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Blue Collar -the Portrayal of Working People's Music

BBC Radio 2
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Jimmy Nail presents a six-part series focusing on the way working-class life has been charted in popular music. 1: Roots to Rock 'n'Roll
. This first programme looks at how R 'n' B music from the US Deep South of the forties and fifties combined with the country flavour of poor whites like Elvis to give rise to fifties and sixties rock 'n' roll and rockabilly.
Producer Mark John

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Mark John
Source: Radio Times

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