The dance combines the Lindy and Charleston, and almost anything else. The music has a rhythm often heavily accented on the second and fourth beat. COP IN CONTROVERSY, Police Chief Francis McManus of New Haven, Conn., banned rock ‘n roll. And some American parents, without quite knowing what it is their kids are up to, are worried that its something they shouldn’t be. Radio networks are worried over questionable lyrics in rock ‘n roll. the police chief has put a damper on rock ‘n roll parties, and other towns are following suit. The nation’s teen-agers are dancing their way into an enlarging controversy over rock ‘n roll. Rock ‘n’ roll music: A frenzied teenage music craze kicks up a big fuss (1955)Įxcerpted from Life magazine – April 18, 1955 When you begin to have the feeling the names are making music - well, boys, you’re rockin’ ‘n’ rollin‘.) Pick up a telephone book, open it at random, and start singing the names. (Mindy’s note: Maybe this will clue you both. (Editor’s note: Frankly, I don’t know any more than I did before.) Once it catches you, it pounds inside you. If you feel like you can’t lose the rock ‘n roll rhythm. “I’m getting a strange, confused, mixed-up feeling. “Just what does it have that’s so different?” I asked. “No, it doesn’t feel like having money exactly. “Like having money? That’s a nice feeling.” it’s a beat - it’s well, it’s kind of a feeling, you understand?” “No, I wouldn’t say that,” replied Mindy. “But is rock ‘n roll pretty much like jazz?” Dixieland and Rock ‘n Roll are really the two basic types of original music in America. “It’s easier to feel what rock ‘n’ roll is than to explain it in words,” said Mindy. The latest of her 100 recordings, “The Fish,” is creating a kind of epidemic among the Rock ‘n Roll set. Mindy, a vibrant young blonde who once earned $60 a week selling candy, and now earns $4,000 a week up singing in supper clubs, is tops right now with the teenagers. His mouth simply falls open, a glassy look comes into his eyes, and his body begins to undulate like an earthworm with the stomachache. It is called “Rock ‘n Roll.”īut just what is it? No use to ask a teenager. While their sedate elders are still stately prancing to the mambo, the teenagers are reeling to another rhythm. Rock ‘n’ Roll rhythm is sweeping the teen-age set, but what is it? (1955)īy Hal Boyle in the Rapid City Journal (South Dakota) April 04, 1955 So much so, in fact, that a lot of cities banned rock music. Though you might not think it likely from the explanation given here, the newfangled style of music did, indeed, catch on. The first story below was written by Hal Boyle, a nationally-syndicated columnist (and Pulitzer-prize-winning journalist), and was one of the earliest articles that attempted to describe the latest fad that gripped the land - that crazy thing the teenagers called rock ‘n’ roll. In the fifties, people wanted to know - what was rock ‘n’ roll music? Where did this wild dance “noise” come from - and was it safe for the kids?
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