This is one of the most argued questions in recent pop music history. Ask 50 people and you will get 51 answers. We know with some certainty who coined the term "Rock'n'Roll": disk jockey Alan Freed. Freed was significant in that he brought music written by black performers to white audiences, as the music industry was just as racially divided as the rest of American society. He renamed his radio show to "Moon Dog's Rock and Roll Party" in 1951, borrowing the words "rock" and "roll" from song lyrics by black rythym and blues artists. There are many performers and groups who have been credited with creating rock'n'roll. In fact, it was a slow evolution out of many musical styles, particularly those from black musicians. Dance was always figured largely in early rock'n'roll music. Choices include: - Louis Jordan, a saxophone player, whose work bridged big band music, rythym and blues, and rock and roll. - Arthur Crudup, a blues guitarist, whose work includes "Rock Me Mama" (1944) and, later, inspired Elvis the Pelvis. - Dean Collins, a white dancer, who helped bring black styles of music and dance (jazz and rythym and blues) to white audiences during the 1940s. - The Orioles, "It's Too Soon to Know", 1948. - Jackie Brenston and the Delta Cats, "Rocket 88", 1951. Other contenders include Fats Domino, Little Richard, and Chuck Berry (black performers) and Elvis Presley, Bill Haley and the Comets, Carl Perkins, and Buddy Holly (white performers). [ With material from an oddly coincidental article in UHF Magazine, December 2005 ]

If you had to give rock n roll another name, I think it would be Chuck Berry.

I think man was created with it and it just took that long for it to work its way out. Now that it's out though, Rock on!