Billie Holiday - That Ole Devil Called Love

The blues had an illegitimate baby and we named it rock 'n roll... Having started as rhythm and blues music in the 1940s before gaining a foothold and evolving in the '50s, no one person can lay claim to inventing the rock 'n roll phenomenon.

Rock 'n roll was influenced by a Deep South black music genre called the blues. It, rock 'n roll] started out as rhythm and blues... There wasn't nobody playing it at the time but black people... White kids started paying more attention to this music, white girls were going over to this music, they needed somebody to come in there, like Elvis.

Many other artists rock and roll and otherwise have been greatly influenced by Little Richard... One of the greatest and most influential garage rock groups of all time, Tacoma, Washington’s Sonics might have looked pretty strait laced, but they owed a heavy debt indeed to Little Richard.

Through all of this we can see how the black community invented rock and roll and how through that and their culture they have influenced so many huge musicians that owe at least part of their success to these trailblazers of rock and roll.

Source: Who invented Rock and Roll? by James Morgan

Billie Holiday - That Ole Devil Called Love

• Written in: 1944 
• Written by: Allan Roberts and Doris Fisher
• Released in: 1945

"Billie Holiday was posthumously inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame, which is a special Grammy award established in 1973 to honor recordings that are at least twenty five years old."

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