This was the first song to introduce the word "Rock" into music. Thus, it became the song that started and gave birth to the Rock & Roll genre back in 1954. My goodness I was born that year. It's been 70 years since this song came out. Awesome!
To the masses, yes, but the term “rock and roll” originated in the black community as a by-phrase for having sex, and was used in songs as early as the late twenties/early thirties.
And because of the show's popularity in the 70s and high visibility in syndication after, it ended up a key part of the soundtrack of at least 3 or 4 decades.
Nono Sam, you hit the nail on the head...it is a timeless call to the 50s nostalgia. My mom was a teenager during this time so I grew up listening to the music. It's peculiar how you can be nostalgic for a time you didn't know. I was a teen during the 80s, which was a blast but if I could pick another decade...it would be the 50s hands down. The best looking cars, great music, everyone dressed nice & manners were still widespread. Yep... where's my Delorean?! 😎
My dad didn't know how to dance, so my mom would put this on and dance around him! It was so funny! I was born in 1955, and this song has to be one of my first memories!
This is supposed to be the early to mid 50's. My wife and I had all those moves down including later on the "Stroll" and a few line dances. In the 60s we had televised dance programs like American Bandstand. In Detroit, we had "Swingin Time" which my wife and I were both on. You only had to go down to the local studio at CKLW in Windsor Canada and you could get on and your family and friends might be lucky enough to pick you out. It was such an easier time. It reminded me of the "American Graffiti" Movie. Things were so that way back then. Slow by today's standards yet so wholesome and fun.
I am 62 and due to older sibling, heard a lot of this music growing up. Grew up listening to Bill Haley, Dion and the Belmonts, Chubby Checker, Fats Domino, etc, etc, etc. Some really great stuff back then. Short songs, not complex, but got your feet moving.
I love what the drummer does on this...rim shots to imitate the second hand on a clock, and a double snare pop at the end of every bar. Then the stand up bass and clean guitar solo...nice. And Barb, dance secret from a guy in his 60's that can still tear up a floor..Skip rope and flexibility..helps you big time.
This was also used as the theme song for the TV show Happy Days, which was a spin off from American Graffiti. Right before this came out was Shake, Rattle and Roll by Joe Turner. Then, a couple of months later came Elvis with That's All Right and Good Rockin' Tonight. A year later, Chuck Berry came on the scene with Maybellene.
My daddy was a dance teacher at Arthur Murry studios..When I was a little girl in the 50.s..He use to throw me around his shoulders and under his legs..The jigger bug ..it was really fun..I had older brothers also who use me as dance partners..I loved it!!! I'm in my 70's
I am 82 years of age and grew up (in Australia) when music was music. Rock around the Clock was first used in the movie 'Blackboard Jungle" and was the birth of rock and roll. Your comments about the dress were interesting. Girls were proud to be girls, wore multiple petticoats and puffed up hairdos. Boys (like me) wore stove pipe trousers and Canadian Poppy hair cream. Life was a blast. Thank you for bringing those memories back into focus.
1956, I was Six and remember this as the start of rock and roll. Elvis came out shortly after and became the King of R&R. The movie American Graffiti asked the question, “Where were you in 62?” One of the best retro period movies ever made!
I can remember my parents dancing to this. They kept telling my sister and I how they go ball room dancing, Big Band music, Bill Haley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis and more.
First performed live in Wildwood NJ this ushered in the rock n roll era. Used as the original theme to TV show Happy Days this is what got people dancing in the 50s and 60s.
This song greatly launched rock and roll into popularity….and was also the opening song for the first season of the 1970s/80s sitcom Happy Days, which was set in the 1950s.
This was the intro and outro when the credits rolled to the movie Blackboard Jungle. I was a 12 year old and the song just blew my mind. I was at the 7pm show. The theatre was cleared before the 9pm crowd were let in. I hid in the washroom so I could sneak back in for the second showing to hear the song again - then had to endure the wrath of my folks for being 2 hours late coming home. That was in Burlington, Ontario.
