Sister Rosetta Tharpe - Strange Things Happening Every Day (1944)

Boogie-woogie flavored gospel song that "crossed over" to become a hit on the "race records" chart, the first gospel recording to do so. It featured Tharpe on an electric guitar and is considered an important precursor to rock and roll.
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[pninnes]

This is no "precursor" to rock and roll. This is real rock and roll. Name it as such, please!

[halcyo]

They call this a "precursor" to rock and roll. As a professional musician, I can tell you that every single musical element of this is exactly what you'd call rock and roll. It isn't a precursor. It is rock and roll.

[nuwavedave]

Rock 'n' Roll owes a huge debt to the soulful feel of Sister Rosetta and Southern Gospel Music. God gave the world the BEST music on Earth. And we ain't heard NOTHIN' compared to what awaits us in Heaven.

[richardquiroz]

Some people consider this to be the first or one of the first Rock and Roll records ever produced.

[Vaisin]

This song, right here, stands among the most important ones of the 20th century, period

[Ramblin-Man]

This song is one of the first rock and roll songs...10 years Before Elvis. It inspired Chuck Berry, Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, Elvis, Carl Perkis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, Johnny Cash (who recorded it, and whose favourite singer was Sister Rosetta Tharpe)…

/J, Sweden

[worldtraveler]

I never knew about this women Elvis movie 2022 brought me here.
So glad it did this is Great music!

[drgeff]

This is IT this is rock right here ❤️❤️❤️

[johnallenismynameandmusici]

I'm a real fan of the old blues going back to Robert Johnson so I've been watching Sister Rosetta for a long time. She was half secular and half religious. There were times when she certainly wasn't any angel. But she was able to negotiate her way through a white man's world when not too many black people were able to. I'm not a religious man but if Sister Rosetta was playing at a church revival I'd be the first one in line to get into the front pew. Her love was so strong that she was able to project that feeling to the audience. That's not easy to do. If you get a chance, listen to her on acoustic on, "Sit Down: I Can't Sit Down." Precious.

[kennethraymondmoore]

You're listening to rock music being born here.

[brod]

Sister Rosetta Thapre - The Original Soul Sister and The Godmother of Rock n Roll. Some consider this the first early Rock n Roll song, but she had other Rockin recordings going back as far as 1938 (This Train, Rock Me).

[stevebates]

Big Mama Thornton and Sister Rosetta Thrape R&B legends that I (as a rock-n-roll fan) still listen to... this... very... day!!!

[williampagdon]

Sister Rosetta Tharpe was absolutely fantastic. Her Vocals, Guitar work and the spirited feelings that poured from her are a treasure.

[DraconZa]

OST Elvis ...brought me here! Love it!

[devans]

No doubt rock n roll before that category of music was invented. What an innovator Ms. Tharpe was.

[uckbee]

The first rock 'n' roll song!

[muffsmercury]

Who knows, had this got widespread airplay on radio stations outside the R & B market, the rock & roll era may have started ten years earlier. I need to find a copy of this 78 for my jukebox.

[RecuperadorDeClasicos]

This is rock and roll, before the first rock and roll songs came out in the mid 50's. It is courageous to see how racism and sexism did not place her as the creator of rock and roll

[jsbrules]

Another great song by the great Rosetta Tharpe! Who cares about "rock-and-roll"? Who cares what other people did later imitating her -- or acting under the same (many, and important) cultural influences as her? Why does everybody (including, now, me) always need to bring up "rock and roll"? (which merely brought re-labeled rhythm and blues into greater commercial prominence in the wider "white" world) What if Sister RT had done this record and then later there was NO Chuck Berry and NO Elvis? this would still be great music.

[Verbsdescribeus]

This song is part of Elvis the movie :)