{"id":43135,"date":"2015-07-09T12:00:15","date_gmt":"2015-07-09T17:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=43135"},"modified":"2015-07-08T20:57:48","modified_gmt":"2015-07-09T01:57:48","slug":"for-7915","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=43135","title":{"rendered":"Rock And Roll Is Here To Stay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was sixty years ago today &#8211; when\u00a0<em>Rock Around The Clock\u00a0<\/em>by Bill Haley and the Comets officially reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. \u00a0This is generally regarded as the beginning of the &#8220;Rock and Roll Era&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Steyn <a href=\"http:\/\/www.steynonline.com\/6264\/rock-around-the-clock\">wrote about the song &#8211; and its sixteen-month path from recording to the top of the charts, and music history &#8211; last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/F5fsqYctXgM\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Read Steyn, of course; it&#8217;s worth it.<\/p>\n<p>The parlor game for me, of course, is noting what parts of pop music history are before and after the half-way mark of Rock and Roll history.<\/p>\n<p>Music that was\u00a0released closer to\u00a0<em>Rock around the Clock\u00a0<\/em>than to the present day?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>All Rolling Stones albums up through\u00a0<em>Undercover<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>All of Prince&#8217;s albums before\u00a0<em>Sign O The Times<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Dire Straits&#8217;\u00a0<em>Brothers In Arms<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Tears for Fears <i>Songs From The Big Chair<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Every Springsteen album up through\u00a0<em>Born in the USA\u00a0<\/em> &#8211; and\u00a0<em>Live &#8217;75-&#8217;85\u00a0<\/em>is coming up pretty soon, here.<\/li>\n<li>Every Bob Dylan album you probably remember<\/li>\n<li>All Tom Petty albums up through\u00a0<em>Southern Accents\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And the 1\/3 point? \u00a0 July 9, 1975? \u00a0Anything before then is half as far from the beginning of the era as from today.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Who&#8217;s Next<\/em><\/li>\n<li>The entire Beatles&#8217; catalog<\/li>\n<li><i>Born to Run<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Pretty much the entire Stax\/Volt catalog<\/li>\n<li>Every song Bachmann Turner Overdrive ever put on the Top 40<\/li>\n<li>The first three Rush albums<\/li>\n<li>The entire singer\/songwriter fad<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And the 1\/4 point? \u00a0Music that is three times as far from today than from the beginning of the era, before July 9, 1970?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Tommy<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Everything &#8220;Sixties&#8221;: Hendrix, the Doors, the entire hippie thing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Anyway &#8211; read Steyn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was sixty years ago today &#8211; when\u00a0Rock Around The Clock\u00a0by Bill Haley and the Comets officially reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. \u00a0This is generally regarded as the beginning of the &#8220;Rock and Roll Era&#8221;. Mark Steyn wrote about the song &#8211; and its sixteen-month path from recording to the top of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history-and-its-making","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43135"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54224,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43135\/revisions\/54224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}