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(Thank radio DJ Allen Freed also who "coined" the term Rock & Roll & dared to played(sic) the music on the air!)
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I am going to have to take issue with you Borderstone, Alan Freed found the term Rock & Roll, probably at same place I did. In my case it was some time later.
That's How Rhythm Was Born
Rock And Roll
Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea
Louisiana Hayride
Shuffle Off To Buffalo
Sophisticated Lady
Song Of Surrender
Sleep, Come On And Take Me
That's How The Rhythm Was Born
The Sentimental Gentleman From Georgia
Coffee In The Morning And Kisses In The Night
Forty-Second Street
Minnie The Moocher's Wedding Day
The Darktown Strutters Ball
If I Had A Million Dollars
It's Written All Over Your Face
Charlie Two-Step
Trav'lin' All Alone
St. Louis Blues
Dinah
The Object Of My Affection
These accompanied songs were recorded in the early 1930's, when the Boswell Sisters enjoyed a devoted following - unexpected, given that they were three classically-trained women singing New Orleans blues-flavored jazz! This recording's quality, incidentally, is very good, with every attempt to preserve the integrity of the original analog masters, but using today's digital technology for clarity. The CD's opening track, "Rock and Roll," though having nothing to do with its current meaning, shows that the term predated Alan Freed by over twenty years! Uptempo numbers, such as "Louisiana Hayride," with its swerving instrumental break and riffing clarinet, are interspersed with ballads, such as Ellington's "Sophisticated Lady," and "Song Of Surrender," from the film Moulin Rouge. The Boswells close harmony sound is much more blues than classically oriented - not refined or shrill, but punchy and full.