"Nobody Rocked like Mr Blues - 10 years before Elvis walked into Sun Studios in Memphis, Wynonie Harris was rocking and rolling and living the ultimate rock lifestyle. His influence on 50's rock n' roll cannot be measured. Everything from his music to his dancing to his clothes were copied by the bobby sox generation. But Harris along with many of the other R&B originators were never to recieve the cross over success of their younger, whiter, counterparts. Harris died in 1969 relatively unkown. This is the real rock n' roll swindle. The man who gave the world 'Good Rocking Tonight' and a string of R&B classics - the man Presley went to see as a youngster - has only recently started to recieve the plaudits he so richly deserved."
(Source: http://freespace.virgin.net/j.hobday/)