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"Rock Around The Clock" by Bill Haley & His 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.
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.
There's no indication of anyone by that name playing with Bill Haley and His Comets; there have been no less than 3-4 groups carrying the name Bill Haley's Comets in the years after Haley's death, so someone named Goodson could have performed with one of those groups.
Bill Haley and The Comets
"Rock Around The Clock" by Bill Haley & His 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.
Rock has, of course, undergone many, many changes since 1955, the year the movie Blackboard Jungle shocked the nation and introduced young audiences to "Rock Around the Clock" by Bill Haley and the Comets. They are given credit for introducing the country to rock'n'roll, although they did not invent this new form of music.
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.
I belive that it was Bill Haley and His Comets.
There's no indication of anyone by that name playing with Bill Haley and His Comets; there have been no less than 3-4 groups carrying the name Bill Haley's Comets in the years after Haley's death, so someone named Goodson could have performed with one of those groups.
Bill Haley and The Comets
Bill Haley's New Comets was created in 1987.
The leader of the Comets was Bill Haley; they were billed as Bill Haley and his Comets.
decca took over the Brunswick label that Haley and the comets recorded "Rock around the clock" on
Haley's first group as a leader was the Four Aces of Western Swing. Then he formed Bill Haley and the Saddlemen around 1949-1950, which became Bill Haley and the Comets in 1952.