Early Rock And Roll Artists

Rock and roll style of popular music that originated in the united states in the mid 1950s and that evolved by the mid 1960s into the more encompassing international style known as rock music though the latter also continued to be known as rock and roll.

Early rock and roll artists.

You take 100 people and you ll get 100 different configurations but the cold hard facts are. Rock and roll often written as rock roll rock n roll or rock n roll is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the united states during the late 1940s and early 1950s from musical styles such as gospel jump blues jazz boogie woogie rhythm and blues and country music. Experience rock roll in the order it happened decade by decade year by year and month by month. It was presented in the rock university group over new year s week in 2007.

Here is the original list of the 100 greatest artists of rock n roll. There s no official list of the top 10 most influential rock n roll artists of all time just speculation. Rca had elvis but most of the early rock roll hits were on regionally. While there is no exact birth date.

While elements of what was to become rock and roll can be heard in blues records from the 1920s. Early black rock n roll artists were influenced by other forms of music such as country music which led to many different subsets and spinoffs of the genre. At some point in the future the present rock university members will make a new list that better represents our group in it s current incarnation. But for now this will do.

Rock and roll emerged as a defined musical style in the united states in the early to mid 1950s. Enjoy vintage band photos important events in music history along with all the hit songs and albums in the first fifty years of rock music. An online chronology of rock and roll history. Traditional mexican rhythms entered the rock roll arena through chicano artists most prominently ritchie valens.