He quickly becomes their manager and, with the help of alan freed, hopes to bring the new sound to the entire country. Rock around the clock is the title of a 1956 musical film that featured bill haley and his comets along with alan freed, the platters, tony martinez and his band. Rock around the clock 1956 cast and crew moviefone. Earl barton was also the choreographer for this movie. And that would be that, except for the fact that the band is bill haley and his comets, and this little film is now history for the effect they produced on teen. In this lowbudget, 77minute movie, disc jockey alan freed discovers a rock band in a village in the faraway hills and promotes. It was produced by bmovie king sam katzman who would produce several elvis presley films in the 1960s and directed by fred f. It is accompanied by a new way of dancing, led by the siblings lisa and jimmy johns. But will a conniving booking agent, with a personal ax to grind with the manager, conspire to keep the band from making the big time. The record that started the rock revolution, by jim dawson.
Rock around the clock is the title of a 1956 musical film that featured bill haley and his comets along with alan freed, the platters, tony martinez and his. Bill haley and bill haley and the comets in rock around the clock 1956 rock. See the full list of rock around the clock cast and crew including actors, directors, producers and more. There is a show biz story about the making of a band, and a romance plot line.
Lisa gaye in rock around the clock 1956 rock around. Bill haley rock around the clock 1956 video dailymotion. Watch bill haley rock around the clock 1956 cellleader1 on dailymotion. The film was released in 1956 and was built around the hit song rock around the clock by bill haley and the comets.
Comets drummer ralph jones took lots of home movies during the bands visit to hollywood. It was produced by b movie king sam katzman who would produce several elvis presley films in. Rock around the clock, a 1955 columbia movie, featuring bill haley and his comets, tony martinez and his band, freddie bell and the. Sears, with bill haley and his comets, the platters, ernie freeman combo, at turner classic movies. This footage which has been used by documentary filmmakers includes the only known color footage from the set of rock around the clock. Were your movie poster source for new releases and vintage movie posters. Produced by sam katzman, rock around the clock is a blevel movie in every respect, but music, which is still glorious and irresistible. A frustrated bigband promoter runs into rockandrollers bill haley and. Sears, the movie features about 20 by now classic songs from the likes of bill haley and the comets, along with alan freed playing himself, the platters, tony martinez, and freddie bell and his bellboys. In the boxoffice sensation rock around the clock, featuring bill haley and the comets, the platters and others, gaye was memorable dancing with earl barton also the film s choreographer in. Rock around the clock 1956 the movie database tmdb. On their way to new york, steve and his companion corny, stop at a motel in a small place called strawberry springs. A movie done mostly to capitalize on the hot new music genre, rock and roll.
Alan freed, bill haley and the comets, ernie freeman combo with the. Its saturday evening, and a huge number of young people are going to the town hall to listen to a local band called bill haley and his comets, playing a new kind of music called rocknroll. Now you can play full rock around the clock in high quality with duration 77 min and has been launched in 1956 0321 and mpaa rating is 0 movie title in your country. This was the first full length rock and roll movie.
Cedrones guitar work can also be heard on abc boogie, the. Buy rock around the clock movie posters from movie poster shop. Cast and crew credits for rock around the clock, 1956, directed by fred f. September 1956 news items noted that in london, teenage audiences became so agitated that the theater manager had to stop the film and appeal to them to take their seats. Rock around the clock dvd 1956 movie bill haley comets.
Dj freed is credited with inventing the term, rock n roll, and haley was a durable star for over a decade, selling 22 million copies of his hit, rock around the clock, and helping to establish rock music once and for all. Vinyl lp, 10 bill haley and his comets rock around the clock 1956, vinyl discogs. Enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing rock around the clock near you. According to hollywood reporter news items, the film rock around the clock was a huge international success. Lisa gaye in rock around the clock 1956 rock around the clock is the title of a 1956 musical motion picture that featured bill haley and his comets along with alan freed, the platters, tony martinez and his band, and freddie bell and his bellboys. Earl barton and lisa gaye in rock around the clock, 1956, performing to rockabeatin boogie. Rock around the clock 1956 rock around the clock 1956.
Don t knock the rock spotlights rock music in its infancy and features some of the genre s true originals. Rock around the clock 1956 film complet en francais a 20170714t21. After its inclusion in the hit film the blackboard jungle, the song rock around the clock was such a smash hit that b movie producer sam katzman decided to make a movie with that title and have the singles act, bill haley and the comets, perform that one, see you later, alligator and a few others here. A frustrated bigband promoter runs in to rock androllers bill haley and the comets at a smalltown dance. Rock around the clock movie posters from movie poster shop. Its saturday evening, and a huge number of young people are going to the town hall to listen to a local band called bill haley and his comets, playing a new kind of music called rock nroll. Overview full credits full synopsis notes music screenplay info. Full streaming rock around the clock in high definition format. A special video of rock around the clock was created to mark the occasion and was featured on nasas website during july and august 2005. Rock around the clock film jump to navigation jump to search. Rock around the clock is the title of a 1956 musical film that featured bill haley and his comets along with alan freed, the platters, tony martinez and his band and freddie bell and his bellboys.
Rock around the clock 1955 bill haley and his comets youtube. During the performances of rock around the clock, franny beecher is shown playing the guitar for danny cedrone, who had originally been on the recording session, and who had died 18 months earlier. Rock around the clock not rated 1h 17min comedy, music, romance 21 march 1956 usa orchestra manager steve hollis realizes that bigband music is dead. The anniversary was also marked by the publication of a book entirely devoted to the history of the song, rock around the clock.
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