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"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
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.
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 ...
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 Sesame Street theme song was composed by Joe Raposo, a writer and composer of many of television shows' songs. In his book on the history of Sesame Street, Michael Davis called the theme "jaunty" and "deceptively simple". [2] Raposo wrote the lyrics to the song with Jon Stone and Bruce Hart.
The recordings were produced by George Avakian, who succeeded Haley's Decca producer, Milt Gabler. One of two albums released during a four-month period (the other being Haley's Juke Box ), this first album consisted of cover versions of popular rock and roll hits of the 1950s, including re-recordings of Haley's own hits " Rock Around the Clock ...
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 ...