| | Shake, Rattle and Roll -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | "Shake, Rattle and Roll" is a prototypical (Click link for more info and facts about twelve bar blues) twelve bar blues-form (A genre of popular music originating in the 1950s; a blend of Black rhythm-and-blues with White country-and-western) rock and roll song written by Jesse Stone (under his working name Charles Calhoun). |
 | | Calhoun later co-wrote "Flip, Flop and Fly" which was musically very similar to "Shake, Rattle and Roll" and followed the same (Click link for more info and facts about simple verse-chorus form) simple verse-chorus form. |
 | | Other songs inspired by "Shake, Rattle and Roll" include "Bark, Battle and Bawl" by (Click link for more info and facts about The Platters) The Platters and "Jump and Jive and Wail" by (Click link for more info and facts about Louis Prima) Louis Prima. |
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