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In this series of books, based on the hit podcast A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs, Andrew Hickey analyses the history of rock and roll music, from its origins in swing, Western swing, boogie woogie, and gospel, through to the 1990s, grunge, and Britpop.Looking at five hundred representative songs, he tells the story of the musicians who made those records, the society that produced them, and the music they were making,Volume one looks at fifty songs that made up the origins of rock and roll, starting in 1938 with Charlie Christians first recording session, and ending in 1956. Along the way, it looks at Louis Jordan, LaVern Baker, the Ink Spots, Fats Domino, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Jackie Brenston, Bill Haley, Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, Little Richard, and many more of the progenitors of rock and roll.

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A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs Volume 1: From Savoy Stompers to Clock Rockers

Andrew Hickey

The author has asserted his moral rights.

All song lyrics are copyright their respective owners, and are quoted for review purposes in accordance with fair dealing and fair use laws. No claim over them is asserted.

This book is based on the podcast A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs. To hear that podcast, visit http://500songs.com

The front cover image of this book is a portrait of Milt Gabler, Herbie Hill, Lou Blum, and Jack Crystal, at Commodore Record Shop, New York. The photo was taken by William P. Gottlieb, who has dedicated it to the public domain.

Cover design by Mapcase of Anaheim.

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Introduction

Rock and roll as a cultural force is, it is safe to say, dead.

This is not necessarily a bad thing, and nor does it mean that good rock and roll music isnt being made any more. Rather, rock, like jazz, has become a niche musical interest. Its a large niche, and it will be so long as there are people around who grew up in the last half of the last century, but the cultural influence it once had has declined precipitously in the last decade or so. These days, various flavours of hip-hop, electronic dance music, manufactured pop, and half a dozen genres that a middle-aged man like myself couldnt even name are having the cultural and commercial impact that in previous decades was mostly made by guitar bands.

And this means that for the first time, its possible to assess rock music (or rock and roll the two terms are not quite interchangeable, but this is not the place for a discussion of the terminology, which will come later) in a historical context. In fact this may be the best time for it, when its still interesting to a wide audience, and still fresh in the memory, but its not still an ongoing story that will necessarily change. Almost all of the original generation of rock and roll musicians are now dead (the only prominent exceptions at the moment being Jerry Lee Lewis, Don Everly, and Little Richard, although numerous lesser-known musicians from the time are still working occasionally), but their legacy is still having an impact.

So in this series of books, and the podcasts on which they are based, I will look at the history of rock and roll music, starting with a few pre-rock songs that clearly influenced the burgeoning rock and roll genre, and ending up in 1999 it makes sense to cut the story off there, in multiple ways. Ill talk about the musicians, and about the music. About how the musicians influenced each other, and about the cultural forces that shaped them. In these pages, youll read about the impact the Communist Party, a series of strikes, a lack of insect excrement, and a future governor of Texas would all have on rock and rolls prehistory. But more importantly youll read about the songs and the singers, the instrumentalists and the record producers.

I shall be using a somewhat expansive definition of rock or rock and roll in this series, including genres like soul and disco, because those genres grew up alongside rock, were prominent at the same time as it, and both influenced and were influenced by the rock music of the time. In a future volume in this series, well look at the way the words rock and roll were slowly redefined, from originally meaning a form of music made almost entirely by black people to later pretty much explicitly excluding all black musicians from their definition, but my own history will include black genres and musicians as much as possible.

But the most important thing Ill be doing is looking at the history of rock in terms of the music. Ill be looking at the records, and at the songs. How they were made and by whom.

Ive chosen five hundred songs in total, roughly a hundred per decade from the fifties through the nineties, though our story actually starts in 1938. Some of these songs are obvious choices, which have been written about many times before, but which need to be dealt with in any history of rock music. Others are more obscure tracks which nonetheless point to interesting things about how the music world was developing at the time they were recorded. I say Ive chosen, but this is going to be a project that takes nearly ten years, and no doubt my list will change.

Those of you who have read my earlier work California Dreaming: The LA Pop Music Scene and the 60s will be familiar with this narrative technique Im using here, and this series is in many ways an expansion of that books approach, but its important to note that the two works arent looking at precisely the same thing that book was dealing with a particular scene, and with people who all knew each other, in a limited geographic and temporal space. Here, on the other hand, the threads well be following are more cultural than social. There isnt a direct connection between Little Richard and Talking Heads, for example, but hopefully over the course of this series we will find a narrative thread that still connects them.

If youve listened to the podcast, youll notice one slight change. The first fifty songs I chose for the podcast included Honky Tonk by Bill Doggett, and didnt include Cry by Johnnie Ray. The Doggett song was put in as a way of getting new listeners up to speed, as Doggett played on so many records by other musicians the podcast covered. Ive incorporated that material into the relevant entries here, and replaced it with Cry, which I originally did as a Patreon bonus episode.

Now, this is a history of rock and roll, and so I am going to have to deal with a lot of abusers, sex criminals, and even a few murderers. You simply cant tell the history of rock and roll without talking about Ike Turner, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Phil Spector, Jimmy Page... I could go on. But suffice to say that I think the assumption one should make when talking about rock music history is that any man discussed in it is a monster unless proved otherwise.

Im going to have to talk about those mens work, and how it affected other things, because its so influential. And I admire a lot of that work. But I never, ever, want to give the impression that I think the work in any way mitigates their monstrosity, or do that thing that so many people do of excusing them because it was a different time.

But in order for this to be a history of rock music, and not a prurient history of misogynistic crime, Im probably not going to mention every awful thing these people do. Im going to deal with it on a case by case basis, and I will make wrong calls. If I dont mention something when I get to one of those men, and you think it needed mentioning, by all means contact me about it, and I may update the information in future episodes of the podcast and books in the series. But please dont take that lack of mention as being endorsement of those people.

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