Bill Haley & His Comets - Rock Around The Clock Bandstand 1960

Bill Haley & His Comets
Rock Around The Clock
Bandstand 1960

[@keithhyttinen8275]

2021.... 66 years after being recorded. Still peels the paint off the wall. "Rock Around the Clock"

[@user-jd1wp5pq3q]

I been listening to this kind music for 47 years now and, after all these years have passed, these tunes sound as fresh today as the day i first heard them. We may be getting old and dated but, this type of music always sounds as fresh as a new Morning, Everyday.

[@stereopolice]

01:03 one of the most famous and distinctive guitar breaks of all time; even to this day.

[@Joe69882]

Is it just me or is there no cable connected to Beecher's guitar?

[@boogiewoogieboss5894]

I agree, I tried to cover it on my piano version. See what you think kzbin.info/www/bejne/hZ2vYZuOipqqrJI

[@JonathanMcKey]

@@Joe69882 It's Lip-Synched, so no cable needed.

[@KevyNova]

Played by Danny Cedrone, who was dead by the time of this clip where Franny Beecher is miming to it.

[@FlipDahlenburg]

@@KevyNova Miming it pretty well, too, shows dedication, practice, and consideration!

[@Lwyse96]

The man at the beginning of this video is Dick Clark, the host of American Bandstand. He died on 18th April 2012.

[@kurtb8474]

They called him The World's Oldest Teenager.

[@KennyLeo-qx8dc]

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[@johngiovine8792]

Bill Haley and his Comets were outstanding! The guitarist at 1:02 is rippin' it up, then & now!

[@johngiovine8792]

The guitarist @ 1:02 is simply great!

[@shr3ddur]

2017. This is real rock n roll !

[@robdewey317]

shredder good grief enjoy what the kids are doing today and don't be a geezer. 😜

[@williamgoode1454]

this was back when white man led the world and stayed out of everyone else's business and everyone lived together during the peace era

[@ranger.of.motion251]

shredder 2018

[@9284vr]

@@robdewey317 I hope you are not including today's crap rap.

[@linodigi2404]

Everyone should watch this, real music with real instruments.

[@iamranndizzle3204]

Lino DiGi they still make it

[@wavecast64]

As opposed to a fake instrument? Ok boomer

[@rocknrollcannibals]

@@wavecast64 as opposed to all that crap made with computers these days.

[@wavecast64]

@@rocknrollcannibals lol they're still real instruments

[@JonathanMcKey]

@@wavecast64 No they aren't.

[@user-xe9zi2gh2w]

I'm from Russia and I really like the composition. This song is amazing live and energetic))

[@goldend3406]

Лучшие песни

[@ronreinhold8997]

It may be 2023, but the impact and the revolution this song caused will never be forgotten.

[@alexanderpatrick4866]

👍

[@guirre30]

🎉🎉🎉🎉 magic it’s going to live for ever 🔥🔥

[@ChrislovesKrystal]

Possible the greatest rock and roll song of all time. BILL HALEY LIVES!

[@MrChrisdube]

One of my Top 10. Born in 57, I span a lot of songs.

[@Glances2011]

Dick Clark looks so young. Bill Haley is doing what he does best pure Haley with his magic touch.

[@lianelayman7577]

Dick always looked young.

[@martinkennedy2302]

Hello Nancy. Sorry for intruding your privacy, I just want to know if you're a fan?

