Posted on 04/23/2017 8:43:45 AM PDT by Morgana
Bill Haley & His Comets - Rock Around The Clock (1955) HD
Bill Haley & His Comets was an American Rock&Roll band founded in 1952 that continued playing until Haley's death in 1981. The band was the earliest group of white musicians to bring Rock&Roll to the attention of white America and the rest of the world. From late 1954 to1956, the group placed nine singles into the Top 20 and three more in the Top Ten. Many fans consider them to be as revolutionary in their time as The Beatles or the Rolling Stones were a decade or two later. Bill Haley was given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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I was in my prime when this came out———GREAT MEMORIES.
Also for those of you who were a fan on Season 1 of “Happy Days” this was the song!!!! They used a different song starting Season 2 and there after.
I never watched Happy Days(my kids were fans) so I didn’t realize the song was associated with that show.
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RIP Erin.
Happy days and Happy Trails at last.
One of the first hits to coordinate with a movie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Am2m8wDV0xE
Season 1 into Rock Around the Clock Song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHN5U_j4_o0
later intos “Happy Days” song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6W6y7YhHdVE
Saddening to read about Erin Moran, she was such a cutie and one you’d have expected to have a great life and career. But it’s an industry that burns people out as fast as it creates them, and not every person can handle it.
Figured if Opie could last she could. If nothing else they could use their voice in cartoons. Is what Mark Hamill did for years. Hamill did Yoda better than Frank Oz and this used to drive Oz crazy on the set of Star Wars.
A couple years ago I read a biography of Bill Haley. Very underappreciated pioneer.
He gets very little credit. Usually dismissed with a “too old and fat for the kids” line.
Then they talk about how the Rolling Stones are still going strong.
Same title, different song
And that demands an answer!
Doghouse Boogie--Hawkshaw Hawkins (1948)
Rock Around the Clock is the first movie I can remember seeing. I was seven. My cousins, who were baby sitting me, took me to the theater.
The dancing in that movie clip is a hoot.
All these years I thought George Thorogood wrote Move it on Over. Thanks for the education.
After listening to those two songs it’s evident that the boogie woogie baseline was taken from Robert Johnson or some other Delta Blues pioneers.
Rock and roll was a serious blast to the foundations of popular music. When Haley made his recording, the iconic TV show, Your Hit Parade, would have been rendering the hottest songs of the week -— such as Canadian Sunset, This Old House, Dance with Me Henry, and Tennessee Waltz. You can imagine how disruptive Rock Around the Clock was.
One of Hit Parade’s mainstays was Gisele MacKenzie, who was horrified at the new music and hated it the rest of her life.
As to why rock and roll did in Your Hit Parade, Wiki has this-—
The show faded with the rise of rock and roll when the performance became more important than the song. It is said that big band singer Snooky Lanson’s weekly attempts to perform Elvis Presley’s “Hound Dog” hit in 1956 hastened the end of the series.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Your_Hit_Parade
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