* 1924 – Rudy Pompilli, American musician ( Bill Haley & His Comets ) ( d. 1976 )

Holly's transition to rock continued when he opened for Bill Haley & His Comets at a local show organized by Eddie Crandall, the manager for Marty Robbins.

William John Clifton " Bill " Haley (; July 6, 1925 – February 9, 1981 ) was one of the first American rock and roll musicians.

He is credited by many with first popularizing this form of music in the early 1950s with his group Bill Haley & His Comets ( inspired by Halley's Comet ) and million selling hits such as, " Rock Around the Clock ", " See You Later Alligator ", and " Shake Rattle and Roll ".

Bill Haley was born in Highland Park, Michigan as William John Clifton Haley.

The sleeve notes continue: " When Bill Haley was fifteen he left home with his guitar and very little else and set out on the hard road to fame and fortune.

During the 1940s Haley was considered one of the top cowboy yodelers in America as " Silver Yodeling Bill Haley ".

The sleeve notes conclude: " For six years Bill Haley was a musical director of Radio Station WPWA in Chester, Pennsylvania, and led his own band all through this period.

Bill Haley and the Comets performing during 1974

During the Labor Day weekend in 1952, The Saddlemen were renamed Bill Haley with Haley's Comets ( inspired by a popular mispronunciation of Halley's Comet ), and in 1953, Haley's recording of " Crazy Man, Crazy " ( co-written by Haley and his bass player, Marshall Lytle although Lytle would not receive credit until 2001 ) became the first rock and roll song to hit the American charts, peaking at no. 15 on Billboard and no. 11 on Cash Box.

Soon after, the band's name was revised to Bill Haley & His Comets.

However this account is questionable as Bill Haley never performed in the United States in 1980.

In March 2007, the Original Comets pre-opened the Bill Haley Museum in Munich, Germany.

On October 27, 2007, ex-Comets guitar player Bill Turner opened the Bill Haley Museum for the public.

Married three times, Bill Haley had at least four children.

Bill Haley Jr. ( Haley's second son and first with Joan Barbara " Cuppy " Haley-Hahn ) publishes a regional business magazine in Southeastern Pennsylvania ( Route 422 Business Advisor ).

He sings and plays guitar with a band called " Bill Haley and the Satellites ," and released a CD in 2011.

In February, 2011, he formed a tribute band " Bill Haley Jr. and the Comets ," performing his father's music and telling the stories behind the songs.

* In 1980, Haley began working on an autobiography entitled The Life and Times of Bill Haley but died after completing only 100 pages.

* In 1982, John Swenson wrote Bill Haley: The Daddy of Rock and Roll ( published in the UK under the title, Bill Haley ).

Prior to the formation of Bill Haley and the Saddlemen, which later became The Comets, Haley released several singles with other groups.

: See the discography section of Bill Haley & His Comets for a list of the singles and album releases made by Haley with the Saddlemen and the Comets from 1950 onwards.

Bill Haley's compositions included " Four Leaf Clover Blues ", " Crazy Man, Crazy ", " What ' Cha Gonna Do ", " Fractured ", " Live It Up ", " Farewell, So Long, Goodbye ", " Real Rock Drive ", " Rocking Chair on the Moon ", " Sundown Boogie ", " Birth Of The Boogie ", " Two Hound Dogs ", " Rock-A-Beatin ' Boogie ", " Hot Dog Buddy Buddy ", " R-O-C-K ", " Rudy's Rock ", " Calling All Comets ", " Tonight's the Night ", " Hook, Line and Sinker ", " Sway with Me ", " Paper Boy ( On Main Street U. S. A .)", " Skinny Minnie ", " B. B.

* Bill Haley's new Comets web site

* The Bill Haley & His Comets Story ( German )

* Bill Haley Jr. and the Comets site

Category: Bill Haley & His Comets members

In 1952, the upright bass was a standard instrument in rock and roll music, Marshall Lytle of Bill Haley & His Comets being but one example.

In some groups, the slap bass was utilized as band percussion in lieu of a drummer ; such was the case with Bill Haley & His Saddlemen ( the forerunner group to the Comets ), which did not use drummers on recordings and live performances until late 1952 ; prior to this the slap bass was relied on for percussion, including on recordings such as Haley's versions of Rock the Joint and Rocket 88.

Well-known rockabilly bassists include Bill Black, Marshall Lytle ( with Bill Haley & His Comets ) and Lee Rocker ( with 1980s-era rockabilly revivalists the Stray Cats ).

