Rock Around the Clock. Written by James E. Myers (uncredited) and Max Freedman (uncredited) Played by Bill Haley and the Comets (as Bill Haley and His Comets) Produced by Milton Gabler. Courtesy of Decca Records, Inc. Invention for Guitar and …
Jun 29, 2017 · Directed by Richard BrooksStars: Glenn Ford, Anne Francis, Louis Calhern, Sidney PoitierProduced by Pandro S. BermanMusic by Scott Bradley, Charles WolcottO...
Blackboard Jungle is a 1955 American social drama film about teachers in an interracial inner-city school, based on the 1954 novel The Blackboard Jungle by Evan Hunter and adapted for the screen and directed by Richard Brooks. It is remembered for its innovative use of rock and roll in its soundtrack, for casting grown adults as high school teens, and for the unique breakout role …
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Blackboard JungleThe song "Rock Around the Clock", performed by Bill Haley and His Comets, became an international best seller after it was played beneath the credit sequence of the 1955 film Blackboard Jungle (see entry above). The song subsequently became the anthem of the younger generation and sold 22 million copies.
Bill Haley and HisToday's Morning Edition music is from the song "Rock Around the Clock" by Bill Haley and His Comets. It didn't grab much attention when it was released as a B-side in 1954. But once it was featured in "Blackboard Jungle" the following year it quickly became a hit.Feb 19, 2015
Rock Around the ClockBlackboard JungleStarringGlenn Ford Anne Francis Louis Calhern Margaret HayesCinematographyRussell HarlanEdited byFerris WebsterMusic byMax C. Freedman, Jimmy DeKnight (song "Rock Around the Clock") (uncredited), Willis Holman (song “Blackboard Jungle”), Jenny Lou Carson (song "Let Me Go, Lover!"; uncredited)13 more rows
It was not until 1955, when "Rock Around the Clock" was used under the opening credits of the film Blackboard Jungle, that the song truly took off. Many versions of the story behind how "Rock Around the Clock" was chosen for Blackboard Jungle circulated over the years.
The novel The Blackboard Jungle caused a great deal of controversy surrounding the state of education in the United States during the 1950's. It paints a less than bright picture of inner-city education as it focuses on a young teacher teaching at a trade school filled with young, violent juvenile delinquents.Jan 21, 2007
Bill Haley and His Comets. Billy Haley and his Comets fused elements of country music, Western Swing, and black R&B to produce some of rock and roll's earliest hits. His "Crazy, Man Crazy" from 1953 was the first rock and roll record to make the pop charts.
Bill HaleyBill Haley put his enormous signature on rock and roll history during the final 40 minutes of a three-hour recording session in New York City—a session set up not for the recording of “(We're Gonna) Rock Around The Clock,” but of a song called “Thirteen Women (and Only One Man in Town).” It took the group nearly all of ...Mar 4, 2010
Rocket 88The first rock'n'roll record was 'Rocket 88', recorded by Jackie Brenston And His Delta Cats at Sam Phillips' Sun Studios in Memphis, Tennessee.
30One of the first victims of rock'n'roll was a founding father of the style: Bill Haley. A country singer with a love of Western Swing, Haley was 30 when his signature song Rock Around the Clock became a massive hit in '55 when it appeared on the soundtrack to the juvenile delinquent film Blackboard Jungle.Dec 27, 2013