[@KennyLeo-qx8dc]

Hello👋👋 I Do apologize for writing you in your comment box, it was my little she asked me to send his pictures to you Grace and she wanted to say HI if you would respond to her, she copied your profile and sent it to me saying you're an angel and you look just like her late mom, she talked about your smile too, and that her late mom just looks like you if she was alive. Lol But so awful to me that we're not friends here and I've been trying to send you a friend request but it keeps on declining, so if you don't mind send me a friend request so that we can get to know more about each other and see what the future holds I know we don't know 🌹🌹🌹each other. But in this world, we use only a day to make new friends, many people will come and go from your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart. Friendship is one of the most beautiful feelings to live with because it gives wealth, emotions, and complicity and because it is free, you can click on my profile and send me a direct message. I will be looking forward to hearing from you soon Please, pardon my manners. I just want to be kind, truthful, and honest friends with you. Thanks and God bless you.🌟🌟🌟🌷

[@chewie211171]

This is pretty much the song that started it all (Rock & Roll)

[@MrChrisdube]

The first Rock and Roll song to top the charts. They also put out what is arguably the FIRST Rock and Roll song ever : "Crazy Man Crazy" in 1953.

[@willpn100]

The Year: 1954; The Hour: 4:30 pm, The first note was played of the song that would one day rock the world and Bill Haley shouts out the immortal words which would become forever the international anthem of Rock'n'roll. A song so perfect, so classic it would sell tens of millions of records over the next four decades. The song would be recorded by over two hundred artists but none would capture the Comets' special magic that was recorded on that spring day in New York City.

[@gamermike6657]

Rocket 88 first rock n roll song

[@johngiovine8792]

Frank Beecher was such a fine guitarist!

[@GarwinWayne]

Actually Danny Cedrone is playing that guitar solo

[@Symbiont93]

What a cool guy His special voice

[@MaCr0BitZ]

no hay como esta musica nada lo reemplaza

[@adamholtz733]

Classic rock & roll perfection !!! Fantastic lead guitar solo !!!

[@milenacarcamo7328]

Since today I'm a rock and roll fan, Omg.... What a singers!

[@connieps5638]

Im 23 and i Love this music :) i would've enjoyed to live on those days !!

[@davidclaridge2088]

This was dad's favourite song when he was teddy boy may rest in peace

[@ShinyFlakesShinyFlakes]

Teddy boy

[@peopleforpeace999]

This is my favorite song of all time

[@randymartinez4008]

Today’s music belongs in the blender

[@Razoul-xf1wt]

Excuse me, the shitter🤢

[@bladebaron9351]

Amazing, right? Still an amazing listen, and it still gets your feet moving, unless you're dead.

[@allaboard70]

Always great to see The Comets! A performance with style.

[@danielporter7773]

Still famous today after sixty years timeless great music

[@user-jd1wp5pq3q]

After 60 years? Are you joking? Next year, in the early part of 2024, it will be 70 years since the first recording and its release.

[@danielporter7773]

The song is timeless, still played today ,

[@user-jd1wp5pq3q]

@@danielporter7773 Absloutely. Spot on.

[@ginger1959able]

Its the 60th anniversary of the song that started it all RATC!

[@gofrogsron-67]

Song was released in 1954.

[@LoLBr4iN]

If we would have known, that in year 2014 are even guys whe love his music...

[@timerewind]

An enduring classic. Thanks for posting this rare "American Bandstand" performance. We had not seen it before and our Facebook followers are loving it!

[@dank_memes__v2864]

who's watching this in 2016

[@josephpalek1349]

teddyp92 Garcia 2017

[@carriejalbert6313]

Me! And it's great music!

[@consta1321]

Me too!

[@person89]

More like 2020

[@kumoticc]

2021

[@erikcarmel5260]

That's when the true rock begun! Bill was the source of Rock'n and Roll !

[@POLO-xw7yl]

Not really

[@harindranvenkatesh]

And this is where it all began.............speechless in the presence of history.

[@gliveshow]

This song is the catalyst of rock n roll

[@eddieperez2596]

Never heard more true words in my life

[@peopleforpeace999]

This is my favorite song of all time I 3 BILL HALEY

[@greymattervandal]

That guitar solo... hell yeah!

[@suziewonder9660]

We used to watch this all the time! GREAT FUN! This is when life was sooooooo good!

