BILL HALEY & HIS COMETS "Rock Around The Clock" on The Ed Sullivan Show

[MrVago1962]

adelantaron la musica 2 decadas muchos comen grasias bill haley

[willpn100]

In February 2006, the International Astronomical Union announced the naming of asteroid 79896 Billhaley to mark the 25th anniversary of Bill Haley's death.

Rockers from around the world, please take a ride on the comet's tail to see the milky way!!!

[jmkeupp]

They didn't come any better than Bill Haley & His Comets. Seems like only yesterday I was playing this on the juke box in New Milford.

[cron205]

pre punk

[bobluman4]

@cron205 its nothing like punk stop comparing it to punk ,whats with people and saying its punk !

[brushcreek42]

Take about a sound bite!

[killer94dark]

0:25

[edghq3i]

Where is the final????

[OTHmusic23]

we need more good music like this

[TehEmilio]

Bill haley was at my house when i was 3 years old :) He ate and talked with us :)

[luisfercol07]

MAFIA 2

[TheGreenExperience]

@luisfercol07 yeah !! :D

[luisfercol07]

@TheGreenExperience haha ;) Gran juego, gran canción / best game, best music Greetings from Venezuela!

[TheGreenExperience]

@luisfercol07 i agree , greetings back from germany! :)

[squirell1952]

@joenatescott - Hear, hear, Joe! Rock-and-roll music was invented by BLACK PEOPLE, NOT WHITES!!! but how do you tell this to people who don't want to know.

[CounterCultureLives]

@squirell1952 Actually, Rockn'Roll was the joining of the black man's music into the white person's world. Having said that, had black musicians not had the blues, rockn'roll would never have happened.

[Serinissima65]

Mit seiner Musik gross geworden. Dank IHM und ELVIS immer noch jung.

Danke Bill...danke Elvis.Thanks very much

[Nickdiaublow]

Who doesn't like a lil old style music like this!

[MAGICO240]

Billy Haley is great but Elvis was just from another world.

[rhinojos]

Bill Haley is the father of Rock n Roll and Rock Around the Clock is the song that kickstarted the whole rock n roll genre. Bill died in Harlingen, TX and I never knew he lived just about 19 miles from me! He became a recluse after people unjustly declared Elvis as the King of rock n roll. Which is why he left to Mexico n became the father of rock n roll over there. He is a legend over there. Your the Man Bill!

[majorporpoise]

Hank Sr. gave birth to this song.

Know your music history ladies & gents

[majorporpoise]

@willpn100 You ever realize other genres borrow from, & sometimes create, other genres in music?

Bill Haley got the rhythm for this song from Hank sr.'s song move it on over.

[willpn100]

@majorporpoise American copyright law follows the european tradition that a song is words, melody and chords. You can not copyright a rhythm, or a beat!.

[willpn100]

"The King of the Twist", Chubby Checker paid a homage to "The King of Rock and Roll", Bill Haley, when he sang "Rock Around the Clock".

[willpn100]

The National Endowment for the Arts and the Recording Industry Association of America announced that Bill Haley´s all-time classic, "Rock Around the Clock" has been declared the top traditional rock and roll song of the 20th Century.

[willpm100]

Rod Stewart oldest brother took him to see a Bill Haley´s show and ever since he decided to be a rocker.

[travismw2boy1]

when ed sulivan came on i was like fuck off i want more!!

[willpn100]

Many happy returns of the day Bill. The country needs your songs!

[willpm100]

The Greatest Rock and Roll Hit!

[willpn100]

Good video about the first Dynasty of Rock and Roll. He was the first to overjoy all the crowd and to teach all the world how to rock and roll. His name is engraved in our memories.

So it is not surprising that there is a sharp dividing line between before and after "Rock Around the Clock",the song that started the rock revolution!.

[powerface71]

Chuck Berry invented Rock and Roll, Alan Freed baptized it, Elvis sold it to the world. Thank you Chuck, the "True King" of rock and roll!

[icezoo]

My father, Bill Haley, had several charted hits before anybody even heard of Chuck Berry. Now Chuck was a huge figure in Rock N' Roll without a doubt but he didn't have a charted hit until 1955. My father had Rock The Joint in "52" Crazy Man, Crazy in "53" Shake, Rattle and Roll and Rock Around The Clock in "54." In 1973, at the Spectrum in Philadelphia, Pa., I met Chuck Berry backstage and he said to me, "your father is the man, he started it all." This from the man himself. Jack Haley

[icezoo]

Wow! When you don't know what you're talking about, you should just keep quiet. There were several musicians with charted Rock N' Roll hits before Chuck Berry. Bill Haley had 13 charted hits before Chuck Berry. Chuck himself admitted to Bill Haley's son and wife that Bill started it all. John Lennon said the same thing. Elvis even had charted hits before Chuck Berry.

