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Around 1955 the family ( the Hills, formerly of Whitemarsh PA ) sued Time, Inc., because Life magazine published that year an article about the play, describing it as based on the actual events, and illustrated by staged photos with actors in the actual home that was the scene of the events, the Hills having moved away, making efforts to discourage publicity.
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When " Rock Around the Clock " appeared behind the opening credits of the 1955 film Blackboard Jungle starring Glenn Ford, it soared to the top of the American Billboard chart for eight weeks.
( 1955 ), Around the World in 80 Days ( 1956 ), South Pacific ( 1958 ) and Cleopatra ( 1963 ) plus many more.
Bill Haley and his Comets performing " Rock Around the Clock " on TV in 1955
At the same time British audiences were beginning to encounter American rock and roll, initially through films including Blackboard Jungle ( 1955 ) and Rock Around the Clock ( 1955 ).
Both movies contained the Bill Haley & His Comets hit " Rock Around the Clock ", which first entered the British charts in early 1955 – four months before it reached the US pop charts – topped the British charts later that year and again in 1956, and helped identify rock and roll with teenage delinquency.
Around the same time he began to be active in Britain's Free Cinema movement, co-directing the non-fiction short Momma Don't Allow ( also 1955 ) with Karel Reisz.
For the 1955 record album by Haley, see Rock Around the Clock ( album ).
It was not until 1955, when " Rock Around the Clock " was used under the opening credits of the film Blackboard Jungle, that the song truly took off.
The producers were looking for a song to represent the type of music the youth of 1955 was listening to, and the elder Ford borrowed several records from his son's collection, one of which was Haley's " Rock Around the Clock " and this was the song chosen.
On July 9, 1955, " Rock Around the Clock " became the first rock and roll recording to hit the top of Billboard's Pop charts, a feat it repeated on charts around the world.
In the UK, Haley's " Rock Around the Clock " reached number 17 on the pop charts in January 1955, four months before it first entered the US pop charts.
The most notable of these compilations was the 1955 Decca Records album Rock Around the Clock ( Decca DL 8225 ) which contained most of the tracks Haley recorded as singles for the label in 1954 and 1955.
The ( belated ) success of " Rock Around the Clock " is attributed to its use in the soundtrack of the film Blackboard Jungle, which was released in March 1955.
* An April 1955 concert in Cleveland, Ohio including the earliest known live recordings of " Rock Around the Clock " ( Rock ' n ' Roll Show, Hydra Records, 1995 );
* "( We're Gonna ) Rock Around the Clock " – US R ' n ' B No. 3 then # 1 ( 8 weeks ), Billboard, US ; # 1 ( 7 weeks ), Cashbox, 06 / 1955 ; # 1, UK, 10 / 1955 ; UK recharts # 5 09 / 1956 ; # 24, 12 / 1956 ; No. 25 01 / 1957 ; No. 20 04 / 1968 ; No. 34 05 / 1968 ; No. 12 UK then No. 39 US, 04 / 1974
( 1955 ) before scoring a big success as Phileas Fogg in Michael Todd's production of Around the World in 80 Days.
Around 1955 Kelly was replaced as Chief Scout by George Darle from Drumcondra.
" Movie Magg " and " Turn Around " were released on the Phillips-owned Flip label ( 151 ) March 19, 1955, with " Turn Around " becoming a regional success.
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Around 1910 the Borden Institute became used as William W. Borden High School, or simply Borden High School, and served this purpose until 1955.
Around 1955 the railroad shut down, and much of what was left has been either torn down of has fallen down.
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Around this time, the Alcott family set up a sort of domestic post office to curb potential domestic tension.
Around 1427, the name zu Gutenberg, after the family house in Mainz, is documented to have been used for the first time.
Around 1700, the family moved to the North Lincolnshire village of Barrow upon Humber.
Around 75, he married as his fourth wife, a Greek Jewish woman from Crete, who was a member of a distinguished family.
Around 1090, Matilda married again, to Welf V of Bavaria, from a family ( the Welfs ) whose very name was later to become synonymous with alliance to the popes in their conflict with the German emperors ( see Guelphs and Ghibellines ).
Around half of the samples appeared to be dominated by bacteria that produce lactic acid, such as lactobacillus, while the other half mostly contained a family of so-called enteric bacteria, such as Escherichia coli.
Saint Benedict established his influential monastery of Monte Cassino in the ruins of a villa at Subiaco that had belonged to Nero ; Around 590, Saint Eligius was born in a highly-placed Gallo-Roman family at the ' villa ' of Chaptelat near Limoges, in Aquitaine.
Around 1501, Vasco da Gama married Catarina de Ataíde, daughter of Álvaro de Ataíde, the alcaide-mór of Alvor ( Algarve ), and a prominent nobleman connected by kinship with the powerful Almeida family ( Catarina was a first cousin of D. Francisco de Almeida ).
Around 1916, Crawford's family moved to Kansas City, Missouri.
Around 1200 the Frangipani family took over the Colosseum and fortified it, apparently using it as a castle.
Around a quarter of the described species are found in fresh water, however, including almost all the members of the species-rich family Atyidae and the Palaemonidae subfamily Palaemoninae.
Around 260 FE, a rebel leader named Gilmer attempted a coup, in the process sacking Trantor and forcing the Imperial family to flee to the nearby world of Delicass, renamed Neotrantor.
Around the same time in New York City, a family from Vetschau, Germany, at Richard Hellmann's delicatessen on Columbus Avenue, featured his wife's homemade recipe in salads sold in their deli.
Around 1500 the area was inhabited by different tribes of the Karib language family, more precisely the Mocanae sub-family, including:
Around 350 people attended, including premier Wen Jiabao, vice president Zeng Qinghong, and numerous other Party officials, celebrities, and members of Hu Yaobang's family.
Around the middle of the century, wealthy Yankees such as the Wetmore family also began constructing larger mansions such as Chateau-sur-Mer ( 1852 ) nearby.
Around Monte Rosa, the Vincent family, Josef Zumstein ( 1783 – 1861 ), and Giovanni Gnifetti ( 1801 – 1867 ) did good work during the half century between 1778 and 1842, while in the Eastern Alps the Archduke John ( 1782 – 1850 ), Prince F. J. C. von Schwarzenberg, archbishop of Salzburg ( 1809 – 1885 ), Valentine Stanig ( 1774 – 1847 ), Adolf Schaubach ( 1800 – 1850 ), above all, P. J.
Around 1950, Nhu started the forerunner of what would become Cần Lao ( Personalist Labor Party ), forming the power base and control mechanism of the Ngô family.
Around the end of World War II in Europe in May 1945, the Oberth family moved to the town of Feucht, near Nuremberg, Germany, which became part of the American Zone of occupied Germany, and also the location of the high-level war-crimes trials of the surviving Nazi leaders.
Around 1917 the Marx Brothers family ( later a famous comedy team ) bought a chicken farm near Joliet Road ( Route 66 ) and LaGrange Road.
Around 1640, the States sold the island to the wealthy Stachouwer family.
Around 1647, Abraham's family moved from Southampton to Branford in what is now Connecticut.
Around 1879 John M. Balch and his family settled south of Mesquite in unincorporated Dallas County.
Around 1900, the property was taken over by Puget Sound National Bank and sold to a group of Seattle men who used it as a family retreat for Sunday picnics and summer camping.
Around 360 species are classified in this family, in approximately 29 genera.
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