[@jeffreygadd9390]

Learnt how to rock n roll to this xxxxxx

[@StoppFoto]

I love this song

[@nthdegree1269]

that is actually a mean solo right there! great song

[@vintagetshirtsonline]

Love the guitar shred in this

[@angelcordova9595]

ROCK & ROLL ... CLASIC ... EPIC

[@RussX5Z]

Wow great sound quality.

[@eddieperez2596]

Lord he was shredding that guitar!

[@PeterPug]

That's Frannie Beecher... who is an incredible guitarist but what you're hearing is the inimitable Danny Cedrone who died before it became it a hit. One of the best guitar solos in RnR history!

[@eddieperez7796]

well it's absolutely amazing my friend

[@60sken]

This was in 1954 we are able to watch it in 2020 what a way to cheer us up in these bad times. The rock and roll super star. RIP bill

[@9284vr]

@Ken Burgess...Actually this video is from 1960 on Dick Clark's TV show although the band first recorded the song in 1954 and it really hit the charts massively in 1955 after being the song heard during the opening credits of the 1955 movie Blackboard Jungle.

[@memorialoca]

A great song

[@djpaul146]

Hey are you coming to bandstand tonight no I ain't got no chewing gum. Great video from the master of rock and roll Mr Bill haley himself

[@9284vr]

@djpaul146...The sponsor back then was Beechnut gum and I am sure they gave out free gum to the entire audience.

[@Jhvhjh]

I danced this for my quince :) love it

[@alansimpson8962]

Unbelievable lightning speed on that guitar solo

[@bank1122]

Legend....Never Forget

[@MrBumblesayswhat]

We've gone very far in 60 years. It's hard to imagine that this was one of the wildest songs of the 50s.

[@armenfrundzhyan4572]

It's also classic,&. I love the oldies😊

[@areaman714]

Just heard about Mr Lytle. Thank you for pioneering the music that was and is the soundtrack of my life! RIP Marshall Lytle.

[@sauquoit13456]

On this date in 1956 {March 14th} the first rock ' roll movie, "Rock Around The Clock", had its world premier in Washington, DC One week later on March 21st it was released in movie theaters nationwide Two #1 records were featured in the movie; "Rock Around the Clock" by Bill Haley and "The Great Pretender" by the Platters In my home town, Utica, NY, it was showed for the 1st time on May 5th, 1956 at the Olympic Theater at 7:00 PM; the theater was packed and teenagers were rocking in the aisles

[@claudiodean6363]

Still rockin' in 60's....very cool

[@chickenfile5451]

This song may be old but i LOVE it

[@allaboard70]

There was some help from Alan Freed and the movie Blackboard Jungle, but Bill Haley was the very first Rock'n'Roll star when Rock Around The Clock debuted on Billboard Top 100 in 1955 and sold millions. One King!! People had to wait a little before national radio stations started play hits by Fats Domino (Ain't That A Shame), Chuck Berry (Maybellene), Little Richard (Tutti Frutti) and Elvis Presley (Heartbreak Hotel).

[@willpn100]

@ChrislovesKrystal Not possible, but fact!!!. "Rock Around the Clock" is the top selling rock and roll hit of all times!!!! It sold more than 30 millions records.

[@armenfrundzhyan4572]

I love this song, when you sing during the Happy Days theme song ❣️❣️

[@tnawcwvictoria]

This is AWESOME! I like this way better than the one the All-Star Supergroup played on the 30th Anniversary Special of Bandstand, I mean no disrespect, but Bill Haley had the magic that no one can touch also, Happy Days used this theme song for the 1st 2 seasons of the series and I like that better than the later themes of Days God Bless Bill Haley on his wonderful performance, God Bless You Mr. Dick Clark for making American Bandstand what it is today and most of all, Thank You Garry Marshall for not only giving us Happy Days and The Odd Couple TV Series, but also, for giving us Laverne & Shirley and other TV Shows and also, Thank You for makin' Julia Roberts a TRUE Pretty Woman and Thank You Tom Bosley for makin' Happy Days what it's all about The Happy Times May You All R.I.P. William John Clifton Haley (July 6, 1925 - February 9, 1981) Richard Augustus Wagstaff Clark Jr. (November 30, 1929 - April 18, 2012) Thomas Edward Bosley (October 1, 1927 - October 19, 2010) and Garry Kent Masciarelli (November 13, 1934 - July 19, 2016)

[@peteremmert783]

Bill Haley used the same first guitar instrumental break on this song as he did on his recording of "Rock the Joint" when he was recording with The Saddlemen!

