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Mainstream pop during the 1950s-1960s was everything that the white community loved and admired collectively. It was the type of music that white American parents actually approved of and even listened to it with their children. The parents liked this genre because the lyrics were conservative, white artists were the main people who sang in this genre, and the songs usually told a nice sweet story like the way country music does. This genre was overloaded with white artists and had an almost opposite sound to rock and roll.

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Mainstream pop has a sound that is like classical but with a simpler twist and catchier rhythms. The type of sound that these songs had is known as the Nashville Sound. Nashville Sound was a popular kind of country music during this time period. This sound is comprised of a fusion between big band, swing, and good ol' country lyrics. Main people who popularized this sounds was an artist Hank Williams.

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Hank Williams - Hey Good Lookin' (Official Video)

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Rock and Roll was by now a popular underdog musical genre in the 1950s. With its unpredictability, profanity, and out of the status quo actions, this genre was mainly liked by the type of people who wanted to be unique from the tradition crowd of classical music listeners. Rock and Roll is a fusion of so many genres like jazz, swing, boogie woogie, and even a little country with Elvis's little yodels in some of his songs. This fusion makes it have such a unique sounds that is so different than the traditional songs that have been heard before, making it more appealing to the arising counterculture.

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Being the exact opposite of what white American parents at the time wanted their children to listen to, Rock and Roll had a smooth, rocking, move your body type of sound. Major Rock and Roll artists like Chuck Berry stuck to the common 12 bar blues in their songs. In Rock and Roll songs at the time, they had many innuendos to sexual things, and other lyrics that just were not about farming but instead about losing the love of your life. Many of the songs related to a love interest. The sub-genre called Rockability, popularized by Elvis Presley, became extremely popular in the 1950s for its fusion of blues, country, and hillbilly music.

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Elvis Presley  Heatrbreak Hotel Live (1956`)

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Many, many things separated mainstream pop and rock and roll during the 1950s. Although the differences, both somehow helped one another became very popular or helped one another evolve itself to better suit the audience. With the introduction of Rockability by Elvis Presley, it was hurting the companies of mainstream pop harshly. This led to the companies changing their Nashville sound by taking out some of the country side of it. In RCA, the head of the country division actually abandoned the rougher sounds of country from the Nashville sound to make it more big band and swing.

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Patti Page, "How Much Is That Doggie In The Window"

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Patti Page, "How Much Is That Doggie In The Window"

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How Much Is That Doggie In The Window - Patti Page

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Mainstream Pop and R+R had completely different audiences. The white community, the adults particularly, preferred Mainstream pop because of the artists mainly being white and its songs having a more conservative, country feel. The audience of R+R was diverse. In the beginning of R+R, the audience used to be mainly African American, since at the time R+R was like R+B. The white community made up myths and rumors about all black artists, the main artists of R+B and R+R at the time, about how they are perverts looking for young white girls and how their lyrics are inappropriate and full of profanity. Overtime with new artists and cover artists popularizing Rock hits like Pat Boone covering Little Richards song "Tutti Frutti," and teens who wanted to be different grew, R+R began to have a mixed audience of white and black people.

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No matter how many teens and young adults loved R+R, the parents and adults who loved Mainstream Pop still held all the power in the music industry. White America did not accept R+R, they did not even accept all of Elvis Presley because of his "black" characteristics he brought with his music like his provocative dancing. When Elvis was televised, he was televised from the waist and up, cutting out his legendary leg movements. R+R artists just wanted to make music, they did not in anyway purposely try to kill Mainstream Pop. The same thing can not be said from the other side. The white community did not accept R+R at all and eventually had a small success in 1959 with "The Day That Music Died" following the plane accident of Buddy Holly, Valens, and The Big Bopper, and the Payola investigations.

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When listening to Mainstream Pop, it makes you feel proper and dance a little bit. Of course, with the country characteristics of pop at the time, it had a shuffle, rhythmic feel in the background that made the music be something to dance a little bit too. Although, the music never made people go absolute crazy in their seats, it was like a groovy classical piece. R+R on the other hand, brought out the animal in people when they listened to it. Absolutely anything can happen when a R+R artist performs, they can just on the piano or have a dance break or jump into the audience. R+R let you express your inner feelings that you usually would keep in with the conservative Mainstream Pop.