Rocket 88
1951
Kizart's amp fell off the car, Phillips stuffed the blown cone with paper, and distorted guitar entered the language.
★ 7.5
The Songs canon
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Every song chosen by hand, with the recording to play it.
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If I Didn't CareThe Ink Spots
If I Didn't Care
1939
Kenny's tenor floats, Jones talks the lyric back in bass, and doo-wop inherited that top-and-bottom trick wholesale.
★ 6.8
Sixty Minute ManThe Dominoes
Sixty Minute Man
1951
Bill Brown's bass voice, not McPhatter's tenor, carried fourteen weeks at R&B number one past nervous radio programmers.
★ 6.2
Lawdy Miss Clawdy
1952
Fats Domino sat in on piano at Cosimo Matassa's studio, setting the pattern for New Orleans rock and roll.
★ 6.2