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    "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...
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  • Rock Around the Clock is a 1956 musical film featuring Bill Haley and His Comets along with Alan Freed, the Platters, Tony Martinez and His Band and Freddie...
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  • Rock Around the Clock is 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...
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    Saints Rock 'N' Roll" and "Rip It Up". In 1956, the group appeared in two early rock and roll movies with disc jockey Alan Freed: Rock Around the Clock and...
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  • Ritmos Modernos (Orfeon 12340); Latin America release only 1964 – Rock Around the Clock King (Guest Star 1454) 1964 – Surf Surf Surf (Orfeon 12354); Latin...
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  • and raconteur. Myers is best known as the credited co-writer of "Rock Around the Clock" for which he used the pseudonym "Jimmy DeKnight". Myers is credited...
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  • Around the Clock is an American musical film released in 1961. It was a remake of Sam Katzman and Robert E. Kent's Rock Around the Clock. Like Rock Around...
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    Bill Haley (category American rock singers)
    group Bill Haley & His Comets and million-selling hits such as "Rock Around the Clock", "See You Later, Alligator", "Shake, Rattle and Roll", "Rocket...
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  • Hands" (1979) Edward Tudor-Pole – lead vocals on "Rock Around the Clock", "Who Killed Bambi", "The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle", (1979) Sid Vicious – lead...
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    replaced "Rock Around the Clock" at the beginning of the show. Released as a single in 1976 by Pratt & McClain, "Happy Days" cracked the Top 5. The show itself...
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    perform 'Rock Around the Clock', he found the perfect theme song -- the first rock song ever used in a Hollywood feature. Teens flocked to the film, dancing...
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  • Danny Cedrone (category American rock guitarists)
    on their epochal "Rock Around the Clock" in 1954. Cedrone was born in Jamesville, New York. Cedrone's musical career began in the 1940s, but he came...
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  • including the title track, and "Rock Around the Clock", although at the time of this album's release in early 1955, "Rock Around the Clock" had not yet...
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    also made her professional stage debut in Rock Around The Clock, which toured the country until September. In the same year, she also made her film debut...
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  • of the first "around the clock" lyrics, this slow minor-key blues was by no means "rock and roll" in the later sense. However, the terms "rocking", and...
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    30 singles of 1955 according to retail sales. 1955 in music "1955's Top Popular Records" (PDF). The Billboard. Vol. 68, no. 1. January 7, 1956. p. 20....
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    Zola Taylor (category The Platters members)
    The Platters in the first rock'n'roll film, Rock Around the Clock. In 1990, Taylor was elected to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of The Platters...
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  • Richard, The Treniers, and Dave Appell and the Applejacks. In contrast to the title track of Haley's previous film, Rock Around the Clock, the title track...
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    Ain't Misbehavin' (1955) - Chorine (uncredited) Rock Around the Clock (1956) - Lisa Johns Shake, Rattle & Rock! (1956) - June Fitzdingle Ten Thousand Bedrooms...
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  • (1955) and Rock Around the Clock (1956). Both movies featured the Bill Haley & His Comets hit "Rock Around the Clock", which first entered the British charts...
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    "(We're Gonna) Rock Around the Clock". NPR. Retrieved 9 October 2020. Since its release more than 40 years ago, "Rock Around the Clock" has sold over...
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    promotional badge. The song also includes a lyrical reference to the 1950s hit record "Rock Around the Clock" by Bill Haley and his Comets ("While the other kids...
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  • as the Housemartins for the BBC programme, Rock Around the Clock), played support act for their own performance under this alternative name. The "Caravan...
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    Frisco, Hello; Guadalcanal Diary; White Heat; Destination Moon; Rock Around the Clock; She Devil; Ten Thousand Bedrooms; Decision at Sundown; Blue Hawaii;...
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  • the many musicians on Pussy Cats are drummers Ringo Starr, Keith Moon and Jim Keltner, who all play together on the closing track, "Rock Around the Clock"...
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    A clock or chronometer is a device that measures and displays time. The clock is one of the oldest human inventions, meeting the need to measure intervals...
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  • co-writing the song "Rock Around the Clock" . Freedman was born in Philadelphia, and became a radio announcer, writer and entertainer, before joining the staff...
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    Rockabilly (redirect from Rock-a-Billy)
    backup via the Jordanaires. Bill Haley and His Comets - "Rock Around the Clock" (1954) Bill Haley and His Comets' "Rock Around the Clock" (1954) is credited...
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  • com/tcmdb/title/76497/The-Glenn-Miller-Story/articles.html Turner Classic Movies profile: http://www.tcm.com/this-month/article/184955%7C0/Rock-Around-the-Clock.html "Bang...
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  • Decca. The song was featured in the 1956 movie Rock Around the Clock. The Bill Haley single peaked at #41 on the Billboard chart in 1955 and #4 in the UK...
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