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William John Clifton "Bill" Haley (/ˈheɪliː/; July 6, 1925 – February 9, 1981) was an American rock and roll musician. He is credited by many with first popularizing this form of music in the early 1950s with his group Bill Haley & His Comets and million-selling hits such as "Rock Around the Clock", "See You Later, Alligator", "Shake, Rattle and Roll", "Rocket 88", "Skinny Minnie", and "Razzle Dazzle". He has sold over 25 million records worldwide.
Bill Haley was born July 6, 1925 in Highland Park, Michigan, as William John Clifton Haley. In 1929 the four-year-old Haley underwent an inner-ear mastoid operation which accidentally severed an optic nerve, leaving him blind in his left eye for the rest of his life. As a result of the effects of the Great Depression on the Detroit area, his father moved the family to Boothwyn, near Chester, Pennsylvania, when Bill was seven years old. Haley's father William Albert Haley was from Kentucky and played the banjo and mandolin, and his mother, Maude Green, who was originally from Ulverston in Cumbria, England, was a technically accomplished keyboardist with classical training. Haley told the story that when he made a simulated guitar out of cardboard, his parents bought him a real one.
"Rocket 88" (originally written as Rocket "88") is a rhythm and blues song that was first recorded in Memphis, Tennessee, on March 3 or 5, 1951 (accounts differ). The recording was credited to Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats, who were actually Ike Turner's Kings of Rhythm.
The record reached no. 1 on the Billboard R&B chart. Many experts acknowledge its importance in the development of rock and roll music, with several considering it to be the first rock and roll record.
The original version of the twelve-bar blues song was credited to Jackie Brenston (Ike Turner's saxophonist) and his Delta Cats, which hit number one on the R&B charts. The band was actually 19-year-old Ike Turner and his Kings of Rhythm band, who rehearsed at the Riverside Hotel in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Brenston sang the lead vocal and was credited with writing "Rocket 88". The song was a hymn of praise to the joys of the Oldsmobile "Rocket 88" automobile which had recently been introduced, and was based on the 1947 song "Cadillac Boogie" by Jimmy Liggins. It was also preceded and influenced by Pete Johnson's "Rocket 88 Boogie" Parts 1 and 2, an instrumental, originally recorded for the Los Angeles-based Swing Time Records label in 1949.
Rocket 88 is the name of a United Kingdom-based boogie-woogie band formed in the late 1970s by Ian "Stu" Stewart, Charlie Watts, Alexis Korner and Dick Morrissey.
The band is named after the 1949 Pete Johnson instrumental "Rocket 88 Boogie" and is also the title of their 1981 live album, recorded by the Rolling Stones Mobile Studio. The first known use of the phrase "Rocket 88" was for the Oldsmobile Rocket 88 car introduced by General Motors in 1949.
The continuation of an ad hoc band formed by Stewart, Watts and Bob Hall, George Green, Colin Smith,John Picard, the band featured many top British musicians, who would meet up when possible during the late 1970s and early 1980s for what was an ongoing jam session. Other "regular" members of the band included the above-mentioned founding members, plus Jack Bruce, Danny Adler, Don Weller, Colin Hodgkinson, Zoot Money, Chris Farlowe, Hal Singer, Mickey Waller, Pete York, Dave Markee, Harvey Weston, Charlie Hart, Willie Garnett and Malcolm Everson.
Rocket 88 is an album recorded live in Germany in 1981 by the boogie-woogie band Rocket 88. The band had a casual line-up, and founder/producer/band-member Ian Stewart in his liner notes makes reference to the other "permanent" band-members who were not present for that particular recording. Although it is rumoured that there are numerous bootleg live takes from other concerts, it is the band's only officially released album. It was recorded using the Rolling Stones Mobile Studio.
