#ROCK AROUND THE CLOCK MOVIE#
#ROCK AROUND THE CLOCK SERIES#

Barry from Sauquoit, NyThe song it knocked out of the No.

1 on April 21st, 1956 and it stayed there for eight weeks. It would then take 33 weeks before another rock 'n roll record would reach No.1 and it was Elvis who would do it.

Barry from Sauquoit, NyThe last week that 'Rock Around the Clock' was No.

35 the Kingsmen were actually The Comets without Bill Haley!!!

Barry from Sauquoit, NyIn 1958 The Kingsmen released an instrumental record titled 'Week End', it peaked at No.

Only Henry Winkler (Fonzie), Marion Ross (Mrs. Pratt and McClain's version entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart on March 28th, 1976 and on May 30th it peaked at #5 (for 2 weeks) and spent 14 weeks on the Top 100 (and 5 of those 14 weeks were on the Top 10). Then Pratt and McClain's 'Happy Days' became the show's theme song from 1976 to 1983, and in the show's final year Bobby Arvon performed the theme song.

#ROCK AROUND THE CLOCK SERIES#

The series ran from 1974 to 1984 with a grand total of 255 episodes.Īs already stated Bill Haley & the Comets' 'Rock Around the Clock' was the opening theme in 1974 & 1975. Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn January 15th 1974, the 30-minute sitcom 'Happy Days' debut on the ABC-TV network.In 2012 he was elected to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Comets.

#ROCK AROUND THE CLOCK MOVIE#

He didn't play on the recording of 'Rock Around the Clock' but appeared and played in the movie of the same name.

Barry from Sauquoit, NySadly, Francis 'Franny' Beecher, lead guitarist for Bill Haley & his Comets, passed away on February 24th, 2014 at the age of 92.

Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn March 10th 1974, Bill Haley & the Comets' 'Rock Around the Clock' re-entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at position #99 and nine weeks later on May 19th, 1974 it peaked at #39 and spent 14 weeks on the Top 100 combined with its 24 weeks on the chart in 1956, it spent a grand total 39 weeks on the chart.* And of course it’s available on You Tube. in Philadelphia, a quartet named Sonny Dae & his Knights recorded the first original recorded version* of 'Rock Around the Clock'.ĭae & the Knights' version was on the Arcade Record label and never made the national charts, and we all know what happen to Haley & the Comets' version. Twenty three days earlier on March 20th, 1954 and roughly 96 miles south of N.Y.C. Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn April 12th 1954, at the Pythian Temple studios in New York City Bill Haley and the Comets recorded 'Thirteen Women' and 'Rock Around the Clock'….Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn August 14th 1958, the Kingsmen performed 'Week End' on the ABC-TV program 'American Bandstand'.Ī little under three weeks later on September 1st, 1958 it entered Billboard's Top 100 chart at position #96 it stayed on the chart for three weeks and peaked at #35.Īt the time of this appearance on 'Bandstand' they were on the Top 100 chart, as the Comets with Bill Haley, at position #67 with 'Lean Jean', and that was also its peak position on the Top 100.The reason: Haley and most of the Comets had a fear of flying.Īt the time the group's '(We Gonna) Rock Around the Clock' was at #3 on Billboard's Most Played on Jukeboxes chart, #4 on the Best Seller in Stores chart, and #5 on Most Played by Jockeys chart. Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn September 3rd 1955, Billy Haley and the Comets turned down a $2,000 contract, the contract was for a fifteen date tour of Australia.Billie Glor from Santa Clarita, CaThis song is also the opener for the movie American Grafitti.Was dating at the time Arlene Jackson, neice of Bill Halley and he was recording at a radio station in Brookhaven, PA David PippinFirst recording of Rock Around the clock was 1952 by Dave Pippin in Chester PA.Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind When the clock strikes twelve, we'll cool off then If the band slows down we'll yell for more When the clock strikes two, three and four We're gonna rock, gonna rock, around the clock tonight We're gonna rock, rock, rock, 'til broad daylight We'll have some fun when the clock strikes one We're gonna rock around the clock tonight Nine, ten, eleven o'clock, twelve o'clock, rock One, two, three o'clock, four o'clock, rockįive, six, seven o'clock, eight o'clock, rock

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