[powerface71]

@icezoo Shut the fuck up and get back to working the glory hole at the truck stop you seal felching fuck stain!

[Rattlehead1717]

@powerface71 lol hellah butthurt.

[powerface71]

@Rattlehead1717 And you got hella pwned in the face you smegma loving fruit cake!

[willpn100]

@icezoo You´re right!. Elvis was Haley´s collaborator! cos he came after Bill Haley.

[m1kewithaone]

everyday, seems a little longer going faster than a roller coaster love like yours will surely come my way, a hey, a hey hey, well, what? i still remember the words to songs from back then. just because i was only 4 yrs old doesn't mean anything, it was the music, and that's a line from buddy holly. do i miss it? no! i'm here on youtube aren't i? it's all right here......

[MisFire45]

Please shut up about mafia II, just please.

[iWilliamTV]

@MisFire45 mafia 2

[MisFire45]

@iWilliamTV Oh aren't you cool.

[iWilliamTV]

@MisFire45 am i?

[lolita19711]

mafia 222222222222

[willpn100]

Bill Haley is known the world over as the Father of Rock ’n’ Roll. Haley was the first white artist to combine elements of rhythm & blues, western swing, and hillbilly music to produce the upbeat, danceable, and infectious sound known today as rock ’n’ roll.

[mkworkman]

0:59 video: Performed on The Ed Sullivan Show on August 7, 1955; "Rock Around the Clock" is a 12-bar-blues-based song written by Max C. Freedman and James E. Myers in 1952. The best-known and most successful rendition was recorded by Bill Haley and His Comets on April 12, 1954.

[m1kewithaone]

@mkworkman and now i know why they say i was weened on rock and roll. i was born in 1954!

[Carthsting]

There is double bass, accordeon, sax, lead guitar,keys,drums and rhythm guitar.

Though i hear only one note sax, bass line, and little percussion.

[BlackMonk66]

@Carthsting That's a steel guitar, not a keyboard. I think the steel and the accordion are doubling the sax hits and there's some rhythm guitar in there.

[tamarlevi]

Wow! everyone was in Ed Sullivan Show 

[m1kewithaone]

@tamarlevi that's what it was all about! and would you beleive me if i told you that the buggs bunny show first came on in prime time? it was 1957 and i remember the bugs bunny show coming on at night time just before my bedtime. wow, go bugs!!

[spacepatrolman]

@tamarlevi this song wasnt a hit until it was used in the movie blackboard jungle

[willpn100]

Real Gem!

[jesusqh1]

es una buena canciòn. atte.Graciela

[KidCanza]

golden tymes

[starchief59]

Anybody know what model that Gibson is?

[willpn100]

@starchief59 It must be a Gibson Super 400. The Gibson company supplied the Comets with free guitars.

[starchief59]

@willpn100 That sure is a sweet one. Thanks

[MrChristian1666]

if u keep watchin the singer he always looks up the whole time

[willpn100]

The rock and roll anthem is "rock around the clock".

[JamesTKirkCobain]

WTF is that? They cut it right before that incredible guitar solo?

[DL1954]

That's not a cello it is a bass,cello is shorter

[MrMkD4eVeR100]

The Guy playing the Cello looks like hes wanking Thumbs up if u think so

[Tillhammer]

That has to be the coolest suit ever worn. And a damn good song.

[pristinebob]

first r'n'r record i ever brought love it still

[stratojamesnz]

Where the hell is the guitar solo??its half the value of the song,cant believe you people left it out!!!!

[Blinkwing]

good night!

[ThrashTillDeath123]

Awesome!

I actually listen to Metal most of the time, but Rock N Roll is just as great!:)

[robstones1968]

A Rock 'n' Roll Classic.  What a great song. This is one fo those songs I will never get sick of no matter how many times I hear it.

One of the overlooked pioneers of Rock 'n' Roll - Bill Haley & The Comets

[guitargeek1122]

Look at the steel string guitar player....he keeps on nodding

[TheLuckyman1999]

this song never gets old! rock on bill!

[tsukoyomi2021]

@hersok1

What's funny is that you laughed at your own shitty joke..I mean if you would've put something funny, I would've laughed but instead you put something worthy of a 10 year old playground discussion

[panchamkauns]

His accent ... RACK AROUND THE CLACK

[budrakerz]

I hate to be the Elvis guy, but didn't he cut "That's alright Momma" in 54?

[rocknroll56able]

@budrakerz Yes he cut it june...haley recorded clock in april of the same year.

[Jacobrester]

A very strong case could be made for Bill Haley being one of the most influential people to help bring about Rock and Roll...He definitely deserves to be mentioned as one of the fathers of Rock and Roll

[Xsleeper]

This song was written in 1953 by two white Jewish guys.

