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Building a national audience
Early in the twentieth century Gramophone cylinders and disks made recorded performances. But the most popular music was the music that people could play. People often went to a Five and Dime store were pianists played there music to compete with the other titles. -
The Rise of the Youth
I the mid nineteen fifties teens wanted music that did not sound like what there parents listened to. Parents thought R and B seemed exotic, dangerous. -
Rock and roll crossovers
The first early rockers to have consistent crossover success was Fats Domino. He scored a series of R and B hits in the early 1950s. Some of his cross over songs were "The Fat man" and "Blueberry hill". Domino delivered most of his songs from the piano. -
Elvis Presley
When the early rockers such as chuck berry, Fats Domino, And little Richard began breaking down the boundaries between pop, country, and R and B. Elvis would complete the job for them. He was the first rock and roller to draw attention from major record labels and have hits on all three charts at the same time. -
The Day The Music Died
In 1959 Buddy Holly, Richardson, and Valens were killed in a plane crash. At the time Holly and his band the crickets were playing on the Winter Dance Party tour across the Midwest. Artists Valens, Richardson had joined the tour. The long journeys between venues on board the very cold uncomfortable tour buses majorly affected the performers, with cases of flu. After stopping at Clear Lake to perform, and frustrated by the cold Holly chose to charter a plane to reach their next venue.
