Just looking back to the early 20th century when Tin Pan Alley was the absolute mainstream musical style in that era. Actually, Tin Pan Alley was the name given to the publishing business that hired composers and lyricists on a permanent basis to create popular songs. The publishers used extensive promotion campaigns to market these songs to the general public in sheet music form with attractive covers. Originally, Tin Pan Alley was a nickname given an actual street in Manhattan where many of the fledgling popular music publishers had their offices. In time, it became the generic term for all publishers of popular American sheet music, regardless of their geographic locations. Throughout the Alley's years, popular music was developed in a variety of forms. The music was presented and promoted in sheet music form for voice and piano. The publ

However, in the early 1950s, a ‘new’ kind of music which was later called rock and roll came to the stage and thought as an anomaly of music comparing to Tin Pan Alley. On the other hand, World War II put an end to the Great Depression. After the war, the economy continued to boom. Economic growth meant more disposable income. Much of it was spent on entertainment. Therefore, prosperity trickled down to a newly enfranchised segment of society, the teenager. Teens defined themselves socially (“generation gap” became part of everyday speech), economically (they put their money where their taste was), and musically (many had a taste for rock and roll). Also, in the fifties, entertainment media went through their most dramatic and tumultuous period of change since the twenties. The rise of television, its impact on the film industry and radio, improvements in recording technology, and the development of new musical instruments all had an impact on rock era music. Elvis Presley acted as not only an icon of that era but also a leader of rock and roll. He gave the music its most memorable voice, its most indelible image, and its strongest commercial presence. His unique blending of white country and gospel music, black R&B and gospel, white pop music, his particular brand of charisma and talent, and the resulting success and controversy helped him greatly to begin, without premeditation. Though Elvis was king of rock and roll, he sang very little rock and roll. Most of his early medium and up-tempo songs like “Good Rocking Tonight”, “Heartbreak Hotel” and “All Shook Up” use either the shuffle beat of rhythm and blues, or a souped-up two-beat rhythm which could be reflected from songs like “That’s All Right” and “Mystery Train”. But these songs were still different from those Tin Pan Alley songs which were all written with 32-bar AABA form. Beat was more important in Elvis m

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