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 * Blues & Rock'nRoll:**

1. Often very overlooked, African-Americans contributed greatly to the advent and success of rock and roll music.

2. Rock and Roll music and many of its’ artists were heavily influenced by the sounds of black blues artists, people like Muddy Walters, Howlin Wolf, and Junior Parker to name a few.

3. The blatant racism that ran rampant in our society completely gave white artists all the credit, although eventually many of these black artists got the recognition they deserved later in their career or, unfortunately, after their death.

4. Fortunately, most of these overlooked talented black artists have now been recognized and credited for all their recordings and many people realize that the African-American influence in rock and roll music was very significant and overwhelmingly.

5. The beat is up tempo and the words and rhythm of the song depict the sounds and feelings of a true rock and roll song.

6. So music producers would hear a recording being made or done by a black artist, find a white artist or group to record that same song, and credit the white artist or group as the original artist(s) of that particular song or songs, without giving any recognition or credit to the black artist who first recorded the song.

7. Most white artists, especially in the 1960’s and beyond, have credited these black artists as major influences in their music careers. If it had not been for many of these black blues artists, rock and roll would have never came into existence.

8. Cover songs don’t happen in today’s world, at least it is not as prevalent as it was back in the 1940’s and 1950’s. It was very prevalent back in those days because of the abundance of racism in our society.

9. Little Richard always makes the claim that he is the original king of rock and roll.

10. The fact that there were so many cover songs recorded by white artists of black artists’ music was also obvious and depicted the state of America at the time.

11. In fact, one of the first true rock and roll songs mentioned came from Joe Turner, black blues artists, who sang, “Shake, Rattle, and Roll.”

12. If one listens to this song by Joe Turner it should be very clear that this is the, or one of the, first true rock and roll songs.

13. A cover song is not a remake of a particular song that was recorded and credited by another artist, usually a few years before that is what’s called a remake.

14. Many black artists recorded a number of songs but didn’t receive any money or royalty for their songs.

15. Little Richard was telling the truth when he said he is the real King of Rock and Roll, and if it wasn’t him then it was Fats Domino, Chuck Berry, or Bo Didley.