"Rock It For Me"
1934年, Boswell Sisters 一曲 "Rock and Roll" 之後, 至1937年, Ella Fitzgerald 與樂隊 "Chick Webb and his Orchestra" 錄製的 "Rock It For Me" 單曲細唱片面世, 很快便登上美國 Billboard Chart 第十九位; 並首次在歌詞中, 明確地表達了流行音樂由傳統節奏, 邁向 "Rock 'n Roll 樂與怒" 的潮流, 可算是第一首在流行樂壇面世的 "Rock 'n Roll 搖滾歌曲!
"Why even all the nifties they don't want to hear any more symphony
I'm tellin' you, Jack, you better get hip for yourself and rock it for me"
'ROCK IR FOR ME" Ella Fitzgerald - 1938
Songwriters: Leo Robin / Ralph Rainger
I heard it came to town
A new kind of rhythm
Spread around
Sort of set you sizzlin'
Now I'm all through with symphony
Oh, rock it for me
Every night
You'll see all the nifties
Plenty tight
Swingin' down the fifties
Now they're all through with symphony
Ho ho ho, rock it for me
Now it's true that once upon a time
The opera was the thing
But today the rage is rhythm and rhyme
So won't you satisfy my soul
With the rock and roll?
You can't be tame
While the band is playin'
It ain't no shame
To keep your body swayin'
Beat it out in the minor key
Ho ho ho, rock it for me
Can't you hear me singin', la-la-la-la-la
While the band is swingin'
Oh, Chick Webb's sockin'
And the band is rockin'
So send me lightly, politely
Brightly, and slightly
Ho ho ho, rock it for me
Now I'm all through with this stuff they call symphony
Come on, boys, and sorta rock it for me
It's true that once upon a time
The opera was the thing
But today the rage is rhythm and rhyme
So won't you satisfy my soul
With the rock and roll?
You can't be tame
While the band is playin'
It ain't no shame
To keep your body swayin'
Beat it out in the minor key
Oh, rock it
Oh, rock it
Say, won't you rock it for me?
1942年, 美國 "Billboard Magazine"《告示牌雜誌》專欄作家 Maurie Orodenker 開始使用 "Rock 'n' roll 搖滾樂" 這個詞彙來形容 "Sisters Rosetta Tharpe 姐妹" 明快節拍的 "Rock Me"。1943年, 一所嶄新的音樂表演場所, 名為 "Rock and Roll Inn" 在新澤西州 New Jersey, South Merchantville 開業, 引來不少捧場客。及後至1951年, 俄亥俄州 Ohio 克里夫蘭 Cleveland 電台的唱片騎師 Alan Freed 開始把一些節奏强而明快的歌曲, 類稱為 "Rock 'n' Roll" 樂曲。
Alan Freed (1921-1965)
Rock 'n Roll" 的誔生, 可算是始於四十年代的 "節奏與藍調 Rythm & Blues" 音樂, 而它本身就是從早期的 Blues、Boogie-woogie、Jazz 和 Swing 所發展和演變而成, 繼而, 再受到教堂福音、鄉謠和傳統民歌影響, 由五十年代中期開始,《搖滾音樂》集所有音樂的大成; 今天, 已成流行樂壇的中流砥柱。
"ROCK ME" - Sister Rosetta Tharpe 1942
Now won't you hear me singin'
Hear the words that I'm saying
Wash my soul with water from on high
Why the world loves love is around me
Even forced to buy me
But oh, if you leave me
I will die
You hold me in the bosom
Till the storms of life is over
Rock me in the cradle of our love
Only feed me till I want no more
Then you take me to your blessed home above
Make me journey
You make my burning brighter
Help me to do good wherever I can
Oh, let thou praise and thrill me
Thou loving kindness fill me
Then you hold me
Hold me in the hollow of the hand
You hold me in the bosom
Till storms of life is over
Rock me in the cradle of our love
Only feed
Then you'll take me to your blessed home above