Hope? Fully when you look at your grandparents and great-grandparents.You look at him in a different lightafter you see the fun they used to have when they were young
This song definitely falls into 'being in the right place ~ at the right time' coming out around the time the word 'ROCK' came to be formally identified as a stye of music ~
Bars & Barbells and their Comments. A new band! Rock Around the Clock is considered to be the pop hit that brought rock and roll into the mainstream. You can almost feel the blend of older-time dance music, with the burgeoning rock-and-roll scene. A fun song to listen to and dance to today. Timeless.
Kids used to sneak into the last few minutes of that movie for the closing credits just to hear that song. They started dancing in the aisles. Producers everywhere took notice. 😝
This song was featured in the movie “Blackboard Jungle” in 1955, about inner city delinquents, & included breakout performances by Sidney Poitier & Vic Morrow. It was the beginning of mainstream rock & roll.
Dancing was way different. We were moving out of doo wop. Doo wop was FANTASTIC as well. But I lived thru the Psychedelic era too. Loved every minute of it. Woodstock. But DOO WOP IS WORTH A DEEP DIVE.
From a movie about Rock & Roll, it was called "Rock Around the Clock" from 1956. They had a follow-up movie called "Don't Knock the Rock", later that same year.
Also the theme for the TV show Happy Days, which was made in the 70s but was also about the 50s. My mom loved this, and so do I. I really hope you get to Buddy Holly soon, Rave On would be my suggestion as a good starting spot.
There was swing and swing dancing in the 1940s. In the later 40s there was jump blues and boogie woogie. This all led into the early rock and roll style. Also a country influence that came out in rockabilly. All a blend, some early Johnny Cash and Elvis would be described as rockabilly. A huge influence on the beatles, stones and other 60s bands. Energetic and Fun.
The 6/8 bouncey beat was the rock and roll & the dancing was a follow-on to the Jitterbug that was popular in the Jazz clubs of the 40's. BTW my Mom used to get thrown around like that back in the day.
They were Jitterbugging and doing the Lindy Hop I believe. My wife's folks were young during this time and she says they were experts that this kind of dancing.
The Jitterbug and Lindy Hop were dance styles from 30's, but it still worked well in this early era of rock which was really a descendant of big band swing and country swing.
Long before American Graffiti and Happy Days, it was the first ever rock n roll song ever played in a movie when used for the opening credits to Blackboard Jungle(1955), a movie about rebellious youths at a high school in the 1950s. The song instantly became an anthem for rebellious youths nationwide.
It's amazing how the transitions in music had reflections of the previous era, starting with the jazz era beginning from the 1910's; progressing to the Big band/swing era of the 40's and leading to Rock'n'Roll of the 50's, which then lead to the rock of the 60's and disco of the 70's then into hard rock of the 80's/90's. So progression eventually leads to flashbacks of olden eras of music, before moving onto the modern era of music styles. AND THE BEAT GOES ON(Sonny & Cher 1967)
Bill Haley invented Rock & Roll in early 1954 in Wildwood New Jersey. Wildwood is a popular summer beach spot to visit. Full boardwalk, very wide beach and all, it's a trip!
Not really, listen to "Rock The Joint" by Bill Haley with the Saddlemen released in April 1952. The recording was also re-released in July 1955 as Bill Haley and his Comets.
@@TheHogsEarReport Yes, and I believe the same guitarist did the same guitar solo in that that he does here. Also I think "Rock The Joint" was recorded earlier by someone else.
You dipped your toe into the primordial soup of early rock. This song was popular but it exploded when it was used in the intro of the movie Blackboard Jungle (1955) Hearing it full force on theater speakers instead of weak and mono radios/phonographs of the time was the difference and propelled it to #1.
Some morbid trivia about this song: Danny Cedrone was the original lead guitarist for the Comets and it was his solo that we hear on this legendary, early rock 'n roll recording. Sadly, Danny died in a falling accident just ten days after this recording was made and months before the record became a hit. His role of lead guitarist of the Comets was filled by Franny Beecher, and it was Franny who played the lead guitar parts on subsequent Comets recordings and performances, but "Rock Around the Clock" features the solo by their original lead guitarist, Danny Cedrone.
This song was used during the opening and closing credits of the 1955 movie BLACKBOARD JUNGLE. It was still a pretty new song at the time of the film's release, and it marked the first time a rock & roll song was used in a film soundtrack.
