"ROCK AROUND THE CLOCK" BILL HALEY AND THE COMETS LP

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	$		40

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“Rock Around the Clock" is a rock n' roll song from 1952, written by Max C. Freedman and James E. Myers (the latter under the pseudonym "Jimmy De Knight"). Although first recorded by Sonny Dae & the Knights,[1] the more famous version by Bill Haley & His Comets is not, strictly speaking, a cover version, as Myers claimed the song had been written specifically for Haley, but for various reasons Haley was unable to record it himself until 1954. 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. The lyrics were based on numerous blues tunes boasting of 24-hour-long romantic prowess (the term rock initially having had a sexual meaning), but in Haley's hands they took on a more innocent teenage atmosphere of dancing all night long.

According to the Haley biographies Bill Haley by John Swenson and Rock Around the Clock by Dawson, the song was offered to Haley in the wake of his first national success "Crazy Man, Crazy" in 1953. Haley and his Comets began performing the song on stage (Comets bass player Marshall Lytle and drummer Dick Richards say the first performances were in Wildwood, New Jersey), but Dave Miller, his producer, refused to allow Haley to record it for his Essex Records label (Swenson suggests a feud existed between Myers and Miller).

Haley himself claimed to have taken the sheet music into the recording studio at least twice, with Miller ripping up the music each time. Nonetheless, rumors of a 1953 demo recording by Haley persist to this day, although surviving members of the Comets deny this, as did Haley himself (quoted in the Swenson biography); a late-1960s bootleg single of the Decca Records version of "Rock Around the Clock", with "Crazy Man, Crazy" on the B-side and carrying the Essex label, occasionally turns up for sale with the claim that it is the demo version.

After leaving Essex Records in the spring of 1954, Bill Haley signed with the then-important Decca Records label and the band's first recording session was set for 12 April 1954 at the Pythian Temple studios in New York City. The recording session almost didn't happen because the band was delayed when a ferry they were travelling on en route to New York from Philadelphia got stuck on a sandbar. Once at the studio, producer Milt Gabler (who had produced Louis Jordan's pre-Rock 'n' Roll, as well as Billie Holiday) insisted the band work on a new song (for them) entitled "Thirteen Women (and Only One Man in Town)" (previously written and recorded by Dickie Thompson) which Gabler wanted to promote as the A-side of the group's first single for Decca.

With only minutes left in the recording session, the band finally recorded a take of "Rock Around the Clock," however Haley's vocals were drowned out by the band. A second take was quickly made with minimal accompaniment and, with Sammy Davis, Jr. waiting outside the studio for his turn behind the microphone, the session ended. Decca engineers later combined the two versions together into one version. (Comets piano player Johnny Grande tells a slightly different version, claiming that the only reason a second take was recorded was because the drummer made an error.)

Over the years, many musicians have made the claim that they performed on the recording session for "Rock Around the Clock." This includes the song's co-writer, James E. Myers, who according to John Swenson's biography of Bill Haley, once claimed he had played drums on the piece, and also claimed to have been advising the sound mixer in the recording booth. According to the official record sheet from the session, however, the musicians on the famous recording are:

• Bill Haley - vocals and rhythm guitar
• Marshall Lytle - string bass
• Joey Ambrose - tenor saxophone
• Billy Williamson - steel guitar
• Johnny Grande - piano
• Billy Gussak - drums
• Danny Cedrone - electric guitar

Gussak and Cedrone were not members of the Comets, but were session musicians Haley often used on his recording sessions. Cedrone's guitar solo, an adaptation of a "gimmick" solo he used on a number of previous recordings, including the Bill Haley version of "Rock the Joint" in 1952, is considered one of the classic rock and roll guitar solos of all time.

In a 2005 retrospective on his uncle Milt Gabler's work (The Milt Gabler Story) Billy Crystal identifies Haley's 1954 recording of "Rock Around the Clock" as the single most important song Gabler ever produced.

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