Editing Rock and roll (section)

===Rhythm and blues===
[[File:LaVern_Baker,_1957_closeup.jpg|thumb|left|[[LaVern Baker]] was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1991. “Jim Dandy” and “Tweedlee Dee” helped shape the sound of the 1950s rock scene.]]

Rock and roll was strongly influenced by R&B, according to many sources, including an article in ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'' in 1985, titled, "Rock! It's Still Rhythm and Blues". In fact, the author stated that the "two terms were used interchangeably", until about 1957. The other sources quoted in the article said that rock and roll combined R&B with pop and country music.<ref>{{cite journal |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1214792 |title=Rock! It's Still Rhythm and Blues |date=March 1, 1985 |journal=The Black Perspective in Music  |jstor=1214792 |access-date=March 15, 2021 |last1=Redd |first1=Lawrence N. |volume=13 |issue=1 |pages=31–47 |doi=10.2307/1214792 |archive-date=May 25, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190525225022/https://www.jstor.org/stable/1214792 |url-status=live  | issn = 0090-7790 |url-access=subscription }}</ref>

[[Fats Domino]] was one of the biggest stars of rock and roll in the early 1950s and he was not convinced that this was a new genre. In 1957, he said: "What they call rock 'n' roll now is rhythm and blues. I've been playing it for 15 years in New Orleans".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/paul-mccartney-remembers-truly-magnificent-fats-domino-128449/|title=Paul McCartney Remembers 'Truly Magnificent' Fats Domino|first=Elias|last=Leight|website=Rolling Stone.l|date=October 26, 2017|accessdate=March 15, 2021|archive-date=November 25, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201125142548/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/paul-mccartney-remembers-truly-magnificent-fats-domino-128449/|url-status=live}}</ref> According to ''[[Rolling Stone (magazine)|Rolling Stone]]'', "this is a valid statement ... all Fifties rockers, black and white, country born and city-bred, were fundamentally influenced by R&B, the black popular music of the late Forties and early Fifties".<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/feature/the-50s-a-decade-of-music-that-changed-the-world-229924/|title=The 50s: A Decade of Music That Changed the World|first=Robert|last=Palmer|magazine=Rolling Stone|date=April 19, 1990|accessdate=March 15, 2021|archive-date=February 22, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210222202919/https://www.rollingstone.com/feature/the-50s-a-decade-of-music-that-changed-the-world-229924/|url-status=live}}</ref>  Further, [[Little Richard]] built his ground-breaking sound of the same era with an uptempo blend of boogie-woogie, New Orleans rhythm and blues, and the soul and fervor of gospel music vocalization.<ref name="reuters.com"/>

Less frequently cited as an influencer, [[LaVern Baker]] was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1991. The Hall remarked that her "fiery fusion of blues, jazz and R&B showcased her alluring vocals and set the stage for the rock and roll surge of the Fifties".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rockhall.com/inductees/lavern-baker |title=LaVern Baker |date=January 21, 2018 |work=Rock and Roll Hall of Fame |access-date=December 26, 2022 |quote=}}</ref>