Bill Haley & His Comets - 20th Century Masters: The Best Of Bill Haley & His Comets (Millennium Collection)
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Artist: Bill Haley & His CometsEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 1999-04-20
Music Label: Mca
Soundtracks:
- (We're Gonna) Rock Around The Clock
- Shake, Rattle And Roll
- Thirteen Women (And Only One Man In Town)
- Dim, Dim The Lights (I Want Some Atmosphere)
- Rudy's Rock
- Razzle Dazzle
- The Saints Rock 'N' Roll
- Skinny Minnie
- R-O-C-K
- Burn That Candle
- Rock-A-Beatin' Boogie
- See You Later, Alligator
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Free Music Review: Rockin' with Bill and the Boys
Hit: 4 Stars
I want to take you to back to the Stone Age of communications in the 1950's. In those days there was a thing called a transistor radio. For those who do not know what this is it was a small battery-powered radio that you could fit in your shirt or pants pocket or for girls- a purse or some such bag. No, no downloading then, sorry. Why do I need to mention this as a prelude to discussing Bill Haley? Well, let us keep this quiet, okay. Bill and his Comets could be listened to on that little radio. No big deal, you say. Fair enough.
But what if I told you that he played Rock and Roll music and that such music was the `devils work' in many households. And what if I told you that this `devil's work' was much easier to listen too if you had one of those little transistors that could be hidden away from snooping parents. And this was not in some "Iron Curtain" country but right here in America. Now you get the drift. Some, including this writer, may say that America has since gone to the dogs but, hell; it was great music to listen to after hearing the likes of Patti Page singing about How Much Was That Doggie In The Window.
Bill Haley actually represented something of a transition into Rock and Roll. He had a regular standard band of the day with a big `sax' sound and all. He and his Comets were all dressed up for the country club youth dance or school dance so mother and father would certainly have approved of such nice young men. Then they came out with the jump Rock Around The Clock at you. Then covered Big Joe Turner's classic Shake, Rattle and Roll (better than Elvis, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee by the way). Take a breather with a little Mambo-type ditty to take advantage of the then current craze. Then back to the sneakily sensuous Skinny Minnie. And close out with a rock classic like See You Later, Alligator. Yes, this was maybe not the very best that Rock and Roll had to offer but these guys were serious. Just make sure to get some batteries for those little radios and things will be fine.
20th Century Masters: The Best Of Bill Haley & His Comets (Millennium Collection) Poster
Bill Haley died convinced that his role in shaping and popularizing rock & roll was largely undervalued. If he was around today you'd have to agree with him, because his recorded legacy has been relegated on the one hand to bargain-basement hits collections and, on the other, to prohibitively expensive box sets that most folk will never hear. Haley's 20th Century Masters set is yet another too-slight selection of his groundbreaking work, though it does contain all the basics: "Rock Around the Clock," "Shake, Rattle and Roll," "See You Later, Alligator," and nine others. Haley is generally thought of as tame and conservative compared to, say, Elvis, which is probably true. But consider this unbelievably randy double-entendre from "Shake, Rattle and Roll": "I'm like a one-eyed cat / Peepin' in a seafood store." Yikes. If they'd chosen that as the theme to Happy Days, instead of "Rock Around the Clock" America would be a different nation today. --Daniel DurchholzPop Music CDs
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