Rock It for Me

Rock It For Me was a single released in 1938 by Ella Fitzgerald (with jazz/swing music drummer Chick Webb). It reached the 19th spot on the US Billboard Music chart.

The lyrics to Rock It For Me are unique for making specific reference to the term Rock and Roll with "…won’t you satisfy my soul with the rock and roll?" The song also makes detailed mention about "a new kind of rhythm", suggesting "…they’re all through with symphony", and "…it’s true that once upon a time the opera was the thing…but today the rage is rhythm and rhyme".

Although the term Rock and Roll was not used until the 1950s, traces of the genre were not uncommon in various blues and jazz recordings from the 1920s onward. Billboard columnist Maurie Orodenker used the term as early as 1942, while Cleveland, Ohio disc jockey Alan Freed helped make the phrase popular in the early 1950s.