#GreatAlbums1950s - #BillHaley & His Comets – Rock Around the Clock (1955). Although history remembers Haley mainly for one earth-shifting 45, there was more to Bill’s oeuvre given his talent for countrified jump blues and occasional ability to write bangers like “Rock a-Beatin’ Boogie.” While most of this disc rocks amiably in ways you’d expect, there’s one wonderfully bizarre turn on “Thirteen Women” – a fantasy about the only male among 14 survivors of nuclear Armageddon.

#GreatRockAlbums

Tom is now listening to (We're Gonna) Rock Around The Clock
https://open.spotify.com/track/1uRKT2LRANv4baowBWHfDS

#BillHaley&HisComets

Supplemental reading: The part of the #BillHaley story they usually leave out.
#RockAndRoll
https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/falling-comet/

Sunday #Music:
The traditional rock history narrative stops telling the #BillHaley story after the Comets stop charting, which is a real shame, because he had some good music left in him. For instance, this 1967 session in Arizona of a country classic with a local bolero trio.

A million miles away from the teenage frenzy years of the late 50s, but it's one of the best things he ever did...and it took decades to get a release.

#1960s #RockAndRoll

https://youtu.be/mPeBIREseyo

https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=xz7j33NO-x0

#UpcomingBirthday

#BillHaley 6 July

#music #musik #musique #musica

#ChantillyLace

Heute ist der 40. Todestag von #BillHaley.
Er liebte Pomade im Haar, trug eine Fliege und hat mit seiner Band eine Revolution ausgelöst.
#podcast #rocknroll 🎶
https://pca.st/episode/f79fe6c8-3442-4256-884d-b78231531ebf