As biographer Colin Escott observes, Rose probably felt the instrumental break needed a touch of class to smooth out Williams' hillbilly edges, and the band, especially guitarist Zeke Turner, was likely too fancy for the singer's taste.
[4][5] Though many claim the song "Rock Around the Clock," released in 1954 by Bill Haley & His Comets, was the first rock and roll single, it resembles "Move it On Over", as both feature the same twelve-bar blues arrangement with a melody starting with three repetitions of an ascending arpeggio of the tonic chord, which Williams had partially derived from an old Mardi Gras riff, "Second Line.
"[6][7] The song follows a man who is forced to sleep in the doghouse after coming home late at night and not being allowed into his house by his wife.
In many respects, the song typified Williams' uncanny ability to express in a humorous way the aspects of everyday life that listeners could relate to—and rarely heard on the radio.
"[8] "Move It on Over" was Williams' first major hit, reaching #4 on the Billboard Most Played Juke Box Folk Records chart and got him a write up in The Alabama Journal.