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    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...
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    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",...
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  • Bill Haley & His Comets recorded many singles and albums. The following list references only their original release and generally does not include compilation...
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  • music by the titular group, Bill Haley & His Comets. The album features recordings made by Haley in 1952 and 1953, including his hits, "Rock the Joint", "Crazy...
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    Franny Beecher (category Bill Haley & His Comets members)
    24, 2014) was the lead guitarist for Bill Haley & His Comets from 1954 to 1962, and is best remembered for his innovative guitar solos that incorporated...
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    Rock Around the Clock (category Bill Haley songs)
    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 two...
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  • Bill Haley and His Comets is the title of the tenth album of rock and roll recordings by Bill Haley & His Comets. Released in April 1960, it was the band's...
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  • months, Strictly Instrumental was the ninth rock and roll album by Bill Haley & His Comets, and their final album of new material for Decca Records (although...
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  • Danny Cedrone (category Bill Haley & His Comets members)
    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...
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  • See You Later, Alligator (category Bill Haley songs)
    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 and...
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  • When the Saints Go Marching In (category Bill Haley songs)
    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,...
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  • Don't Knock the Rock (category Bill Haley)
    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...
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  • Rockin' the Joint is a compilation album of rock and roll music by Bill Haley & His Comets. Released on Decca Records in August 1958, it was the group's seventh...
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  • and roll song written by Bill Haley and first recorded by Bill Haley & His Comets under the name Bill Haley with Haley's Comets in 1953. The song was released...
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    Al Rex (category Bill Haley & His Comets members)
    2020), also known by his stage name Al Rex, was an American bass player for Bill Haley & His Comets and its predecessor Bill Haley and the Saddlemen. He...
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    Billy Williamson (guitarist) (category Bill Haley & His Comets members)
    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 member...
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  • Rock 'n Roll Stage Show (category Bill Haley & His Comets albums)
    first studio album and fourth overall album by rock and roll band Bill Haley and His Comets. Released by Decca Records in August 1956, it was the group's...
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  • Shake, Rattle and Roll (album) (category Bill Haley & His Comets albums)
    issued by Decca Records (DL 5560) in 1955, and featuring music by Bill Haley & His Comets. The album, which was issued in a 10-inch format, consisted of...
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    Rudy Pompilli (category Bill Haley & His Comets members)
    American musician best known for playing tenor saxophone with Bill Haley and His Comets. He was usually credited under the alternate spelling Rudy Pompilli...
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  • Marshall Lytle (category Bill Haley & His Comets members)
    an American rock and roll bassist, best known for his work with the groups Bill Haley & His Comets and The Jodimars in the 1950s. He played upright slap...
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  • Bill Haley's New Comets is a rock and roll band founded in 1987 by singer Joe "Bill" Clifton. As only legal successors of the original performers this...
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    Johnny Grande (category Bill Haley & His Comets members)
    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...
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  • Joey Ambrose (category Bill Haley & His Comets members)
    Marshall Lytle to form Bill Haley's Original Comets. In 2012, Ambrose along with most of the other 1950–1960 members of the Comets were inducted into the...
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  • Rock Around the Clock (album) (category Bill Haley & His Comets albums)
    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 two...
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    Ralph Jones (musician) (category Bill Haley & His Comets members)
    American drummer, best known for his work with Bill Haley & His Comets. Jones was ultimately Haley's fifth, joining The Comets at their peak in 1955 and ultimately...
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  • Bill Haley & His Comets. Released by Warner Bros. Records in the summer of 1960, the album was produced by George Avakian. With this record, Haley attempted...
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    year, and his band's style shifted from country and western to rock and roll. In October that year, when Holly opened for Bill Haley & His Comets, he was...
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  • Crazy Man, Crazy (category Bill Haley songs)
    an early rock and roll song written by, and first recorded by Bill Haley & His Comets in April 1953. It is notable as the first recognized rock and roll...
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  • written by Bill Haley and Marshall Lytle and first recorded by Bill Haley & His Comets, then going by the name Bill Haley with Haley's Comets, in 1953....
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  • Rock-A-Beatin' Boogie (category Bill Haley songs)
    Boogie" is a 1952 song composed by Bill Haley and first recorded by the Esquire Boys in 1952. Bill Haley and the Comets recorded the song in 1955 for Decca...
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