City

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IcyPeas This message was self-deleted by its author.

RebelOne

(30,947 posts)

9. My favorite is this group who invented rock. n/t

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Thu Nov 6, 2014, 08:22 PM

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panader0

(25,816 posts)

10. Widely acknowledged as the first"rock and roll" song

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Thu Nov 6, 2014, 08:46 PM

Nov 2014

KoKo

(84,711 posts)

11. The Drifters.."There Goes My Baby"

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Thu Nov 6, 2014, 09:46 PM

Nov 2014

The Drifters.....There Goes My Baby

aint_no_life_nowhere

(21,925 posts)

12. The great Ray Charles from 1953

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Thu Nov 6, 2014, 10:01 PM

Nov 2014

kwassa

(23,340 posts)

13. Rockabilly

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Thu Nov 6, 2014, 10:02 PM

Nov 2014

kwassa

(23,340 posts)

14. some R&B

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Thu Nov 6, 2014, 10:33 PM

Nov 2014

malthaussen

(17,202 posts)

16. How about some Jump Blues? From 1947 yet?

Reply to Dpm12 (Original post)

Fri Nov 7, 2014, 11:39 AM

Nov 2014

(Wynonie Harris also put out a version around the same time)

-- Mal

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