first popularizing this form of music in the early 1950s with his group Bill Haley & His Comets and million-selling hits such as "Rock Around the Clock"...

Bill Haley & His Comets were an American rock and roll band formed in 1947 and continuing until Haley's death in 1981. The band was also known as Bill...

Bill Haley (1925–1981) was a pioneering American rock and roll musician. Bill Haley may also refer to: Bill Haley (Texas politician) (born 1943), Texan...

William Anthony "Bill" Haley, a musician, who developed pneumonia which caused tuberculosis, and he died in 1915 at the age of twenty. Haley headlined in...

Nimarata Nikki Randhawa Haley (née Randhawa; born January 20, 1972) is an American politician and diplomat who served as the 116th governor of South Carolina...

primaries. Originally from Ohio, Haley entered a foster home when he was two and was adopted by Bill and Carole Haley when he was four. His new father...

Bill Haley & His Comets recorded many singles and albums. The following list references only their original release and generally does not include compilation...

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 for...

Fred F. Sears, the film also features performances by Bill Haley & His Comets (who were top-billed), Little Richard, The Treniers, and Dave Appell and the...

American singer-songwriter Bobby Charles. The song was a Top Ten hit for Bill Haley and His Comets in 1956 in the United States, reaching no. 6 on Billboard...

was an American guitarist and bandleader, best known for his work with Bill Haley & His Comets on their epochal "Rock Around the Clock" in 1954. Cedrone...

Bill Haley (? – ?) was an English footballer who played as a half-back. He made 101 appearances in all competitions and scored 54 times for Fulham. v t...

and Teddy Boys started listening to artists including Elvis Presley, Bill Haley and Eddie Cochran. Although not as big as the Americans, British rock...

S. Billboard R&B chart and number 22 on the Billboard singles chart. Bill Haley & His Comets recorded a cover version of the song on June 7, 1954, the...

(1949), and Jimmy Preston's "Rock the Joint" (1949) (later covered by Bill Haley & His Comets in 1952). "Rocket 88" by Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats...

acquired vocal backup via the Jordanaires. Bill Haley and His Comets - "Rock Around the Clock" (1954) Bill Haley and His Comets' "Rock Around the Clock"...

Appell & the Applejacks Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes The Bell Notes Bill Haley & His Comets The Belmonts Dion & The Belmonts The Bobbettes The Bonnie...

1996) was the American steel guitar player for Bill Haley and His Saddlemen, and its successor group Bill Haley & His Comets, from 1949 to 1963. A founding...

Rock with Bill Haley and the Comets is an early rock and roll music compilation album issued by Essex Records (ESLP 202) in December 1955, and featuring...

played at funerals. Bill Haley & His Comets recorded a rock and roll version of the song titled "The Saints Rock 'N' Roll". Bill Haley started the song,...

western to rock and roll. In October that year, when Holly opened for Bill Haley & His Comets, he was spotted by Nashville scout Eddie Crandall, who helped...

Beecher (September 29, 1921 – February 24, 2014) was the lead guitarist for Bill Haley & His Comets from 1954 to 1962, and is best remembered for his innovative...

segregation. Many of his contemporaries, including Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, Bill Haley, Jerry Lee Lewis, the Everly Brothers, Gene Vincent, Pat Boone, and Eddie...

Bill Haley's Chicks was the eighth album of rock and roll recordings by Bill Haley & His Comets for Decca Records, Decca 8821. Released in January 1959...

Off" in the film Let's Rock. Sponsored in part by Bill Haley, the Tyrones recorded a number of Haley/Comets-written songs. It is also believed that several...

"Rock Around the Clock" by Bill Haley & His Comets was the number two song of 1955, and a breakthrough hit for rock and roll....

it was recorded three years later in 1952 by Bill Haley in the same hard rocking style. Although Haley first recorded in 1946, his early recordings,...

the early 1950s, he played on several early rock and roll recordings of Bill Haley. His daughter is flautist Ali Ryerson. Art Ryerson began playing the banjo...

was a member of Bill Haley's backing band, The Comets. Born in South Philadelphia, Grande played piano and accordion with Bill Haley and the Saddlemen...

La Cucaracha ("The Cockroach") is a popular folk song about a cockroach who cannot walk. The song's origins are Spanish, but it became popular in the 1910s...