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Thank you, so well documented !

I believe Danny Cedrone must have influenced later guitar pickers such as Lonnie Mack playing "Memphis".

Thank you I like learning something new about music everyday 🎸

I remember this! Great to have lived the real birth of popular music. In 200 years this stuff will still astonish each new generation of kids who want to express themselves plinking away on a cheap guitar sitting on the corner of their beds. And there will be huge outdoor concerts where the experience will be exactly duplicated. Hell, what if you “Duplicated” Woodstock in a field outside of Sedona? Would they come? What if a few veterans took the stage? My god.

Its a Stratosphere twin guitar : ) The song is named after the Guitar(!)

Never ever learned to read and write so well but he could play that guitar just like a ringing a bell! Go Django Go! Go go Go Django go!

A lot of people would have alternate takes on this story and early influences, but this is as good as any. Bottom line is, no one had ever heard the guitar played that way before. Are you listening Chuck Berry?

The most important take-away from this story is to not fall down. It may be fatal, and the end of your story. My very good friend trimmed a tree in his front yard, fell off his ladder and died. Bummer. My favorite talk show host, Dennis Prager, fell down and may be paralyzed forever. Again, bummer. Every day, after I wake up, I tell myself, "we're not going to fall down today, are we?" (Yes, I think in the 3rd person) So, make a commitment: Don't fall down, and don't run over anyone, either.

Actually very delicate musicianship beefed-up a little for what appears to have been a rushed session. It was one which changed popular music forever and added a new dimension. Although Haley knew full well that his voice was nothing special, he had performed for many years and had a penchant for spotting the best musicians in various sorts of music. He could have carried on being a younger crooner with some upbeat material mixed in and possibly become a record producer as the 1950s proceeded but his band and he developed an interest in Texan 'rockabilly' music and he tended to listen to what the others said. For the vital session, however, he needed Cedrone's technique and energy, which he had admired for some time. Cedrone was even older than Haley but was from the same neighborhood in PA and the modest guitarist tended with play with bigger bands so was never a part of Haley's (eventually named) Comets. After Cedrone's tragic death, Haley and his band agreed to include their late friend's family in entitlement to royalties from various hits and the 'Blackboard Jungle' film whether or not Danny Cedrone had been in the sessions. They agreed that their biggest commercial success had begun with Cedrone so it was the right thing to do. This arrangement continued after Haley's death aged 55 from a brain tumor. Thank you for your important video.

That decending double strum is reminiscent of the surf guitar riffs in the 60's which Dick Dale made so iconic . Dale might well have got his inspiration from it. What makes DD'S riffs so special is that he plays them upside down, backward , and left handed on a right handed guitar that is strung for a RH guitar. Gotta love the early innovators.

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My cousin Had the 45 and was playing it over and over, she was 15, i was 9, i could hardly wait to become a teenager,

I was about 13 when I bought my first record. It was 'Rock-a-beatin-boogie' by Bill Haley and his Comets. A bunch of us bunked off school that day and went to a friend's house, who had a radiogram player. It was a 78 rpm disc which we played over and over all day and literally wore it out!

I loved 2 of these movies, liked 5 and didn’t know about the other 3. Thx for the introduction

Thanks for the story and sharing Tom

Thought it was Bill Haliley. Ok now I know.

I actually thought the song was going to be “Johnny Be Good”.

Shame on you - your intro is Cedrone on Bill Haley;'s version of Rocket 88 - but you fail to mention it. :). Rocket 88 is considered the first R&R record - but not the version by Bill Haley. The original version was recorded by Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats (Ike Turner's band renamed). But that version of Rocket 88 has the piano playing the boogie-woogie rhythm. It's the Bill Haley version - with Cedrone on guitar - that really captures the spirit of Rock and Roll. Cedrone doesn't get the notoriety he deserves. Thanks for letting people know about him. Most people think the infamous guitar part on Rock Around the Clock was played by Franny Beecher or (worse) Bill Haley himself. As with many early R&R records, it's the studio guitarist that provides the history making hook. (Ala Grady Martin, Hank Garland, Chet Atkins, etc.)

Oh goodness me, if you're a competent player you don't have to work out a solo! You improvise it.

