The Treniers

The Treniers were an American musical group led by identical twins Cliff and Claude Trenier). Active since the 1940s, they played a cross between swing and early rock n' roll. Though their sound is more swing influenced, the Treniers also incorporated thumping beats and copious songs that included the words "rock" and "roll" - "Rocking on Sunday Night" and "It Rocks! It Rolls! It Swings!", for example. They were also known for the humorous content of many of their songs, and their on stage acrobatics were seen as precursors to the wild antics of many later rock and roll groups.

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American - Identical twins - Cliff - Claude Trenier - Swing - Rock n' roll

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In the 1950s, they moved closer towards an R&B influenced sound, but were unable to weather the influx of actual rock and roll. Nonetheless the group was considered a strong influence on bands such as their contemporaries Bill Haley and His Comets, and they were in fact one of the first to record Haley's "Rock-a-Beatin' Boogie". (One of the Trenier brothers would later claim in an interview in Blue Suede Shoes magazine that he was responsible for Haley deciding to record rock and roll; this account is disputed.)

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1950s - R&B - Bill Haley and His Comets

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The group appeared in several films in the 1950s including Don't Knock the Rock, and continued to perform as recently as the late 1990s.

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