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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
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 and the Comets were the first rock and roll performers to appear on the CBS television musical variety program The Ed Sullivan Show, or Toast of the Town on Sunday, August 7, 1955, in a broadcast from the Shakespeare Festival Theater in Stratford, Connecticut. They performed a live version of "Rock Around the Clock" featuring Franny ...
Rock duo Pratt & McClain's easygoing Happy Days theme song represents the unbridled zeal of '70s Americana as much as Queen Latifah's boom bap Living Single theme song was a mirror of hip-hop's ...
During the Labor Day weekend in 1952, the Saddlemen were renamed Bill Haley with Haley's Comets. The name was inspired by the supposedly official pronunciation of Halley's Comet and was suggested by Bob Johnson, program director at radio station WPWA where Bill Haley had a live radio program from 12:00 noon to 1:00 p.m.
The theme song perfectly captures the essence of this show and can easily bring a smile to any kid’s face (or adult, for that matter). Watch on Prime Video 44.
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