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"Put Your Glad Rags On ... A Celebration of ""Rock Around the Clock""" It was Rock Around the Clock that really got me into Rock 'n' Roll. It must have been around 1972. I was a fairly listless teenager, spending a lot of time just mooching around and listening to the radio. One day on Radio Luxembourg Clock came crackling over the airwaves. It made me literally sit bolt upright.
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100 Greatest Rolling Stones Songs The Stones performed Time Is on My Side before a hysterical studio audience during their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show in October 1964, lighting up the CBS complaint line. My brain froze, Patti Smith wrote of the appearance. I was doing all my thinking between my legs..
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Rock Around the Clock . 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 .
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Moondog Coronation Ball Moondog Coronation Ball. The Moondog Coronation Ball was a concert held at the Cleveland Arena in Cleveland, Ohio on March 21, 1952. It is generally accepted as the first major rock and roll concert.
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Rock and roll Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll or rock 'n' roll) is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s, from African American musical styles such as gospel, jump blues, jazz, boogie woogie, and rhythm and blues, along with country music.
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It's Only Rock 'n Roll (1976) It's Only Rock 'n Roll is the 12th British and 14th American studio album by The Rolling Stones, released in 1974. It was the last Rolling Stones album for guitarist Mick Taylor and the songwriting and recording of the album's title track had a connection to Taylor's eventual replacement, Ronnie Wood.
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Ancient Maori Hallucinogenic Drink Tutorial A tutorial on how to brew the ancient hallucinogenic maori drink kept secret by new zelanders, but now for public use. Slightly complicated, but the ingredients are cheap, and pretty easy to get. Some alterations have been made to kick up the effects, as well as make it taste a bit better. I you can brew it, Good On Ya!
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Rocky Flats Plant Rocky Flats became a focus of protest by peace activists throughout the 1980s. In 1983, a demonstration was organized that brought together 17,000 people who joined hands in an encirclement around the 17-mile (27 km) perimeter of the plant.ark Circle is a 1982 American documentary film that focuses on the Rocky Flats Plant and its plutonium contamination of the area's environment. The film won the Grand Prize for documentary at the Sundance Film Festival and received a national Emmy Award for Outstanding individual achievement in news and documentary.
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The First Rock ânâ Roll Movie - Sixty Years Ago This March The First Rock 'n' Roll Movie - Sixty Years Ago This March. Sixty years ago this March the movie 'Rock Around The Clock' was released. Starring Bill Haley and His Comets, Alan Freed, The Platters and Freddie Bell & The Bellboys, the film threw gasoline on the Rock 'n' Roll fire - a huge whoomph heard around the world.
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Rock Around the Clock The version of Rock Around the Clock that was used in the movie Blackboard Jungle differs from the hit single version. The difference is in the two solo breaks. The record has the guitar solo taking the first break and the sax solo taking the second break.
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Jailhouse Rock  (film) Jailhouse Rock premiered on October 17, 1957 in Memphis, Tennessee and was released nationwide on November 8, 1957. It peaked at number 3 on the Variety box office chart, and reached number 14 in the year's box office totals, grossing $4 million.
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Happy 35th Birthday, MTV: Here's the First Music Video You Ever Played At 12:01 a.m. Aug. 1, they played footage of 1981’s space shuttle launch and the 1969 moon landing (both set to rock music), followed by the first music video in the channel’s history -- the Buggles’ “Video Killed the Radio Star.”.
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- More 1  >>. Born between 1946 and 1964. 2  1. the save-the-world revolutionaries of the ’60s and ’70s; 3  and 2. the party-hardy career climbers (Yuppies) of the ’70s/’80s.  The “me” 1  generation. “Rock and roll” music generation.  Ushered in the free love and societal “non-violent” protests which triggered 1  violence. Self righteous & self-centered.
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Rock Around the Clock 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. Recent research, however, reveals that the song was chosen from the collection of young Peter Ford, the son of Blackboard Jungle star Glenn Ford and dancer Eleanor Powell.
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Chris Rock Biography Then, in 1997, the successes of Rock's stand-up, his contributions to Saturday Night Live and In Living Color, his film roleass, and his work on Bring the Pain collectively inspired HBO to sign Rock for a sketch comedy series, The Chris Rock Show, that ran from 1997 to 2000.
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- Rock Around The Clock by Bill Haley Songfacts. 1  One, two, three o´clock, four o´clock, rock. Five, six, seven o´clock, eight o´clock, rock. 2  More songs from Bill Haley. 3  More songs with kinds of music in the title.  More songs that became hits when they were re- 1 released. More TV show theme songs.  More songs used in movies.
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Rock Around the Clock Many musicians have claimed that they performed on the recording session for Rock Around the Clock.. 1  Song co-writer Myers once claimed he had played drums on the piece, although he also claimed to have been advising the sound mixer in the recording booth.
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Rock and roll Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll or rock 'n' roll) is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s, from a combination of African-American genres such as blues, boogie-woogie, jump blues, jazz, and gospel music, together with Western swing and country music.
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The Big Bang! The Birth of Rock and Roll Popularized by disc jockey Alan Freed in 1951, the term “rock and roll” came to be used to describe a new form of music, steeped in the blues, rhythm and blues, country, and gospel.
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Bill Haley - Rock Around The Clock (1956) The DVD The Legends of Rock & Rollstates this clip is from the Ted Steel show WOR-TV, New York (1955). Apparently, it is from Washington Square, a show hosted by Ray Bolger (1956). 1  Music. 2  Standard YouTube License.
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5 Candidates for the First Rock 'n' Roll Song Well, I heard the news, there’s good rockin’ tonight. . .” With an opening line that could double as a rallying call for rock ‘n’ roll, this song was written and recorded in 1947 by R & B artist Roy Brown. Brown had originally offered the tune to raspy-voiced singer Wynonie “Mr.
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The Startling Blast of âRock Around the Clock,â Sixty Years Later During a nineteen-fifties revival, nearly twenty years later, “Rock Around the Clock” was chosen to be the first track on the “American Graffiti” soundtrack, was the theme song for the first two seasons of “Happy Days” and, in 1974, briefly returned to the Billboard Top 40.
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- The last week that 'Rock Around the Clock' was No. 1 was the week of August 27th, 1955. It would then take 33 weeks before another rock 'n roll record would reach No.1 and it was Elvis who would do it. His Heartbreak Hotel made No. 1 on April 21st, 1956 and it stayed there for eight weeks.Barry - Sauquoit, Ny.
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Rock Around the Clock: how Bill Haley's song became a hit The song had actually been put on vinyl 15 months before – on April 12, 1954 – by Bill Haley and the Comets, who recorded the two minutes and eight seconds long song (with the title shortened to Rock Around the Clock) that became the biggest-selling UK single in the Fifties, and is reported to have sold around 40 million copies in all.
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Best Rock Bands of All Time Rock and roll is a genre of music that emerged as a defined musical style in the American South in the 1950s, and quickly spread to the rest of the country, and the world. It later evolved into the various different sub-genres of what is now called simply rock. This list is a collection of the top ten rock bands of all time.
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- Answers.com® is making the world better one answer at a time. Rock the Boat is a disco song by the group Hues Corporation and it came out in 1974.