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First rock & roll recording, ever. Youtube links below...
Dr. John Tennison, music historian, cites the record of the 1938 Carnegie Hall performance by Rosetta Tharpe as the very first rock & roll recording. He has been lobbying for the induction of Rosetta Tharpe into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
Should Rosetta Tharpe be inducted into the R&R Hall of Fame? Obviously, I think so. But I'm interested to hear the opinions of the EW community. More info:
From website "Open Culture":
“Listen to her recordings,” said singer-songwriter Joan Osborne, “and you can hear all the building blocks of rock and roll.” Little Richard, Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash each named Tharpe as one of their fondest childhood influences. “Sister Rosetta Tharpe was anything but ordinary and plain,” said Bob Dylan on his radio program. “She was a big, good-looking woman and divine, not to mention sublime and splendid. She was a powerful force of nature–a guitar-playing, singing evangelist.”Yet despite the enormity of her influence, Tharpe has been virtually forgotten by the mainstream culture. For many years following her death in 1973, she lay in an unmarked grave. In the last decade, though, there has been a slow resurgence of appreciation for Tharpe. In 2004 Osborne, Maria Muldaur, Bonnie Rait and other artists joined together for a tribute album called Shout, Sister, Shout! A biography of the same name, by Gayle Wald, was published in 2007. And in 2011–the same year Tharpe’s grave finally received a headstone, thanks to a fundraising concert– filmmaker Mike Csaky directed a documentary called The Godmother of Rock & Roll: Sister Rosetta Tharpe, which aired this February on PBS as part of the American Masters series.
I've read several accounts that said Elvis ran home from school every day that Rosetta's radio show was on the air. Didn't want to miss a minute of it.
Sister Rosetta Tharpe Vocal & Guitar, Albert Ammons on Piano - Carnegie Hall 1938. Amazing guitar riffs.
Check it out:
Maybe this one first (not 1938 but good early recording with video):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9bX5mzdihs
