It goes without saying that Elvis Presley spent many an hour listening to Roy Brown records as a kid. In spite of his records, Brown has remained in obscurity until recently. It seems he sued for the royalties his manager had been skimming from him, and thus got himself blackballed, in 1952, from the record industry. By the time his own rock and roll became popular, he was out of the picture. Roy Brown as much as anybody, was one of the true founding fathers of rock and roll.
Many people like to nominate their favorite artists as the main founding father or mother.
Many just shrug their shoulders and say that it took hundreds of artists to bring rock and roll to the public ear. But after studying this topic exhaustively for many years, I have come to the conclusion that Roy Brown, Good Rocking Brown, was one of the most important. Roy Brown captured the true essence of rock and roll. Roy Brown about 30 years after. Unfortunately, as he was being rediscovered in Europe in the early 1980's, he passed away, but before he died, he was given the chance to sing before an audience that included Paul McCartney, who sat in the front row, eyes wide open, jaws agape, as the father of rock 'n' roll was showing him how it's done.