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Rock 'n' Roll Dawn

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A few of the words

ELVIS
Elvis Presley recorded his first commercial single, 'That's All Right', at Sun Studio in Memphis in the summer of 1954, a moment many mark as rock and roll's true beginning.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
SLAPBACK
That distinctive slap-back echo, a very short tape delay, was the secret ingredient of Sun Studio's sound, giving Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, and others their signature snap.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
BOPPER
The Big Bopper, J. P. Richardson, scored a massive 1958 hit with 'Chantilly Lace', his deep, playful voice instantly recognisable on jukeboxes across America.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
PLATTER
In 1950s slang a 'platter' was a vinyl record, fitting, since it was the 45 rpm single, introduced by RCA Victor in 1949, that carried rock and roll into millions of homes.Find this word in the grid to read its note.

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Rock 'n' Roll Dawn word search

Rock 'n' Roll Dawn: a free large-print word search

Rock 'n' Roll Dawn, a free, large-print word search celebrating the wild first wave of rock and roll, from pompadours to electric twang.

About Rock 'n' Roll Dawn

Somewhere between a Delta blues holler and a Nashville country strum, a new sound crackled out of the radio in the mid-1950s and changed everything. Young men with slicked-back hair and electric guitars set stages alight from Memphis to New York, their records spinning on jukeboxes in every diner and soda fountain in the country. It was loud, it was joyful, and for the teenagers who heard it first, nothing would ever sound quite the same again.

How to play

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    Find a word.Tap its first letter, then tap along to its last — the trail fills in and finishes itself when it spells a word. Or press the first letter and drag.
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    Words run in straight lines.Across and down, and on the harder difficulties diagonally and backwards.
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    It marks itself.Each word you find takes on its own soft colour on the grid and is crossed off the list.
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    Choose a difficulty.Relaxed, Classic or Challenging set those directions and how much the word list helps — never the grid size. Tap the A buttons at the top to enlarge the letters, or pinch the grid.

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