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Due to the idiotic racial segregation and bigotry of the 50's, and due to the fact that a lot of the great rockers were (gasp) black, rock n' roll reached a very small portion of the white audience at first. Fortunatly, along came the innocent looking geeky Texan by the name of Buddy Holly, who created some of the best darned rock music there is, albeit in the space of a short career, and which is now represented by 'Buddy Holly - Greatest Hits'. Another influencial white rocker was Jerry Lee Lewis, who made such classics as "Great Balls Of Fire," and whose music you can hear on 'Best of Jerry Lee Lewis-Millen'.
Bill Haley gave us the ultra-catchy "Rock Around The Clock," so why not purchase '20th Century Masters: The Best Of Bill Haley & His Comets (Millennium Collection)'?
Yep..... rock n' roll was in full swing. But then, something happened. The uptight rednecks and closed minded hick adults began to feel threatened by this new music. White folks forbade their children from hearing it. Small-town preachers called it the devil's music. Whole town meatings were devoted to it's expulsion. The result? Many of the great rockers were thrown in jail or became unreformed alcoholics. Elvis left Sun records and signed with RCA and started putting out junk, then got drafted. R&B and rock were banned from many AM radio stations, the primary outlet of music those days. It was madness I tell you, madness! And the tragic death of Buddy Holly didn't help much, either. After a few years in the late fifties and early sixties, rock n' roll died.
Bill Haley gave us the ultra-catchy "Rock Around The Clock," so why not purchase '20th Century Masters: The Best Of Bill Haley & His Comets (Millennium Collection)'?
Yep..... rock n' roll was in full swing. But then, something happened. The uptight rednecks and closed minded hick adults began to feel threatened by this new music. White folks forbade their children from hearing it. Small-town preachers called it the devil's music. Whole town meatings were devoted to it's expulsion. The result? Many of the great rockers were thrown in jail or became unreformed alcoholics. Elvis left Sun records and signed with RCA and started putting out junk, then got drafted. R&B and rock were banned from many AM radio stations, the primary outlet of music those days. It was madness I tell you, madness! And the tragic death of Buddy Holly didn't help much, either. After a few years in the late fifties and early sixties, rock n' roll died.
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