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@robertjewell9727 2 года назад

Dear Lex, this song definitely opened the first 2 seasons of Happy Days. It also starts the movie AMERICAN GRAFFITI (1973), the movie that inspired Happy Days, which has a brilliant diegetic music score of songs from the '50s and early '60s. and was nominated for Best Picture Oscar. You should definitely check it out. George Lucas' best film IMO.

@andreadeamon6419 2 года назад

Which also Ron Howard stared in both

@robertjewell9727 2 года назад

@@andreadeamon6419 , that's right!

@matthawkins8880 2 года назад

These kids are too young for that.

@robertjewell9727 2 года назад

@@matthawkins8880 , huh?

@Zebred2001 2 года назад

Yup, one of the greatest movies ever!

@kellifranklin9872 2 года назад

This band was there at the beginning of Rock and Roll. They cemented the Rockabilly sound and became just absolute legends. While Elvis deserves his place of honor so do these cats. Long live Rock and Roll!

@hammerpocket 2 года назад

Sure, Elvis and Bill Haley deserve a place of honor after Fats Domino, Little Richard, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, and Chuck Berry, among others.

@kellifranklin9872 2 года назад

@@hammerpocket I couldn’t agree more but I was actually speaking to the Rockabilly sound in particular. The true pioneer of rock without a doubt is Sister Rosetta and Chuck Berry was the architect of rock and roll.

@eternallife9786 2 года назад

Bob wills and his Texas Playboys were doing this sound in the 30s they just called it Western swing and listen to the early Bill Haley with the saddlemen

@ShawnKavanagh 7 месяцев назад

@@hammerpocket Incredible era

@alonzocoyethea6148 2 года назад

Yes, Lex..It was the Happy Days theme for the show....bagged the no. 1 spot twice, once back in the 50's, and then again in the 70's as the show got so popular. I love the stand-up bass sound on this and the "Tick-Tock" sound the drummer was playing with

@carlpeterson8182 2 года назад

It was only the theme song for the first season or two. Then the Happy Days Theme began the theme song. Just FYI. I think when they went to doing the show with a stage audience they switched the theme song.

@hipsville 2 года назад

@@carlpeterson8182 Right. If U remember correctly they thought they'd save money not paying royalties buy doing their version. Then that version charted.

@carlpeterson8182 2 года назад

@@hipsville yep. Both are good songs.

@DjAtomize 2 года назад

It was actually used in the opening credits of the George Lucas movie "American Graffiti" which Ron Howard was in. Happy days was a spin off show of the movie.

@MadSlantedPowers 2 года назад

@@DjAtomize Not exactly. The show was an unsold pilot that appeared in the anthology show "Love, American Style." George Lucas cast Ron Howard based on that, and the success of the movie got the network to make the show into a series.

@karlsmith2570 2 года назад

Fun Fact for you Brad and Lex: Before it got it's own theme song, the show "Happy Days" used this as it's theme song

@MoMoMyPup10 2 года назад

Yeah, she said that in the beginning

@debjorgo 2 года назад

@@MoMoMyPup10 Well, she said it was the theme song, then started singing the regular theme song. Then she was like, if I am singing the theme song, then they must have just used the song in the show.

@TheFlowNetwork 2 года назад

Finally! Welcome to the beginning of Rock And Roll. This was the first Rock And Roll #1 hit in 1955. It became the anthem of rebellious youth culture when it was included in the film "Blackboard Jungle" that same year...which contributed to it's chart success. Mind you, it wasn't the first Rock And Roll SONG, but it was the first #1... and that opened the door for Rock And Roll as a nationally popular genre, whereas before, it was regionally popular...mostly in the South. Meanwhile, over in England...this was the first Rock And Roll song that a young Ringo Starr heard...when he went to see "Blackboard Jungle" on his 15th birthday in 1955.

@CadillacL 2 года назад

Lex, you’re right! The original theme song to Happy Days.

