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Racism in early rock music In the early 1950’s black people could not record songs, sing songs on TV or even be played on the radio. After a while audiences became mixed and black people had the rights to sing. Coloured people were raised listening to country blues sang by black people as a work song. White teenagers started to listen to more exciting songs sang by black people. Radio stations started to play music sang by black people but radio stations thought that if white people re-recorded the songs it would sell better. Sam Philips then opened a recording studio that only coloured people could record songs in, until he found a truck driver that had the voice of a black person, Elvis Presley. Sam Philips made Elvis Presley a star and everyone thought that he had a Negro feel, but later on he got banned from TV because he moved his knees on TV so from then on they only showed Elvis from the waist up.