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Not sure who that guitarist is, but he's not the one who played the original solo, because he died in 1954. Still, you have to wonder why that solo didn't inspire more fast soloing like that and guitar players who could do it. That guitar player in the video learned how to, but none of the rock guitarist from the early 60's, George, Keith, Pete, Eric, Jeff, etc... were playing stuff at that level of difficulty. Fast forward 20 years and every guitar player and his mother (including Eric and Jeff) had learned how to play fast stuff. Not that fast = good, like so many bad guitar players think it does, but it does wow people more than a lot of more important aspects of playing does.
Yes,you're right.The guitarist's name was Danny Cedrone. 18 songs he was involved with...Obviously the main one which kick-started the band was 'Rock around the Clock'...Which was a cover (1952) of Jimmy Prestons original version. Franny's solo was practically note for note of Danny's original solo.Danny's guitar work in the studio covered,Shake rattle and Roll.....ABC Boogie..( B-side of Shake Rattle and Roll)....and....Rocket 88......88 was recorded June 14 1951....Hope the info is useful.
A lot of surf music had fast picking, but it was all tremolo picking, not precisely alternate-picked stuff like the solo here. It's funny how one of the first rock songs also had one of the first real shred solos, but shredding itself didn't catch on until much later.
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@ChrislovesKrystal Not possible, but fact!!!. "Rock Around the Clock" is the top selling rock and roll hit of all times!!!! It sold more than 30 millions records.
The Year: 1954; The Hour: 4:30 pm, The first note was played of the song that would one day rock the world and Bill Haley shouts out the immortal words which would become forever the international anthem of Rock'n'roll. A song so perfect, so classic it would sell tens of millions of records over the next four decades. The song would be recorded by over two hundred artists but none would capture the Comets' special magic that was recorded on that spring day in New York City.
An enduring classic. Thanks for posting this rare "American Bandstand" performance. We had not seen it before and our Facebook followers are loving it!
I been listening to this kind music for 47 years now and, after all these years have passed, these tunes sound as fresh today as the day i first heard them. We may be getting old and dated but, this type of music always sounds as fresh as a new Morning, Everyday.
This is AWESOME! I like this way better than the one the All-Star Supergroup played on the 30th Anniversary Special of Bandstand, I mean no disrespect, but Bill Haley had the magic that no one can touch also, Happy Days used this theme song for the 1st 2 seasons of the series and I like that better than the later themes of Days God Bless Bill Haley on his wonderful performance, God Bless You Mr. Dick Clark for making American Bandstand what it is today and most of all, Thank You Garry Marshall for not only giving us Happy Days and The Odd Couple TV Series, but also, for giving us Laverne & Shirley and other TV Shows and also, Thank You for makin' Julia Roberts a TRUE Pretty Woman and Thank You Tom Bosley for makin' Happy Days what it's all about The Happy Times May You All R.I.P. William John Clifton Haley (July 6, 1925 - February 9, 1981) Richard Augustus Wagstaff Clark Jr. (November 30, 1929 - April 18, 2012) Thomas Edward Bosley (October 1, 1927 - October 19, 2010) and Garry Kent Masciarelli (November 13, 1934 - July 19, 2016)
What a lot of folks don't know is, that there was a lot of controversy whether this gig should be live or not,unfortunately,this was a mimed performance.Watch Franny on the right,no lead or Amp.Plus he looks a little embarrassed...Bill has no microphone.the drummer is out of sinc..Rudy,again no mic.....Not a PA system in sight.etc PS. It doesn't take away the fact that they were the best at what they did.
There was some help from Alan Freed and the movie Blackboard Jungle, but Bill Haley was the very first Rock'n'Roll star when Rock Around The Clock debuted on Billboard Top 100 in 1955 and sold millions. One King!! People had to wait a little before national radio stations started play hits by Fats Domino (Ain't That A Shame), Chuck Berry (Maybellene), Little Richard (Tutti Frutti) and Elvis Presley (Heartbreak Hotel).
