Rock Around The Clock

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Posted: Mar-02-2008

music for rockers only...

Rock Around the Clock is a solid CD that offers many of Bill Haley's greatest hits he performed with band called The Comets. I really like the sound quality on this album; and the artwork is very good especially on the front cover!The track set starts off with "(We're Gonna) Rock Around The...

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Posted: Nov-25-2007

Bill Haley's "Rock Around The Clock" - A Stunning Reissue For One Of ROCK 'n' ROLL's First Superstars And A Must Buy For Fans!

This 2004 Universal CD reissue gives us all 12-tracks of the original US Mono album on Decca BL 8225 released just a week before the Christmas festivities of 1955. It's remastered to gorgeous sound quality from the 1st generation master tapes by Erick Labson of Universal and its bonus tracks are...

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Posted: Mar-08-2007

Just like the olden days

This has really brought back the memories of childhood. This was the first rock album (vinyl of course)ever in our house, and even my parents learned to jitterbug. The album was so badly scratched you couldn't even hear it anymore, so to be able to hear the old "Two Hound Dogs", and "Burn that...

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Posted: Jan-19-2006

"Rock Around The Clock" More Than a Great Album - It's an album of Rock n Roll History

Rock Around The Clock - the album, should be just as significant in music history as James Brown's Please Please Please album, a not only great sounding album but an album demonstrating the roots of Brown.I do however have a special interest in both albums. My father co-wrote Dim Dim The Lights...

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Posted: Sep-21-2005

THE FIRST GREAT ALBUM OF THE ROCK 'N' ROLL ERA

Before Elvis checked into the heartbreak hotel, before Chuck Berry caught Maybellene on the top of the hill, before Carl Perkins put on his blue suede shoes, Bill Haley and his Comets were rockin' around the clock. What do you get with this c.d.? Guitar work that would sound right at home with...

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Posted: Jun-29-2005

What's on it

1. Rock Around the Clock2. Shake, Rattle & Roll3. A.B.C. Boogie4. Thirteen Women5. Razzle Dazzle6. Two Hound Dogs7. Dim, Dim the Lights8. Happy Baby9. Birth of the Boogie10. Mambo Rock11. Burn that Candle12. Rock-A-Beatin' BoogieBonus Tracks:13. R-O-C-K14. The Saints Rock'n'Roll15. See You Later,...

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Posted: Jun-25-2004

One two three o'clock, four o'clock rock...

Most of the songs that put Haley's indelible stamp on early R&R are present in this, a remastered version of the Comets first original studio album for Decca Records, on which he was onboard following the success of "Crazy Man Crazy." As it is, the material here is more engaging, the group...

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Posted: May-06-2004

Introductory textbook of early rock 'n' roll

Though Haley and his Comets had been combining western swing and R&B into rock 'n' roll for a couple of years (see Varese Vintage's "The Best of Bill Haley 1951-1954), these tracks, waxed in '54 and '55, are the finished drafts. From the April 1954 session that begat the title song and "Thirteen...

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Posted: Apr-12-2004

This Classic Album is a steal at this price,NO collection should be without it,These guys created Rock and Roll and here they are at their very best.Paul Bye

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Posted: Apr-11-2004

The First Rock and Roll Album

ROCK AROUND THE CLOCK by Bill Haley and the Comets was the first real rock and roll album released. The LP charted in 1956 and made the Billboard Top 40 Album Chart. The album collected the Decca singles or 45s that were released in 1954 and 1955 by Bill Haley and the Comets. The album includes...

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