Seeing as how I love music I might as well write this article. First of all I would like to say that rock'n'roll was started in the United States. It began in the late '40s and continued to be a big hit for young people across the country in the '50s. Up until this time the most popular music in the country was the Big Band music of the '20s, '30s and '40s.
Rock and roll was a combination of several different types of music. Mostly jazz and blues with a little country, folk, gospel and boogie-woogie mixed in there. When rock music first came about the main instrument was usually a saxophone or a piano, in about the mid to late '50s this was changed to the guitar, something that has continued to this day.
The golden age of rock and roll is considered the '50s and '60s which I most definitely believe because I've heard Bill Haley and His Comets, The Coasters, Jimi Hendrix, The Who, etc. Most of it is much better than you will hear today, but I am bias.
One of the most popular rock'n'roll forms in the '50s was what is known as the "doo wap". Some of the songs that people may recognize as doo wap songs are Earth Angel or maybe Why do Fools Fall in Love?
Starting in the 1950s many diner owners started buying jukeboxes. They were boxes filled with popular, usually, rock'n'roll music. Anyone who was willing to pay a certain price could put a coin in the box and chose one song to play so they could listen or maybe dance to it.
Anyway I don't have much more to say on the topic. If you want to listen to some '50s rock'n'roll may I suggest a few songs?
Yakety-Yak - The Coasters
Johnny B. Goode Chuck Berry
That'll Be The Day Buddy Holly & the Crickets
Aint That A Shame Fats Domino
Enjoy!!
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