@JamesJones-zq7pc Год назад

It was also the opening song for the 1955 movie “Blackboard Jungle”

@russallert 2 года назад

The early rock & roll was basically a mixture of white country and black R&B, with a bit of the old big band sound of the 30s and 40s still lingering. Bill Haley & the Comets were originally a country band that started adding R&B tunes to their set, and that's how they got their sound. Alan Freed (seen at the beginning of the video) was an influential DJ who coined the term "rock & roll" to describe the mixture of country & R&B that he played on his radio show. It took a few years for the sound of rock & roll to really emerge - Rock Around The Clock came out in 1954, Maybelline by Chuck Berry came out in 1955, and then 1956 was really the Big Bang of rock & roll, with Elvis emerging as the big contender. Early rock sounds a bit like Glenn Miller music with the horns taken out and replaced by guitars.

@StevenMichals0812 2 года назад

The early rock and roll was like swing jazz mixed with blues. That's what got to be known as Rythym and Blues and then was influenced by country and western. That's when it became rock and roll.

@eternallife9786 2 года назад

Bob wills and his Texas Playboys were doing this in the 30s they just called a western swing

@BillGraper 2 года назад

When this song hit #1 in July 1955, many rockologists consider that the beginning of the rock era. In fact, my #1 hits book starts with this song.

@surlechapeau 2 года назад

Brad & Lex, you'll love their "Shake, Rattle & Roll"!!

@vrvaughn 2 года назад

If you’re going to listen to Shake, Rattle and Roll.. you need Big Joe Turner’s version…

@garyseward1641 2 года назад

This song came out in 1954 (the year I was born). It's the first rock n roll song that was a hit and introduced rock n roll to the mainstream. I get a kick telling people I was born the same year as rock n roll and, also, that when I was born, the house I lived in was less than a mile and a half from Bill Haley's house, Melody Manor! My uncle used to play bass for him when he was coming up and playing western music (as the Four Western Aces) before he switched to rockabilly and got his Comets.

@argonwheatbelly637 2 года назад

"How does that count as Rock?" Lex, that's Rock & Roll. Pure and simple.

@andreadeamon6419 2 года назад

My mom was born in 44. She used to dance this way. I miss her - she had a lot of fun stories about those times

@Stefan_der_Oberfranke 10 месяцев назад

Bill Haley was one of the real pioneers. God bless him.

@Joshuadgog 2 года назад

Iconic song. One of the biggest songs in history.

@misterx1969 2 года назад

My Dad was a Movie Projectionist in Memphis TN when this dropped. He said people were dancing in the aisles, he said he never saw any thing like it, people went crazy, it was a whole craze!

@nethrelm 2 года назад

Neat! My stepdad Freddie Bell was also in this movie with his band!

@johnsilva9139 Год назад

That means your dad was in Memphis when Elvis started playing shows there. Wonder if he got to see him early on. He saw some music history.

@misterx1969 Год назад

I don't know if my dad ever saw him play music but he did come and rent out the movie theater like at midnight with his entourage of friends. One time he came with Natalie Wood on the back of his motorcycle. He would send his man up and say Hey the king doesn't like this one put a different movie on.

@captaincapitalism264 Год назад

My dad, a teen in the 50s, said when this song came on the radio or jukebox Everybody danced. It was a thing for sure. This was his favorite band back then.

@captaincapitalism264 Год назад

@@misterx1969 Holy moly, that's some cool trivia about the King, thanks!

@ronp1903 2 года назад

"See You Later, Alligator", another great Bill Haley and the Comets tune! 🎵🕺💃. Get down, Brad and Lex!! 🤘

@lightsideofthemoon13 2 года назад

Hearing Brad ask what's Happy days I responded the same way when my wife asked me who the Beatles were. Lol

@scsu5085 2 года назад

- - - first Rock song to reach #1, and it started the rock era in 1955, although Elvis was recording rock before this. BILL HAILEY was in a similar category as Elvis, and ranks way up the ladder for transitioning R&B into something that sounded better. He blended various music styles into his own version of Rock & Roll... country swing. Particularly Elvis injected something into popular music and the blues, that wasn't there before. Most notably, Country Music, Bluegrass, and Pop ballads which he mixed with Blues and got Rockabilly (a more rock centered music than blues alone). Pop Music, Rock, and Elvis were all morphed from many genres of music, not just one source as many wish us to believe. While Blues were extremely important, there's more to our music than just a single genre.

