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Post by pophector on Oct 20, 2003 21:16:07 GMT -5
Sold 21 million copies worldwide making it one of the best selling singles of all time... A 50's classic that would still be played in a jukebox in a club near you
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Post by BFMR on Oct 20, 2003 21:45:53 GMT -5
i love this track, i may be young, but i find this extremely catchy, and good even if it's older then I
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Post by Keith3000 on Oct 21, 2003 0:47:09 GMT -5
I find this extremely catchy, and good even if it's older then I Lol, this song's older than my mom! But it's definitely a classic. This is the song that started the whole rock era almost 50 years ago.
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Post by stevie nice on Oct 21, 2003 1:02:27 GMT -5
ahhh, something on the boards thats older than me! I used to love this when I went into my happy days kick in the early-mid 70s. 45 was reissued in 1975 or so and made it to #39 or so in its rerelease. I thinki Bill Haley was one of the first to wear a jheri curl. (the little loop of hair hanging around forehead)
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Post by tico on Oct 21, 2003 1:43:25 GMT -5
An oldie but goodie. It's one of my favorite 50s-60s oldies.
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Post by irock on Oct 21, 2003 11:11:43 GMT -5
i think this was the very first major, nationwide rock 'n roll hit record. great song. i became aware of it when the movie 'american graffiti' was released, and i think it was that film that occasioned the single re-release that stevie mentioned. a severely edited version served as the theme song of 'happy days' for that show's first season or two.
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Post by stevie nice on Oct 21, 2003 14:55:38 GMT -5
actually Irock, I think it's popularity in Happy Days gave it its re-release. I faintly remember American Graffitti, maybe I should get that on DVD. I think I remember it being in the documentary "Let The Good Times Roll" which my mom took me to see when I was 11 or 12, and just saw an offer to buy the dvd for from one of these little ads above the threads on this board.
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Post by irock on Oct 23, 2003 12:08:31 GMT -5
actually Irock, I think it's popularity in Happy Days gave it its re-release. you could be right, but I doubt it because 'happy days' was clearly based on 'american graffiti'. that film's soundtrack album sold well for years, and i really think (but don't know for sure) that the single was connected with that album. the soundtrack featured 'rock around the clock' as the first track on side one of disc one. you really should watch the movie. you'll see the inspiration for a number of the sets used on the tv show, plus you'll easily recognize the characters that inspired fonzie, ralph, jonie and most of all richie.
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Post by ClassicCase on Oct 24, 2003 7:35:29 GMT -5
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Post by irock on Oct 24, 2003 10:33:32 GMT -5
i stand corrected, or at least partially corrected. i had forgotten about the 'love american style' connection. still, the similarities between certain characters in the movie and their counterparts i mentioned from 'happy days' is more than chance. one inspired the other, and i think it is far more likely that the abc-tv staff writers were inspired by george lucas, francis ford coppola and haskell wexler, not the other way round. one thing i am certain of because i can remember it myself is that the revival of popularity for 'ratc' started with the release of the movie, about a year before the show 'happy days' became a regular series. as for the movie 'blackboard jungle', you're right there as well. was there really a soundtrack released from it, though? if there was i can't see how it could be called a rock soundtrack because no other rock song was used in that picture. there was some jazz as i recall. the film had nothing to do with the mid-70s re-release of RATC, however. an interesting sidenote about this film is that it inspired a sort-of-remake (much inferior) in the 80s called 'teachers' starring nick nolte. btw, pressing the 'shift' key with this thing on my hand is a bitch, so please excuse me for not using it much.
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Post by ClassicCase on Oct 24, 2003 11:58:02 GMT -5
Actually, the movie soundtrack was actually unheard of in those days and there was no such thing as a record with various artists until years later. The first was done by Elvis and I'm not sure which movie has most of his singing in it or what year. But that's whole other topic to be threaded amongst us fellow posters.
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Post by Hervard on Oct 24, 2003 11:59:50 GMT -5
This song has the distinction of being probably THE oldest song requested as a Long Distance Dedication on AT40. At least once, on the February 25, 1984 edition of the show, it was requested as a dedication to the cast of Happy Days from a girl who was upset that the show was being cancelled. Since the girl's parents moved many times, she had trouble finding friends, but knew that every Friday, she could see people who she considered friends, the cast of Happy Days. I was sleeping when hearing this dedication on the show and had an odd dream that I was seeing the cast of Happy Days in the Cunningham's living room on TV and by the time the dedication area, there wasn't a dry eye in the room - including my own, LOL! My opinion of the song - pretty good, considering I don't like a lot of 1950s music.
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Post by irock on Oct 24, 2003 14:10:59 GMT -5
Actually, the movie soundtrack was actually unheard of in those days and there was no such thing as a record with various artists until years later. It wasn't entirely unheard of, but i think you're correct at least in the sense that a soundtrack as a 'various artists' hit collection had not yet been done. but i do know of at least one movie soundtrack that was released and sold fairly well in the 50s, the one to 'bridge on the river kwai'. i imagine that sales were spurred by the included 'colonel bogey march' which was a minor hit at the time.
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Post by BillboardBoy on Feb 8, 2004 12:09:53 GMT -5
Isn't this the first #1 song to officially start the Rock Era?
The song was revived again in late 1989 when it was included in the medley of "Swing The Mood."
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Post by reception on Feb 8, 2004 12:27:43 GMT -5
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Post by mst3k on Feb 8, 2004 15:41:18 GMT -5
Isn't this the first #1 song to officially start the Rock Era? Yep.
