Bill Haley and Elvis Presley meeting backstage in Stuttgart, Germany in Oct 1958. 1974: Feb / May Haley adapted this song from the original R&B version by Little Richard, which earlier that year had been a No. “Richard Nader’s Rock & Roll Revival Celebrates 5th Year,” Billboard, October 19, 1974. He would sometimes go off on long drives in his Lincoln Continental automobile, returning home drunk or not coming back for days. “Hot Dog Buddy Buddy” Their sound was unique at the time, coming out of a rockabilly mold, framed by slap-back bass, electric guitar, and pedal steel guitar. The ticket was 24 shillings, and I was the only one of my mates who could go as no one else had been able to save up that amount. Earlier that summer, after a riot at a rock `n roll show in Asbury Park, New Jersey sent 25 teens to the hospital, the mayor there placed a rock-`n-roll ban on all city dance halls. In the year following the film, a new television series, Happy Days, also using a story line from the 1950s-1960s, and starring Ron Howard, Henry Winkler and others, used “Rock Around the Clock” as the opening theme song for the 1974-75 season, helping to boost the Haley song once again. Steven R Rosen, “Book Review of Jim Dawson’s Rock Around the Clock: The Record That Started the Rock Revolution,” Denver Post, June 2005. “Oldies and Revival Shows Fill A Void for ‘Rough, Direct Music,” Billboard, July 22, 1972, p. 52. “Rock Around The Clock” amzn_assoc_ad_type = "smart"; 1 hits by the end of 1957. Starring Bill Haley, Lavern Baker, The Platters, et. But as it turned out, this would be the peak for Bill Haley in the U.S., as then, a new rocker named Elvis Presley, who had opened a time or two for Haley back in 1954, was now on the rise in the American rock `n roll scene. In addition to Presley, other new performers, including Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard, were also rising on the record charts. In one case on the tour, the black artists refused to perform and the show was cancelled. “Rudy’s Rock” And by this time as well, the first in a series of the rock `n roll films would appear, titled Rock Around the Clock, starring Haley and his band. Yet musicians like Haley clearly helped craft a new sound. In France some shows were curtailed. At one given moment, it was playing five times on the dial. On May 18, 1956, after playing two shows at the Civic Auditorium, Houston, TX, the tour group hit the road at 1 a.m. and traveled 400 miles to their next scheduled show the following day in Baton Rouge, Louisiana at Loyola University. Haley also recorded over a hundred titles on at least four different Latin American labels. In the end, Bill Haley at the time of his death was an unheralded music pioneer overlooked and neglected for his contributions to the rise of rock `n roll. amzn_assoc_asins = "B0001JXQG0,B00IZTKIPU,B00O1BC2J6,B00PD478OE"; “Bill Haley,” in Holly George-Warren and Patricia Romanowski (eds), The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll, Rolling Stone Press, New York, 3rd Edition, 2001, p. 403. “Two Hound Dogs” 1956: Bill Haley and His Comets receive top billing at the London Pavilion for the film, “Rock Around The Clock,” which produced enthusiastic teen audiences throughout England and beyond – and some rioting as well. 1976: December Old friends and former business associates were getting rambling, late night phone calls as well. “R-O-C-K” Back on tour, meanwhile, at some locations, and also on the road at rest stops, the tour group dealt with segregation and racial tensions. By the early 1970s, however, Haley was losing interest in performing. amzn_assoc_placement = "adunit0"; After that, Haley’s left eye was never quite right, looking off in an odd direction, contributing to a self-conscious shyness. May 15: Coliseum, Denver, CO amzn_assoc_tracking_id = "thpohidill-20"; The song, in somewhat altered version, is used four times in the film: during the film’s opening credits with a lengthy drum introduction, in the first scene, as an instrumental version in the middle of the film, and at the close of the movie. . He became less and less inclined to perform. April 1956, Hersheypark Arena, Hershey, Pennsylvania. Poster for follow-up film, Dec 1956, “Don’t Knock The Rock,” also featuring Haley & others. May 20: Mun. Cover of tour booklet for January 1957 rock ’n roll tour of Australia by Bill Haley and others acts. For the October 22nd, 1956 show, for example, at the Syria Mosque in Pittsburgh, PA, Haley and the Comets were banned from performing by police order. Aud., Charleston, WVA On their way to New York, Steve and his companion Corny, stop at a motel in a small place called Strawberry Springs. November 1959 / #35 May 31: Township Aud., Columbia, SC, June 1: The Mosque, Richmond, VA There was also a packaged tour for the second half of 1956 – this one, a 40-date tour under the name, “The Biggest In Person Show of 1956.” In addition to Haley, other acts on that tour included: The Platters, Clyde McPhatter, Frankie Lymon & Teenagers, The Clovers, Ella Johnson, Chuck Berry, Shirley & Lee, Shirley Gunter, The Flairs, Buddy Johnson Orchestra, and the Vic Lewis Orchestra. United Press, “‘Blackboard Jungle’ Banned,” New York Times, April 13, 1955. Haley’s version of “Rocket 88” in any case, on Essex Records, sold 