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Originally Posted by manaboutown
The first R&R song I remember is "Rock Around the Clock" by Bill Haley and his Comets, 1954, I think. Kids were jitterbugging/swing dancing to it. Sometime after that the dancing changed from contact to just get out there and jump around however you want. When the Beattles went on the Ed Sullivan show their sound changed R&R. Of course Elvis the Pelvis going on the same show years earlier surely changed things at that time.
My tongue in cheek favorites were "Purple People Eater", Alley Oop" and "Party Doll".
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I agree about "Rock Around the Clock" by Bill Haley and his Comets. First rock n roll song I ever heard and it drove me wild! There was a movie by the name of Blackboard Jungle, with Rock Around the Clock & Jailhouse Rock as theme songs, about a school in New York (I think Brooklyn). I was never a fan of Elvis but Bill Haley recorded "Jailhouse Rock" before Elvis.