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The Big Rumble! (Rock & Roll Radio)

Listed on 20th February, 2012 by Mårten

Genre: Rock

Total Tracks: 200

Duration: 12 hours, 23 minutes

Total plays0,000,444

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Playlist Description:

Mad Daddy presents: The Big Rumble! A Rock & Roll Radio Dance Party

This playlist is a collection of my favorite Blues, R&B, Soul, Country, Doo-Wop, Folk music, Surf/Hot-rod-music & Rockabilly from the late 50s & early 60s.


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Mad Daddy presents: The Big Rumble! A Rock & Roll Radio Dance Party

This playlist is a collection of my favorite Blues, R&B, Soul, Country, Doo-Wop, Folk music, Surf/Hot-rod-music & Rockabilly from the late 50s & early 60s.

It's a playlist filled with wild, guitar infused tales of horror, hoodlums, homicides, high school, hooch & hot-rods, mixed with some surfboards, sinners and the super sultry Sweet Sixteen, the main themes of juvenile life in the era of Rock & Roll.

Rock & Roll originated and arose in the United States during the late 40s and early 50s. The music primarily evolved from a combination of blues, country, jazz and gospel music. This playlist consist of songs from the late 50s and early 60s. Songs recorded between the end of the initial period of Rock & Roll and what became known in the US as the "British Invasion". This period has traditionally been seen as an era of decline for rock and roll. But as the songs in this playlist show, it is an era full of playful innovations and musical trends that helped shape Rock music into what it is today.

However, Rock & Roll wasn’t merely a music genre. It helped define an entire age group, the teens. Rock & Roll is identified with a teen culture in a generation who had both greater relative affluence, leisure and who adopted Rock & Roll as part of a distinct sub-culture. This involved not only music, absorbed via radio, records, jukeboxes and T.V.-shows, but it also extended to film, clothes, hair, cars, motorbikes and distinctive language. The contrast between parental and youth culture exemplified by rock and roll was a great source of concern for older generations, who worried about juvenile delinquency and social rebellion. Particularly as to a large extent Rock & Roll culture was shared by different racial and social groups.

The Rock & Roll era coincided with the rise of the radio disc jockey as a celebrity. In the days before station-controlled playlists, the DJs often followed their personal tastes in music selection. Therefore DJs played an important role in exposing rock and roll artists to large, national audiences. Notable US radio disc jockeys of the period include Alan “Moon Dog” Freed, Robert Weston “Wolfman Jack” Smith and Pete “Mad Daddy” Meyers.

In celebration of the importance of these pioneering radio DJs, this playlist is presented as a Rock & Roll Radio show. A show hosted by famous radio DJ Pete "Mad Daddy" Meyers as broadcasted from the Sponge Rubber Tower, Cleveland & New York, 1958-1964.


For an original Mad Daddy broadcast:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnvV49R3FQk

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