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if you never experienced rock and roll in real life -50's & 60's ,it is impossibe to under stand,, the feelings going through your body and your mind ,it is a twentyfour hour a day thing ,it never stops,it is a part of your life where you are completly envolved in the currant rage that has taken over your every thought and movement,from the music ,the dress,hair style ,the dance,even the way your girl sat beside you in your car,--neckin,,drivein movies,saddle shoes ,i could go on and on but ,i hope you get the idea i'm tryin' to get across , some people may have a similar feeling about opera,but believe me ,i think rock and roll had a bigger influance,around the world than any thing else i could ever dream up,and now today ,i'm just reading about Danny Cedrone,and how it was so over looked that it was he who was playin' that guitar,when like many others i had always thought it was Bill ,I am glad to read the history,just so i know,but it can't change my past life,one that can never be repeated again,and for the next generation i hope that you may experiece something so exciting in your life as i have in mine,--50's and 60's will never be replaced---

fell down the stairs? really?

subbed. love this. sad ending.

Just another reminder, if you make music and do a good job of it, you’ll be here with us forever. 👻

I was 2 months old back then !

What a fantastic story, thoroughly enjoyed hearing it!

Fun video. When Django was in the States one day the guy he was with found him in the hotel room with a fresh chicken trying to cook it. He'd gone for a walk and stolen it from someone's chicken coop. Pure Romany. And Romany is the correct term for the group/tribe Django came from. Calling him a Gypsy is like calling a Jewish person a Kike. Not good. We all gotta learn new ways sometime. When I went JC to study music in the late 70s, I'd learned classical guitar 1st. All the rockers there were into Zappa and Django. Already knew about Zappa, but Django became my new Guitar God, next to Jimi.

Les Paul said that when he heard Django play his first thought was that it was time to hang up his guitar and become a shoe salesman. Disagree that Django is mainly for guitarists, the music he and Grappelli made together was pure joie de vivre.

"Gypsy" is a pejorative rather than an alternative word for Roma or Romani people, while it is true that during Django's lifetime it was widely used by the Roma themselves...

Four daughters and a wife named Milly…that a lot of Millys in one house! Seriously though, thanks for telling the story of this great guitarist. His swing chops made for superb rock ‘n’ roll. That whole band was cool as anything. Maybe a little more roll in today’s rock would spice things up a bit. I had to to learn that solo for a fifties show band years ago. Just about killed me! Lol.

Some people mention Oscar Alleman. He's not even close to Django Reinhardt. Listen to his improvisations. After half a chorus he's out of ideas.

It still amazes me how dynamic that solo is. I mean that is pre-Dick Dale SHREDDING. Most of the other cats, talented though they were, they were using blues-based licks that the Brits would cop a few years later. Even today it’s still one of the best solos ever, not just due to technique but in the way it serves the song. Back then you didn’t have drawn-out jams; most songs were between 2 and 3 minutes, with verses and choruses taking up most of it. You had a very small window to make a memorable guitar solo and most players would be happy just playing the vocal melody. Cedrone took it by the throat and absolutely killed it. Tremendous work.

Almost 45 yars ago in Montmartre, at the Place du Tertre there's a club called Au Clairon des Chasseurs where a "nephew" of Django held forth. He did the Hot Club tunes, but all fingers. It was wonderful. Avid fans stuffing francs into the guitar...Enjoyed your video, wish there was more.

You can find proto-rock 'n roll well before the 50s. Fats Domino said he had been playing that same sound for years, and calling it New Orleans Boogie-woogie. Also, 1930s jitter bug music sounds pretty damn close to 50s rock. Watch the 30s movie Meet John Doe. It has a scene of teenagers dancing to jitter bug.

I discovered so many of my now favourite players via Guitar Player Flexi Discs too.

I live in the UK, I was 10 years old when l first heard rock around the clock, that. solo knocked me out, I used to pick up the pick up and placed it where the solo started

Very intertesting fact. Thanks.

Rock around the Clock was used in the movie,’ Blackboard Jungle.’ during closing credits

In 1954, $21.00 bought a lot of groceries.

Thank Tom, more WCR please!

This is great Tom

Simply awesome.Thank you for the information.

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Probably did more than anything to define my life,I’m 84 and still play his “Rock The Joint” era stuff regularly ❤️

What a great tutorial on this great guitar solo and of the man himself!

I had both those songs on 45 when I was 10 ot 11 years old and knew they were about the same except for the lyrics. I used to buy all my records from a Juke Box vendor after they were removed from play.

Bill Haley did not start rock and roll

OK fair enough, but I hear even earlier R&R sounds coming out of Hank Williams' "Move It On Over".

Love to hear the mention of Reverand Horton Heat if you love rockabilly check him out.

When Cedrone laid down those solos, next to no guitarists of the time, outside of a very select number of jazz guys, were capable playing so fast and as the same time, so melodically in sync. He definitely had the chops, and those mere moments of recording cemented him in history! Of course, Les Paul was also a guy that had those kind of chops. Few had ever heard such playing, at the time!