Rock Music Recordings

Rock Music Recordings If one had to pick the recording session at which rock ‘n’ roll was born, it would be the date of 12 Apr 1954, at Pythia Temple on Manhattan’s West Side at which Bill Haley and the Comets cut Rock Around the Clock. (Shaw #1974). Yet rock ‘n’ roll songs existed before Haley’s disc (Decca #29124) topped the charts in 1955. Some historians have singled out the Crows, whose uptempo rhythm and blues recording, Gee (Rama #5) reached number 14 on the pop charts in early 1954. As…