That appearance by Halley, at the Dick Clark Show was seen by a little less than 4 million, as per Nielsen. This is what Elvis got, four years earlier, as per TRENDEX, the precursor to Nielsen. That's 3,4,5,6,7,and 8 million viewers for each of his 6 appearances at CBS TV Dorsey Show. That's 18 and 22 million for his two appearances at NBC's Milton Berle Show. Thats' 40 million for his only appearance at ABC's Steve allen Show and 62, 55 and 50 for his 3 appearances at CBS's Ed Sullivan Show.
This was apparently lip-synced to the record, as there are no electrical cords attached to the guitars or the keyboard. No matter. Bill Haley is the Founding Father of Rock-n-Roll. Everything after him is anticlimactic.
Interesting. Great song of course but I wonder how they felt having to mime their 6 year old song rather than play it live. Also, I know people who say Haley did the guitar solo & we can see it was another guy in the group who other people have mentioned in the comments. Also, the kids were chewing gum because Beechnut Gum was a sponsor of the show.
No guitar leads to the electric guitars, must be miming to the record. Mind you they were great live, I supported them with my band in a London Club in the Sixties, they were great!
It is all lip-synced, as an professional upright bass player who models most of my live show after Marshall Lytle I can guarantee you that that bass sound is not coming from the way he is plucking those strings in this video!
"We're Gonna Rock" Wild Bill Moore 1947 (#3 R&B) "Rock And Roll" Wild Bill Moore 1948 "Man Eater" Jay McNeely 1948 "Hole In The Wall" Albennie Jones with Sam Price and his Rockin' Rhythm 1949 ("... gonna rock and roll at the hole in the wall tonight...") "Rock The Joint" Jimmy Preston 1949 (#6 R&B) "Rock The Joint" Chris Powell 1949 "Rock That Boogie" Jimmy Smith 1949 "Boogie At Midnight" Roy Brown 1949 (#3 R&B) ("... gonna rock this joint...") "Butcher Pete" Roy Brown 1949 "Rockin' All Day" Jimmy McCracklin 1949 "Little Red Hen" Johnny Otis 1949 ("... Johnny is rockin'...") "Jump And Shout" Erline "Rock And Roll" Harris 1949 (she was using that nickname publicly then) "Jumpin' At The Jubilee" Big Joe Turner circa December 1949 ("... everybody's rockin' tonight...") "Oh Babe" Kay Starr 1950 (#7 pop) ("... you rock 'em...")
+Joseph Scott In 1954 Bill Haley and his Comets released “Rock around the Clock,” and it was the sound the young had been waiting for. It was the first record to have-all in one place-a lyric about all-night partying, a thrilling guitar solo, and a rock-solid beat, with its drums way up in the mix. What’s more, its success was on an international scale, and this is why it crossed a generational threshold, ushering in the rock ‘n’ roll era.
Rock Around the Clock was also played during the 1st 2 seasons of the popular abc sitcom Happy Days which became the longest running sitcom in the history of abc prime time and American Bandstand still holds the record for the longest running variety series on daytime television God Bless Mr. Clark and God Bless Mr. Haley R.I.P. to both of you
"It was the first record to have-all in one place-a lyric about all-night partying, a thrilling guitar solo, and a rock-solid beat, with its drums way up in the mix." What kinds of guitar solos "thrill" you?
He's right, most of the records you listed, although definitely share characterisitcs with rock 'n' roll, remind the typical consumer more of R&B than of R&R, or what it would become within 5-10 years. The excepted norms of the time were that black people played R&B, and white people played anything that wasn't R&B, and in those earliest years, the black people were really the ones developing the fledgling genre. Well, Haley, who was in a western yodeling band, took that early rock & roll soung, and mixed it with his C&W style, and that, eventually, would produce 'Crazy Man Crazy', which hit the charts in 1953. This was a watershed moment in the development of the genre. Those guitar licks in 'Crazy Man Crazy' are Epic! Stuff like that already existed, but not in Rock 'n' Roll. Nobody in the Rock 'n' Roll community had thought of putting so much emphasis on the electric guitar, rather, they gave the saxophone the high pedestal. Haley had captued lightning in a bottle, and surely a young man living in the projects of Memphis by the name of Elvis was aware of these recordings.