Side 1
1. "Rocket 88" (Pete Johnson) 7:27
2. "Waiting For The Call" (Jack Bruce/Peter Brown) 10:16
3. "St. Louis Blues" (W.C. Handy) 7:55
Side 2
4. "Roll 'Em Pete" (Pete Johnson/Joe Turner) 5:52
5. "Swindon Swing" (Colin Smith) 7:34
6. "Roadhouse Boogie" (Pete Johnson) 7:17
7. "Talking About Louise" (Alexis Korner) 5:14
Bill Haley & His Comets was an American Rock&Roll band founded in 1952 that continued playing until Haley's death in 1981. The band was the earliest group of white musicians to bring Rock&Roll to the attention of white America and the rest of the world. From late 1954 to1956, the group placed nine singles into the Top 20 and three more in the Top Ten. Many fans consider them to be as revolutionary in their time as The Beatles or the Rolling Stones were a decade or two later. Bill Haley was given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
History Originally entitled "Later Alligator", the song, based on a 12-bar blues chord structure (141541),was written by Louisiana songwriter Robert Charles Guidry and first recorded by him under his professional name "Bobby Charles" in 1955. Guidry, a Cajun musician, adopted a New Orleans-influenced blues style for the recording. He also wrote "Walking to New Orleans", which was recorded by Fats Domino.
Bill Haley & His Comets "Rock Around The Clock" on The Ed Sullivan Show on August 7, 1955. Subscribe now to never miss an update: https://ume.lnk.to/EdSullivanSubscribe Watch Motown performances from The Ed Sullivan Show https://youtube.com/watch?v=kTVF5WMN7Kw&list=PLQWND5qZhbj3tfQKiK-5FzjLSTUz5WRTf Watch classic Rock and Roll performances from The Ed Sullivan Show: https://youtube.com/watch?v=_qQzuvfvBdE&list=PLQWND5qZhbj06AA1fnZQnHvOqP5ZctF8Y Watch Iconic Singers perform on The Ed Sullivan Show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIIU9xkGAMs&list=PLQWND5qZhbj1fSTRzLrpV3vLO1yOGx8vH Sign up to receive the Ed Sullivan Show newsletter! https://EdSullivan.lnk.to/SubscribeToEmail Follow The Ed Sullivan Show: Website http://edsullivan.com/ Facebook https://facebook.com/EdSullivanShow Twitter ...
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Bill Haley and His Comets - Complete Concert Live in Brussels, Belgium - European Tour - October 30, 1958, at the Royal Flemish Theatre (KVS) (Koninklijke Vlaamse Schouwburg) (Full T.V Broadcast Video) 01 - Intro by François Cassiers 0:00 02 - The Saint Rock'N'Roll 0:35 03 - Shake Rattle And Roll 03:37 04 - Rudy's Rock 06:00 05 - Giddy Up A Ding Dong (Al Pompilli, vocal & Bill Haley, Bass) 10:42 06 - Tequila 13:20 07 - Rock This Joint (Joe Olivier aka Cappy Bianco, vocal) 17:30 08 - See You Later Alligator 19:58 09 - Rock Around The Clock 22:00 10 - Mambo Rock 24:55 It is a VIP concert for the 5th anniversary of the Belgian BRT TV channel (Belgium Flemish Radio and Television) The public is filtered for the TV broadcast, which allows having a document of good quality, correctly filmed wi...
The first record I bought was 'Rock Around The Clock' by Bill Haley and the Comets, a 78rpm one. This is from the Royal Variety Show of 1979 recorded at Theatre Royal Drury Lane where my father was the Manager. Bill Haley died just 15 months later at the age of 55 most likely from a heart attack'.
Bill Haley & The Comets sing one of their biggest hits - Shake Rattle & Roll.
This is just my free interpretation of songs by Elvis Presley (Blue Suede Shoes), Stray Cats (Rock This Town) and Bill Haley (Rock Around The Clock)
A song by Bill Haley and his Comets.A cover of the song by "Big" Joe Turner. Please comments.
Widely acknowledged as the first "rock and roll" song.
Sometimes cited as the ‘first’ rock ‘n roll record, this performing group was actually Ike Turner’s Kings of Rhythm, with which Brenston was singer and saxophonist. The title refers to the recently-introduced “Rocket 88” model Oldsmobile. More information about the song and recording can be found on Wikipedia’s Rocket 88 page. CD audio, original single issued on Chess 1458 - Rocket “88” (Brenston) by Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats . ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The three* MusicProf channels are home to The HITS ARCHIVES, YouTube’s most comprehensive collection of U.S. ‘popular music’ recordings from 1925 thru 1975. Discover thousands of original hit versions, conveniently arranged in year-by-year playlists and sorted al...
