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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.
In 1932, the phrase rock and roll was heard in the Hal Roach film Asleep in the Feet. In 1934, the Boswell Sisters had a pop hit with Rock and Roll from the film Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round, where the term was used to describe the motion of a ship at sea.ock and roll in turn provided the main basis for the music that, since the mid-1960s, has been generally known as rock music. The phrase rocking and rolling originally described the movement of a ship on the ocean, but was used by the early twentieth century, both to describe a spiritual fervor and as a sexual analogy.