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1950-1959

All Let It Roll episodes covering the music of the 1950s.

Let It Roll Podcast
Jun 8, 2023
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Let It Roll Originals

  • The Complicated Legacy of Chuck Berry, the Inventor of Rock

  • Sun Records Presided Over the Dawn of Rockabilly With Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash and Jerry Lee Lewis

  • The Peppermint Lounge Took the Twist to the Top

  • Doc Pomus Wrote Classic Songs for Elvis Presley, Ray Charles, The Drifters, Dion & the Belmonts and Many More

  • Pop Had An Entirely Different Meaning Before 1955

  • BB King's Beginnings in Memphis & the Mississippi Delta

  • The Outlaw Country of Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings was the Second Wave of Progressive Country to Come out of Austin

  • The Secrets Behind Elvis Presley's Relationship with Col. Tom Parker

  • Etta James Was a First Wave Rock N Roller and Later Led Chess Records’ Soul Music Charge

  • The A Team Created The Nashville Sound Behind Stars Like George Jones, Patsy Cline, Roy Orbison and Bob Dylan

  • How Jazz and Rock and Roll Came to Be Seen As Completely Separate Genres

  • Frank Sinatra Ruled Post-War America, Until He Didn't

  • Solving the Mysteries Behind Elvis Presley's "Heartbreak Hotel”

  • Ray Charles Combined R&B with Gospel to Invent Soul Music

  • How The Memphis That Spawned Elvis & Stax Also Birthed The Box Tops & Big Star

  • How Jerry Lee Lewis, Howlin' Wolf, & Col. Tom Parker Helped Peter Guralnick Get Lost

  • Chess Records Brought Chicago Blues, Rock & Roll and Soul to The World

  • Lieber & Stoller Wrote Songs, Produced Records And Helped Create Rock & Roll

  • How Elvis Presley Rose To The Top

  • The Tragic Legend of Little Willie John

  • Screamin’ Jay Hawkins Put a Spell On the Music Biz

  • Writing the Life Stories of Ray Charles, Marvin Gaye and Aretha Franklin

  • James Brown Hits The One

  • Dewey Phillips, Elvis Presley, Otis Redding and Memphis music

  • Frank Sinatra, Mitch Miller and the Great American Song

  • The Weavers: Folk Music vs the Black List

  • Jerry Lee Lewis Starts His Come Back at the Star Club

  • Willie Nelson's Honky Tonk Wilderness Years

  • Chasing the Blues Legends John Lee Hooker, Buddy Guy, & Hubert Sumlin

3 Kings of American Pop

  • The Making of Elvis Presley

  • Frank Sinatra, the Chicago Outfit and the President of the USA

CountryRoll

  • Countryroll 4: Johnny Cash and the Rockabilly Revolution Were Answered by Patsy Cline and the Nashville Sound

  • Countryroll 3: Hank Williams, Eddy Arnold, Lefty Frizzell and Kitty Wells Lead a Post-War Country Music Boom

We Dig Mike Judge’s Tales from the Tour Bus

  • Waylon Jennings

  • George Jones & Tammy Wynette

  • Jerry Lee Lewis

Ed Ward’s “History of Rock and Roll”

  • 1959 Death and Soul

  • 1958 The Year the Music Didn't Quite Die

  • 1957 The Miracle Year of Rock & Roll

  • 1956 Rock & Roll in Full Flower

  • 1955 Rock and Roll is Born....Maybe

  • 1953-1954 Rock, Meet Roll

  • The Early 1950s and Good Rockin Tonight

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