* 1981 – Bill Haley, American musician ( Bill Haley & His Comets ) ( b. 1925 )

* 1925 – Bill Haley, American singer-songwriter and musician ( Bill Haley & His Comets ) ( d. 1981 )

* 1954 – Bill Haley & His Comets release " Rock Around the Clock ", the first rock and roll record to reach number one on the Billboard charts.

Starting the following game, the song ( a favorite among many fans, who appreciated its references to Wild Bill Hagy and Earl Weaver ) was only played ( along with a video featuring several Orioles stars performing the song ) after wins.

* The London 2012 Summer Olympic Committee contacted The Who manager Bill Curbishley about Moon performing at the games, 34 years after his death.

Bill Medley is currently performing in Branson, Missouri

The series was created by Barry Took and Marty Feldman, with others contributing to later series after Feldman returned to performing, and starred Kenneth Horne, with Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden and Bill Pertwee.

The pilot episode ( where it was originally called I'm Sorry, They're At It Again ) opened with Graeme Garden and Jo Kendall singing the words of " Three Blind Mice " to the tune of " Ol ' Man River " followed by Bill Oddie and Tim Brooke-Taylor performing the lyrics of " Sing a Song of Sixpence " to the melody of " These Foolish Things ".

In the performing lineup are Haven, Barbara Jean, Linnea and her choir, Bill, Mary and Tom, Sueleen, and Winifred who has shown up again hoping for a chance to sing.

Later, about two years after his 1982 murder trial and acquittal, Holmes began a business partnership with his friend and associate Bill Amerson, as they founded and operated a production company titled Penguin Productions, where Holmes could be a triple-threat: writing, directing, and performing.

Left to right: Stephen Egerton ( guitarist ) | Stephen Egerton, Keith Morris, Bill Stevenson ( musician ) | Bill Stevenson, and Chuck Dukowski performing as Black Flag at the GV30 show in December 2011

The pre-The Beatles band The Quarrymen performed the song during 1956 early live performances along with other Presley songs, Paul McCartney later also made another cover of the song in Chaos and Creation at Abbey Road, performing it with Bill Black's bass.

Buffalo Bill ’ s Wild West returned to Europe in December 1902 with a fourteen-week run in London complete with a visit from King Edward VII and the future King George V. The Wild West traveled throughout Great Britain during the 1902-03 tour as well as the 1904 tour, performing in nearly every city large enough to support it.

Before many rock groups began performing there, the au Go Go was an oasis for jazz ( Bill Evans, Stan Getz ), comedy, and folk music.

* Bill Summers, American jazz musician, performing with Quincy Jones, Herbie Hancock, and Los Hombres Calientes,

According to the Bill Sterns Sports Newsreel broadcast on 9 / 12 / 42, on which James appeared, he was saved from being trampled, at the age of 6, by his mother's horse after performing with the horse.

In the hopes of performing comedy professionally, Gregory moved to Chicago, Illinois, where he became part of a new generation of black comedians that included Nipsey Russell, Bill Cosby, and Godfrey Cambridge, all of whom broke with the minstrel tradition, which presented stereotypical black characters.

In 1958, Bill Lowery created the National Recording Corporation ( NRC ), and brought Stevens on board playing numerous instruments, arranging music, and performing background vocals for its band.

Through her performing with top jazz musicians such as Bill Laswell ( who is also her husband ) and Herbie Hancock, Gigi has brought Ethiopian music to popular attention, especially in the United States, where she now lives.

* On his Bewilderness DVD, Bill Bailey demonstrates how West Country dialects are unsuited to great rock and pop music by performing a short West Country-themed version of " Cars ", beginning with the line "' Ere in moi carr ...".

" As for the K Foundation ", the newspaper wrote, " it stands unmasked as the current performing face of those cherished old friends of pop pranksterdom, Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty ", formerly known as The KLF.

Bill Martin ( in his book The Music of Yes ) recalled how, as a teenager, he saw the band performing live in Atlanta in late 1974.

The band debuted in 1965 and became one of the highest-paid acts then performing, having put together a complete revue that included choreographed moves and comic routines written by Bill (" Jose Jimenez ") Dana.

He was killed in an automobile accident on the morning of March 1, 1932, a passenger in a car driven by his performing associate cornetist " Wild " Bill Davison ; it was several days short of what would have been his 26th birthday.