What was the first rock and roll song?

Alan Freed is widely credited with coining the term "ROCK AND ROLL" and making it a household phrase. There were other rock and roll type songs and songs that used the words rock or rocking and roll or rolling, and songs using a rock and roll beat going back as far back as the 20's. However if we want to establish a point there the term Rock and Roll was actually "invented," by definition it would be his coining of it because it become a phrase that the masses started of people started using.



And the first song he used it on was '60 minute man' by the Dominoes. As a matter of fact he got the phrase from that song. So that by definition 60 minute man was the first rock and roll song. The year was 1951.What was the first rock and roll song?
I suppose "Kansas City Blues" by Jim Jackson (1927) could be considered the first rock n' roll song ever. It sold over a million copies (one of the first records to do so), and it was re-worked by several more popular artists, although it could be considered more of an embryonic song for the genre. More like blues, really.

"Rock Around the Clock" is often credited with creating rock 'n' roll, but even Buddy Holly's earlier singles could be considered infantile rock songs.

Also, "Down the Road a Piece" (1940) by the Will Bradley Orchestra, although more boogie than rock, has become a standard; it's been covered by Bruce Springsteen, the Stones, Jerry Lee Lewis, Foghat, and many others.

Maybe Chuck Berry's "Maybellene", perhaps Elvis's "Mystery Train", even "Straighten Up and Fly Right" by Nat King Cole. It's impossible to determine.



So I suppose it's completely subjective as to what the first rock song was; the phrase "rocking and rolling" originates way back to the 1900s!
"My Baby Rocks Me With One Steady Roll" by Trixie smith, in 1922. It is black slang for sex in music and this is the first time the words rock and roll were used in a recorded song.



Interesting tid bit.

Rock 'n' roll music warrants a mention in the year end Encyclopedia Britannica music review, which derogatorily refers to it in racist terms as "jungle music" [1955]What was the first rock and roll song?
Got My Mojo Working is as valid as you can get.



I think in the running might be Robert Johnson's "Hellhound On My Trail,"

although Blues Purists might have me skinned at the crossroads for even

suggesting it.



Another option: Little Richard's "Tutti Frutti".
'Got My Mojo Working' by Muddy WatersWhat was the first rock and roll song?
No one know...no one knows

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