We know that rock 'n' roll, like panty hose and the sea, was not a human invention; that it was the work of the Holy Ghost. When, in an article called "Women Won't Leave Me Alone," published in the October, 1954, issue of Tan, Wynonie Harris bragged that he "started the present vogue of 'rocking' blues tunes," he failed to mention the Holy Ghost, who had chosen Harris—as he had earlier chosen the Virgin Mary, Blackbeard, and Aldo Ray's Mom—to serve him in his work. But Wynonie Harris was like that. Not even the Holy Ghost Hisself was safe from the unmoving sword of his arrogance.

At about the time Wynonie Harris was writing his story for Tan, in the summer of 1954, Sun was distributing Elvis Presley's first record. Presley's Y. second single, which was released in September, 1954, was a song learned from a Wynonie Harris record: "Good Rockin' Tonight." (Harris had cut the song for King in December, 1947, and it became one of the biggest R&B hits of 1948.) At the Louisiana Hayride that same year, Elvis sang another song learned from Harris: "That's The Stuff You Gotta Watch," which Harris had cut for Apollo in 1945.