Shake, Rattle and Roll
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Shake, Rattle and Roll" is a prototypical
blues-form
rock and roll song written by Jesse Stone (under his working name Charles Calhoun). The song was first recorded in
1954 by
Big Joe Turner, a "blues shouter" whose career began in
Kansas City before
World War II.
Bill Haley and the Comets'
cover version, released later in the year, had sanitised lyrics in an attempt to be slightly more palatable to white parents. (Among other things, Haley took out references to nylon hose, eye-rolling and the gritting of teeth.)