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Episode 25: “Earth Angel” by the Penguins

A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs

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Introduction

When writing a 50's rock and roll song, you basically had 4 choices for chord sequence. The 12 bar blues may be the most important chord sequence ever in terms of the number of songs which use it. Do-wop chord sequences are so similar that we'll just lump them both in under the single heading of the do- wop chord sequence from now on.

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