#bill haley

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Bill Haley was #botd in 1925 🎵

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

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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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Let The Good Times Roll: Original Sound Track Recording (1973)

Bell Records

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Bill Haley and Caterina Valente, circa 1958

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Riot Around the Clock

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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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Music influences for “World of Eras”:

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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).

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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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YouTube from: the film "Don't Knock the Rock" (1956)

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 Cily, New York USA on March 23, 1956

Released 1956: Brunswick Records UK Decca Records USA

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