Rock’n’Roll Unravelled Show
R&B Before Rock’n’Roll
podcast
R&B was one of the greatest influences on rock’n’roll – and beyond. A look at the R&B artists of the 1930s, ’40s and ’50s, who helped to shape the sound of 1950s rock’n’roll and 1960s rock music – R&B Before Rock’n’Roll podcast.
R&B – Before Rock’n’Roll PODCAST
R&B Before RocknRoll podcast is the original radio broadcast including the music played on the show.
PLAYLIST:
R&B – Before Rock’n’Roll podcast
PLAYLIST
Louis Jordan – Keep a Knockin’
Fats Domino – The Fat Man
Big Mama Thornton – Hound Dog
The Penguins – Earth Angel
Chuck Berry – Maybellene
R&B Before Rock’n’Roll
R&B Before Rock’n’Roll looks at how R&B developed in the 1930s, ’40s and ’50s, before rock’n’roll exploded onto the scene in the mid-1950s.
It was a natural development of blues music. R&B took elements of jazz, added more instruments and created dance music with a blues feel. Doo wop developed as a close harmony style of R&B but with gentler, less raunchy lyrics.
Meanwhile, rock’n’roll developed alongside R&B and was heavily influenced by it. In fact, many of the rock’n’roll hits of the 1950s and ’60s, were covers of R&B and doo wop songs.
Original broadcast 1 July 2019 on Access North West.
COMPANION BLOG of R&B Before Rock’n’Roll podcast
This has all of the detail talked about in the show PLUS video links to all the songs referred to in the show.
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Rock’n’Roll Unravelled – THE BOOK
Derek Shelmerdine is the author of Rock’n’Roll Unravelled.
RocknRoll Unravelled tells the story of rock’n’roll from its roots up until mid-1970s punk. Not just the story of the music but also the external events which influenced it, such as the Vietnam War and Civil Rights struggle.
