Chuck Berry supercharged the skeleton of the country standard "Ida Red" with distorted 8-beat electric guitar riffs and released it in 1955 — the archetype of rock and roll. A teenage story of car-chase romance climbed to #5 pop and #1 R&B, crossing the color line to reach white teenagers nationwide.
Rock and roll
Johnny Rivers recorded this cover live at the Whisky a Go Go in Los Angeles in 1964. Smack in the middle of the British Invasion, it reached #12, carrying the rock and roll original into the next generation of music.