Who Coined the Term "Rock and Roll"?

I’m continually told by “radio people” how NY’s famous WINS-AM DJ, Alan Freed, was the first person to use the term Rock & Roll to describe a certain type of music.  However, the phrase Rock & Roll had been in existence for quite a long time before Alan Freed popularized it in the early 1950’s

• 1922 – Trixie Smith:  My Daddy Rocks Me (with one steady roll)
  
• 1934 – Boswell Sisters:  Rock and Roll
• 1939 – Buddy Jones:  Rockin’ Rollin’ Mama

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