MUSC 2150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Early Music, Chubby Checker, The Shirelles
30 Jan 2015
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Late 40"s, early 50"s: rock and roll, in the smaller artists, larger labels still producing tin pan alley. They thought rock n roll was a fad and would soon fade. They also assumed that the races and social classes didn"t listen to each others music: support was a lot bigger for country western and blues than they expected. Instead of producing a long play record: one side would have one song (a), and the other side another (b), played into the rock n roll era. Without the youth it wouldn"t have become as popular. It is presented in a non-sexual way: he isn"t presenting himself as little richard, first one to cross charts, from rhythm and blues to pop charts, makes rock and roll more safer, and keeping away negative stereotypes. Elvis: consider the man that came at the right time, he was not a song writer or instrumentalist, his perfection was his voice.
