While it seems obvious that rockabilly is the combination of 2 words from rock n roll and hillbilly, I don't see where you could possibly be getting the word "rock" from rhythm and blues. You are trying to change something that at least two editors have agreed on, and also something that has stood in that article for "a long time". As both rhythm and blues - which is really defined by the fact that is was made by black people - was changing, the same thing was happening to music by white "country" or "hillbilly" musicians. Rock n roll was just a new term for what was already being done. The word rockabilly is a word that was applied to music. Try to understand the difference between the word itself and the people that made the music, how it came about, and how it can be characterized. Steve Pastor (talk) 20:01, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
:Click on the Rhythm and Blues lonk to read about that "kind of music". Again, it was a word made up by people who sold records, etc, and is different than contemporary R&B. Steve Pastor (talk) 20:05, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
: That's the comment you should have written me long ago, constructive criticism is ok with me, as long as there is no provocation. Sure, I know, EVERYTHING YOU TOLD ME I KNOW REAL WELL. I was simply trying to make a point, we need a paragraph on rhythm and blues, if you read my article you would have realized i meant rhythm and blues was there from the beginning and eventually rockabilly came from that, duh! I never, mentioned anything on black people, there were whites who played it as well, heck, there was rhythm in blues in Canada as well, but like I said the term was more popular than rock n roll coined by Freed, in other words, Freed used that term because more white people kept on playing but in reality it was rhythm n blues! Just because something is somewhere for a long time does not mean it's correct!
: Of course, even Britannica says rockabilly is hard to define, but it had word rock in it, good rhythm, but not fully rock n roll, if you add drums, then you have it:
http://www.britannica.com/blogs/2006/12/rockabilly/
Mirandamir (talk) 21:26, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
::And you're missing the point. The reason you kept getting reverted is because the sentence you were changing dealt with the word "Rockabilly" not the concept. Can't you understand that? You really should have looked up "portmanteau" before you began an edit war.MKil (talk) 21:30, 19 August 2008 (UTC)MKil
:You really don't get it, do you? The sentence was about how the word "rockabilly" came to be created. Do you not see that?MKil (talk) 21:36, 19 August 2008 (UTC)MKil
Again mkil's comment has been explained properly, that word portmanteau is appropriate but not in the first paragraph, first paragraph must always explain the case or the article, summary!
