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Jump Boogie and Shuffle

Charlie Gillett, Record Mirror, 1969

IT WOULD BE nice to be able to point to a man, a record, a year, and say, "There! Rock and roll started with him, with that, then!" But history is too elusive for simple answers, and in music as with everything else it's necessary to look all over the place for various influences which led to particular changes.

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