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As Bill Haley and the Four Aces of Western Swing: 1948 Too Many Parties and Too Many Pals (vocal by Tex King)/Four Leaf Clover Blues (Cowboy CR1201) August 1948 [38] 1949 Tennessee Border/Candy Kisses (Cowboy CR1202) March 1949 [39] As Johnny Clifton and His String Band: 1950 Stand Up and Be Counted/Loveless Blues (Center C102)
In around the mid-1940s, Bill Haley performed with the Down Homers and formed a group called the Four Aces of Western Swing. The group that later became the Comets initially formed as "Bill Haley and the Saddlemen" c. 1949 –1952, and performed mostly country and western songs, though occasionally with a bluesy feel.
b/w "Charlie Was a Boxer" (from The Four Aces Sing) 43 26 — "I Only Know I Love You" / 22 38 — The Four Aces Sing "Dreamer" 86 43 — Non-album track "You Can't Run Away from It" / 20 — — The Four Aces Sing "Friendly Persuasion (Thee I Love)" 45 10 29 Hits from Hollywood "Someone To Love" / 47 — — The Four Aces Sing "Written on the ...
Western swing is a subgenre of American country music that originated in the late 1920s in the West and South among the region's Western string bands. [1] [2] It is dance music, often with an up-tempo beat, [3] [4] which attracted huge crowds to dance halls and clubs in Texas, Oklahoma and California during the 1930s and 1940s until a federal war-time nightclub tax in 1944 contributed to the ...
A large cache of country-western recordings made by Haley in the 1946–51 era, before the formation of the Comets (also released on Rock 'n' Roll Arrives); An April 1955 concert in Cleveland, Ohio including the earliest known live recordings of "Rock Around the Clock" ( Rock 'n' Roll Show , Hydra Records, 1995);
Western swing, country boogie, and, with a smaller audience, jump blues were popular on the West Coast throughout the 1940s and into the 1950s when they were renamed and marketed as rock and roll in 1954. [citation needed] Dancers danced "a 'swingier' more smooth and subdued" form of jitterbug to Western swing music. [7]
The Liberty were left to watch the rival Aces, playing without two starters, win on their home court last year in Game 4. They missed an opportunity in the final seconds to force Game 5.
Haley had been born in 1925, and in 1955, when "Rock Around the Clock" initially charted, he and his band were using the name the Comets. However, prior to that time they had gone under the names the Down Homers, the Texas Range Riders, the Four Aces of Western Swing, and finally, The Saddlemen.