07:700:235 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Big Joe Turner, Bill Haley, Fats Domino
Document Summary
The billboard charts were heavily segregated and r&b was considered to be black music. A lot of young white teenagers enjoyed listening to r&b even though their parents didn"t allow it. Rock n" roll was the name given to r&b that white teenagers listened to that eventually took the dj, moondog, to the ny megastation --helped bring a lot of exposure to this genre. Sh-boom was an r&b record that became very popular and was close to having a crossover. Shake, rattle, and roll was an upbeat song by big joe turner that took the number 1 spot in the r&b charts, was instrumental for a lot of rock n" roll artists to find. Elvis presley would listen to r&b radio in the 1950s, he was also exposed to hillbilly music too since he lived in memphis, tennessee. He would create covers for songs that he enjoyed regardless of how it performed on the charts.
