Rock music roll, which originated in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s, and quickly spread to much of the rest of the world. Its immediate origins lay in a melding of various black musical genres of the time, including rhythm and blues and gospel music, with country and western. In 1951, Cleveland, Ohio disc jockey Alan Freed began playing rhythm and blues music (then termed "race music") for a multi-racial audience, and is credited with first using the phrase "rock and roll" to describe the music. Debate surrounds which record should be considered the first rock and roll
Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through Ontario in 2007. It can also be found on the special 2 CD edition of "Bat Out of Hell II" and most recently on the live album "Casa De Carne", a bonus CD with the Special Edition (US) Deluxe and Super Deluxe versions (UK) of Meat Loaf's 2010 album "Hang Cool Teddy Bear". Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through "Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through" is a song composed and written by Jim Steinman. It was first featured on Steinman's 1981 solo album "Bad for Good", with lead vocals by an uncredited Rory Dodd (though the song is credited to