rock around the clock

     

"Rock Aroun the Clock" is a 12-bar-blues-based song from 1952, written by Max C. Freedman and James E. Myers (the latter under the pseudonym "Jimmy De Knight").

Trivia about rock around the clock

  • This Bill Haley number was only a minor hit until featured in the movie "Blackboard Jungle"
  • This tune hit the Top 40 again in 1974 thanks to its use as the theme to "Happy Days"
  • Bill Haley ran down a full 12-hour cycle in this 1955 No. 1 hit
  • To do this in '55, you had to "put your glad rags on"
  • The first song listed in the "Billboard Book of No. 1 Hits" is this "rockin'" Bill Haley song from July 1955