@aulduronsmith5577 2 года назад

This was the theme for the show, Happy Days, at first. But first this was a movie.

@richardhenderson9767 2 года назад

Try "Shake, Rattle, and Roll", by Bill Haley & The Comets

@NoLegalPlunder 2 года назад

That guitar solo is WAY ahead of it's time. Imagine it with distortion and it would fit right in.

@highpath4776 Год назад

It was a copy of something Danny had done before (on See you later alligator ?) . A few weeks after recording the track he was dead from a fall.

@jimmyc3755 2 года назад

This has to be a corner stone of Rock and Roll Music. Great Reaction.

@NewBluesBros 2 года назад

He was playing this in 55 at Jacks Twin bar in Gloucester City New Jersey...the real home of R&R

@robertreichle1 2 года назад

One of my all-time favorite guitar solos.

@vellaropedart9190 2 года назад

I've always thought Bill Haley's guitar solo in this is so overlooked! He's actually doing some old school shred picking. And also,back in the day it was called swing dancing and they were crazy with it. And the oversized suit Brad is referring to was known as a "Zoot" suit. Usually worn among the Latin culture.

@jasongress8764 2 года назад

This was one of the first true rock and roll hits and reminds everyone of the roll swing music had on it. You can hear that outro riff in lot of the 30's swing bands stuff. Rock is a melting pot of musical styles. And that guitar solo…🔥🔥

@Tiek-bl8ej 2 года назад

Yup theme song for Happy Days used this song.

@patswanson2870 2 года назад

My older sisters had house parties like that in the early 60's. Their friends would be dancing and having a great time.

@dawnknox4640 2 года назад

My dad loved Bill Haley and The Comets Nat King Cole, Louis Armstrong Bing Crosby etc I grew up with this music. Of course I also love all the great music in the 50s, 60s, 70s & 80s

@mitchellbatchelor1594 2 года назад

“Rock Around The Clock” was the first Rock & Roll song to reach #1 on the American Charts in 1954. It is credited for helping to mainstream R&R. Also, it was the theme song for “Happy Days” tv series in the 1970’s.

@carlecat9868 2 года назад

Fun fact: The NYC building in which Bill Haley and His Comets recorded this song was later converted into condos and is where Lady Gaga grew up.

@JRcomments 2 года назад

I believe this is the first modern rock and roll #1 hit. Before this was mostly "band" music if I am not mistaken. Oh and yes Lex, this was the original Happy Days theme until they got their own when the show took off.

@jethro1963 2 года назад

That comment was worded very well. Many people consider Rock Around the Clock as the first R&R song which it wasn't. There are many contenders for that title which has been fiercely debated. It definitely helped bring the genre to mass prominence and ushered in the rock era. Another song that helped shape R&R was How High the Moon by Les Paul and Mary Ford. I would love to see a reaction to "Les Paul & Mary Ford Absolutely Live" where they have a guitar battle to the old standard "There's No Place Like Home"

@terrycunningham8118 2 года назад

@@jethro1963 Yeah, I would throw in Ike Turner's "Rocket 88" too.

@jethro1963 2 года назад

@@terrycunningham8118 Rocket 88 is widely acknowledged to be THE song but it is a very complex subject with lots of history and contenders.

@terrycunningham8118 2 года назад

@@jethro1963 For sure. There is no definitive song, just a weaving of different threads to produce a new cloth and only recognized in retrospect.

