Disc jockey Alan Freed uses the term rock and roll to describe R&B, in an effort to introduce the music to a broader white audience.
The release of "Rocket 88", a song by Jackie Brenston and the Delta Cats. Some music historians consider this record to be the first rock and roll recording.
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all of a devotional character and include tracts and
meditations, letters, sermons, a life of Saint Lydewigis[?],
a Christian woman who remained steadfast under
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