Did Sister Rosetta Tharpe cut rock & roll release number 4?

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Check out the Sister's original 1944 recording below

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Sister Rosetta Tharpe

Big Boy Crudup drops to number five in my ‘Earliest Rock & Roll Releases’ list (below) because America’s original soul sister has taken his spot.

 Sister Rosetta Tharpe recorded the rocking, ‘Strange Things Happen Every Day’, with Decca’s house band in New York in 1944. The first gospel song to top the Harlem Hit Parade, this track is also considered by some experts to be the world’s first rock & roll song. However, Albert Ammons (1936) or Big Joe Turner and Pete Johnson (1938) might have a thing or two to say about that. 

Born in Arkansas between 1915 and 1921, (she was cagey about her age) Rosetta was the first to turn a traditional African-American spiritual into rock & roll. She was also the first to do windmill chord-strikes on her electric Gibson long before Chuck Berry, and way before Pete Townsend was even born (although Pete says he pinched the windmill action off Keith Richards after watching the Stone warm up) .

 Another bit of trivia is that Rosetta hit number one on the Harlem* chart on the day Adolf Hitler killed himself in his Berlin bunker in April 1945

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Sister Rosetta Tharpe was a favourite of Elvis, Little Richard and a host of other rock icons. Said Jerry Lee Lewis, “There’s a woman who can sing some rock and roll. I mean, she’s singing religious music, but she is singing rock and roll. She’s ... shakin’ man ... She jumps it. She’s hitting that guitar, playing that guitar, and she is singing. I said, ‘Whoooo. Sister Rosetta Tharpe.”
She was also said to be Johnny Cash's favourite singer.

*Originally measuring the number of juke box plays, Billboard’s Harlem chart became known as the Race Records chart in 1945 and  the Rhythm & Blues chart in 1949.

 Are these the world’s first true rock & roll releases?

1. Boogie Woogie Stomp, Albert Ammons. 1936, Chicago.

2. Roll ‘Em Pete, Big Joe Turner & Pete Johnson. 1938, New York.

3. Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy, The Andrews Sisters. 1940, Hollywood, Los Angeles.

4. Strange Things Happen Every Day, Sister Rosetta Tharpe. 1944, New York.

5. That’s All Right (Mama), Arthur Big Boy’ Crudup. 1946, Chicago.