Sam thought the time was right to exploit this sound to both black and white music markets, so his studio recorded the song Rocket 88. Sam Phillips stumbled into a song featuring with up-tempo rhythm by Ike Turner’s band and and lyrics performed with electric guitar by black vocalist Jackie Brenston in a 1951 Sun Records studio jam session. King Statue in Memphis (c) Soul Of America
A smart businessman, Sam Phillips was open to any musical artist and genre that made money.ī.B. King, Junior Parker, Bobby Blues Bland and other Blues recording artists followed. Having hired Rufus Thomas as his first recording artist in 1951, B.B. Phillips was arguably, the first White Southern record producer to hire African American Blues artists - that spoke volumes about his vision as an entrepreneur when he founded SUN Record Studio. entered the Memphis music picture in 1950. Since early R&B and Rock n’ Roll are the same music genre, the strongest case is made that Louis Jordan is the Father of Rock n’ Roll.Īfter acknowledging the above, you have to give props to a former DJ and white record producer in Memphis named Sam Phillips. Louis Jordan was the first big name singer, songwriter and musician to use the term “Rock n’ Roll” describing his music and it evolved to mean sexy dancing. The term euphemistically meant, engaging in sex. In the 1940s, African-Americans originated the “Rock n’ Roll” idiom. White-owned music distributors and white DJs were comfortable with those names because it kept Jordan’s music mostly limited to sales in the black community, even though he performed before black and white audiences.
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