1.35...that was the new drumbeat that went around the Western world.....I know; I was there as a rocking' teen!........evidently, the 180 thumbs-down were not.
Guitar solo starting @1:03 was actually Danny Cedrone not Frank Beecher. This song was originally recorded April of 1954. Cedrone tragically died two months later.
Bill Haley used the same first guitar instrumental break on this song as he did on his recording of "Rock the Joint" when he was recording with The Saddlemen!
That's Frannie Beecher... who is an incredible guitarist but what you're hearing is the inimitable Danny Cedrone who died before it became it a hit. One of the best guitar solos in RnR history!
1960 Elvis was in the Army, crooners were coming back, and RnR was thought of as a fad. Hollywood was pushing Hootenany folk groups and films and folk music was supposed to be the next big thing. Then these 4 guys from a run down English port town showed up...
On this date in 1956 {March 14th} the first rock ' roll movie, "Rock Around The Clock", had its world premier in Washington, DC One week later on March 21st it was released in movie theaters nationwide Two #1 records were featured in the movie; "Rock Around the Clock" by Bill Haley and "The Great Pretender" by the Platters In my home town, Utica, NY, it was showed for the 1st time on May 5th, 1956 at the Olympic Theater at 7:00 PM; the theater was packed and teenagers were rocking in the aisles
*** A Great Day for Us Rock 'N Rollers *** On this day in 1955 {May 14th} "Rock Around the Clock" by Bill Haley and the Comets entered Billboard's Top 100 chart; and on July 9th, 1955 it peaked at #1 {for 8 weeks} on Billboard's Best Sellers chart and spent 24 weeks on the Top 100... It knocked "Cherry Pink & Apple Blossom White" by Perez Prado out of the top spot, it had been #1 for 10 weeks... R.I.P. Mr. Haley {1925 - 1981} and Mr. Prado {1916 - 1989}...
On this day in 1954 {April 12th} Billy Haley and the Comets recorded "Rock Around the Clock" in New York City... Twenty three days earlier and 96 miles south of NYC a group named Sonny Dae & his Knights recorded the same song on March 20th in Philadelphia... Dae & the Knights' version was on the Arcade Record label and never made the national charts, and we all know happen to Haley & the Comets' version... R.I.P. Mr. Haley {1925 - 1981}... Note: Above info from Wikipedia???
On this day in 1955 {August 7th} Bill Haley & the Comets performed "(We're Gonna) Rock Around the Clock" on the CBS-TV program "The Ed Sullivan Show... Two months earlier on May 14th it entered Billboard's Best Sellers chart; and on July 8th it peaked at #1 {for 8 weeks) and spent almost a half-year on the Best Sellers Chart {24 weeks}... And on November 25th it also reached #1 {for 5 non-consecutive weeks} on the United Kingdom's NME chart... R.I.P. Mr. Haley, Mr. Clark, and Mr. Sullivan...
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Today’s music belongs in the blender
Excuse me, the shitter🤢
2021.... 66 years after being recorded. Still peels the paint off the wall. "Rock Around the Clock"
The man at the beginning of this video is Dick Clark, the host of American Bandstand. He died on 18th April 2012.
They called him The World's Oldest Teenager.
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01:03 one of the most famous and distinctive guitar breaks of all time; even to this day.
Is it just me or is there no cable connected to Beecher's guitar?
I agree, I tried to cover it on my piano version. See what you think th-cam.com/video/OlL0hXU5wv0/w-d-xo.html
@@Joe69882 It's Lip-Synched, so no cable needed.
Played by Danny Cedrone, who was dead by the time of this clip where Franny Beecher is miming to it.
@@KevyNova Miming it pretty well, too, shows dedication, practice, and consideration!
Bill Haley and his Comets were outstanding! The guitarist at 1:02 is rippin' it up, then & now!
The guitarist @ 1:02 is simply great!
2017. This is real rock n roll !
shredder good grief enjoy what the kids are doing today and don't be a geezer. 😜
this was back when white man led the world and stayed out of everyone else's business and everyone lived together during the peace era
shredder 2018
@@robdewey317 I hope you are not including today's crap rap.
