The_Blues_Had_A_Baby_And_They_Named_It_Rock_And_Roll

The Blues Had A Baby And They Named It Rock And Roll The blues had a baby and they named it rock and roll Muddy Waters As World War II came to an end, the Golden Age of radio also came to a close. Despite the invention of television some years back, television had not yet become popular to any great success. But a significant shift in the media hierarchy was about to occur during the post-war boom. America was moving into a baby boom, an economic boom, and a television boom. The numbers of televisions owned in America went from 6,000 in 1946 to 20,000,000 in 1952 after the war (Clark and Bronson 16). As for radio, the lack of shellac put a stop to much record pressing during the war, but as the war ended and shellac was no longer in short supply, it became more affordable for the networks to have a radio announcer host a show and play records. Over a period of the next few years, radio orchestras became obsolete, and the disc jockey as a personality was born. At the time there were stations that catered to blacks and other stations that catered to whites. While there was the occasional rock, roll, clark, big, beat, show, jackson, heat, bandstand, music, freed, american, television, blues, rhythm, dick, alan, time, robinson, white, first, radio, payola, while, new, became, after, years, popular, pop, over, success, played, freed’s