@qhl5579 2 года назад

Great song. My parents had the "At the Hop" greatest hits album. You 2 gotta do more 50s music.

@jsbhmm8232 2 года назад

that would be hilarious. So many great 50s songs... the novelty songs like, "They're Coming to Take Me Away" by Napoleon XIV or "Monster Mash" by Boris Pickett.

@carlpeterson8182 2 года назад

This is a great song. One of the greatest from early rock. You really here the jazz influence on it. This was before rock replaced Jazz as the #1 musical genre.

@darkmagus64 2 года назад

That was the opening shot in rock and roll. You can still hear the R & B and country roots.

@t.r.1708 2 года назад

Rock evolved from blues and jazz, and swing and big band. There were influences from various parts of the country. From New York to Seattle. Thx! Great reaction!

@netzahuacoyotl 2 года назад

Don’t forget Gospel was a huge influence on Rock and Roll.

@timcarr6401 2 года назад

@@netzahuacoyotl Country Music was in the mix too. Back in the late 40s and early 50s it was known as Hillbilly music. When that was combined with R&B it became Rockabilly. Rockabilly segued into R&R.

@browntabproductions 2 года назад

OG Rock & Roll. This Song changed Everything.

@JMD1965 2 года назад

Just think how explosive and fresh this sounded in 1955!! It is the connective tissue between big band/swing, jazz, Country & Western, Rhythm & Blues... and what would become known as 'Rock N Roll'

@JBHogan 2 года назад

This was from one of those 1950s movies trying to convince parents that rock and roll was okay! They are really a rockabilly band and the bass player is a madman.

@frankie3041 Год назад

Music history right there. Almost certainly the most influential song of all time.

@thomastimlin1724 2 года назад

This is the ultimate classic. Some argue that it is not the first rock and roll record. But it was the first BIG rock and roll record that almost did not happen. written in 1952, Recorded by Haley and the Comets in 1954, it went nowhere in 1954. Then a Juvenile delinquency type movie came out called Blackboard Jungle and they chose Rock Around the Clock as the theme song. That is what catapulted it to national fame in 1955, and it went to #1. Because of this record, Rock and Roll music was truly born in that this record opened the door for others. Perhaps Chuck Berry or someone would have done the the same a few weeks or months later, but this was the first rock and roll #1 song. Boy, were the parents upset! tnhat said i have total regard/ respect for Chuck Berry, Little Richard and others for rock and roll "pioneers and kings and architects" and stuff. Rock Aronud the Clock just happened to be first, a year before even Elvis became nationally known. i was born 4 days after ELvis had recorded Heartbreak Hotel, and 2 weeks before it was released in January 1956. So that makes me only 32 lol.

@gottabeemee 2 года назад

Luv your joy Lex!! Maybe one day soon we'll get treated to more smiles from Brad... You're both great and it's fun to see you enjoying music from eras past...

@ariconsul 2 года назад

Brad and Lex: Look up "Sock Hop" as a social event and "Let's Go To The Hop" (Danny and the Juniors). The dance style is probably the Lindy (Lindy Hop).

@mosesruiz9813 2 года назад

This song is credited as the first Rock and Roll song to reach #1 in 1954.

@johnnyd5285 2 года назад

This song was one of the first big rock and roll songs of the era, and the rest is history!

@BKLYN_TZU 2 года назад

The theme song of Happy Days was going for a 1950s sound which they did if you love Happy Days you might like Laverne & Shirley

@ArgonTheAware 2 года назад

And in the movie American Graphitt that Happy Days was a spin off of, the movie Lucas made right before Star Wars and discovered Harrison Ford

@BKLYN_TZU 2 года назад

@@ArgonTheAware Argon The Aware I seen that movie & it's sequel both films are set in the 1950's just like Happy Days but it didn't have anything to do with Happy Days I think it was just Type Casting you know when a actor does a certain role and they put that same actor in a movie that is similar to the character the Actor is known for I think that was what happened to Ron Howard(Richie Cunningham)

@susandrysdale7987 2 года назад

When I was in Junior High in the very early 60’s we took ballroom dance lessons. It was not from the public school but some studio offered low cost large group discounts for Jr High Schools. Almost everyone went. The point was to teach us social skills, but we also learned to dance.