The fifties to early sixties were the best small era ever. The Kennedy hit chilled things off. Of course my perspective was from growing up in "old" Florida. Sarasota. Born there.
This is where it began for me, as a little kid, this is the song that got your attention when it came on the radio! As timeless an iconic song as there can be! :)
Actually it’s not, there were others , but this song was the first of those to go to number 1 , so billboard claimed that this song started the rock and roll era in billboard
I've been listening to this song for a half century and just now has it dawned on me why Bill named his band, "Comets". LOL Duh, I should've made the celestial connection decades ago!
That is called jitterbugging. I learn it as it was being invented. Ya kids I am that old and My Love, My dance partner for the last 44 yr. When u put his on we paused it to clean away some stuff some that our living room becomes a hard wood dance floor. Yes at 76 we can still doit all b/c we do it every day. Yes we met on a dance floor and we still spend a few hr each days in the others arms getting our aerobics in. We do one fast 2 slow. We/re getting old can do fast all the time any more.
You guys would enjoy watching "American Graffiti" - it's got a great 50's soundtrack and a little Wolfman Jack to boot. If you wanted to do a full-movie reaction, this would be the one to do!
"Blackboard Jungle" (1955, black and white) starring Glenn Ford and Sydney Poitier has Ford as a new teacher in an inner city high school and Poitier as one of the students. There are many issues to sort out. "Rock Around The Clock" was used in the opening credits and elsewhere and the song became the first "rock and roll" song to sell a million copies (and much more) of 45 records becoming an anthem for the late 1950's teenagers. Not a great movie but a good enough movie to watch on a Saturday night, especially considering its historical notability.
Notice the stand up bass , electric bass guitars weren't used until the early 60s, I have a 1960 Fender jazz bass, the most used bass guitar in history both rock and country.
"The national anthem of Rock and Roll." - Dick Clark, longtime host of "American Bandstand." THIS is where Rock began. When this song hit #1 on Billboard in July of 1955- that was when the Rock Era began. If you get a chance to hear "Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White" by Perez Prado and his Orchestra... that was the LAST #1 hit of the pre-Rock days. It'll give you something of a taste of what Rock replaced...
This song was a complete game changer at the time. This song is what kicked off the "Rock & Roll Era" and changed the way music was charted. Before this it was the "Hit Parade". After this it was the Top 40 and the Hot 100.
They were part of the early rock n roll scene along with Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins and Buddy Holly. This dancing style is very reminiscent of the dancing in the 40's with the big bands.
Hey, Phil and Sam, fun fact for you: When the TV series "Happy Days" originally aired, this song was the theme song for the opening credits until around the 3rd season
I saw this movie when it came out, I was 8 or 9 years old. It was in black and white, the version you’re watching was “colorized”, a process they developed later to add color to old movies.
This song was the birth of the jump from black dance music to white mainstream rock music. Originally known as Rock-a-Billy music. The song was also the original theme for the TV show Happy Days, spun of from the movie American Graffiti with a premiere pilot episode on the Love American Style TV show.
Spot on. Old Time Rock'n'Roll came out in 1978, and he mentions 1962, but he was also referencing this beginning of the modern pop music era as defined by the BILLBOARD Hot 100. It was this song that led to the expansion of the pop chart from 30 songs to 100.
This so very awesome. I was born in 1955, but my brothers who were born in 1940 and 1945 played this a lot as I was growing up. Please check out Buddy Holly, Little Richard, Chuck Berry and Big Bopper. Love your reactions!
This was the first song to introduce the word "Rock" into music. Thus, it became the song that started and gave birth to the Rock & Roll genre back in 1954. My goodness I was born that year. It's been 70 years since this song came out. Awesome!
To the masses, yes, but the term “rock and roll” originated in the black community as a by-phrase for having sex, and was used in songs as early as the late twenties/early thirties.
This was my fathers favorite song of all times.....he passed away 2 years ago at the age of 93 and we played this during his cremation.....❤
93 is something to celebrate! RIP to your father!
It was also the beginning song of the TV show HAPPY DAYS at one time.
Yes, at least 1st Season, before the actual Happy Days Theme was written.
