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Move it on Over (1947)

Seven years later, the fat country music hack Bill Haley supposedly ‘invented’ rock and roll with a song whose chord structure was lifted almost verbatim from this one – Rock Around the Clock.

LONG GONE LONESOME BLUES (1949)

“Gonna find me a river, one that’s cold as ice / Gonna find me a river, one that’s cold as ice / I’m goin’ down in it three times / But Lord, I’m only comin’ up twice…”