@thedealer777 2 года назад

Long before "Happy Days," this was the title song to the 1955 movie "Blackboard Jungle," starring Glenn Ford and a very young Sidney Poitier and Jamie Farr (KIinger from M.A.S.H.). It was a crime drama: A new English teacher at a violent, unruly inner-city school is determined to do his job, despite resistance from both students and faculty. One of (if not the first) movie to use a Rock& roll band's music as a movie's title song.

@jollyrodgers7272 2 года назад

They performed as HIS comets and THE comets interchangeably. That clip was from a movie, of which they were in at least two; "Rock Around The Clock" and "Don't Knock The Rock", both in 1956. It was the opening for Happy Days, and also featured in the soundtrack of AMERICAN GRAFFITI (Universal, 1973), and you two really should react to that classic film about one night in Modesto, CA in 1962 - and was the inspiration for the TV show. A number of Hollywood legends are in the film, as young kids! The soundtrack is great, and is actually being broadcast over AM radio by Wolfman Jack, so everyone hears it in most every scene since everyone's radio was tuned in - really a blast from the past!

@johneppo4133 2 года назад

This was Rock in it's infantsy. And those were real dance moves.👍👍👍👍🤟

@randytorres8211 2 года назад

Per Wikipedia. This song was the first rock and roll record to reach #1 on the US charts. Bill Haley's recording became an anthem for rebellious 1950s youth, particularly after it was included in the 1955 film Blackboard Jungle. It was Number 1 on the pop charts for two months and went to Number 3 on the R&B chart.

@terryaustin5976 2 года назад

1955 I believe, and this is considered by many as the first Rock & Roll "Hit" ever recorded. Starting the rock & roll era!

@timcarr6401 2 года назад

Sister Rosetta Tharpe was doing what would be considered R&R back in 1938 with "Rock Me" and other songs. She influenced Elvis, Jerry Lee and Chuck Berry, among others.

@terryaustin5976 2 года назад

@@timcarr6401 I know about Tharpe. The word hit I had emphasized. Not first recorded but 1st "HIT"!!!

@timcarr6401 2 года назад

@@terryaustin5976 I missed that operative word. You are right.

@qkahunaq 9 месяцев назад

Bill Haley had a Rock & Roll hit song even before this, in 1954, with "Shake Rattle & Roll".

@wickedlee664 2 года назад

Channels like this are reestablishing a shared culture. We literally don’t can’t have a society where different groups are only aware of their narrow strip of culture. This fragmentation was already starting when I was a kid. It was fast becoming the norm that a person only enjoyed art/music that spoke to their lifestyle or clique. Now days we see the downstream effects of this narrow view. The entire 20th century was an unprecedented era for the creation of culture. Our society created the wealth and freedom necessary to support an artist economy. This did facilitate the production of a shit ton of crap but there are also 1000’s of masterpieces. Good stuff.

@russgilbertson8689 2 года назад

Bill Haley and the Comets This is the National Anthem for Rock and Roll. I think maybe 1955 or 1956 This was use in the movie " Blackboard Jungle", about high school .

@P-M-869 2 года назад

When this song came out, My father bought my sister a hi-fi record player and this album. I am 4-1/2 years younger than my sister. She tried teaching me to Jitter Bug. The girls wore sweater, poodle skirts and Saddle shoes.

@Boatzilla2 2 года назад

They have another fun song called "See Ya Later Alligator." This song got big after it was featured in the movie Blackboard Jungle (1955), which features any early appearance by a very young Sidney Poitier.

@jeffdetmer4681 2 года назад

Truth is guys, people did dance like that. Most people learned to dance from watching shows like American Bandstand. It was a show that played the top hits of the day and had a bunch of young people dancing the latest dances and showing off their new moves.