[Drever01856]

@Xsleeper

I'd have been shit scaed to make any kind of move like that if I was Jewish back then.

[planthing]

Too short and stupid Tea Party dumb ass ad ruined it from the get go.

[listentodylan]

mafia 2

[GreasyRockabilly]

@listentodylan wow i new this song ever since i was a kid ur kinda laate

[kallemick]

@listentodylan if you aint got anything but pointless comments like that then dont comment

[RedsFanatic01]

Funny how everyone sees this song as the "birth of Rock 'n' Roll" when Muddy Waters and Little Walters where doing this 5 years earlier. But I guess back then if you were black it didn't count.

[Weidenberg]

@RedsFanatic01

Rhythm and Blues was the beginning of Rock and Roll. Without Louis Jordan and all the other black artists Elvis and all the other wouldn`t have been so successful.

[RedsFanatic01]

@Weidenberg I know R&B is the origin of RnR. I am saying it wasn't until Muddy Waters wrote "Rolling Stone" did white people begin to recognize black music.

[Jacobrester]

@RedsFanatic01 You need to listen to Jimmy Rodgers and Cowboy Bob Wills if you think country has no influence on Rock and Roll.....it is mainly blues and R&B but country without a doubt has its mark on rock.....Chuck Berry used to play Jimmy Rodgers riffs as best he could

[RedsFanatic01]

@Jacobrester I know. Rock and Roll is a combination of the black mans blues and the white mans country. All I was saying was that this song isn't the birth of r'n'r as many people like to point out. I didn't say Muddy and Chuck started the whole thing, I said they were playing this music before Bill was.

[ScottJ794]

@RedsFanatic01 .. I don't think race had anything to do with it. I just think that Rock Around The Clock is the first song of it's time that really has endured.

[RedsFanatic01]

@ScottJ794 No it was definitely about race in the 1950's. Rolling Stone and Chuck Berry's Johnny B. Goode are both enduring songs that people still recognize today, released some 5 and 4 years respectively before Bill Hayley releases this song. Everyone was so shocked that a white man had signed a black musician to his label. Muddy was the first artist to be signed by Chess Records, then Little Walter, Chuck Berry, Etta James and Howlin' Wolf.

[rocknroll56able]

@RedsFanatic01 for your information bill haley recorded this way before berry recorded johnny b good. rock around the clock was recorded in 1954.

[rocknroll56able]

@RedsFanatic01 Also haley had his first regional hit with rock The Joint in 1952..then his second national hit with Crazy man crazy in 1953.so Haley was the first white r'n'r artist to hit the charts and certainly not 4-5 years after the artists you mentioned.Chess records in the early years produced r'n'b not rock'n'roll records.it was 1955-56 when they released rock'n'roll records with chuck berry etc.

[RedsFanatic01]

@rocknroll56able Muddy Waters was with Aristocrat, who changed their name to Chess later on, by 1948 and already recording songs like "Rolling Stone" so Chuck may not have been recording before Bill, but Muddy certainly was. Muddy recorded "Rolling Stone" and it snowballed from there.

[Jacobrester]

@RedsFanatic01 Are you sure nobody was doing it before Muddy Watters and Little Walters ?....have you ever checked ?.....Cowboy Bob Wills released a hopping song called "Ida Red" in 1938 that Chuck Berry later "borrowed" and turned into 'Maybelline"...there is more to it than you think

[XSKATERXDESTROYERX13]

Thanks Bill, you started everything. \m/

-John Lennon

[huskyjerk]

@XSKATERXDESTROYERX13 Did Lennon really say that?

[XSKATERXDESTROYERX13]

@huskyjerk Google it, John and bill interchanged autographed photos and in the back of bill's one said "Thanks Bill, you started everything. That was the only time that both met.

[huskyjerk]

@XSKATERXDESTROYERX13 Thanks for the info. Good stuff, indeed!!!

[melkiemelkie]

@XSKATERXDESTROYERX13 That's strange. John also said "Before Elvis there was nothing".

Strange dude this John.

[proudmemories]

i love this songggggggg

[MEDIADWG]

I was 7 when I saw this and knew right then Rock N Roll is here to stay!

[Chimbo65]

The line up here: Bill on vocal,Marshall Lyttle on bass,Johnny Grande on accordion,

Joey Ambrose on sax,Dick Richards on drums,Franny Beecher on guitar

and Billy Willamson on pedal steel.

[QVrat123]

hahaha back when you would find an accordian in a rock and roll band lol

[Chimbo65]

@QVrat123

Yes it was because piano player Johnny Grande could not always find a

piano in tune,whilst on the road with Bill.

So sometimes he played the accordion.

Of course,this a long time before electric pianos etc.

All the best

Chimbo

Chimbos Revival

[WhoTheRollingBeatles]

rock n roll was born! just classic!