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1. KHRISTOS Says:
   July 17th, 2008 at 00:10:53 its always been around... its up to you people to recognise... rhythmn....
2. Ordwine Says:
   July 18th, 2008 at 00:33:52 In a reply to diamepiece. Ray Charles invented soul in 1954 when he recorded "I Got A Woman", making a lot of people mad when he fused gospel music with blues lyrics. Which certainly post-dates this song by three years. You can listen to a song like "Shake 'Em On Down" by Bukka White from 1937 and tell that punching the blues up a notch wasn't a new idea.
3. Vevila Says:
   July 18th, 2008 at 00:56:51 The guitar's distorting. You know how older amps were very trebley back then? Well, obviously, this one's pretty much fuzzing out.
4. KYLLIKKI Says:
   July 18th, 2008 at 01:19:50 I wasn't really talking about this song, the Bo Diddley beat goes chank chank chank a cank chank.
5. Dukinea Says:
   July 18th, 2008 at 01:42:49 The Bo Diddley beat was a completely different beat altogether.!
6. Pascual Says:
   July 18th, 2008 at 02:05:48 It's not like heavy metal...lol! Listen to the guitar playing the boompa-boompa-boompa-boopa riff. The amp fell off a truck and cracked the speaker. A cracked speaker gives it a 'fuzz' tone of sorts. That was the "new" guitar sound and why it gets that first rock tune acclamation tho that beat was alive & well in rhythmn & blues.
7. ALVINA Says:
   July 18th, 2008 at 02:28:47 Famed Scottish psychiatrist Dr. Charles Follen McKim Maloney had a chaueffer driven Oldsmobile Rocket 88 when he visited America. A music aficionado, he said he preferred the ride and wouldn't have known about them if not for this song.
8. Dennis Says:
   July 18th, 2008 at 02:51:46 Next thing you know you'll try to say Jimmy Page created the Blues :P
9. BREUSE Says:
   July 18th, 2008 at 03:14:45 You don't hear any thing caus your dumb, Elvis was not the king, Bo Diddley was.
10. Tod Says:
    July 18th, 2008 at 03:37:44 Elivs indeed.
11. MARJETA Says:
    July 18th, 2008 at 04:00:43 I dont hear the Distortion Guitar!?
12. Latoya Says:
    July 18th, 2008 at 04:23:42 Elivs is the king bitch
13. Araina Says:
    July 18th, 2008 at 04:46:41 gay
14. WYNDHAM Says:
    July 18th, 2008 at 05:09:40 Fuck off
15. Chianna Says:
    July 18th, 2008 at 05:32:39 It the distorted guitar riff that is so ground breaking about this record. And it's ice cool vocal!
16. NORDICA Says:
    July 18th, 2008 at 05:55:38 Everybody loves my Rocket. 88
17. Pascual Says:
    July 18th, 2008 at 06:18:37 I mean the way he goes chank chank chank, a-chank chank. So what if others did it befor him? They wern't smart enough to name it after them selfs.
18. NINA Says:
    July 18th, 2008 at 06:41:36 "You mean the Bo Diddley beat?" No, drum or handclaps emphasizing 2 and 4 of the measure. Lionel Hampton & Buddy Johnson were the only guys regularly using backbeat throughout a secular song as of '45, but Wynonie & others sometimes did before '47 (e.g. Wynonie's "Hey! Ba-Ba-Re-Bop Pt 2," with Hampton sidemen backing him) and it became popular around '49-'51 after Wynonie used it on "Good Rocking Tonight," Jimmy Preston on "Rock The Joint," and Roy Brown on "Boogie At Midnight" (among others).
19. Cerella Says:
    July 18th, 2008 at 07:04:35 Okay, I see were you are getting at, but I just wanted to clarify the soulful influence that began with Rock. Just how Ragtime evolved into Jazz in New Orleans, is how soul& blues evolved into the rock we hear now. It had roots by very underrated artist. Instead of praising Elvis and The Beetles, praise the people who started it. Done.
20. Shawna Says:
    July 18th, 2008 at 07:27:34 You mean the Bo Diddley beat?
21. TROPHONIUS Says:
    July 18th, 2008 at 07:50:33 "this may not sound different to those that came befor it but it was the first to be tagged Rock'n'Roll" I'm not sure who you believe tagged this song in particular as "rock and roll" music when. Alan Freed used "rock and roll" to describe a style that included "Rock The Joint" (which was a hit on the "black" charts two years before this was). The big backbeat routinely used by artists such as Berry and Presley is not heard on this but is heard on lots of records that came out before it.
22. RUDYARD Says:
    July 18th, 2008 at 08:13:32 Rock'n'Roll was created by radio jockeys to help Black music become more acceptable. People don't give Ike enough credit, it doesn't matter how much a prick a person is, he did alot to define popular music as it is today along with Bo Diddley.
23. Adamson Says:
    July 18th, 2008 at 08:36:31 The reason why 1940s jump blues and such weren't Rock'n'Roll was because no one called it Rock'N'Roll, this may not sound different to those that came befor it but it was the first to be tagged Rock'n'Roll, I think of this as the catilist that turned R&B into R&R.
24. Jered Says:
    July 18th, 2008 at 08:59:30 "Rock had black roots before it became commercial" ...to "white" people. The rock and roll sound was very commercial to "black" people during 1949-1954. For instance, Bo Diddley never had an R&B hit as big as _this_ record, Little Richard only had one, and Chuck Berry only had two. So if you see what I'm saying, this style of music sold to "black" people as of 1951. And then in 1955 tons of "white" people got interested in it too.
25. ASELMA Says:
    July 18th, 2008 at 09:22:29 "In the earliest rock and roll styles of the late 1940s and early 1950s, either the piano or saxophone was often the lead instrument, but these were generally replaced or supplemented by guitar in the middle to late 1950s." Electric guitar was very common (but certainly not essential) on 1945-1954 rocking records, and saxophone and piano were very common (but certainly not essential) on 1955-1959 rocking records.

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