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Be interesting to know where Danny took his guitar instruction. Philadelphia has a long history of hugely in-demand session players,

Dannys Rif is the greatest of all time

Billy Crystal's uncle was co-producer during these sessions.

What a great tribute! Thanks.🙏🙏🙏

Very informative. Thank you.

Tears while watching this video. What a tragic loss, to lose a guy like that at such an early age and someone who played something so iconic in American Music. I was a kid growing up and learning to play drums in the 60's and 70's. I remember this tune, because my parents had an old 78rpm record of it. My Dad played it for me on the old Magnavox Console Stereo back then and told me it was the first Rock and Roll Record he ever owned. He said it was literally heard everywhere you went back then. It got my curiosity up and I eventually learned the Drum Part, mainly because it was so unusual and wasn't the typical Elvis, Beatles, Rolling Stones style of Rock and Roll drumming. It was like big band or swing and it was different. So I listened to the song time and time again and played along with it until I figured it out and learned it. But that Ripping Guitar Solo was the sh*ts. WOW!!! I had never heard anything like it. Anyway, over the years I grew to appreciate what a masterpiece this song really was. And of course it was in American Graffiti and the opening theme to "Happy Days".

I remember hearing it on "Happy Days" and losing my mind when I was 10yrs old! I eventually learned it note for note many years later. Thanks TH-cam!❤

Ha, I thought it might be THAT guitar solo!

this woman is the one who launched rock and roll: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sister_Rosetta_Tharpe

I remember all that music when it was new. Bill Haley had the best swing for us young dancers.

Don't talk during it (/_•\)

False. Bad press did.

This was the first rock and roll song I ever heard. A lot of Italian crooners around in the 1940's and various other genres, but nothing like this.

Just think what a small powered amplifier he would have used compared to today's.

Rock and Roll is a marketing term created by music companies to segregate white bands from the black musicians who created and used the term "rock and roll" over a decade before Bill Haley and the Comets. And that includes guitar solos based on jazz and blues guitar. The main important evolution that allowed for the creation of rock and roll was the creation of the electric guitar. So the first "rock" guitar solos are found on early blues songs using electric guitar or jazz songs using electric guitar such as Charlie Christian.

A few years ago, Brian Setzer was offered to play Bill Haley's original Gibson L7 live on stage. He played "Rock around the clock" and ripped Cedrone's solo, basically honoring BOTH rock legends here.

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Great history lesson!

Have people forgotten Carl Perkins?

1:27 funny enough, im about to also rock this joint. 😂 cool video! Love content like this. Definitely earned a new subscriber! Much love from Indiana and stay hydrated fam ♥️ ❤️ 💜 💙

I always dug that run in that song😮😂❤❤❤very interesting 😮

Go and investigate the afro american guitarists in the 20s and 30s

stan freberg spoofed this solo in "rock around stephen foster."

Chuck Berry helped launch rock n roll

Perhaps in a way, we should give credit to the bandmate who suggested that Danny play the “Rock The Joint” solo on the Bill Haley song. That idea is really the seed that made rock and roll what it is today.

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I hav a recoording of early Bill Haley he was a great hillbilly artist

You can tell a young Alvin Lee paid close attention to this record….👍👍

That was great information that probably nobody knows about!!!

One of the best with no recognition to the original player until now .

The history of Rock and Roll and I grew up together. I was born in 1950.

that would be a week's wages for a poor working man

10 days after he launched Rock and Roll he fell down stairs and died - I guess Grandma was right...Rock and Roll is dangerous to your health.

There were many race records t as they were called done for the black market which had the spirit of Rock and Roll That predated Rock around the clock. As for solos in general Celibrate the three Kings. BB,Freddie and Albert

Ha ha...you WON'T hear it here. Just a talking head.

Is that Rocker Richard Nixon on the far left in the picture at 2:01?

Rock around the clock is often mentioned as the FIRST Rock and Roll hit. However, that has always puzzled me as a bit of a drummer, that it has a SWING beat and not a ROCK beat?

Thanks to the euro Americans for creating all the modern music of the 20th century...😄

So many people used to die from "falling down the stairs" 😅

Didn’t take me long to guess the song after reading the description. Iconic solo that is technically top notch today and forever.

Pretty sure white people didn't create rock n' roll. Popularized it I guess...but invented it? No chance.

WOW, who knew. There is so much hidden talent that never gets discovered. My dad was in the radio business in the 50s, 60s and 70s. He was exposed to a lot of hidden talent and once told me "Good guitar pickers are a dime a dozen in Nashville". Not very incouraging to my plans for a music career but it was true then and still is today.

Rock Around The Clock was the B side of Thirteen Women which is why it didn't sell well. B sides weren't usually played on the radio. After Blackboard Jungle came out, people were requesting the record, so it was re-released as an A side and went to number one.

Slow down!

Been playing guitar since 1978. Rock Around the Clock was probably the first solo I ever learned.

If only they hadn't hired that plane.

My grandma had the original single and I was always fascinated by that solo.Now 50 odd years later I have just about nailed it😂

Also thought Hank Williams 1948 song rocking chair money was it, then Bill Haley

Wow didn't know

Sister Rosetta Tharp with her gospel riffs heavily affected all the rockabillies. Hell, Chuck, Elvis, Little Richard, etc pretty much stole from her. It’s HER genius that created rock. Along with Hank Ballard and Big Joe Turner. At least Bill Haley gave credit to Turner for Shake Rattle and Roll