Where did the term "rock & roll" originate?
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The term was used by a disc jockey from clevland named Alan Freed\n\ncheck this out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_n_roll\n\ngotta love wikipedia
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ROCK AND ROLL \nBecause is not just a genere of music , it has soul spirit and is the clossest one to God and heaven .....\nPeace, Love and Harmony
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Rap is the voice of the streets, rock is the music of denial, they both fight against the system and try to find the true meaning of life, rock more than rap. Every music has his own style, rockers love black, dark cloths and a wild look ; rapers love jewelry, cool cloths and street language. Rock is a strong music, rap is a story on music. They say that rock lovers are mad but everyone has his own way to deal with life. You can't listen to classical music just because somebody tells you to. You must feel the music.
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Rock and roll Timeline 1960-69\n1964\nRock 'n' roll has its first major shakeup in nearly a decade when in late January "I Want To Hold Your Hand" by The Beatles tops the US Pop charts.\n\nIn February The Beatles appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show receives record ratings as Beatlemania explodes worldwide.\n\nFour of the six #1 records between February and June are by the Beatles, a feat surpassed only by Elvis Presley in 1956.\n\nread more at http://www.digitaldreamdoor.com/pages/best_timeline-r2.html
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Nick Lowe: They Called It Rock\n\nIt can probably be found on many records, but it was originally released on album Jesus of Cool (1978).
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The origin of the word f**k is lost in the sands of time, I'm afraid, but most of the apocryphal stories about it (that it's an acronym for "fornication under consent of the King", or "for unlawful carnal knowledge" for instance) don't even seem to have a shred of truth.\n\nIn all likelihood, the word is descended from the German word "ficken", which means "to strike, or club".  When the Saxons invaded England and their language merged with the natives and became entwined in middle English, the word became "fucken" (no, I'm not kidding).\n\nSo, considering what a good, hard f**k is actually like (sorry to be crude, but think about any time you've seen a guy going hog wild in the sack and you'll get the point), you can see where people would pick up using the word as slang for the act, especially considering what an erect penis looks like... and from there it became the ever so infamous "f-word".\n\n=)
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[Q] From Mike Willis: “I’m trying to find out the origin of the phrase, on the QT, meaning off the record or in confidence.”\n\n[A] According to Robert Hendrickson, in The Facts on File Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins, the first reference is from a British ballad of 1870, which contained the line “Whatever I tell you is on the QT”. It seems to have been just an abbreviated spelling, using the first and last letters of the word quiet, the mild obfuscation also suggesting a meaning for the expression. The Oxford English Dictionary has a first sighting from 1884: “It will be possible to have one spree on the strict q.t.”. Mr Hendrickson points out that it also occurs in a famous London ditty of 1891, sung by Lottie Collins, which also introduced the famous chorus line “Ta-ra-ra-boom-de-ay”:\n\n    A sweet Tuxedo girl you see,\n    Queen of swell society,\n    Fond of fun as fun can be,\n    When it's on the strict Q.T.
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There is a great song that explains the entire game.  It is called "The Name Game" by Shirley Ellis.  It explains the rules of the game and gives you chances to practice.  It is a little known fact that it was the Top Billboard Rock N Roll Hit of the year 1965.  Check it out!!
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The original song comes from the Rolling Stones.
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That's a bit of an exaggeration.  Early rock-and-roll drew from the blues, but also from R&B and country music.  When hard rock developed in the mid-'60s, it was based almost exclusively on the blues.  Artists like the Rolling Stones ("Little Red Rooster" is an especially good example), Cream/Eric Clapton ("Sunshine of Your Love"), and Jimi Hendrix, ("Hey Joe"), built the foundation for hard rock, and the heavy metal that developed out of it, on an exaggerated electric blues.  Though the more sophisticated hard-rock and metal bands of the seventies incorporated other influences (British folk for Led Zeppelin, jazz for Led Zeppelin), most, like Black Sabbath and Aerosmith, continued to build on the blues base.  While subsequent rock artists have drawn on influences as diverse as free-jazz and avant-garde strains of 20th century classical, especially in more underground and experimental veins, mainstream rock music has never stopped drawing on the blues, passed along from one generation to the next.
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None, they all flow into one another at some point - R&B to Rock to Punk to alternative to Emo; classical to progressive rock; the blues to Heavy metal.  Even rap samples rock.  There is no best; only a matter of taste.
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Everyone is wrong except the guy who said it was from Anglo-Saxon.  "F..k" has a long pedigree in the Germanic languages.  It was found in Proto-Germanic about 2500 years ago as the verb *fukan 'have intercourse'.  This was not vulgar at that time and was a euphemism for some older word.  Ultimately, it comes from Proto-Indo-European *pug- "to strike", from which we get the borrowed Latin form pugilism 'boxing'.
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Rock'n'Roll. Too many to name.
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According to Mencken's 'American Language' and the 'Thesaurus of American Slang' by Berry and Van den Bark, 'lam, lammister' and 'on the lam' -- all referring to hasty departure -- were common in thieves' slang before the start of this century. Mencken quotes a newspaper report on the origin of 'lam' which actually traces it indirectly back to Shakespeare's time -- 'Its origin should be obvious to anyone who runs over several colloquial phrases for leavetaking, such as 'beat it' and 'hit the trail'...The allusion in 'lam' is to 'beat,' and 'beat it' is Old English, meaning 'to leave.' During the period of George Ade's 'Fables in Slang' (1900), cabaret society delight in talking slang, and 'lam' was current. Like many other terms, it went under in the flood of new usages of those days, but was preserved in criminal slang. A quarter of a century later it reappeared.' The Sage of Baltimore goes on to quote a story from the 'New York Herald Tribune' in 1938 which reported that 'one of the oldest police officers in New York said that he had heard 'on the lam' thirty years ago." From the "Morris Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins" by William and Mary Morris (HarperCollins Publishers, New York, 1977, 1988).
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The first known version of rap was the song "Rapper's Delight" by The Sugar Hill Gang. American English hasn't been the same since.
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yes, its a good one, have'nt heard it in a while , thanks for bringing it up... but where did it originate.[ sounds like something out of ww2.]
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Disco...a very identifible sound from the 70's.It was party/dance music that was at its peak in 1977,1978, and 1979. There was alot of good songs from that time and alot of one-hit wonders also. Fun music,fun times!!