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First Rock N Roll Album?
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- Generation X Offender
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- May 10, 2026
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- 5098
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Summary
We've cooked up something real special for you this week in The GXO Music Podcast celebrating 70 Years of Rock N Roll (1956-2026) In today's episode, painstaking, exhaustive research has enabled us to EXPOSE the underbelly of the very first Rock N Roll album to go #1 The time:1956 The place: The Methodist Television Radio & Film Commission Building 1525 McGavock Street in the heart of Music City. Nashville, Tennessee.. Before Nashville even knew it was music city itself The studio where this storied album was recorded in, lost to us forever now, in the rubble of tomorrow's parking lot parties. "They paved Paradise and put up a Parking Lot" - Joni Mitchell For your pleasure, we are eviscerating and dissecting the innards of what came to be the FIRST Rock N Roll album... An album that launched a thousand dreams, and, in doing so, gave birth to The Teenager. Youth Culture. The Counter Culture. The beginning of the end to segregation and possibly, perhaps, giving rise to the Civil Rights Movement of the early 1960s... The Wild One (1953) Mildred: "Hey Johnny, what are you rebelling against?" Johnny Strabler: "Whaddaya got?" Who: Elvis Presley & RCA Victor Records What: 1956 Self Titled Debut Album Where: The Methodist Television Radio & Film Commission Building, 1525 McGavock Street, Nashville, Tennessee and RCA Victor Studio, New York, New York Why: The First Rock N Roll Album To Be The Most Successful Album Of The Year In Popular Recorded Music When: Sun Records, Memphis, Tennessee July 5, 1954 and The Methodist Television Radio & Film Commission Building, 1525 McGavock Street, Nashville, Tennessee, January 10-11, 1956 and at RCA Victor Studio, New York, New York January 30-31, 1956 Released March 23, 1956 The Songs Side One: 1. Blue Suede Shoes 2. I'm Co…