"Rock and Roll Is Here to Stay" is a song written by David White and first recorded by his group, Danny & the Juniors.

Released in January 1958 by ABC-Paramount Records as the follow-up to the group's #1 hit "At the Hop", it reached #19 on the Billboard Hot 100[1] and #16 R&B.

The song—with its lyrics of "Rock and roll is here to stay / It will never die"—was originally written in response to attacks on rock and roll music by some conservative radio stations, including KWK in St. Louis, that included the smashing of "undesirable" rock and roll records.

[4] Sha Na Na performed the song in the 1970 concert film Festival Express, a train tour of Canada by the leading rock musicians of the era, which was released in 2003 as a documentary.

The song appeared in John Carpenter's Christine (1983), based on Stephen King's novel, and on the soundtrack album.