Sneak Peek Inside the Changing Circus: Rocking and Rolling Round the Rings ...

"Circus music" -- did such a thing, in fact, ever exist? Not to slight the windjammers, but no.

"Entrance of the Gladiators' only codified an American circus music myth -- a myth that rarely acknowledges a greater force -- and one that drove even the maestro of maestros, Merle Evans: the Great American songbook. If Karl King fanfared in the first parade, Cole Porter and George Gershwin, among so many master tunesmiths, paced the program. In fact, circus owners and their directors are forever, those who stay in step, updating the sounds of the big top to underscore traditional tricks with timely tunes that move the masses.

In whose rings and during what season did rock and roll first rock the big top, big time?

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