Not sure who that guitarist is, but he's not the one who played the original solo, because he died in 1954. Still, you have to wonder why that solo didn't inspire more fast soloing like that and guitar players who could do it. That guitar player in the video learned how to, but none of the rock guitarist from the early 60's, George, Keith, Pete, Eric, Jeff, etc... were playing stuff at that level of difficulty. Fast forward 20 years and every guitar player and his mother (including Eric and Jeff) had learned how to play fast stuff. Not that fast = good, like so many bad guitar players think it does, but it does wow people more than a lot of more important aspects of playing does.
Yes,you're right.The guitarist's name was Danny Cedrone. 18 songs he was involved with...Obviously the main one which kick-started the band was 'Rock around the Clock'...Which was a cover (1952) of Jimmy Prestons original version. Franny's solo was practically note for note of Danny's original solo.Danny's guitar work in the studio covered,Shake rattle and Roll.....ABC Boogie..( B-side of Shake Rattle and Roll)....and....Rocket 88......88 was recorded June 14 1951....Hope the info is useful.
A lot of surf music had fast picking, but it was all tremolo picking, not precisely alternate-picked stuff like the solo here. It's funny how one of the first rock songs also had one of the first real shred solos, but shredding itself didn't catch on until much later.
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And then there is the greatness of Les Paul and his work on the strings.
Everyone should watch this, real music with real instruments.
Lino DiGi they still make it
As opposed to a fake instrument? Ok boomer
@@wavecast64 as opposed to all that crap made with computers these days.
@@rocknrollcannibals lol they're still real instruments
@@wavecast64 No they aren't.
I'm from Russia and I really like the composition. This song is amazing live and energetic))
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Possible the greatest rock and roll song of all time. BILL HALEY LIVES!
One of my Top 10. Born in 57, I span a lot of songs.
Dick Clark looks so young. Bill Haley is doing what he does best pure Haley with his magic touch.
Dick always looked young.
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This is pretty much the song that started it all (Rock & Roll)
The first Rock and Roll song to top the charts.
They also put out what is arguably the FIRST Rock and Roll song ever : "Crazy Man Crazy" in 1953.
Its the 60th anniversary of the song that started it all RATC!
Song was released in 1954.
It may be 2023, but the impact and the revolution this song caused will never be forgotten.
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who's watching this in 2016
teddyp92 Garcia 2017
Me! And it's great music!
Me too!
More like 2020
2021
@ChrislovesKrystal Not possible, but fact!!!. "Rock Around the Clock" is the top selling rock and roll hit of all times!!!! It sold more than 30 millions records.
The Year: 1954; The Hour: 4:30 pm, The first note was played of the song that would one day rock the world and Bill Haley shouts out the immortal words which would become forever the international anthem of Rock'n'roll. A song so perfect, so classic it would sell tens of millions of records over the next four decades. The song would be recorded by over two hundred artists but none would capture the Comets' special magic that was recorded on that spring day in New York City.
Rocket 88 first rock n roll song
An enduring classic. Thanks for posting this rare "American Bandstand" performance. We had not seen it before and our Facebook followers are loving it!
Frank Beecher was such a fine guitarist!
Actually Danny Cedrone is playing that guitar solo
first time guitar shredding at 1:03 rock and f@#4ing roll, . . .yeh
If we would have known, that in year 2014 are even guys whe love his music...
y is ever1 chewing gum?
Classic rock & roll perfection !!! Fantastic lead guitar solo !!!
Amazing, right? Still an amazing listen, and it still gets your feet moving, unless you're dead.
What a cool guy
His special voice
no hay como esta musica nada lo reemplaza
Dat guitar solo though
uh dude, bill haley came before chuck.
I been listening to this kind music for 47 years now and, after all these years have passed, these tunes sound as fresh today as the day i first heard them.
We may be getting old and dated but, this type of music always sounds as fresh as a new Morning, Everyday.
This was dad's favourite song when he was teddy boy may rest in peace
Teddy boy
must have sold alot of gum that day
🎉🎉🎉🎉 magic it’s going to live for ever 🔥🔥
that is actually a mean solo right there! great song
everybody is chewing gum :D
This is AWESOME!
