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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
He recorded his own instrumental versions of "Rock Around the Clock" in 1959 as Jimmy DeKnight and His Knights of Rhythm, which were released as a 45 single on several record labels, Apt, Peak, President in the UK, and Arzee in 1979. [6] One version was the song arranged in the cha cha format as "Rock Around the Clock Cha Cha".
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 its tracks being included in the film. The album was recorded in the Decca Records studio located in the Pythian Temple in New York City. [2 ...
1952 recording of "Rock-A-Beatin' Boogie" released as a Rainbow Records 78, 200. Cedrone was born in Jamesville, New York.Cedrone's musical career began in the 1940s, but he came into his own in the early 1950s, first as a session guitarist hired by what was then a country and western musical group based in Chester, Pennsylvania, called Bill Haley and His Saddlemen.
Freedman is credited as co-writer of the landmark song "Rock Around the Clock" with "Jimmy DeKnight", a pseudonym used by music publisher and promoter James E. Myers. [6] The song was copyrighted on March 31, 1953, although there is evidence that it was written in 1952. There are also claims that Freedman wrote the song in its entirety. [7]
The origins of rock and roll are complex.Rock and roll emerged as a defined musical style in the United States in the early to mid-1950s. It derived most directly from the rhythm and blues music of the 1940s, [1] which itself developed from earlier blues, the beat-heavy jump blues, boogie woogie, up-tempo jazz, and swing music.
Rock Around the Clock was a major box-office success, and soon many more rock-and-roll musical films (notably the big-budget "A" picture The Girl Can't Help It) would be produced. Within a year, Elvis Presley (whose first film, 1956's Love Me Tender , was a Western, not a rock-and-roll film) would soon appear in the most popular films of the ...
The group was the first to record the hit song "Rock Around the Clock". The group comprised Italian-American singer Sonny Dae (born Paschall Salvatore Vennitti, May 24, 1928–February 1987), [1] pianist Hal Hogan, guitarist Art Buono, and Mark Bennett, bassist, and/or drummer. [2]