@@StuartistStudio1964 goodbye gray sky, hello blue
That was a newly recorded version by Bill Haley done in 1973 for the show.
@@StuartistStudio1964 First 2 seasons. And the first 2 ended with part of the Happy Days theme.
And because of the show's popularity in the 70s and high visibility in syndication after, it ended up a key part of the soundtrack of at least 3 or 4 decades.
This was said to be the first big national Rock and Roll hit, that kicked off the Rock and Roll phenomenon.
When Bob Seger was singing of Old time rock 'n' roll, this was what he was singing about.
The Stray Cats were pretty successful in bringing this 50's vibe in the 1980's.
The first time I ever heard this song was for the T.V. show Happy Days 👍 Aaaayy.. Until they made an original song for the show.. Memories
If there's one song that defines what Rock n Roll was, this is it.
This is a song that changed the world.
An original Rock n Roll song! The master at work.
Definitely check out Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Bo Diddley.
Nono Sam, you hit the nail on the head...it is a timeless call to the 50s nostalgia. My mom was a teenager during this time so I grew up listening to the music. It's peculiar how you can be nostalgic for a time you didn't know. I was a teen during the 80s, which was a blast but if I could pick another decade...it would be the 50s hands down. The best looking cars, great music, everyone dressed nice & manners were still widespread. Yep... where's my Delorean?! 😎
This song is the National Anthem of Rock N' Roll period.
My dad didn't know how to dance, so my mom would put this on and dance around him! It was so funny! I was born in 1955, and this song has to be one of my first memories!
This is supposed to be the early to mid 50's. My wife and I had all those moves down including later on the "Stroll" and a few line dances. In the 60s we had televised dance programs like American Bandstand. In Detroit, we had "Swingin Time" which my wife and I were both on. You only had to go down to the local studio at CKLW in Windsor Canada and you could get on and your family and friends might be lucky enough to pick you out. It was such an easier time. It reminded me of the "American Graffiti" Movie. Things were so that way back then. Slow by today's standards yet so wholesome and fun.
I'm 76 now. Used to like hearing this many years ago. Upbeat. Never gets old. I'm sure it made many folks feel good.
75 here still love it
Still does to many of the younger generation too. It's a great tune.
I am 62 and due to older sibling, heard a lot of this music growing up. Grew up listening to Bill Haley, Dion and the Belmonts, Chubby Checker, Fats Domino, etc, etc, etc. Some really great stuff back then. Short songs, not complex, but got your feet moving.
I love what the drummer does on this...rim shots to imitate the second hand on a clock, and a double snare pop at the end of every bar. Then the stand up bass and clean guitar solo...nice. And Barb, dance secret from a guy in his 60's that can still tear up a floor..Skip rope and flexibility..helps you big time.
Since this was from a movie, they are professional dancers. Teens were dancing to this song all over the country when it came out.
I've seen a lot of these reviews online when they don't realize it's a movie set not real people.
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Well, they were real people. They just were playing a part. 😝
This was also used as the theme song for the TV show Happy Days, which was a spin off from American Graffiti.
Right before this came out was Shake, Rattle and Roll by Joe Turner. Then, a couple of months later came Elvis with That's All Right and Good Rockin' Tonight. A year later, Chuck Berry came on the scene with Maybellene.
My daddy was a dance teacher at Arthur Murry studios..When I was a little girl in the 50.s..He use to throw me around his shoulders and under his legs..The jigger bug ..it was really fun..I had older brothers also who use me as dance partners..I loved it!!! I'm in my 70's
I am 82 years of age and grew up (in Australia) when music was music. Rock around the Clock was first used in the movie 'Blackboard Jungle" and was the birth of rock and roll. Your comments about the dress were interesting. Girls were proud to be girls, wore multiple petticoats and puffed up hairdos. Boys (like me) wore stove pipe trousers and Canadian Poppy hair cream. Life was a blast. Thank you for bringing those memories back into focus.
Makes you about 14 when this was released. Authority figure to those curious about the music of a time.
Love this.... when folks dressed up to go out.. and the music didn't allow you to stay seated... 😊
1955-1960 was the best time for Rock N' Roll. Love all those amazing songs!
