Rock and Roll "phrase"

The term "Rock and Roll" can be heard in the movie referenced Roach This "ensures the Feet" (1932), with Zasu Pitts and Thelma Todd citation needed. In 1935, Henry "Red" Allen noted "Get Rhythm in your feet and Music of Your Soul ", which includes the lyrics:" If the devil you start your dog, begin to rock and roll. Get the rhythm of your feet ... "lyrics etc. It was written by J. prolific Tin Pan Alley composer Russell Robinson by Bill Livingston. Can not they create a phrase for this application. It is possible today with the sense of music in popular culture at the time, at least in New York. Allen is recording "race" records on the Vocalion label, but the catchy songs quickly covered by musicians whites, especially Benny Goodman, undoubtedly gave the term currency across the United States late in 1935.

The word "stone" has a long history in many languages as a metaphor for "shake, harass or incite". "Rocking" is a term used by black gospel singers in South America means something similar to spiritual ecstasy. In 1916, the term "rocking and rolling" is used with religious connotations, the phonograph record "The Camp Meeting Jubilee" by the "quartet" of men unknown verb "roll". It is a medieval metaphor which meant " have sex. " Writers for hundreds of years have used the phrase "They have a role in the hay" or "I rolled in clover." The phrase "rocking and rolling" is a secular black slang or dance Sex with the beginning of the twentieth century, appearing on the record for the first time in 1922 on Trixie Smith's "My Man Rocks Me With One Steady Roll", and as a double meaning, as if referring to the dance, but with a meaning subtextual sexual, as in Roy Brown's "Good Rocking Tonight" (1948).
The term is often used together ("rocking and rolling") to describe the movement of ships at sea, such as those used in 1934 by the Sisters theBoswell in their song "Rock and Roll", which appeared in the movie 1934 Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round,and "Rockin 'Buddy Jones Mama Rollin' (1939). Country singer Tommy Scott was referring to the movement of railway trains in 1951" Rockin and Rollin ' ". alternative claim is that the origin of" rocking and rolling "can be traced to the man of steel pipe work on the railways in southern reconstruction. They sing songs to keep the momentum their speed hammer hammer. At the end of each line in a song, people swing their hammer to punch holes in the rock. agitators - people who hold the steel tips that men drilled hammer Would -. "rock" edge back and forth to clear the stones or "table", turn technology to increase the "bite" drilling  The term has been used with sexual implications in the words of recordings of rhythm & blues at least since the early 1930s, as Bob Robinson "Rock and Rolling" (1939), Buddy Jones "Rolling Rock and Mamma" (1939) and Joe Turner's "Cherry Red" (1939). Three different songs with the title "Rock and Roll", recorded in the 1940s by Paul Bascomb in 1947, Wild Bill Moore in 1948, and by Doles Dickens in 1949. Such a case where the sentence is repeated throughout the song was "Rock and Roll Blues, "recorded in 1949 by Erline" Rock and Roll "Harris  In the. 1951 Cleveland, Ohio disc jockey Alan Freed began broadcasting rhythm and blues and country music for a public multi-racial . Freed, familiar with the music of previous decades has used the term "rock and roll" to describe the music that was broadcast, the user is also credited to sponsorships Freed, record store owner Leo Mintz, who encouraged Freed play music on the radio. Thus, while the phrase might be new to the masses, it is clearly used before.