I like this way better than the one the All-Star Supergroup played on the 30th Anniversary Special of Bandstand, I mean no disrespect, but Bill Haley had the magic that no one can touch
also, Happy Days used this theme song for the 1st 2 seasons of the series and I like that better than the later themes of Days
God Bless Bill Haley on his wonderful performance, God Bless You Mr. Dick Clark for making American Bandstand what it is today and most of all, Thank You Garry Marshall for not only giving us Happy Days and The Odd Couple TV Series, but also, for giving us Laverne & Shirley and other TV Shows and also, Thank You for makin' Julia Roberts a TRUE Pretty Woman and Thank You Tom Bosley for makin' Happy Days what it's all about
The Happy Times
May You All R.I.P.
William John Clifton Haley (July 6, 1925 - February 9, 1981) Richard Augustus Wagstaff Clark Jr. (November 30, 1929 - April 18, 2012) Thomas Edward Bosley (October 1, 1927 - October 19, 2010) and Garry Kent Masciarelli (November 13, 1934 - July 19, 2016)
What a lot of folks don't know is, that there was a lot of controversy whether this gig should be live or not,unfortunately,this was a mimed performance.Watch Franny on the right,no lead or Amp.Plus he looks a little embarrassed...Bill has no microphone.the drummer is out of sinc..Rudy,again no mic.....Not a PA system in sight.etc PS. It doesn't take away the fact that they were the best at what they did.
4/12/2019 released 65 years ago today !
NO WAY THIS IS A LIVE VERSION.
Sounds too Good to be a Live Version.
It has to be LIPSYNCHED.
There was some help from Alan Freed and the movie Blackboard Jungle, but Bill Haley was the very first Rock'n'Roll star when Rock Around The Clock debuted on Billboard Top 100 in 1955 and sold millions. One King!! People had to wait a little before national radio stations started play hits by Fats Domino (Ain't That A Shame), Chuck Berry (Maybellene), Little Richard (Tutti Frutti) and Elvis Presley (Heartbreak Hotel).
This is my favorite song of all time
All the kids are chewing gum.
That appearance by Halley, at the Dick Clark Show was seen by a little less than 4 million, as per Nielsen. This is what Elvis got, four years earlier, as per TRENDEX, the precursor to Nielsen. That's 3,4,5,6,7,and 8 million viewers for each of his 6 appearances at CBS TV Dorsey Show. That's 18 and 22 million for his two appearances at NBC's Milton Berle Show. Thats' 40 million for his only appearance at ABC's Steve allen Show and 62, 55 and 50 for his 3 appearances at CBS's Ed Sullivan Show.
Since today I'm a rock and roll fan, Omg.... What a singers!
The man was a genius.
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This was apparently lip-synced to the record, as there are no electrical cords attached to the guitars or the keyboard. No matter. Bill Haley is the Founding Father of Rock-n-Roll. Everything after him is anticlimactic.
Interesting. Great song of course but I wonder how they felt having to mime their 6 year old song rather than play it live. Also, I know people who say Haley did the guitar solo & we can see it was another guy in the group who other people have mentioned in the comments. Also, the kids were chewing gum because Beechnut Gum was a sponsor of the show.
if you notice, nobody had their guitars plugged into their amps. everybody lip synced back in those days on american bandstand.
he is from Germany, he hated communism. I have to think about it? it is either a fascist or liberal, but I find it easier to talk fascist
ROCK & ROLL ... CLASIC ... EPIC
This song is the catalyst of rock n roll
Never heard more true words in my life
They sure liked to chew a lot of gum back then.
Yes well remembered Ingvar i have been busy posting as well!
Always great to see The Comets! A performance with style.
I see. While Stalin did save his country from ruin, so did Hitler. They are very alike.
The melody here is identical to the one on the studio record. Haley was lip-synching here.
Im 23 and i Love this music :) i would've enjoyed to live on those days !!
The girl at 1:00 is just chowin down lmao
the whole audience chews gum wuut
im replying 8 years later are u still active
lol
and of course the kids clap on 1 and 3 instead of the backbeat 2 and 4.
