IF STUPY KNEW ANYTHING about the Boswell Sisters he'd know that Connie Boswell, the only one of them who continued with a singing career into the 1950s, was one of those popular singers of the big band era who went into eclipse due to the pop music industry going pretty much rock 'n roll. Pop music follows the money. None of her songs that I've ever heard is remotely rock and roll, it's pretty much of an earlier inspiration. This is the last song she did that charted in 1954:
Doesn't sound like she was trying to fit in with the young'uns, much.
That 1930s cut from the Boswell Sisters he claims led to rock uses a pre-existing blues slang term for "sex" cleaning that up by relating it to the movement of a boat on the water. It has little to do with what happened when the white boys watered down the blues taking everything interesting out of it. I don't know if that mid-western DJ who attached the term to white boy bastardized blues knew that when he popularized the term for commercial pop music from the 50s.
And he the pop music "critic."
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