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RosettaTharpe
“When you see Elvis Presley singing songs early in his career, I think you [should] imagine, he is channeling Rosetta Tharpe. It’s not an image that I think we’re used to thinking of in rock and roll history. We don’t think about the black woman behind the young white man.” 
 - Gayle Wald, author of Shout Sister Shout



266. Didn't it Rain and Up Above my Head
 by: Sister Rosetta Tharpeinventor of Rock n Roll 

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