Bill Haley His Comets Rock Around The Clock (1955)

Bill Haley His Comets Rock Around The Clock (1955) Arist : Bill Haley Song : Rock Around The Clock Rock Around the Clock is a rock and roll song in the 12bar blues format written by Max C. Freedman and James E. Myers (the latter being under the pseudonym Jimmy De Knight ) in 1952. After leaving Essex Records in the spring of 1954, Bill Haley signed with Decca Records, and the band s first recording session was set for April 12, 1954 at the Pythian Temple studios in New York City. The recording session almost failed to take place because the band was traveling on a ferry that got stuck on a sandbar en route to New York from Philadelphia. Once at the studio, producer Milt Gabler (uncle of actor Billy Crystal, who had produced Louis Jordan as well as Billie Holiday), insisted the band work on a song entitled Thirteen Women (and Only One Man in Town) (previously written and recorded by Dickie Thompson), which Gabler wanted to promote as the Aside of the group s first single for Decca.