@juliobarreiro7345 Год назад

His music exploded everywhere in the world

@renewillner5061 2 года назад

When I was little my mom would dance with me to this. Lovelovelove ❤️✌🏻🌸

@renewillner5061 2 года назад

My mom could do all those move. RIP MOMMA. LOVELOVELOVE ❤️🌸✌🏻

@russwalker3119 2 года назад

Yes! dancing was something you had to practice with someone before you went to the public dances, and ordinary kids actually did dance like that, even the flipping and hopping stuff (if you were good at it). This was in the mid-50's to early 60's, until bands like Beachboys, Jan & Dean, and the Beatles became popular. later in the 60's line dancing and solo dancing became the popular thing to do: pony, Watusi, cool-jerk, twist, swim, etc.

@paulg123 2 года назад

I must be old. When I hear Lex say 'Happy Days' and Brad responds with 'What's that?', I initially wanted to set his headphones on fire. Then I wanted to change the 'Brad & Lex' neon sign in the background to 'Dick & Lex', and then I really wanted to take that lamp behind them and glue it to his forehead. What planet did Brad grow up on for crying out loud??? But then I realized that he is around 30 years old, so how can a person born in the 90s really know Happy Days unless, as Lex said, they watched Nick at Night? Anyway, I get these feelings often with Brad, but I love him. But sometimes I'd really love a detailed synopsis of his childhood.....:-). Love you guys!....🙂

@TheToscanaMan 2 года назад

The dance moves were insane. Great stuff. Bill Haley was big medicine back then. Thank you guys. 🎸💃🕺

@danastearns7939 2 года назад

one of the earliest American rock and roll bands. every time I hear this it reminds me of the 1973 movie-American Graffiti and those great days of cruisin with your girl, or to find a girl, pulling pranks with and/or on your friends, the car hops and burger joints - simpler times in many ways.

@fullmoonprepping4024 2 года назад

Back then couples practiced together so they could stand out and perform. It wasn't really classes for the most part. There were many local tv shows featuring live artists or not, but showcased dancing. American Bandstand was the first nationwide show with new artists and dancing Dick Clark was the MAN.

@Brian-mg7dl 2 года назад

People at a performance in Germany in 1956 RIOTED when Bill Haley and the Comets played this song.

@TigerRogers0660 2 года назад

This song is the birth of rock & roll. Recorded in 1954.

@kenmickelsen5484 2 года назад

Lex you got it right happy days loved the show and the and the song and Richie Cunningham always singing I found my thrill on blueberry hill

@brianadams4630 2 года назад

It was also used as the opening song to the movie "Blackboard Jungle" made around 1955. Because teenagers were jumping up and dancing in the movie theaters at the time, authorities claimed it was causing riots.. lol

@lillymsf5946 2 месяца назад

This song is nostalgic to me because i learned how to dance to this in year 3 music class. We were specifically learning how ppl danced in the 50s and 60s and all of us got in to pairs to practice it. I was paired up with a guy named Adam who thought i had coodies, so u know, fun -_- the teacher taught us a simple hand hold, extend the arm, turn and twirl move that was really popular at the time and as we just kept doing that over and over again, Adam slowly got into it lol i like to think that was the moment when he discovered girls haha he stopped being an ass after that so i'm grateful this song helped us over that hurdle :D

@nicknam8478 2 года назад

By many many people my age this war the first real hit rock and roll song.

@quincee3376 2 года назад

Timeless!!! Brings back great memories of the tv show Happy Days!!!

@richb313 2 года назад

This song was written by Max C. Freedman and James E. Myers in 1952. The best-known and most successful rendition was recorded by Bill Haley & His Comets in 1954 since then it has been featured in countless movies and TV shows so being familiar is not unusual never having heard it at all would be today.

