Patrick Charles Eugene Boone is an American singer, actor and composer.
Boone in 1960
Boone's handprints and shoe prints in front of The Great Movie Ride at Disney World's Disney's Hollywood Studios
Pat and Debby Boone singing to a fan in Washington, D.C., 1997
Boone at CPAC in February 2011
Rock and roll is a genre of popular music that evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s. It originated from African American music such as jazz, rhythm and blues, boogie-woogie, electric blues, gospel, jump blues, as well as country music. While rock and roll's formative elements can be heard in blues records from the 1920s and in country records of the 1930s, the genre did not acquire its name until 1954.
Sign commemorating the role of Alan Freed and Cleveland, Ohio, in the origins of rock and roll
Chuck Berry in 1957
Big Joe Turner and Pete Johnson's record "Roll 'Em Pete" is regarded as a precursor to rock and roll.
Bill Haley and his Comets performing in the 1954 Universal International film Round Up of Rhythm