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âRock Around the Clockâ climbed to number one in large part because it was the theme music to âBlackboard Jungle,â the 1955 Glenn Ford film that linked rock and roll to a whole range of juvenile delinquencies, from the smashing of jazz albums to attempted rape.
But RPM/Kent retained many unreleased King masters, and over the years the company released them, thus forcing King to compete with himself. The most successful of these releases was Rock Me Baby, a blues King wrote with Joe Josea and recorded in about 1958. The lyric is a basic plea for sex -- Rock me all night long -- while the music provides a blues structure that allows King room for biting guitar work.