@jamescronan7220 2 года назад

Swing dancing was characteristic of the 40's Big Band era - made a comeback for a while in the 80's - check out the movie "Swing Kids" (1993).

@captaincapitalism264 Год назад

My dad told me this band turned him on to rock & roll in the mid-50s. My mom was a total Elvis fan, but they said they danced to both bands on the jukeboxes, hehe.

@jerihalter1339 2 года назад

My parents were in high school when this song came out, so I grew up listening to 50's rock and roll.

@marcelorocha9763 2 года назад

The Big Bang of Rock And Roll!!

@thelmaplett5762 2 года назад

Lex you are the best I love watching you and Brad's reactions.

@joonzville 2 года назад

People didn’t take dancing classes, as such, they just practiced like crazy. The flipping the girls around started in the 30s with big band jazz/swing dancing. It was really big in the 40s and some of the style carried over into the early 50s. When dances like The Twist developed in the mid to late 50s, the earlier dance style went out of fashion.

@richardvail3840 2 года назад

Loved Happy Days show wiith Ralph, Pottsy,Richie, and of course..the Fonz!!

@cjdesign5700 2 года назад

One of the songs that birthed Rock and Roll

@Mycroftsbrother 2 года назад

Nah, my parents and their siblings were ferocious "Jitterbuggers" back in the day. Kids used to dance A LOT back then. They watched other dancers, learned new steps from siblings and friends, and thanks to record players, practiced a lot. If you lived in a place that didn't have at least a couple of dances per week, you must have lived way out in the woods. When kids went to those dances, they took their dancing seriously... and THEY DANCED! Couples would even build up rivalries with other couples to see who could outdance each other.

@neillenet291 2 года назад

Yes they used rock around the clock for the Happy Days theme for part of its run. The first couple of seasons if I'm not mistaken.

@marcelorocha9763 2 года назад

Rock Around the Clock is also in two movies, "Rock Around the Clock" (1955) and "Blackboard Jungle"' (1955)!!

@mournblade1066 2 года назад

Bill Haley, the first wild man of Rock and Roll.

@bradcolorado8149 2 года назад

love Brad wearing his Bjork t-shirt while listening to Bill Haley and the comets... I would love to hear Bjork cover this song

@allanjones1680 2 года назад

The song that started it all....

@straycatttt2766 2 года назад

Yes, dancing was a big thing then. My parents met at the weekly dance at Arthur Murray Dance Studio lessons in 1953. They married in 1954 when this song came out.

@stevenblock9712 2 года назад

That dance is the jitterbug and was the standard fast dance in the 40's and 50's. The song is also featured in the 1956 movie of the same name.

@THEDEEPDIVE 2 года назад

The guitar solo is everything.

@BigToeify 2 года назад

Yes Lex this is the first real Rock n Roll song. It can be argued but it’s the first smash rock hit.

@jamielandis4308 2 года назад

Bill Haley, one of the guys sung about in “American Pie.”

@juliobarreiro7345 Год назад

The king of rock n roll 1956

@teresabunting6364 2 года назад

This song is jammin!!!!

@easyrolling 2 года назад

So many original artists from the ROCK side of rock & roll you haven't hit on yet!! From Rock-A-Billy to Doo-wop to the beginnings of straight rock.. Gene Vincent, Eddie Cochran, Everly Brothers, Carl Perkins, Rick Nelson, Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers, The Coasters, Danny & The Juniors, omg.. on & on.. Go for more.... great review

@breckrichardson390 2 года назад

Correct, Lex. This was the opening theme song for Happy Days in the first season (maybe the secon season as well) then they switched to the theme song written for the show: "Monday, Tuesday, happy days. Wednesday, Thursday, happy days . . . "

@MoMoMyPup10 2 года назад

Yes indeed, Happy Days. Such a popular and iconic song that I'm surprised more people haven't reacted to it. But of course, it came out years before Happy Days chose it for the show.

@juliobarreiro7345 Год назад

II was 10 years old and love Bill Hslley