Rock around the Clock. Let's see how many true Rock and roll fans there are!!! Answer with the most history wins have fun!!!
2007-12-26 08:42:51 · 19 answers · asked by Francesca 5 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
Sonny Dae and His Knights
2007-12-26 08:46:50 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
"Rock Around the Clock" is a 12-bar-blues-based song from 1952, written by Max C. Freedman [2] and James E. Myers (the latter under the pseudonym "Jimmy De Knight").
Although probably not the first rock and roll record (according to some musical historians, that honor belongs to Haley's cover version of the 1951 rhythm and blues hit, "Rocket 88"), it is the first recording to be universally acknowledged as a rock and roll record. It is considered by many to be the song that put rock and roll on the map in America and around the world. With lyrics such as
"Put your glad rags on, join me, Hon
We'll have some fun when the clock strikes one"
and
"If the band slows down we'll yell for more
We're gonna rock around the clock tonight"
[3] the song is about dancing.
Although first recorded by Italian-American band Sonny Dae and His Knights,[4] [5] the more famous version by Bill Haley & His Comets is not, strictly speaking, a cover version. Myers claimed the song had been written specifically for Haley, but for various reasons Haley was unable to record it himself until 1954.
The original full title of the song was "We're Gonna Rock Around the Clock Tonight!". This was later shortened to "(We're Gonna) Rock Around the Clock", though this form is generally only used on releases of the 1954 Bill Haley Decca Records recording; most other recordings of this song by Haley and others (including Sonny Dae) shorten this title further to "Rock Around the Clock".
2007-12-26 16:51:01 · answer #2 · answered by Doodles 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Bill Haley's Comets "Rock Around the Clock"
2007-12-26 16:45:49 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Bill Haley& The Comets,sang the original the (Big Bopper) who was killed in a plane crash with if I remember two other legends of rock is that good enough for u.
2007-12-26 16:46:56 · answer #4 · answered by Dark Shadows 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Bill Haley and The Comets
2007-12-26 16:48:10 · answer #5 · answered by Bunnie 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Bill Haley and the Comets
2007-12-26 17:14:49 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Bill Haley and the Comets
2007-12-26 16:45:38 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Bill Haley and the Comets, I believe.
2007-12-26 16:56:15 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Recorded by Sonny Dae and His Knights, written by Max C. Freedman and James E. Myers
2007-12-26 16:47:32 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Bill Hailey and the Comets?
2007-12-26 16:46:23 · answer #10 · answered by curious 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