# First Band without a The in its name **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 31, 2006, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-band-without-a-the-in-its-name/366724 "2006-07-31T15:40:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2006, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-band-without-a-the-in-its-name/366724/21 "2006-07-31T21:50:06Z")
[QUOTE=Walloon] Roy Brown, “Good Rocking Tonight”, 1947 Fats Domino, “The Fat Man,” 1949 Louis Jordan, “Friday Night Fish Fry,” 1949 The Kings of Rhythm, “Rocket 88,” 1951 Big Joe Turner, “Honey, Hush”, 1953, and “Shake, Rattle and Roll”, 1954 [/QUOTE] You rarely fail to amaze me! Just to add to the trivia trove, whoever it was who put out _Rocket 88_ is credited with beating Elvis to the punch, as did the gal who had the original version of _Hound Dog_. Sorry I can’t put names with those details. (But I bet **Walloon** can.) ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2006, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-band-without-a-the-in-its-name/366724/22 "2006-07-31T21:55:59Z")
[Big Mama Thornton](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hound_Dog_%28song%29). ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2006, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-band-without-a-the-in-its-name/366724/23 "2006-07-31T22:04:02Z")
[QUOTE=Walloon] [Big Mama Thornton](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hound_Dog_%28song%29). [/QUOTE] Thanks for that. I just now saw you had already mentioned [Rocket 88](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_88). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-band-without-a-the-in-its-name/366724.md?page=1)