Bill Haley & His Comets CD: Bill Haley Rocks (CD)

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Bill Haley & His Comets: Bill Haley Rocks (CD)

1-CD-Album DigiPac (6-seitig) with 32-page booklet, 31 tracks, playing time 79:48 minutes.

The hoopla surrounding the purported fiftieth anniversary of rock 'n' roll in 2004 didn't quite ring true. Yes, Elvis made his first record in 1954, but Bill Haley, who died neglected and alone on the Mexican border twenty-five years ago on the 9th of February, went to his grave wondering why he'd been written out of the story. True, the Pennsylvania polka bars where Bill Haley stumbled across his music didn't have the eye candy appeal of Memphis after dark, and yes Bill Haley was almost middle-aged and had a goofy little kiss curl, but he was in the charts with rock 'n' roll as early as 1953, and he'd figured it out several years before that. So yes, Bill Haley was first, and some say that he's still the greatest. No one at Bear Family would argue with that!

Bear Family presents, for the first time ever, a complete cross-section of Bill Haley's rockin'est recordings. Some were made for Holiday and Essex Records in the early 1950s and some for Decca in the mid-to-late 1950s. Here's his version of Rocket '88' from 1951 which proves Bill Haley was already on the verge of figuring it out. Later Essex recordings like Rock The Joint and Crazy, Man, Crazy (the absolute guaranteed first rock 'n' roll hit from 1953!) proved that he was indisputably first. Then, of course, Bill Haley switched to Decca and his early Decca singles, Shake Rattle And Roll and Rock Around The Clock, were the shots heard around the world. Rock 'n' roll had arrived, ushered in by Bill Haley &, His Comets. This is what the revolution sounded like!

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Interpret: Bill Haley & His Comets
Album titlle: Bill Haley Rocks (CD)
Genre Rock'n'Roll
Label Bear Family Records
Preiscode AR
Edition 2 Deluxe Edition
Artikelart CD
EAN: 4000127168078
weight in Kg 0.2

Haley, Bill & His Comets - Bill Haley Rocks (CD) CD 1
01	(We're Gonna) Rock Around The Clock	Bill Haley & His Comets
02	Shake, Rattle And Roll	Bill Haley & His Comets
03	Dim, Dim The Lights (I Want Some Atmosphere)	Bill Haley & His Comets
04	Happy Baby	Bill Haley & His Comets
05	Mambo Rock	Bill Haley & His Comets
06	Rocket '88'	Bill Haley & His Comets
07	Birth Of The Boogie	Bill Haley & His Comets
08	Razzle Dazzle	Bill Haley & His Comets
09	Two Hound Dogs	Bill Haley & His Comets
10	Rock The Joint	Bill Haley & His Comets
11	Burn That Candle	Bill Haley & His Comets
12	Rock-A-Beatin' Boogie	Bill Haley & His Comets
13	See You Later, Alligator	Bill Haley & His Comets
14	Real Rock Drive	Bill Haley & His Comets
15	The Saints Rock 'n' Roll	Bill Haley & His Comets
16	A.B.C. Boogie	Bill Haley & His Comets
17	R-O-C-K	Bill Haley & His Comets
18	Crazy Man Crazy	Bill Haley & His Comets
19	Hot Dog Buddy Buddy	Bill Haley & His Comets
20	Rockin' Through The Rye	Bill Haley & His Comets
21	Rip It Up	Bill Haley & His Comets
22	Fractured	Bill Haley & His Comets
23	Rudy's Rock (instrumental)	Bill Haley & His Comets
24	Choo Choo Ch' Boogie	Bill Haley & His Comets
25	Don't Knock The Rock	Bill Haley & His Comets
26	Live It Up	Bill Haley & His Comets
27	Forty Cups Of Coffee	Bill Haley & His Comets
28	Skinny Minnie	Bill Haley & His Comets
29	Lean Jean	Bill Haley & His Comets
30	Where Did You Go Last Night?	Bill Haley & His Comets
31	Green Tree Boogie	Bill Haley & His Comets

Bill Haley Geboren am 6.7.1925 in Highland Park, US-Staat Michigan, gestorben am... more

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"Bill Haley & His Comets"

Bill Haley

Geboren am 6.7.1925 in Highland Park, US-Staat Michigan, gestorben am 9.2.1981 in Harlingen, Texas. Der Rock'n'Roll-Pionier kam aus der Country- und Western-Swing- Szene. 1953 formierte Bill Haley die Comets (später unter anderem mit dem exzellenten Saxophonisten Rudi Pompilli, verstorben am 5.2.1976), im Jahr darauf unterschrieb er einen Plattenvertrag bei Decca.

Bill Haley & The Comets

Bis 1960 spielten Bill Haley & The Comets über ein Dutzend US-Hits und Klassiker ein, darunter Unvergängliches wie “Rock Around The Clock', 'See You Later Alligator“, 'Rock-A- Beatin'-Boogie', 'R-O-C-K' und 'Rip It Up'. Die Crew wirkte ferner in Musikfilmen jener Zeit mit. 1958 war der Altmeister mit der deutschen Sprache in Kontakt gekommen.

Für seine LP 'Rockin' Around The World' (Decca 8692 - USA) spielte Bill Haley Tracks wie 'El Rocko', 'Vive la Rock'n'Roll', “Me Rock-A-Hula', - 'Piccadilly Rock' und 'Wooden Shoe Rock' ein. Die zumindest im Titel internationales Flair signalisieren sollten. Was lag da näher, als für den deutschen Abstecher ein so ungemein gebräuchliches Wort wie 'Schnitzelbank' in den Text zu integrieren? Ebenfalls im Angebot: 'ja', ' - Fraulein' und 'Ach, du lieber Augustin'. . .

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