Bill Haley - Rock Around The Clock flac album

Rock Around the Clock was the third album of rock and roll music by Bill Haley and His Comets. Released by Decca Records in December 1955 it was, like the two albums that preceded it, a compilation album of previously issued singles. Most of the album's contents had in fact been previously issued by Decca earlier in 1955 on the album Shake, Rattle and Roll.

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 American Decca. It was a number one single on both the United States and United Kingdom charts and also re-entered the UK Singles Chart in the 1960s and 1970s.

About Rock Around the Clock. Written by Max C. Freeman and Jimmy DeKnight in 1952, this song is one of rock and roll’s earliest hits and widely considered one of the first compositions to popularize the genre. It broke into proeminence playing on the intro to Blackboard Jungle, and was later the theme song to the first two seasons of Happy Days. What have the artists said about the song? Marshall Lytle recalled the moment he knew the song was a hit: We were traveling on the New York thruway from Buffalo to Boston to do a television show. I turned the radio on and ‘Rock Around the Clock’ was.

Watch the video for Rock Around the Clock from Bill Haley & His Comets's Hits for free, and see the artwork, lyrics and similar artists. Bill Haley & His Comets was an American rock and roll band that was founded in 1952 in Chester, Pennsylvania, and continued until Haley's death in 1981. View full artist profile.

Rock Around The Clock" first appeared on the charts on June 3, 1953, selling 75,000 copies and convincing Decca to pick up Haley's option. Haley then recorded a successful cover of the Big Joe Turner song "Shake, Rattle And Roll," and on March 25, 1955, "Rock Around The Clock" was featured in the movie Blackboard Jungle, which gave it a surge in popularity and prompted Decca to re-release the single. Haley's guitarist Danny Cedrone played pretty much the same solo on "Rock Around The Clock" that he did on Haley's 1952 cover of the Jimmy Preston "Rock The Joint," which was a big break for Haley, selling over 150,000 copies, and established the swinging blues style he would use on his famous hit. This was the original opening theme song for the TV show Happy Days.

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