Once, according to a wire service report, a reporter went to his house and was told he never lived there. In recent years, little was heard from the entertainer who was one of the founding fathers of rock. Haley's count they made 37 hit records, including "See Ya Later, Alligator," "Shake, Rattle 'n Roll," and "Rock 'a Beatin' Boogie." After their star seemed to fade in this country, they went abroad, and found new and equally eager audiences. Haley and his group won hordes of howling, screaming, irrespressibly enthusiastic fans. Haley and the Comets recorded "Rock the Joint," "Real Rock Drive" and "Crazy, Man, Crazy." Throbbing with energy and exuberance, the latter, according to music historians, was, in 1953, the first rock record to become a national pop hit. "Rock Around the Clock," which sold more than 16 million copies within 15 years of its release, was not his first rock release. As a young man he had a group billed as Bill Haley and The Four Aces of Western Swing and later he and his band were called Bill Haley and The Saddlemen. While in high school in Pennsylvania, he started playing country music. Haley sometimes described as the first white rock singer, was born in Highland Park, Mich., a Detroit suburb, and moved as a child to Booth's Corner, a small southeastern Pennsylvania town. This was a new music for kids who hadn't had any of their own. "That's when the mob scene started - thousands of kids at the stage door. "Actually, it had been gathering momentum and when we made 'Rock Around the Clock' it just exploded. Rock around The Clock is a song by the band Bill Haley and His Comets. "People associate the beginning of rock 'n roll with 1954," Mr. Attention album légendaire Mais situation complexe En effet un deuxième album de Bill HALEY dénommé « Shake rattle and roll » sort début 55, le single « Rock around the clock » sort. But few individuals or groups did more to introduce rock to the popular music audience, or to ignite the explosion with which it blazed its way into the world's consciousness. Bill HALEY AND HIS COMETS - Rock Around The Clock (1955) Par ERWIN le 16 Octobre 2013 Consultée 3080 fois. Bill Haley & His Comets Rock Around The Clock: One, two, tree oclock, four oclock rock Five, six, seven oclock, eight oclock rock Nine, ten, el. Haley died of natural causes.īill Haley and the Comets, with their loud, pulsating sound, did not invent rock 'n roll, whose roots have been traced to country music and to black rhythm and blues. Bill Haley & His Comets - Rock Around The Clock OST 'Rock Around The Clock' 1956. The precise cause of death was not known, but a justice of the peace said that Mr. Police said he was found dead in his bed about 12:35 p.m.
Haley, who with his group, the Comets, sent teen-aged film audiences into frenzy when they played the song over the credits of the movie "Blackboard Jungle." had lived for some time in relative seclusion in a fashionable neighborhood of Harlingen in the Rio Grande valley. On January 28, 1956, the group entered the US album chart with an LP also entitled Rock Around The Clock, a Decca compilation featuring that and other Haley hits.īuy or stream “Rock Around The Clock” on Bill Haley and his Comets’ Universal Masters Collection.Bill Haley, 53, who helped make rock 'n roll a major part of the American musical idiom with his 1950s classic "Rock Around the Clock," died yesterday in his home in south Texas. It was a number one single for two months and. That last outing came after the song was prominent in the movie smash American Graffiti, which also took it back to No.39 in America. The best-known and most successful rendition was recorded by Bill Haley & His Comets in 1954 for American Decca. As subsequent generations learned of its importance, it went to No.20 in 1968 and No.12 in 1974. Then “Rock” showed its staying power, charting again in Britain in September 1956, when it hit No.5. That success, on Decca, prompted a re-release on Brunswick in the UK, and this time, the song really took off, spending three weeks at No.1 in November and December. Listen to the 50s playlist for more by Bill Haley and his Comets and other key acts of the decade. After being featured in the 1955 movie Blackboard Jungle, it then made the American survey in May, and went on to spend eight weeks at No.1, widely hailed as the first chart-topper of the rock’n’roll era. “Rock Around The Clock” was first recorded by Sonny Dae on the Arcade label in 1954, with Haley’s version (cut three weeks later) following that May, but only as the B-side of another track from the same session, “Thirteen Women (And Only One Man in Town.” In fact, “Rock” was a chart record in Britain before it was in the US, if only for those two weeks.