Fucking crowd clapping at 1 and 3
+Lara Croft LOL! I was just about to write the same thing :)
Oi u guys should watch the Queen
Of England Dance to this omg
No guitar leads to the electric guitars, must be miming to the record. Mind you they were great live, I supported them with my band in a London Club in the Sixties, they were great!
There is a video of them playing it live. Search it via "Rock around the Clock Ed Sullivan Show."
It is all lip-synced, as an professional upright bass player who models most of my live show after Marshall Lytle I can guarantee you that that bass sound is not coming from the way he is plucking those strings in this video!
Hello Kyle. Sorry for intruding your privacy, I just want to know if you're a fan?
"We're Gonna Rock" Wild Bill Moore 1947 (#3 R&B)
"Rock And Roll" Wild Bill Moore 1948
"Man Eater" Jay McNeely 1948
"Hole In The Wall" Albennie Jones with Sam Price and his Rockin' Rhythm 1949 ("... gonna rock and roll at the hole in the wall tonight...")
"Rock The Joint" Jimmy Preston 1949 (#6 R&B)
"Rock The Joint" Chris Powell 1949
"Rock That Boogie" Jimmy Smith 1949
"Boogie At Midnight" Roy Brown 1949 (#3 R&B) ("... gonna rock this joint...")
"Butcher Pete" Roy Brown 1949
"Rockin' All Day" Jimmy McCracklin 1949
"Little Red Hen" Johnny Otis 1949 ("... Johnny is rockin'...")
"Jump And Shout" Erline "Rock And Roll" Harris 1949 (she was using that nickname publicly then)
"Jumpin' At The Jubilee" Big Joe Turner circa December 1949 ("... everybody's rockin' tonight...")
"Oh Babe" Kay Starr 1950 (#7 pop) ("... you rock 'em...")
+Joseph Scott In 1954 Bill Haley and his Comets released “Rock around the Clock,” and it was the sound the young had been waiting for. It was the first record to have-all in one place-a lyric about all-night partying, a thrilling guitar solo, and a rock-solid beat, with its drums way up in the mix. What’s more, its success was on an international scale, and this is why it crossed a generational threshold, ushering in the rock ‘n’ roll era.
Rock Around the Clock was also played during the 1st 2 seasons of the popular abc sitcom Happy Days which became the longest running sitcom in the history of abc prime time and American Bandstand still holds the record for the longest running variety series on daytime television
God Bless Mr. Clark and God Bless Mr. Haley
R.I.P. to both of you
"It was the first record to have-all in one place-a lyric about all-night partying, a thrilling guitar solo, and a rock-solid beat, with its drums way up in the mix." What kinds of guitar solos "thrill" you?
He's right, most of the records you listed, although definitely share characterisitcs with rock 'n' roll, remind the typical consumer more of R&B than of R&R, or what it would become within 5-10 years. The excepted norms of the time were that black people played R&B, and white people played anything that wasn't R&B, and in those earliest years, the black people were really the ones developing the fledgling genre. Well, Haley, who was in a western yodeling band, took that early rock & roll soung, and mixed it with his C&W style, and that, eventually, would produce 'Crazy Man Crazy', which hit the charts in 1953. This was a watershed moment in the development of the genre. Those guitar licks in 'Crazy Man Crazy' are Epic! Stuff like that already existed, but not in Rock 'n' Roll. Nobody in the Rock 'n' Roll community had thought of putting so much emphasis on the electric guitar, rather, they gave the saxophone the high pedestal. Haley had captued lightning in a bottle, and surely a young man living in the projects of Memphis by the name of Elvis was aware of these recordings.
And this is where it all began.............speechless in the presence of history.
Legend....Never Forget
Actisrealwonderful
A great song
hahaha everybody eat chewing-gum at 2:15
This song invented youth.
this isnt Social Studies class now
Love the guitar shred in this
That guitar solo... hell yeah!
Un succès immortel. Je suis fan de ce chanteur.
moi aussi 🎼🎼🎸🎸👍👍❤❤
bubblegum ftw 👍👍👍
Unbelievable lightning speed on that guitar solo
That's when the true rock begun! Bill was the source of Rock'n and Roll !
