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In 1958 Little Kid Lex recorded "New Year Rock". It's probably the first and only time Bert Kaempfert recorded anything that originally used the word "rock". In 1962 Bert Kaempfert recorded "Afrikaan Beat" as a follow up to "A Swingin' Safari"

Jerry Masters, who was a recording engineer at Muscle Shoals Sound Studio, told the story: "We cut a demo of "Old Time Rock and Roll" on the writer of the song, George Jackson (Jackson-Jones), there at the studio when we didn't have anything else to do.