![]() You’ll dig all the crazy hep talk, Daddy-O, and your feet won’t stop tapping while watching ROCK AROUND THE CLOCK. ![]() It’s a bit cornball today, but as a time capsule to a more innocent era, it’s highly enjoyable. Legendary DJ Alan Freed also appears as himself in the film. Besides Haley and his band (who’d soon be replaced as Rock King by some guy named Elvis), you’ll see doo-wop greats The Platters doing their hits “Only You” and “The Great Pretender”, the energetic Freddie Bell and the Bell Boys, and Latin jazz combo Tony Martinez and his Mambo Band (Martinez would later play Pepino in TV’s long running THE REAL MCCOYS, starring Walter Brennan). But ROCK AROUND THE CLOCK isn’t about plot, it’s about the new (at the time) artform called rock’roll. Were gonna rock around the clock tonight, Were. When its eight, nine, ten, eleven too, Ill be goin strong and so will you. Were gonna rock around the clock tonight, Were gonna rock, rock, rock, till broad daylight, Were gonna rock around the clock tonight. She spends the rest of the film trying to put the kibosh on the romance. When the chimes ring five, six, and seven, Well be right in seventh heaven. Steve and Lisa fall in love, much to Corrine’s chagrin. The team’s played by Lisa Gaye and Earl Barton and hey, they’re pretty damn good: Corny asks a youngster what this strange music is called, and she exuberantly replies, “It’s rock and roll, brother, and we’re rocking tonight!” The dance floor clears when brother and sister duo Lisa and Jimmy Johns hit it for “Rock a Beatin’ Boogie”. They discover Bill Haley and His Comets rocking out to “See Ya Later, Alligator”, with everyone dancing up a storm. Stopping in small town Strawberry Springs, they notice hordes of young people heading to the Saturday night dance. The plot is virtually non-existent: band manager Steve Hollis and his sidekick Corny, tired of the dead big-band scene, make their way to New York to seek work with Corrine Talbot’s talent agency. Adults were perplexed, but teenagers stormed theaters in droves, eager to plunk down their hard-earned cash to get a glimpse of rockers Bill Haley and His Comets, The Platters, and other hitmakers of the era. Our trust in the club, based on those two and a half years we have as evidence, means, rightly or wrongly, we expect good things. Producer Sam Katzman, always ready to jump on the latest bandwagon, put this quickie together and had a box-office smash on his hands. The title tune was used in the opening credits of 1955’s THE BLACKBOARD JUNGLE and caused teen fans to riot in theaters upon hearing that Big Beat. It stayed there for eight weeks.Īccording to Guinness Book of World Records, the song has sold more than 25 million copies.I’m kicking off this new series on the marriage of rock’n’roll music and film with what many believe is “the first rock’n’roll movie”, 1956’s ROCK AROUND THE CLOCK. “Rock Around the Clock” became the first rock tune to reach number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The song ended up playing over the opening credits of Ford’s movie. He passed the song along to the producers. Glenn Ford was filming “Blackboard Jungle,” a story about juvenile delinquents. Ten-year-old Peter Ford, the son of actor Glenn Ford, discovered the song and showed it to his father. The record had modest success, but it was a year later, in 1955, when it became a hit. ![]() Bill Haley & His CometsRock Around the Clock Caribe SoundReleased on: Auto-ge.It was recorded in two takes as the B-side of “Thirteen Women.” Provided to YouTube by SonoSuiteRock Around the Clock (Remastered) The official music video for Rock Around The Clock by Ringo Starr. ![]() Song of the Day “Rock Around the Clock” wasn’t even the first rock ‘n’ roll song, but it was the song that pushed rock into the mainstream. That lasted until those teenagers aged into adulthood and became parents… You get the point. The criticism didn’t end until the teenagers grew into adults and became parents, criticizing the latest music, saying it was a bad influence on their kids, how it was too sexual, how it was leading to juvenile delinquency and drug use. ![]() The decline of the United States began when Bill Haley and the Comets released “Rock Around the Clock.” Parents, clergy, teachers and law enforcement lamented how the music was a communist plot a bad influence on their children how it was too sexual, how it was creating juvenile delinquents. ![]()
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