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Even more than most other musical genres, rock and roll emerged gradually from many artists ' work over a number of years, so any attempt to label a record as the first rock and roll song is an exercise in narrowing things down farther than they can reasonably be narrowed.

According to musician and writer Billy Vera :" Rock ' n ' roll was an evolutionary process – we just looked around and it was here .... To name any one record as the first would make any of us look a fool.