Rock around the clock

[Luulox]

On bbc 2 and one of the band had a lovely precision also love how disgusted the old uns were with the music! Hard to imagine now. Film was made in 1956 so that bass must be one of the first?

[seashell]

And how the heck did that bass player from Freddie Bell and the Bell Boys manage to do all those dance moves whilst playing? It looked to me as though he really was playing, not miming.

I googled them afterwards and discovered his name was Frankie Brent. What a performer!!

[Cat Burrito]

Rock Around the Clock is just a brilliant song. I learnt the guitar parts and solos for an old band that then didn't do it. It made me realise that it is a much cleverer song than I'd given it credit.

[James Nada]

Great song, and the production of that recording is perfect.

One of few the claims to fame my town (Ulverston, Cumbria) has, is that Bill Haley's mother was born and grew up here before emigrating to the USA.

[ivansc]

Saw Bill Haley & the Comets the first time they came to the UK. Live.
They were a great act and excellent musicians, just all looked SO old to me at the time.
I was around twelve years old. I think. 1957? Been playing banjo and guitar in a jazz band in North London since 1954.
I know that the band I saw had Rudi Pompilli on sax, Billy Williamson on steel guitar (hear him on "everybody razzle dazle along with frannie) and frannie beecher on guitar.
Great rocking lineup and excellent showmen. Haley by that time came over as distinctly lack-lustre but the band mad up for it.