[@KurdishLegendPSN]

Awesome Song.

[@brumuli]

Már hatvan éve, hogy szállnak az évek! A szaxis meg milyen boldog lehet, hogy Bill végig kitakarja :-)

[@frankschimpke4380]

dieser man ist der king des ur rock and roll.seine lieder sind unvergessen.ich hab über 70 scheiben von ihn

[@sauquoit13456]

On this day in 1955 {August 7th} Bill Haley & the Comets performed "(We're Gonna) Rock Around the Clock" on the CBS-TV program "The Ed Sullivan Show... Two months earlier on May 14th it entered Billboard's Best Sellers chart; and on July 8th it peaked at #1 {for 8 weeks) and spent almost a half-year on the Best Sellers Chart {24 weeks}... And on November 25th it also reached #1 {for 5 non-consecutive weeks} on the United Kingdom's NME chart... R.I.P. Mr. Haley, Mr. Clark, and Mr. Sullivan...

[@annecohen8927]

What a classic!!!

[@martinkennedy2302]

Hello Anne. Sorry for intruding your privacy, I just want to know if you're a fan?

[@twilightshooter4990]

4/12/2019 released 65 years ago today !

[@turismochascomus9545]

Who is watching this in 2017? Beautifull song

[@stevenbrown4304]

love it

[@chivalryalive]

What great music and such a good lookin' bunch of artists and young people in the audience... Respectable rock -n- roll.

[@Flur1]

The man was a genius. Friendchip.

[@galdinodejesus4482]

Now is 2013 today I was play this video too many times yeah!!

[@loiswright6838]

still love it!!!

[@martinkennedy2302]

Hello Lois. Sorry for intruding your privacy, I just want to know if you're a fan?.

[@cooperdrummond1167]

That is the best quality video I've ever seen👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻

[@silvanacastagno6455]

SÍMBOLO DE MI NIÑEZ...LO VI EN EL CINE TEATRO REX...BAILAMOS EN LOS PASILLOS...MI HERMOSA ADOLESCENCIA

[@richardcarlson1767]

now that music is from my era...high school & college days as well as jazz under the stars, Central Park, New York City

[@josephleehooker5256]

The guy behind Bill Haley taught our band "The Gems " how to move on stage . Rudy Pompelli Saxophone . We all grew up in the same town . Chichester

[@conniethesconnie]

What I would have liked to learn was how he was able to play sax without a microphone. Actually the entire band was able to perform with no mic's or amps onstage. What kind of Milli Vanilli magic is this?

[@ericjohnson560]

Dat guitar solo though

[@ginger1959able]

Yes well remembered Ingvar i have been busy posting as well!

[@igelmogu]

great song

[@Maverikk68]

Not sure who that guitarist is, but he's not the one who played the original solo, because he died in 1954. Still, you have to wonder why that solo didn't inspire more fast soloing like that and guitar players who could do it. That guitar player in the video learned how to, but none of the rock guitarist from the early 60's, George, Keith, Pete, Eric, Jeff, etc... were playing stuff at that level of difficulty. Fast forward 20 years and every guitar player and his mother (including Eric and Jeff) had learned how to play fast stuff. Not that fast = good, like so many bad guitar players think it does, but it does wow people more than a lot of more important aspects of playing does.

