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Memphis blues is a regional style created by area musicians such as Frank Stokes, Sleepy John Estes, Furry Lewis, Memphis Minnie, and Memphis Jug Band [12] in the 1910s-1930s, with stylistic origins in Country blues and Delta blues. [13] Memphis was a center of blues music for much of the 20th century.
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, Ohio. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is located in Cleveland, Ohio.Ohio musicians inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame include The Isley Brothers (from Cincinnati) in '92, Bootsy Collins (from Cincinnati) in '97, The Moonglows (from Cleveland) in 2000, The O'Jays (from Canton) in '05, Chrissie Hynde (from Akron) of The Pretenders in ...
Rock & Roll began to dominate popular music starting in the mid-1950s with origins in a variety of genres including blues, rhythm & blues, country, and pop. Major rock artists of the 1950s include Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, Ritchie Valens, Eddie Cochran, Gene Vincent, Carl Perkins, Bill Haley, and ...
Chuck Berry. Rock and roll dominated popular music in the latter half of the 1950s. The musical style originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s, and quickly spread to much of the rest of the world. Its immediate origins lay in a mixing together of various black musical genres of the time, including rhythm ...
The Chardon Polka Band. Chimaira. The Choir (Cleveland band) CityMusic Cleveland. Cleveland Chamber Symphony. Cleveland Orchestra. Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra. Cleveland Philharmonic Orchestra. Cleveland Pops Orchestra.
Nashville sound. The Nashville sound is a subgenre of American country music that originated in the 1950s in Nashville, Tennessee. It replaced the dominance of the rough honky tonk music with "smooth strings and choruses", "sophisticated background vocals" and "smooth tempos" associated with traditional pop. [1][2] It was an attempt "to revive ...
The Nashville A-Team was a nickname given to a group of session musicians in Nashville, Tennessee, USA, who earned wide acclaim in the 1950s, 1960s, and early 1970s. They backed dozens of popular singers, including Elvis Presley , Eddy Arnold , Patsy Cline , Jim Reeves , Bob Dylan , Moon Mullican , Jerry Lee Lewis , Brenda Lee , and others.
Gallery. Bill Haley of Bill Haley and the Comets singing "Rock Around the Clock", 1955. Elvis Presley in a publicity photo for Jailhouse Rock (1957) Chuck Berry in 1957. Fats Domino singing "Blueberry Hill" on The Alan Freed Show c. 1956.