#bill haley

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Bill Haley and His Comets - Goofin' Around (1956) 'Franny' Beecher/ Johnny Grande from: "Goofin' Around" (UK Promo Single} "Rock n' Roll Stage Show Pt. 3" (US | EP) "Calling All Comets" / "Goofin' Around" (German Single) "Bill Haley: The Decca Years and More" (Bear Family Records 5 CD Box Set)

Instrumental

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Personnel: Bill Haley: Rhythm Guitar Francis 'Franny' Beecher: Lead Guitar Rudy Pompilli: Tenor Saxophone Johnny Grande: Accordion / Piano William F. 'Billy' Williamson: Steel Guitar Al Rex: Double Bass Ralph Jones: Drums

Produced by Milt Gabler

Recoded: @ The Pythian Temple in New York City, New York USA on March 23, 1956

Released 1956: Brunswick Records (UK) Decca Records (US)

Box Set Released 1991: Bill Haley: The Decca Years and More (Bear Family Records 5 CD Box Set)

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Bill Haley was #botd in 1925 🎵

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Bill Haley - Lets Rip It Up

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Bill Haley & His Comets - Rip it up 1955. Clip from the movie "Rock Around the Clock" (1955).

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january 8

1957

Rock and roll comes to Australia when Bill Haley, LaVern Baker and The Platters kick off a tour at Newcastle Stadium that continues on to West Melbourne Stadium and Sydney Stadium. It's the first rock stadium show, pre-dating the Beatles Shea Stadium concert by eight years.

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La mejor forma de bailar es con los ojos cerrados. Sólos con la música.

via: @fabforgottennobility

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In The Rock 5/20/1954: Bill Haley & the Comets' "(We’re Gonna) Rock Around the Clock" hits record stores and juke boxes for the first time. It later becomes a huge hit, but its’ debut is on the B-Side of "Thirteen Women (and Only Man in Town)". Parentheses were VERY popular then.

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Just learned about these today from a film maker friend - Bone Records? "Bone, what?" I said. "Bone records - musical records made of bone x-rays", he said! "Get out of here! "I said... but they are real. Text from The X-Ray Audio Project:

A Short History of Bone

In the Soviet Union in the years after the second world war, a lot of music was banned.  Almost everything Western was forbidden because the USA and Britain in particular had become seen as the enemy and their culture was held to be harmful.  But a lot of Russian music was also forbidden. Anything made by emigres was off limits because by definition, any Russian who had wilfully left the country or who stayed away by choice was now considered a traitor - whatever their repertoire and even if they had previously been approved of.  Some of these people had been huge stars before the war. And what is perhaps more difficult to comprehend, is that a lot of domestic music made by Soviet citizens was also forbidden, or at the very least deemed 'unofficial'.  Why? Learn more about these bizarre things on the X-Ray Audio project, and you can listen to some as well!!

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𝐁𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐇𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐇𝐢𝐬 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐬 - (𝐖𝐞'𝐫𝐞 𝐆𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐚) 𝐑𝐨𝐜𝐤 𝐀𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐤 (𝟏𝟗𝟓𝟒) Jimmy DeKnight / Max Freedman from: "(We're Gonna) Rock Around the Clock" / "Thirteen Women" (Single) "From the Original Master Tapes: Bill Haley and His Comets" (1985 Compilation)

Rock and Roll | 1st Wave Rock and Roll Originally issued in 1954 with "Thirteen Women" as the A-side

𝐅𝐋𝐀𝐂 𝐅𝐢𝐥𝐞 @𝐀𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐯𝐞 (left click = play) (793kbps) (Size: 12.8MB)

Personnel: Bill Haley: Lead Vocals / Guitar Danny Cedrone: Lead Guitar Billy Williamson: Steel Guitar Joey D'Ambrosia: Tenor Saxophone Johnny Grande: Piano Marshall Lytle: Bass Billy Guesak: Drums

Produced by Milt Gabler

Recorded: @ The Pythian Temple in New York City, New York USA on April 12, 1954

Single Released: on May 10, 1954 Decca Records

MCA Records Compilation Released: 1985

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Bill Haley and Caterina Valente, circa 1958

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Music influences for “World of Eras”:

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Year-End Poll #6: 1955

The sound of a decade does not change the minute the ball drops on New Year's Eve. With the benefit of hindsight, it's easier to form these cultural shifts into a narrative, even when said shifts aren't always obvious. 1955 offers us the music we've grown accustomed to over the course of this decade: traditional pop, vocal quartets, jazz standards. However, this year also gives me an opportunity to highlight some different genres that will come to shape the decade in the years to come.

The post-war 1950s saw a boom in popularity when it came to music from South and Central America. We saw this before with the inclusion of other Spanish language songs reaching the Top 30, but artists like Pérez Prado and later Ritchie Valens helped to popularize Latin music in the States. Pérez Prado is, of course, known for popularizing mambo, a Cuban genre of dance music, by incorporating big band influence. The Prado song featured on this poll is not mambo, but rather one of its descendants, cha-cha.

In 1955 year-end chart, we're seeing the first traces of a genre of music that will help define the decade's sound: rock and roll. With the inclusion of Bill Haley's Rock Around the Clock, we're seeing the first rock and roll song to top the Billboard charts. Obviously, rock and roll has existed long before Bill Haley and Pat Boone reached the top 10. Unfortunately, like many other historically Black genres, white faces typically sold better with mainstream audiences. Is this the last we'll see of record executives using white performers to market Black music to white audiences?

Foreshadowing is a literary device--

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... when cars were art ...

“There’s Cadillac music and Ford music. Tchaikovsky and Bach is Cadillac music, while we play more down-to-earth Ford music.”

Remembering rock and roll legend Bill Haley, who would have turned 99 today.

📷 Bill Haley with his lipstick-covered Ford Galaxie, London 1968 (Mirrorpix)

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12 april 1954

At his first session for Decca Records, Bill Haley records "Rock Around The Clock" and "Thirteen Women" (a post-nuclear song that was originally the A-side of the single).