[@TheAugustino]

Yes,you're right.The guitarist's name was Danny Cedrone. 18 songs he was involved with...Obviously the main one which kick-started the band was 'Rock around the Clock'...Which was a cover (1952) of Jimmy Prestons original version. Franny's solo was practically note for note of Danny's original solo.Danny's guitar work in the studio covered,Shake rattle and Roll.....ABC Boogie..( B-side of Shake Rattle and Roll)....and....Rocket 88......88 was recorded June 14 1951....Hope the info is useful.

[@markyboo]

A lot of surf music had fast picking, but it was all tremolo picking, not precisely alternate-picked stuff like the solo here. It's funny how one of the first rock songs also had one of the first real shred solos, but shredding itself didn't catch on until much later.

[@catalinamejia4851]

these are the longest replies to the longest comment☺

[@gofrogsron-67]

And then there is the greatness of Les Paul and his work on the strings.

[@JesusCommando]

It has to be said: Buzz Lightyear / Bill Hayley and his Comets still sound absolutely great in this! Lookin sharp as well. I'm off to watch some Elvis now: a KZbin marathon is just beginning! xx

[@paulohiendrisch9122]

I like my little friends

[@carloscastro9138]

Masterpiece !

[@9284vr]

A little known fact I learned from the internet about Bill Haley...he was born July 6, 1925 in Highland Park, Michigan. In 1929, the four-year-old Haley underwent an inner-ear mastoid operation which accidentally severed an optic nerve, leaving him blind in his left eye for the rest of his life. The tiny minority of viewers here who gave a thumbs down clearly have no respect for Haley and his band or this world famous song which had sold by the 1990's at least 25 million copies according to the Guiness Book of World Records.

[@fransdielis2532]

OMG was 16 then😂those were the days!

[@romerosouza3750]

the Best rock roll song

[@terrelll.howard8660]

Great real great.

[@9284vr]

In a story Haley would relate years later in a biography, he recalled as a child when he made a simulated guitar out of cardboard, his parents bought him a real one.

[@willmolinar]

So. Fricking. Amazing! Rock and Roll!!!!!!

[@grenvillesnell9003]

God of rockin

[@roseanne74]

Happy 58th birthday Rock Around the Clock ... two more years till the 6 0 rolls around :)

[@martinkennedy2302]

Hello Roseanne. Sorry for intruding your privacy, I just want to know if you're a fan?

[@vivekdharmadhikari6110]

Actisrealwonderful

[@robertoinchaurregui6876]

Real music

[@FrankyForster-du8rk]

Don't care what anyone said about this Tune ,BUT IT WOKE UP THE WORLD ! ROCK N ROLL, ROCKABILLY AND DOO WOP ! RULES THE MUSIC WORLD FOR EVER !

[@willpn100]

This song invented youth.

[@russellbanks8540]

first time guitar shredding at 1:03 rock and f@#4ing roll, . . .yeh

[@bizewy9]

Yes..the true birth of the shred guitar..at 1:00 the lead guitar track turns up for this incredible solo! Well before distortion,...imagine this dude through a Marshall! Great song and performances all around..long live Bill Haley!

[@bizewy9]

The lead player was Danny Cedrone by the way...New Jersey guys in the 50's!

[@adrinathegreat3095]

They didn't need Marshall amps they had the far superior Fender Amp's

[@jgc4818]

Bill Haley's group had some excellent guitar solos - my favorites include 'When The Saints Rock 'n' Roll', 'Rock-A-Beatin' Boogie' and 'Crazy Man Crazy'. Yeah, The comets had some dumbass song titles but they definitely compensate for it.

[@Firebrand55]

1.35...that was the new drumbeat that went around the Western world.....I know; I was there as a rocking' teen!........evidently, the 180 thumbs-down were not.

[@user-jd1wp5pq3q]

NO WAY THIS IS A LIVE VERSION. Sounds too Good to be a Live Version. It has to be LIPSYNCHED.

[@dorseyharrington]

I watched AB for years and observed zero live performances. It was a tiny studio and in the early days of TV, so that was just fine and no one complained. Also, what was heard from the TV matched transistor and car radios exactly.

[@nomore1317]

fantastic, and beatifould music etern