1956, I was Six and remember this as the start of rock and roll. Elvis came out shortly after and became the King of R&R. The movie American Graffiti asked the question, “Where were you in 62?” One of the best retro period movies ever made!
I can remember my parents dancing to this. They kept telling my sister and I how they go ball room dancing, Big Band music, Bill Haley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis and more.
First performed live in Wildwood NJ this ushered in the rock n roll era. Used as the original theme to TV show Happy Days this is what got people dancing in the 50s and 60s.
My husband and I have danced to that one many times!!! So glad y'all enjoyed it!!
This song greatly launched rock and roll into popularity….and was also the opening song for the first season of the 1970s/80s sitcom Happy Days, which was set in the 1950s.
This was the intro and outro when the credits rolled to the movie Blackboard Jungle. I was a 12 year old and the song just blew my mind. I was at the 7pm show. The theatre was cleared before the 9pm crowd were let in. I hid in the washroom so I could sneak back in for the second showing to hear the song again - then had to endure the wrath of my folks for being 2 hours late coming home. That was in Burlington, Ontario.
The dance style is called the "Jitterbug". Very popular, and lots of fun to do!
And not that difficult to learn!
YES, YES, YES! MORE PLEASE. The original rock and roll. Please do more 50s and early 60s. Thats where it all started!
Please, please, please!
Hope?
Fully when you look at your grandparents and great-grandparents.You look at him in a different lightafter you see the fun they used to have when they were young
Great time, great music so uplifting and energetic dancing. Makes you feel sooo happy listening to this era of music!
This song definitely falls into 'being in the right place ~ at the right time' coming out around the time the word 'ROCK' came to be formally identified as a stye of music ~
Bars & Barbells and their Comments. A new band!
Rock Around the Clock is considered to be the pop hit that brought rock and roll into the mainstream. You can almost feel the blend of older-time dance music, with the burgeoning rock-and-roll scene. A fun song to listen to and dance to today. Timeless.
Every kid growing up in the 70's also knew this song, because of the TV show Happy Days.
Kids used to sneak into the last few minutes of that movie for the closing credits just to hear that song. They started dancing in the aisles. Producers everywhere took notice. 😝
American Graffiti was set in 1961, Bill Haley & His Comets did Rock Around The Clock in 1955.
American Graffiti was set in '62
@@toche20762 is correct. The importance is it is pre Beatles.
@@toche207 Where were you, in '62?
This song was the original theme song to the 70s hit series "Happy Days" (later they made an original theme song), which was set in the 50s
Bill Haley & His Comets were incredible!
This song was featured in the movie “Blackboard Jungle” in 1955, about inner city delinquents, & included breakout performances by Sidney Poitier & Vic Morrow. It was the beginning of mainstream rock & roll.
"See You Later Alligator" is a good one from Bill Haley and his Comets. Early rock and roll.
This is spark the rock and roll
Dancing was way different. We were moving out of doo wop.
Doo wop was FANTASTIC as well. But I lived thru the Psychedelic era too. Loved every minute of it. Woodstock.
But DOO WOP IS WORTH A DEEP DIVE.
From a movie about Rock & Roll, it was called "Rock Around the Clock" from 1956. They had a follow-up movie called "Don't Knock the Rock", later that same year.
Also the theme for the TV show Happy Days, which was made in the 70s but was also about the 50s. My mom loved this, and so do I. I really hope you get to Buddy Holly soon, Rave On would be my suggestion as a good starting spot.
There was swing and swing dancing in the 1940s. In the later 40s there was jump blues and boogie woogie. This all led into the early rock and roll style. Also a country influence that came out in rockabilly. All a blend, some early Johnny Cash and Elvis would be described as rockabilly. A huge influence on the beatles, stones and other 60s bands. Energetic and Fun.
Excellent synopsis.
The 6/8 bouncey beat was the rock and roll & the dancing was a follow-on to the Jitterbug that was popular in the Jazz clubs of the 40's. BTW my Mom used to get thrown around like that back in the day.
There is so much music from this time that never gets remembered.. So many bands that out didnt make the top50s were actually great
They were Jitterbugging and doing the Lindy Hop I believe. My wife's folks were young during this time and she says they were experts that this kind of dancing.
