Rock ‘n roll is really swing with a modern name. It began on the levees and plantations, took in folk songs, and features blues and rhythm.

It’s the rhythm that gets to the kids – they’re starved of music they can dance to, after all those years of crooners.
ALAN FREED

Dance Kid Music Rhythm Starve Year
Let’s face it. Rock and Roll is bigger than all of us
ALAN FREED

All Bigger Face Let Rock Roll
Rock ‘n roll is really swing with a modern name. It began on the levees and plantations, took in folk songs, and features blues and rhythm.
ALAN FREED

Began Blue Feature Folk Levee Modern Name Plantation Really Rhythm Rock Roll Song Swing Took
Anyone who says rock ‘n’ roll is a passing fad or a flash-in-the-pan trend along the music road has rocks in the head.
ALAN FREED

Along Anyone Fad Fash Head Music Pan Pass Rock Roll Say Trend

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