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The Birth of Rock’n’Roll

The Birth of Rock’n’Roll. Big Mama Thornton. WW 2 Ends. The Baby Boomer Phenomena. BIRTH Rate chart. . More children born than ever before or since on the planet -the generation of the jazz era are now the parents of the baby boomers

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The Birth of Rock’n’Roll

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  1. The Birth of Rock’n’Roll

  2. Big Mama Thornton

  3. WW 2 Ends The Baby Boomer Phenomena

  4. BIRTH Rate chart.

  5. More children born than ever before or since on the planet -the generation of the jazz era are now the parents of the baby boomers The baby boomers will shape much of our history, especially our musical one A baby born 1946 would be how old in 1957? The Baby Boomers

  6. -as blues music gets more exposure it is adopted by many southern white musicians who begin to play and perform in styles long used by blues musicians

  7. Like this kid, born in Tupelo Mississippi, 1935 Born poor, he lived in black neighborhoods Was getting tossed our of jukejoints when he was your age.

  8. Learned to play guitar and sing and dance in styles he saw in the jukejoints Was a hit in high school and then began to play county fairs around Memphis Tennessee

  9. Discovered playing on a Memphis street by Sam Phillips Records him on the “Sun” record label Eventually picked up by RCA Becomes a superstar

  10. Elvis Presley Elvis Presley

  11. Elvis Presley becomes the first “poster boy” for the baby boomer generation The girls just love him He had help becoming so famous Elvis Histeria

  12. Televisions hit the market in the 1950s The television

  13. He had the biggest show on tv It was on CBS on Sunday nights and was a variety show He got Elvis Presley on Sept 9, 1956 The Ed Sullivan Show

  14. Became the most watched show in American history at that time

  15. There was a problem… Elvis’ dancing caused outrage His hip movement was indecent, disgusting, lewd, provocative What should Sullivan do? Most watched show ever, most complaints ever? But…

  16. October 28th 1956 He breaks all the records he set the first time. Let’s see how they filmed him. Have him back

  17. “Rock’n’Roll” a term invented by Alan Freed, who was re-labelling R&B or “Race Music” Rock’n’Roll is however a New Orleans euphemism… For sex! So begins the Censorship Debate

  18. Race Rock’n’Roll had existed for years, just not in white culture. The kids of the Jazz era, as parents now, repeat the mistakes of their own parents when jazz was the issue in the 1920s Record companies, just like Ed Sullivan, know it sells, and do their best to package it in white But the real problem is…

  19. Bill Haley and the Comets Buddy Holly And many more, too lame to mention

  20. Some black musicians crossed over Remember these two Chuck Berry and Bo Didley from Chess Records in Chicago

  21. Little Richard

  22. The Robert Johnson Myth Rock’n’Roll now gains the term “The Devil’s Music” Then guess what they found out?

  23. JerrY Lee Lewis

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