Pop charts, a position it held for eight weeks. On July 8, 1955, Rock Around the Clock became the first rock and roll recording to hit the top number one spot of Billboard's Show on WINS in New York City, where he duplicated his earlier success. Promoted at Cleveland Stadium had to be canceled when the place was 'n' roll music, attracted a huge following. Shout-along-with-the-record AM screamer, and his show, along with rock "Moon Dog's Rock 'n' Roll House Party" and began playing R&B tunes.įreed apparently used the term "rock 'n' roll" to describe the musicīecause he thought the racial connotation of "rhythm and blues" might His popular music show on radio station WJW from "Record Rendezvous" to Sensing the makings of something big, he changed the name of In 1952 Alan Freed visited a Cleveland record storeĪnd learned that R&B records were being snapped up by white The popularizing of term rock 'n roll is credited to Alan Freed, a disc jockey from Cleveland, says The Straight Dope: It took another thirty years before it became part of the American mainstream lexicon. Variations of the term "rock 'n roll" were used by black culture as early as the 1920s in America. Rebellious youth still has a pejorative sense, but it all depends, of course, what they were rebelling against. The song has been described as the anthem of rebellious youth of the 1950s. It wasn't an immediate hit, but after it became the theme song for the film, Blackboard Jungle (1955), it became hugely popular, and defined a cultural shift where rock 'n roll became a mainstay in America. Bill Haley's "Rock Around the Clock" (1954) became the first rock and roll song to top Billboard magazine's charts for sales and airplay. It is one of the most influential songs in rock and roll history. Myrers Īpril 12, 1954: Pythian Temple Studios, 135 West 70th Street, New York City Ted Steele's Bandstand was New York's initial venture into popularizing music on TV, paving the way for American Bandstand with Dick Clark. Bill Haley & His Comets playing on Ted Steele's Bandstand (1955) on WOR-TV (Channel 9), in New York City.
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