Greetings from Grandpa Bill
A short story.
A few years ago my girls friends grandson who was about 10 at the time came into the house all excited. He had been at a friends house listening to music and as he enter he exclaimed "I just love Rock and Roll". At this point my girl friend related this little story.
She said "When I was a teenager my age group invented Rock and Roll".
Music up to that point was mostly easy listening types with a little Blues thrown in. Then some one jazzed up the Blues and played it to a much faster beat. We loved it and bought all the records that played that kind of music. We invented new dance steps to keep up with the new Beat! Before that time the only thing kids did was the swing. As new artists came out with newer versions of what we called Rock we demanded even more and thus Rock and Roll was born. Elvis had a big share of the credit as well as a couple of new commers like Fats Domino, Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard.
I remember drive in resturants where the girls would come out to your car sometimes wearing roller skates, take your order and then attach a tray to the window of your car.
On Friday and Saturday nights we mostly went to the local skating rinks for gatherings. Usually about 8pm or so we would all take off our skates and then dance on the rink floor in our socks and thus sock-hops were born. By the 60's dozens of clubs were open that administered to our needs, that is dancing etc., and not necessarily booze.
One thing that the younger people of today forget when they look at us older people is that deep inside of us still beats a love of Rock and Roll, after all we invented it.
Bill
