A competitor in size as the first fully formed rock and roll record was "Rocket 88" by Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats (which, in fact, Ike Turner and the Kings of Rhythm band recording under a different name) recorded by Sam Phillips for Sun Records in 1951.Three years later, the first rock and roll song to enter the big Billboard chart and selling plays Bill Haley "Crazy Man, Crazy" and the first top of the table, in July 1955, was his "Rock Around the Clock "(recorded in 1954), opened the door worldwide for a new wave of popular culture Rolling Stone magazine argued. in 2004 that "That's All Right (Mama)" (1954), Elvis Presley's first single for Sun Records in Memphis, was the first stone and save roll, however, at the same time, Big Joe Turner "Shake, Rattle &Roll, "later covered by Haley, was atop the Billboard R & B
At the beginning of rock and roll using the chord progression blues boogie woogie and twelve bars to share with four times (usually broken down into eight eighth-notes/quavers) at the helm. Rock and roll, but more emphasis on the backbeat boogie woogie. Bo Diddley in 1955 hit "Bo Diddley" with his side b "I'm A Man", by introducing a new rhythm and a unique guitar style has inspired many artists, without further aid of a bar pattern of 12 - they are not playing variations on a rope to each.
Also in the formative sound of rock and roll Little Richard and Chuck Berry. Since the early 1950 Little Richard combined gospel with New Orleans R & B backbeat heavy [52], piano and singing fight complaint Its music, exemplified by songs like "Tutti Frutti" (1955), "Long. Tall Sally" (1956) and "Good Golly, Miss Molly" (1958), influenced generations of rhythm & blues, rock and soul musicartists. Chuck Berry with "Maybellene" (1955), "Roll Over Beethoven" (1956), "Rock and Roll Music" (1957) and "Johnny B. Goode" (1958), refined and developed the main elements that vibrate and roll Typically, with a focus on teenage life and introduces the guitar intro and the rest will head a major influence on later rock music.
Soon rock and roll is a major force in record sales and American crooners such as Eddie Fisher, Perry Como and Patti Page, who had dominated the previous decade of popular music, found their access to the pop charts significantly reduces.