{"id":199,"date":"2007-06-21T13:15:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-21T13:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/?p=199"},"modified":"2010-03-22T15:57:40","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T15:57:40","slug":"harlem-week-of-62507-first-rock-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/2007\/06\/21\/harlem-week-of-62507-first-rock-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Harlem: Week Of 6\/25\/07 &#8211; First Rock Record?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size:180%;color:#cc33cc;\"><strong>What Was The First Rock n&#8217; Roll Record?<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/static.rateyourmusic.com\/album_images\/s113040.jpg\"><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/static.rateyourmusic.com\/album_images\/s443276.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/static.rateyourmusic.com\/album_images\/s443276.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#cc0000;\"><strong>This week HARLEM looks at the contenders for the first rock n&#8217; roll record by examining the most influential rhythm &#038; blues releases between 1945 and 1955. Whether it&#8217;s Illinois Jacquet&#8217;s horn, Wynonie &#8220;Mr. Blues&#8221; Harris&#8217; voice, Fats Domino&#8217;s piano or Louis Jordan&#8217;s humor, one thing is for certain; these songs ROCK! Matt The Cat takes an in-depth look at how records like &#8220;It&#8217;s Too Soon To Know&#8221;, &#8220;Cadillac Boogie&#8221;, &#8220;Rocket 88&#8221; and &#8220;Sixty Minute Man&#8221; changed the course of American Music. Authors Billy Vera, Steve Propes and Jim Dawson join Matt on his quest for R&B; treasure.<\/strong><\/span><br \/><strong><span style=\"color:#3366ff;\"><u><br \/>Harlem Airs on the 50s on 5:<\/u><\/span><\/strong><br \/><span style=\"color:#33ccff;\">Monday 6\/25 @ 1pm EST<br \/>Tuesday 6\/26 @ 9pm PST and Midnight EST<br \/>Friday 6\/30 @ 6pm EST<br \/>Sunday 7\/2 @ 11am EST<\/span> <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>VOTE for what YOU think is the FIRST ROCK N&#8217; ROLL RECORD at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/forum\/\">https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/forum\/<\/a> and clock on the NIGHT PROWL SHOW topic. Take the poll! Voice your choice, baby!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Was The First Rock n&#8217; Roll Record? This week HARLEM looks at the contenders for the first rock n&#8217; roll record by examining the most influential rhythm &#038; blues releases between 1945 and 1955. Whether it&#8217;s Illinois Jacquet&#8217;s horn, Wynonie &#8220;Mr. Blues&#8221; Harris&#8217; voice, Fats Domino&#8217;s piano or Louis Jordan&#8217;s humor, one thing is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-harlem","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}