The Jitterbug and Lindy Hop were dance styles from 30's, but it still worked well in this early era of rock which was really a descendant of big band swing and country swing.
Phil & Sam
This is my parents' era of music because my mother is 85 and my father is 93. Watching this gotten me very emotional!!!
Long before American Graffiti and Happy Days, it was the first ever rock n roll song ever played in a movie when used for the opening credits to Blackboard Jungle(1955), a movie about rebellious youths at a high school in the 1950s. The song instantly became an anthem for rebellious youths nationwide.
This song was the original theme song for the tv show, “Happy Days” and also this song was the first #1 song on Billboard’s Hot 100 Charts
That dancing is the "Jitter Bug". My mom loved this music, she taught me to dance to it. Lots of fun.
It has a bit of Footloose vibe to it as well. Especially the final moments of everyone dancing!
Bill Haley was the first international Rock and Roll star! 🌟
It's amazing how the transitions in music had reflections of the previous era, starting with the jazz era beginning from the 1910's; progressing to the Big band/swing era of the 40's and leading to Rock'n'Roll of the 50's, which then lead to the rock of the 60's and disco of the 70's then into hard rock of the 80's/90's. So progression eventually leads to flashbacks of olden eras of music, before moving onto the modern era of music styles. AND THE BEAT GOES ON(Sonny & Cher 1967)
Bill Haley invented Rock & Roll in early 1954 in Wildwood New Jersey. Wildwood is a popular summer beach spot to visit. Full boardwalk, very wide beach and all, it's a trip!
Not really, listen to "Rock The Joint" by Bill Haley with the Saddlemen released in April 1952. The recording was also re-released in July 1955 as Bill Haley and his Comets.
@@TheHogsEarReport Yes, and I believe the same guitarist did the same guitar solo in that that he does here. Also I think "Rock The Joint" was recorded earlier by someone else.
It was so fun. It was in my era
You dipped your toe into the primordial soup of early rock. This song was popular but it exploded when it was used in the intro of the movie Blackboard Jungle (1955) Hearing it full force on theater speakers instead of weak and mono radios/phonographs of the time was the difference and propelled it to #1.
I remember watching my parents in the 60's, when they were in their late 20's, clear the dance floor, as they danced to this song. They could dance.
My sister and I cleared a couple of floors 💕
Some morbid trivia about this song: Danny Cedrone was the original lead guitarist for the Comets and it was his solo that we hear on this legendary, early rock 'n roll recording. Sadly, Danny died in a falling accident just ten days after this recording was made and months before the record became a hit. His role of lead guitarist of the Comets was filled by Franny Beecher, and it was Franny who played the lead guitar parts on subsequent Comets recordings and performances, but "Rock Around the Clock" features the solo by their original lead guitarist, Danny Cedrone.
This song was recorded the day after I was born, so I'm a day older than rock and roll.
This song was used during the opening and closing credits of the 1955 movie BLACKBOARD JUNGLE. It was still a pretty new song at the time of the film's release, and it marked the first time a rock & roll song was used in a film soundtrack.
The fifties to early sixties were the best small era ever.
The Kennedy hit chilled things off.
Of course my perspective was from growing up in "old" Florida.
Sarasota. Born there.
This is where it began for me, as a little kid, this is the song that got your attention when it came on the radio! As timeless an iconic song as there can be! :)
Cool, I remember my mom and dad getting dressed like that to go to the movies, very nostalgic.
This is by many considered to be the first Rock n Roll tune ever recorded.
Actually it’s not, there were others , but this song was the first of those to go to number 1 , so billboard claimed that this song started the rock and roll era in billboard
My vote would be for Rocket 88.
It’s a 🔥track. Always has been. An absolute classic.
I've been listening to this song for a half century and just now has it dawned on me why Bill named his band, "Comets". LOL Duh, I should've made the celestial connection decades ago!
That is called jitterbugging. I learn it as it was being invented. Ya kids I am that old and My Love, My dance partner for the last 44 yr. When u put his on we paused it to clean away some stuff some that our living room becomes a hard wood dance floor. Yes at 76 we can still doit all b/c we do it every day. Yes we met on a dance floor and we still spend a few hr each days in the others arms getting our aerobics in. We do one fast 2 slow. We/re getting old can do fast all the time any more.