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Post by reception on Jul 7, 2005 16:00:58 GMT -5
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Post by A Thug Named Slickback on Jul 7, 2005 18:43:36 GMT -5
This song is also interesting in that it is one of only 5 recordings by white artists to reach the Top Ten on the U.S. R&B Charts between 1950 and 1955. I think this is primarily because it essentially lifts the melody from a huge R&B song called "King Size Papa" by Julia Lee (Rock artists did that sort of thing pretty often, actually)...
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Post by hidizzyguy on Jul 7, 2005 18:47:28 GMT -5
is this the rockn' robin, huffn' and puffn' and a singing this song track?? `cause if it is, i loved it..... we used to have one of those patty-cake type games with this song back when i was elementary school....
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Post by mst3k on Jul 7, 2005 19:27:34 GMT -5
is this the rockn' robin, huffn' and puffn' and a singing this song track?? `cause if it is, i loved it..... we used to have one of those patty-cake type games with this song back when i was elementary school.... I think you're thinking of "Rockin' Robin" by Bobby Day (later remade by Michael Jackson). "Rock Around The Clock" starts off: 1-2-3 o'clock, 4 o'clock, rock 5-6-7 o'clock, 8 o'clock, rock 9-10-11 o'clock, 12 o'clock, rock We're gonna rock around the clock tonight...
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Post by hidizzyguy on Jul 7, 2005 19:47:19 GMT -5
oh yes!!!! okay... now I know.......
yes, i do like this one!!! (and the other one, haha... sorry for my mistake, this is before my time)
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Post by shocker on Oct 28, 2007 2:59:48 GMT -5
But it's definitely a classic. This is the song that started the whole rock era Unoficially, it was the 1st big hit of the rock era; but there were plenty of rock and roll songs before this. "Shake Rattle and Roll" by Bill Haley was a top 10 hit in 1954. In 1949 a song called "Rockin' at Midnight" made the R&B chart. So rock music had been around for many years before "Rock Around the Clock", but that song seemed to kick-start the rock era.
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Post by WotUNeed on Oct 28, 2007 4:08:27 GMT -5
But it's definitely a classic. This is the song that started the whole rock era Unoficially, it was the 1st big hit of the rock era; but there were plenty of rock and roll songs before this. "Shake Rattle and Roll" by Bill Haley was a top 10 hit in 1954. In 1949 a song called "Rockin' at Midnight" made the R&B chart. So rock music had been around for many years before "Rock Around the Clock", but that song seemed to kick-start the rock era. The first rock song debate is always interesting. I'm only so knowledgeable of it, but some of the ones I see mentioned frequently (and can actually remember) that predate "Rock Around the Clock" are "Sixty Minute Man" by The Dominoes, "Crazy Man Crazy" by Bill Haley and His Comets, and "Rocket 88" by Jackie Brenston and His Delta Cats. There are loads of others that get cited as possibilities but offhand they escape me, and while I don't think it's important to actually pinpoint one song, it makes for interesting reading.
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Post by dth1971 on Oct 28, 2007 9:22:12 GMT -5
If you have the COMPLETE FIRST SEASON DVD set of Happy Days, the original opening credits with the Rock Around the Clock theme was in all the episodes; but for the COMPLETE SECOND SEASON DVD set of Happy Days the later theme (covered by Platt and McLain in 1976) replaces the Rock Around the Clock theme due to some music licence dispute.
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Post by JimColyer on Oct 29, 2007 14:50:17 GMT -5
True rock n roll is from the 50s, and it will never die.
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Post by mst3k on Oct 29, 2007 19:30:39 GMT -5
Unoficially, it was the 1st big hit of the rock era; but there were plenty of rock and roll songs before this. "Shake Rattle and Roll" by Bill Haley was a top 10 hit in 1954. In 1949 a song called "Rockin' at Midnight" made the R&B chart. So rock music had been around for many years before "Rock Around the Clock", but that song seemed to kick-start the rock era. The first rock song debate is always interesting. I'm only so knowledgeable of it, but some of the ones I see mentioned frequently (and can actually remember) that predate "Rock Around the Clock" are "Sixty Minute Man" by The Dominoes, "Crazy Man Crazy" by Bill Haley and His Comets, and "Rocket 88" by Jackie Brenston and His Delta Cats. There are loads of others that get cited as possibilities but offhand they escape me, and while I don't think it's important to actually pinpoint one song, it makes for interesting reading. I've even heard The Crew-Cut's version of "Sh-Boom" (from 1954) called the first rock-and-roll record to hit #1. Great song that it is, it just doesn't scream "rock" to me in the way that the songs you mention do.
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Post by irock on Oct 30, 2007 8:00:40 GMT -5
The first rock song debate is always interesting. Yes it is, and I remember that it came up during the time American Graffiti was in theaters. The problem is that you have to qualify the question in some way, like the first to hit the Top 40 or Top 10, or the first to become a radio hit somewhere like New York or San Francisco. I don't know the answer, but there've been scores of articles written about this question over the decades. From what I can recall, Rocket 88 is most often cited as the first rock hit, but RATC was the first national hit to get extensive airplay. That might be because (and again I'm going from memory here, I'm not certain) RATC was the first rock song that radio stations in the Deep South were willing to play.
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Post by johnnywest on Mar 3, 2015 13:07:33 GMT -5
I really enjoy this one.
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Post by Glove Slap on Mar 3, 2015 15:06:36 GMT -5
I like this.
Even with all the unfortunate whitewashing and politics, this version is undoubtedly one of the most important records ever created.
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Post by richie on Jun 21, 2015 15:37:47 GMT -5
And we've been rockin' around the clock ever since!
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