"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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Bill Haley & His Comets (redirect from Mambo Rock)
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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Bill Haley & His Comets discography (section As Bill Haley & the Saddlemen (and variations of the name))
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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Happy Days (category The Interviews title ID same as Wikidata)
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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Blackboard Jungle (redirect from The Blackboard Jungle)
called 'The National Anthem of Rock 'n' Roll'. The film marked the rock and roll revolution by featuring Bill Haley & His Comets' "Rock Around the Clock", initially...
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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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Danny Cedrone (category American rock guitarists)
known for his work with Bill Haley & His Comets on their epochal "Rock Around the Clock" in 1954. Cedrone was born in Jamesville, New York to Vincenzo and...
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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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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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1955 in music List of Billboard number-one singles of 1955 "1955's Top Popular Records" (PDF). The Billboard. Vol. 68, no. 1. January 7, 1956. p. 20....
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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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(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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Foxtrot (redirect from Foxtrot, the cartoon)
applicable to the music. Notably, Decca Records initially labeled its rock and roll releases as "foxtrots", most notably "Rock Around the Clock" by Bill Haley...
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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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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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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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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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the 1950s, such as "Rock Around the Clock", and mentions going to a "Jingle hop". Hank Garland plays guitar on the recording. Backup singers were the...
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from the original on October 4, 2018. Retrieved August 12, 2016. Barnes, Mike (July 19, 2016). "Lisa Gaye, Actress and Dancer in 'Rock Around the Clock,'...
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in Paris (1951), Singin' in the Rain (1952), Rock, Rock, Rock (1956) and Rock Around the Clock (1956).[citation needed] The songwriting team of Robert...
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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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high from "Rock Around the Clock" topping the US music charts), Pat Boone, LaVern Baker, Roy Hamilton, Johnnie Ray and others. This was the first film...
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Tenpole Tudor (category English punk rock groups)
Rotten — performing the songs "Who Killed Bambi?", "The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle" and a cover version of "Rock Around the Clock" for the film and subsequent...
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His Comets' "Rock Around the Clock", Paul Anka's "Diana" and Harry Belafonte's "Mary's Boy Child" – all sold over one million copies. The following artists...
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