Possible Antedating of "Bebop"

[paul johnson]

But before there was Be Bop there was Bop and that came after hep
morphed into hip, but when did the Re-bop come in, my first memory was
the Brando film  "the Wild One"  But being a 77 year old white guy, what
do I know, certainly a lot less than I used too.

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