appropriate candidate" than the more frequently cited "Rocket 88" (1951) according to the New York Times. Carter's over-driven electric guitar style was similar to that of Chuck Berry from 1955 onward. Critic Rober Palmer also cited " its lyrical instruction to “rock awhile,” and the way the guitar crackled through an overdriven amp". "Rock the Joint", recorded by Jimmy Preston in May 1949, was a prototype rock and roll song which was successful in its own right and highly influential in that it was recorded three years later in 1952 by Bill Haley in the same hard rocking style. Although Haley first recorded in 1946, his early recordings, including "Rovin' Eyes", were essentially in the Western swing style of country music as was his 1951 cover of "Rocket 88" (see below). "Rock the Joint" became the first of his records in the style that became known as rockabilly. "Saturday Night Fish Fry" by Louis Jordan and his Tympany Five, recorded in August 1949, was at the top of the R&B chart for 11 weeks and crossed-over to reach number 21 on the national pop chart. The song had a "lively jump rhythm, call-and response chorus and double-string electric guitar riffs that Chuck Berry would later admit to copying". Jordan is described by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as "The Father of Rhythm & Blues" and "The Grandfather of Rock 'n' Roll". The Hall also states that "Saturday Night Fish Fry" is "an early example of rap and possibly the first rock and roll recording". Chuck Berry was quoted as saying, "To my recollection, Louis Jordan was the first [person] that I heard play rock and roll." "The Fat Man" by Fats Domino was a "rollicking" song, according to The Guardian, "but what made it a rocker was Fats's barrelling piano triplets, combined with a solid big beat". Recorded in New Orleans on December 10, 1949, the song featured Domino on wah-wah mouth trumpet as well as piano and vocals. The insistent backbeat of the rhythm section dominates. "The Fat Man" "is cited by historians as the first rock and roll single and the first to sell more than 1 million copies". The tune is that of "Junker Blues", recorded by Champion Jack Dupree in 1940, which was itself derived from an unrecorded original by Willie "Drive 'Em Down" Hall. Early 1950s "Boogie in the Park" by Joe Hill