Good Golly, It's Rock & Roll Week!

Guybrush · 06-21-2010, 05:09 AM

Hey Musicbanterers and banterins.

Today is the start of Rock & Roll week! As you already know, rock and roll is a genre which originated in the US during the late 40s and became very popular during the 50s. It expanded beyond the US and directly and/or indirectly gave rise to many of other styles of rock music over the decade such as surf rock, psychedelic rock, blues rock, psychedelic rock and so on.

One thing which made rock and roll so important was that it appealed to a youth subculture which young people could identify with that their parents probably weren't "in on". Though such youth subcultures, f.ex goths or hippies, have been popular since, this was the start of it all - at least on a massive commercial scale!

So, let's celebrate rock and roll

Rock and roll also travelled to Norway. Here's one (largely forgotten today) norwegian rock and roll artist, Rocke Pelle. Here he's singing Marty Robbin's Tennessee Toddy.

So, let's see some praise and favourites!

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Guybrush Juicious Maximus III Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Scabb Island Posts: 6,525	Good Golly, It's Rock & Roll Week! Hey Musicbanterers and banterins. Today is the start of Rock & Roll week! As you already know, rock and roll is a genre which originated in the US during the late 40s and became very popular during the 50s. It expanded beyond the US and directly and/or indirectly gave rise to many of other styles of rock music over the decade such as surf rock, psychedelic rock, blues rock, psychedelic rock and so on. One thing which made rock and roll so important was that it appealed to a youth subculture which young people could identify with that their parents probably weren't "in on". Though such youth subcultures, f.ex goths or hippies, have been popular since, this was the start of it all - at least on a massive commercial scale! So, let's celebrate rock and roll Rock and roll also travelled to Norway. Here's one (largely forgotten today) norwegian rock and roll artist, Rocke Pelle. Here he's singing Marty Robbin's Tennessee Toddy. So, let's see some praise and favourites! __________________ Something Completely Different