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- Very short running time and rather pedestrian in tone - but in color - THE BIG BEAT is like a remake of Columbia's Rock Around the Clock - but in color - which might have been the production trade off for not having bigger genuine rocknroll stars and more footage: all to keep the budget the same as if it had.
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Feb 29, 2024 · We’ll have some fun when the clock strikes one We’re gonna rock around the clock tonight We’re gonna rock, rock, rock, ’til broad daylight We’re gonna rock, gonna rock, around the clock ...
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Very short running time and rather pedestrian in tone - but in color - THE BIG BEAT is like a remake of Columbia's Rock Around the Clock - but in color - which might have been the production trade off for not having bigger genuine rocknroll stars and more footage: all to keep the budget the same as if it had.
During a nineteen-fifties revival, nearly twenty years later, “Rock Around the Clock” was chosen to be the first track on the “American Graffiti” soundtrack, was the theme song for the ...
May 19, 2024 · Composer and publisher James E. Myers — working under the pen name “Jimmy De Knight” — and lyricist Max C. Freedman wrote “Rock Around the Clock” in late 1952 with Bill Haley in mind.
For the album by Haley, see Rock Around the Clock (album). " Rock Around the Clock " is a rock and roll song in the 12-bar blues format written by Max C. Freedman and James E. Myers (the latter being under the pseudonym "Jimmy De Knight") in 1952. The best-known and most successful rendition was recorded by Bill Haley & His Comets in 1954 for ...
Very short running time and rather pedestrian in tone - but in color - THE BIG BEAT is like a remake of Columbia's Rock Around the Clock - but in color - which might have been the production trade off for not having bigger genuine rocknroll stars and more footage: all to keep the budget the same as if it had.
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- Comedy, Music, Romance
- Will Cowan
- 1958-02
One of the first major rock ‘n roll songs of the 1950s – and still ranked among the world’s all-time Top Ten best-selling singles – is “Rock Around The Clock.”. The song was made popular by the American group, Bill Haley and His Comets, initially a Country & Western band from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania that morphed into a rock `n ...