#ROCK AROUND THE CLOCK MOVIE#
#ROCK AROUND THE CLOCK SERIES#

#ROCK AROUND THE CLOCK SERIES#

The series ran from 1974 to 1984 with a grand total of 255 episodes.Īs already stated Bill Haley & the Comets' 'Rock Around the Clock' was the opening theme in 1974 & 1975. Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn January 15th 1974, the 30-minute sitcom 'Happy Days' debut on the ABC-TV network.In 2012 he was elected to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Comets.

#ROCK AROUND THE CLOCK MOVIE#

He didn't play on the recording of 'Rock Around the Clock' but appeared and played in the movie of the same name.

Barry from Sauquoit, NySadly, Francis 'Franny' Beecher, lead guitarist for Bill Haley & his Comets, passed away on February 24th, 2014 at the age of 92.

Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn March 10th 1974, Bill Haley & the Comets' 'Rock Around the Clock' re-entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at position #99 and nine weeks later on May 19th, 1974 it peaked at #39 and spent 14 weeks on the Top 100 combined with its 24 weeks on the chart in 1956, it spent a grand total 39 weeks on the chart.

* And of course it’s available on You Tube. in Philadelphia, a quartet named Sonny Dae & his Knights recorded the first original recorded version* of 'Rock Around the Clock'.ĭae & the Knights' version was on the Arcade Record label and never made the national charts, and we all know what happen to Haley & the Comets' version. Twenty three days earlier on March 20th, 1954 and roughly 96 miles south of N.Y.C.

Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn April 12th 1954, at the Pythian Temple studios in New York City Bill Haley and the Comets recorded 'Thirteen Women' and 'Rock Around the Clock'….

Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn August 14th 1958, the Kingsmen performed 'Week End' on the ABC-TV program 'American Bandstand'.Ī little under three weeks later on September 1st, 1958 it entered Billboard's Top 100 chart at position #96 it stayed on the chart for three weeks and peaked at #35.Īt the time of this appearance on 'Bandstand' they were on the Top 100 chart, as the Comets with Bill Haley, at position #67 with 'Lean Jean', and that was also its peak position on the Top 100.

The reason: Haley and most of the Comets had a fear of flying.Īt the time the group's '(We Gonna) Rock Around the Clock' was at #3 on Billboard's Most Played on Jukeboxes chart, #4 on the Best Seller in Stores chart, and #5 on Most Played by Jockeys chart.

Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn September 3rd 1955, Billy Haley and the Comets turned down a $2,000 contract, the contract was for a fifteen date tour of Australia.

Billie Glor from Santa Clarita, CaThis song is also the opener for the movie American Grafitti.

Was dating at the time Arlene Jackson, neice of Bill Halley and he was recording at a radio station in Brookhaven, PA

David PippinFirst recording of Rock Around the clock was 1952 by Dave Pippin in Chester PA.

This time, the song surged to the top of the charts, entering the Top 40 on and hitting #1 on July 9, where it stayed for eight weeks.

Haley then recorded a successful cover of the Big Joe Turner song ' Shake, Rattle And Roll,' and on March 25, 1955, 'Rock Around The Clock' was featured in the movie Blackboard Jungle, which gave it a surge in popularity and prompted Decca to re-release the single.

'Rock Around The Clock' first appeared on the charts on June 3, 1953, selling 75,000 copies and convincing Decca to pick up Haley's option. In 1954, Myers helped Haley leave Essex records and sign with Decca as part of their agreement, one side of every single Haley recorded had to be a song from Myers' catalog, and the first one they picked was 'Rock Around The Clock,' which was originally released as the B-side of a Dickie Thompson song called 'Thirteen Women,' which was about a nuclear bomb that leaves just one man and 13 women alive. Myers then placed the song with a veteran Country act called Sonny Dae and His Nights, and their version was released in 1953 to little acclaim. Haley wanted to record the song, but Dave Miller, who owned his label Essex Records, refused because of a dispute over the publishing. This was written in 1953 by a Philadelphia songwriter named named Max Freedman (who was nearly 60 years old), and by James Myers, a local musician and song publisher who published it under the name 'Jimmy De-Knight.' In addition to owning half the composer credit on the song, Myers had 100% of the publishing.

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