Yes. This is aerobic music. Get in your steps or burn your Cals. whatever. We're still alive due to luck, and dancing to music!
The version on Happy Days was a newly recorded version by Bill Haley (1973)
You guys would enjoy watching "American Graffiti" - it's got a great 50's soundtrack and a little Wolfman Jack to boot. If you wanted to do a full-movie reaction, this would be the one to do!
"Blackboard Jungle" (1955, black and white) starring Glenn Ford and Sydney Poitier has Ford as a new teacher in an inner city high school and Poitier as one of the students. There are many issues to sort out. "Rock Around The Clock" was used in the opening credits and elsewhere and the song became the first "rock and roll" song to sell a million copies (and much more) of 45 records becoming an anthem for the late 1950's teenagers. Not a great movie but a good enough movie to watch on a Saturday night, especially considering its historical notability.
Notice the stand up bass , electric bass guitars weren't used until the early 60s, I have a 1960 Fender jazz bass, the most used bass guitar in history both rock and country.
Buddy Holly That'll be the day, Peggy Sue, Brown Eyed Handsome Man !
This is the merging of big band swing with rock n roll beat.
It also made Number one in the charts in the 60,s
"The national anthem of Rock and Roll." - Dick Clark, longtime host of "American Bandstand."
THIS is where Rock began. When this song hit #1 on Billboard in July of 1955- that was when the Rock Era began.
If you get a chance to hear "Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White" by Perez Prado and his Orchestra... that was the LAST #1 hit of the pre-Rock days. It'll give you something of a taste of what Rock replaced...
This is one of, if not the first rock n roll hit, it's also the original opening theme song for the tv show Happy Days.
This was famously used in the movie Blackboard Jungle (1955)
This video is the final scene of the movie Rock Around the Clock (1956)
This song was a complete game changer at the time. This song is what kicked off the "Rock & Roll Era" and changed the way music was charted. Before this it was the "Hit Parade". After this it was the Top 40 and the Hot 100.
They were part of the early rock n roll scene along with Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins and Buddy Holly. This dancing style is very reminiscent of the dancing in the 40's with the big bands.
Don't forget Eddie Cochran and Gene Vincent.
Bill Haley and little Richard started rock and roll
Aaaaah. My papa used to sing this with his party band...❤❤❤
Hey, Phil and Sam, fun fact for you:
When the TV series "Happy Days" originally aired, this song was the theme song for the opening credits until around the 3rd season
BUDDY HOLLY. YES.
I saw this movie when it came out, I was 8 or 9 years old. It was in black and white, the version you’re watching was “colorized”, a process they developed later to add color to old movies.
Such a great song, Happy Days theme song, also on the American Graffiti Soundtrack! ❤❤ The American Graffiti Soundtrack has so many great songs!!❤❤❤❤
I saw Bill in my home town in the UK later in his career. Bill was great.
The 50s had the best music and cars.I was born in 57.
Phil and Sam
This song was opening theme song for Happy Days.
1st season
This song was the birth of the jump from black dance music to white mainstream rock music. Originally known as Rock-a-Billy music. The song was also the original theme for the TV show Happy Days, spun of from the movie American Graffiti with a premiere pilot episode on the Love American Style TV show.
The dance style was the Jitter Bug. This is the old time rock and roll style Bob Seger was referring to.
Spot on. Old Time Rock'n'Roll came out in 1978, and he mentions 1962, but he was also referencing this beginning of the modern pop music era as defined by the BILLBOARD Hot 100. It was this song that led to the expansion of the pop chart from 30 songs to 100.
May I suggest "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On", Jerry Lee Lewis (1957)?
This so very awesome. I was born in 1955, but my brothers who were born in 1940 and 1945 played this a lot as I was growing up. Please check out Buddy Holly, Little Richard, Chuck Berry and Big Bopper. Love your reactions!
This song was the unofficial beginning of the Rock’N’Roll era.
This was the the theme song for Happy Days, the 70s sitcom.
Mark is right about this song and you also need to react to Chuck Berry for sure and Buddy Holly and many others from the 50's thru 60's