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Welcome to volume 2 of the music listening thread, originally started by smashedbyhashish on 7/17/11. Closed with 2,514 Replies and 26,379 views.
Max rep points to anyone who can tell me who was the first recording artist to use the terms Rock and Roll in a song title. Careful, it's a trick question.
A bonus :thumbs: to anyone who can also get the year.
While you're thinking about that, I'll be listening to some Billie Holliday; Swing, Brother, Swing!
Max rep points to anyone who can tell me who was the first recording artist to use the terms Rock and Roll in a song title. Careful, it's a trick question.
A bonus :thumbs: to anyone who can also get the year. While you're thinking about that, I'll be listening to some Billie Holliday; Swing, Brother, Swing!
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Guess I should have checked first. Yes, it's Trixie Smith's 1922 recording of My Baby Rocks Me With a Steady Roll. Along with others like Ma Rainey, Victoria Spivey, Ethel Waters and the great Bessie Smith, that style of blues is called the Classic Blues. It was popular in the 20s in vaudeville theaters and traveling tent shows and are some of the earliest blues recordings. Listen to some of Bessie Smith's recordings and you can hear the very young Louis Armstrong backing her on cornet. 
