Joey's Song, an instrumental, was Haley's only American hit in 1959 (Skokiaan, another hit, was released in 1959 but didn't chart until 1960). He might have scored chart hits elsewhere that year.
Bill Haley and the Comets
Bill Haley and the Comets
Bill Haley (and the Comets).
Rock Around the Clock, by Bill Haley and His Comets.
Bill Haley & His Comets In 1953, the late James E. Myers, a low-key Philadelphia musician, music publisher and movie extra co-wrote "Rock Around the Clock" with the late Max Freedman, a Philadelphia postal worker turned songwriter. The song was recorded by Bill Haley & His Comets in 1954 and forever changed the landscape of American popular culture. It stalled on the charts, then blasted to No.1 in 1955 after it was showcased as the theme for the teens-gone-wild movie "Blackboard Jungle.
rock around the clock
"Rock Around The Clock" by Bill Haley & His Comets.
"Rock Around the Clock" by Bill Haley & His Comets
Rock Around The Clock by Bill Haley & His Comets
Rock around the Clock by Bill Haley and the Comets
The first film with a Rock and Roll theme song was "Blackboard Jungle" (1955). The song was "Rock Around the Clock" by Bill Haley and the Comets.
The song "Rock around the clock" was written by Jimmy De Knight in 1952 but was successfully released in 1954 by Bill Haley and The Comets in 1954. The movie "Rock around the clock" featuring Bill Haley and The Comets was released in 1956.