10,000 copies, a modest result but enough to convince Haley that this new “high energy” sound – basically, black R& B music – would appeal to teenagers. Mae Tinee, “Shocking Tale in ‘Blackboard Jungle’ Movie,” Chicago Daily Tribune, May 4, 1955, pt. “See You Later, Alligator” He, Martha, and family, meanwhile, moved just north of the Mexican border, settling in Harlingen, Texas, where they bought a big old house with yard, swimming pool, and pool house. Bill Haley and the Comets first traveled to Australia in January 1957, where their show dates were all sold out in advance, with thousands more fans turned away. “I’ve still got the ticket stub in my wallet from when I went to see Bill Haley and the Comets play in Manchester in February 1957—my first-ever concert,” said singer songwriter Graham Nash, famous for his singing with the Hollies and Crosby, Stills & Nash. Click for CD set. Gordon then offered $100,000 to Haley if he would extend his tour, which Haley declined, then anxious to return home and rest before their next tour – this one to Great Britain. 158 on the, Bill Haley, in particular, was a bit of an inventor and synthesizer, taking from the music around him and creating something new. By today’s standards, of course, the song may seem unexceptional. amzn_assoc_linkid = "ff26901c1c79bf0a8e3b87d56f838c73"; “Bill Haley, 1925-1981,” BillHaley.co.UK. Yet when “Rock Around The Clock” was first released in May of 1954, it had modest success at best, and seemed headed for the rock `n roll dustbins. On May 31, 1955, in one of the earliest nationally-televised performances by a rock `n roll band, Bill Haley and the Comets performed “Rock Around the Clock” on the. Also that year in Sweden, Haley was contacted by Sonet Records and signed a contract with them, later releasing a number of albums and singles on the Sonet label – songs that never charted in the U.S., though some were hits in other countries. Then in May 1980, Haley set off to tour once again, this time to South Africa for three weeks of shows. Rock Around the Clock, produced by Columbia Pictures, was released in March 1956. He and family moved to Vera Cruz, where he bought a boat and an old hotel, and teamed up with some locals there to learn fishing by hand. On February 5th,1957, when Bill Haley and the Comets arrived in England, the screaming and excited crowds that greeted them would remind some of the wild commotion that would greet the Beatles’s arrival in the U.S. seven years later. There were also two later appearances on Dick Clark’s Saturday Night Beechnut Show, a primetime show – on March 22, 1958, during the first season, and February 20th, 1960, performing three songs: “Rock Around the Clock,” “Shake, Rattle, and Roll,” and “Tamiami.” Haley had also appeared on Bandstand before Dick Clark was the DJ – in 1953, when it was known as just “Bandstand” and the DJ was Bob Horn. ‘They have made a movie about us, therefore we exist’.”. amzn_assoc_region = "US"; site), February 1, 2016, and Otto Fuchs, February 1956 / #6 . “White Council vs. Rock and Roll,” Time, April 18,1956. And Haley, by virtue of his starring roles in the various rock `n roll films then circulating, was revealed to his largely teen audience as something of an older figure, then in his early 30s, and not offering the kind of stage presence and sexuality that Elvis Presley and other younger performers were delivering. In the late 1960s, Haley had a bit of comeback and touring success with a series of rock `n roll revival shows, including dates in the U.S. and Europe. May 1954 / #23 (1st release) He had cut and released a few songs by this time with Sun Studios of Memphis, Tennessee, including “I Forgot To Remember To Forget” of August 1955 (w/“Mystery Train” on its B side), which would make him a nationally-known country music star after it hit No. Comments to: jdoyle@pophistorydig.com. Michael Hall, writing a. By 1952, Haley dropped the country and western style and re-named his group Bill Haley & His Comets. Turner Classic Movies also lists the Bill Haley/Blackboard Jungle soundtrack on its Top 15 Most Influential Movie Soundtracks of all time. Picked up newspaper reporters and photographers and publicity women and sailed for England. Bill Haley and His Comets had 37 hit records. May 16: Sportatorium, Dallas, TX 1 hit on the R&B chart). Still, during 1955 and 1956, Haley and his band had at least 12 U.S. Top 40 records. She has recalled being very sad at the experience, as he gave her “the biggest hug” that evening. Among those released in the U.S., for example, were: “Dim, Dim The Lights” in January (No.10); “Birth Of The Boogie” in April (No.17); “Mambo Rock,” also in April (No.17); re-release of “Rock Around the Clock” in June (No.1); “Two Hound Dogs” in September (No.15); “Burn That Candle” in November (No.9); “Rock-A-Beatin’ Boogie” in November (No.23); and Top Ten hit, “See You Later, Alligator” in February 1956 (No.6). 1964: Sept / Oct They cut a version of a song called “Rocket 88,” an R&B song written by black artist, Jackie Brenston ( and according to one account, although credited to “Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats” on Chess Records, was actually performed by Ike Turner and Knights, later of Ike & Tina Turner fame).

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