Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
"Rock Around the Clock" is a rock and roll song in the 12-bar blues format written by Max C. Freedman and James E. Myers (the latter being under the pseudonym "Jimmy De Knight") in 1952. The best-known and most successful rendition was recorded by Bill Haley & His Comets in 1954 for Ame
It was also the first Haley album to make the Billboard charts, and was one of the first album releases of the rock and roll genre to do so. Some non-American releases of the album, such as that on the Festival Records label of Australia on FR12-1102, promoted the album as being the soundtrack for the Rock Around the Clock film, owing to six of ...
Bill Haley & His Comets were an American rock and roll band formed in 1947 and continuing until Haley's death in 1981. The band was also known as Bill Haley and the Comets and Bill Haley's Comets. From late 1954 to late 1956, the group recorded nine Top 20 singles, one of which was number one and three that were Top Ten.
The John Lane version of Bill Haley's Comets recorded a live album in the early 2000s, along with a Christmas single. Al Rappa's version of Bill Haley's Comets have recorded tracks with Joey Welz, including the 2011 album Rock and Roll Survivors released on the Canadian-American label. The 1954–55 Comets (a.k.a.
This is a list of songs from Sesame Street. It includes the songs are written for used on the TV series. The songs have a variety of styles, including R&B, opera, show tunes, folk, and world music. [1] Especially in the earlier decades, parodies and spoofs of popular songs were common, although that has reduced in more recent years. [1]
The Carpenters, one of the many artists who recorded music from Sesame Street.. Sesame Street's songwriters included the show's first music director Joe Raposo; Jeff Moss, whom Michael Davis called a "gifted poet, composer, and lyricist"; [18] and Christopher Cerf; whom Louise Gikow called "the go-to guy on Sesame Street for classic rock and roll as well as song spoofs". [19]
Bill Haley and His Comets is the title of the tenth album of rock and roll recordings by Bill Haley & His Comets. Released in April 1960, it was the band's first album release for Warner Bros. Records , following their departure from Decca Records at the end of 1959.
Shake, Rattle and Roll is an early rock and roll compilation album issued by Decca Records (DL 5560) in 1955, and featuring music by Bill Haley & His Comets.The album, which was issued in a 10-inch format, consisted of recordings previously issued on singles in 1954 and 1955, including the title track, and "Rock Around the Clock", although at the time of this album's release in early 1955 ...