Not really
They're miming to the 1954 recording.
1.35...that was the new drumbeat that went around the Western world.....I know; I was there as a rocking' teen!........evidently, the 180 thumbs-down were not.
SÍMBOLO DE MI NIÑEZ...LO VI EN EL CINE TEATRO REX...BAILAMOS EN LOS PASILLOS...MI HERMOSA ADOLESCENCIA
Esto si e Rock del bueno y del verdadero ♥
That is the best quality video I've ever seen👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻
I love this song
Guitar solo starting @1:03 was actually Danny Cedrone not Frank Beecher. This song was originally recorded April of 1954. Cedrone tragically died two months later.
This is my favorite song of all time I 3 BILL HALEY
Bill Haley used the same first guitar instrumental break on this song as he did on his recording of "Rock the Joint" when he was recording with The Saddlemen!
Lord he was shredding that guitar!
That's Frannie Beecher... who is an incredible guitarist but what you're hearing is the inimitable Danny Cedrone who died before it became it a hit.
One of the best guitar solos in RnR history!
well it's absolutely amazing my friend
Mafia 2 brought me here.
***** Cool.
Bill Haley brought me here.
Same.
1:48 is when stuff gets real
No doubt. Imagine seeing this for the first time!
I like 0:53-1:02
God of rockin
Már hatvan éve, hogy szállnak az évek! A szaxis meg milyen boldog lehet, hogy Bill végig kitakarja :-)
1960 Elvis was in the Army, crooners were coming back, and RnR was thought of as a fad.
Hollywood was pushing Hootenany folk groups and films and folk music was supposed to be the next big thing.
Then these 4 guys from a run down English port town showed up...
love it
This clip is NOT from "Bandstand", it is from Dick Clark's Saturday Night Beechnut Show.
On this date in 1956 {March 14th} the first rock ' roll movie, "Rock Around The Clock", had its world premier in Washington, DC
One week later on March 21st it was released in movie theaters nationwide
Two #1 records were featured in the movie; "Rock Around the Clock" by Bill Haley and "The Great Pretender" by the Platters
In my home town, Utica, NY, it was showed for the 1st time on May 5th, 1956 at the Olympic Theater at 7:00 PM; the theater was packed and teenagers were rocking in the aisles
i am .....greaser till i die man
*** A Great Day for Us Rock 'N Rollers ***
On this day in 1955 {May 14th} "Rock Around the Clock" by Bill Haley and the Comets entered Billboard's Top 100 chart; and on July 9th, 1955 it peaked at #1 {for 8 weeks} on Billboard's Best Sellers chart and spent 24 weeks on the Top 100...
It knocked "Cherry Pink & Apple Blossom White" by Perez Prado out of the top spot, it had been #1 for 10 weeks...
R.I.P. Mr. Haley {1925 - 1981} and Mr. Prado {1916 - 1989}...
On this day in 1954 {April 12th} Billy Haley and the Comets recorded "Rock Around the Clock" in New York City...
Twenty three days earlier and 96 miles south of NYC a group named Sonny Dae & his Knights recorded the same song on March 20th in Philadelphia...
Dae & the Knights' version was on the Arcade Record label and never made the national charts, and we all know happen to Haley & the Comets' version...
R.I.P. Mr. Haley {1925 - 1981}...
Note: Above info from Wikipedia???
Try shake, rattle, and roll, by the same band.
...and See You Later Alligator.
On this day in 1955 {August 7th} Bill Haley & the Comets performed "(We're Gonna) Rock Around the Clock" on the CBS-TV program "The Ed Sullivan Show...
Two months earlier on May 14th it entered Billboard's Best Sellers chart; and on July 8th it peaked at #1 {for 8 weeks) and spent almost a half-year on the Best Sellers Chart {24 weeks}...
And on November 25th it also reached #1 {for 5 non-consecutive weeks} on the United Kingdom's NME chart...
R.I.P. Mr. Haley, Mr. Clark, and Mr. Sullivan...