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ROCK MUSIC
TIMELINE
1955
- Top 40 radio and the Pop Music Charts are still dominated by "parents music" and rock & roll is considered a novelty, but a growing number of urban and southern white teenagers are tuning in to R&B radio stations and purchasing R&B records.
- Influential rock and roll DJ Alan Freed moves from Cleveland to New York City.
- In July Rock & Roll has its' first #1 hit with Bill Haley and His Comets single "Rock Around The Clock".
- Fledgling singer Elvis Presley leaves the independent Sun Records and signs with major label RCA Records.
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