Rocket 88 Ike Turner and Jackie Brenston with Lyrics
As we celebrate the 70th anniversary of the release of Rocket "88", lets take a look back at arguably the first ever rock 'n' roll song. Rocket "88" predates Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, and Carl Perkins. Special thanks to Mitchell Keeran for narrating this video! You can check out his YouTube channel and Twitter account here: https://youtube.com/channel/UC63jV99uV2ud1XJCdXsiCgg https://twitter.com/MitchellKeeran Songs featured in this video: Rocket "88" - Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats Rock Around the Clock - Bill Haley & His Comets So Fine - Ike Turner's Kings of Rhythm Hound Dog - Elvis Presley Caldonia - Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five Good Golly, Miss Molly - Little Richard That's All Right - Arthur Crudup Rock Around The Block - Giorgio Di Campo (background) Full Song: https...
Ike Turner & The Kings Of Rhythm performing Rocket 88 in 2002. #IkeTurner #2021 #Music
Rocket 88 sub, spanish
Bill Haley - Rocket 88 1951
Lance Lipinsky & the Lovers perform the Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats classic Rocket 88. www.thelovers.com
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Provided to YouTube by The Orchard Enterprises Rocket 88 · Jackie Brenston Sun Records Story - Disc Three ℗ 2002 Charly Records Released on: 2009-02-04 Music Publisher: ARC Music / Sun Music Publisher: Hill & Range Songs Inc. Music Publisher: John Henry Burton LTD Music Publisher: Tristan Music Auto-generated by YouTube.
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William John Clifton "Bill" Haley (/ˈheɪliː/; July 6, 1925 – February 9, 1981) was an American rock and roll musician. He is credited by many with first popularizing this form of music in the early 1950s with his group Bill Haley & His Comets and million-selling hits such as "Rock Around the Clock", "See You Later, Alligator", "Shake, Rattle and Roll", "Rocket 88", "Skinny Minnie", and "Razzle Dazzle". He has sold over 25 million records worldwide.
Bill Haley was born July 6, 1925 in Highland Park, Michigan, as William John Clifton Haley. In 1929 the four-year-old Haley underwent an inner-ear mastoid operation which accidentally severed an optic nerve, leaving him blind in his left eye for the rest of his life. As a result of the effects of the Great Depression on the Detroit area, his father moved the family to Boothwyn, near Chester, Pennsylvania, when Bill was seven years old. Haley's father William Albert Haley was from Kentucky and played the banjo and mandolin, and his mother, Maude Green, who was originally from Ulverston in Cumbria, England, was a technically accomplished keyboardist with classical training. Haley told the story that when he made a simulated guitar out of cardboard, his parents bought him a real one.
I got a woman just as sweet as can be
She reminds me of a little green tree
Her limbs are straight, she grows tall
She comes from the south and she says 'you all'
Oh, the little green trees are growing up all around
(Green tree boogie)
Yeah, the little green trees are growing up all around
(Green tree boogie)
When the rain falls they spring up from the ground
(Green tree boogie)
Oh, the green tree boogie is driving me almost wild
(Green tree boogie)
Oh, the green tree boogie is driving me almost wild
(Green tree boogie)
If it don't make you boogie, it will surely make you
smile
(Green tree boogie)
Soon I'll marry her, I'm gonna settle down
Gonna buy me a home in some small town
Then we'll have a lot of little green trees
All growing up just to worry me
And the little green trees will grow up all around
(Green tree boogie)
Yeah, the little green trees will grow up all around
(Green tree boogie)
When their mammie calls, they'll spring up from the
ground
(Green tree boogie)
Oh, the green tree boogie is driving me almost wild
(Green tree boogie)
Oh, the green tree boogie is driving me almost wild
(Green tree boogie)
If it don't make you boogie, it will surely make you
smile
(Green tree boogie)
Oh, the green tree boogie is driving me almost wild
(Green tree boogie)
Yeah, the green tree boogie is driving me almost wild
(Green tree boogie)
If it don't make you boogie, it will surely make you