" After he'd been jailed by the Harlingen Police, Martha had the judge put Haley in the hospital where he was seen by a psychiatrist who said Bill's brain was overproducing a chemical, like adrenaline.

* Hickory, portrayed by Jack Haley, the farm worker who became the Tin Woodsman in Dorothy's dream in the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz

Their outstanding defense was led by future Hall of Fame defensive back Ronnie Lott and linebacker Charles Haley, who led the NFC in sacks.

The defensive line was anchored by Jim Jeffcoat ( 10. 5 sacks ) and Tony Tolbert ( 8. 5 sacks ), along with Charles Haley, who had led the NFC in sacks in 1990 and had been acquired by Dallas in a trade with San Francisco.

The film tells the story of Cole Sear ( Haley Joel Osment ), a troubled, isolated boy who is able to see and talk to the dead, and an equally troubled child psychologist ( Bruce Willis ) who tries to help him.

The next autumn, Crowe begins working with another patient, eight-year-old Cole Sear ( Haley Joel Osment ), who has a condition similar to Vincent's.

Haley hired several new musicians to take their place: Rudy Pompilli on sax, Al Rex ( a former member of the Saddlemen ) on double bass, and Ralph Jones on drums ; in addition, lead guitarist Franny Beecher, who had been a session musician for Haley since Cedrone's death in the fall of 1954, became a full-time Comet and Haley's first performing lead guitarist.

In 1966, the Comets ( without Bill Haley ) cut an album for Orfeon as session musicians for Big Joe Turner, who had always been an idol to Haley ; no joint performance of " Shake, Rattle and Roll " was recorded, however.

Several short-lived Comets reunions were attempted in the 1970s and 1980s, including one contingent ( organized by Baltimore-based piano player Joey Welz who played piano for the Comets during the summer of 1965 ) that appeared on The Tomorrow Show, and another run by an Elvis Presley impersonator named Joey Rand ( this group later lost a legal action over the right to use the Comets name ), but only one group was officially sent out to perform by Haley himself, and his management / production company, which were the official Comets who played with Haley throughout the 1960s and 1970s and continued to perform as the Comets between gigs and during Haley's retirement.

The Comets, featuring musicians who performed with Haley in 1954 – 1955, reunited in 1987 and are still touring the world as of 2007, playing showrooms in the United States and Europe.

Two additional groups claim the name Bill Haley's Comets and have extensively toured in the United States since forming in the 1980s: one originally Haley's 1965 – 68 drummer John " Bam-Bam " Lane, the other run by Al Rappa who played bass for Haley off-and-on between late 1959 and early 1969 ( the 1956 album " Strictly Instrumental " on Decca was Al Rappa's first recording session with Bill Haley & His Comets.

Both Rappa and Lane's bands have, from time to time, recruited other former Comets for their line-ups ( for example, in 2005, Rappa joined forces with Joey Welz ), but for the most part the bandleaders are the only regular members who have worked with Bill Haley directly.

Lane died in 2007 but his group continues to perform, led by bandleader Lenny Longo, who has no direct Bill Haley connection.

Welz later released a single overdubbing two Haley demo recordings using a group of session musicians who were dubbed The Comets for the occasion.

Foreign artists who have performed at Liseberg include Bob Marley, Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, Cliff Richard, Nightwish, Delta Rhythm Boys, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Cat Stevens, The Beach Boys, The Kinks, The Who, PJ Proby, Frank Zappa with The Mothers Of Invention, Bill Haley & His Comets, Procul Harum and Toto, among others.

American-born entrepreneur Lee Gordon, who arrived in Australia in 1953, played a key role in establishing the popularity of rock & roll with his famous " Big Show " tours, which brought to Australia many leading American rock ' n ' roll acts including Bill Haley & His Comets, Little Richard, Bo Diddley, Eddie Cochran, Gene Vincent, Buddy Holly & The Crickets and Jerry Lee Lewis.

Eliza is a slave and personal maid to Mrs. Shelby who escapes to the North with her five-year old son Harry after he is sold to Mr. Haley.

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

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

Haley's father William Albert Haley was from Kentucky and played the banjo and mandolin, his mother Maude Green originally from Ulverston in England was a technically accomplished keyboardist with classical training.

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.

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

In 1953, a song called " Rock Around the Clock " was written for Haley.

Initially, it was relatively unsuccessful, staying at the charts for only one week, but Haley soon scored a major worldwide hit with a cover version of Big Joe Turner's " Shake, Rattle and Roll ", which went on to sell a million copies and became the first ever rock ' n ' roll song to enter British singles charts in December 1954 and became a Gold Record.

After the record rose to number one, Haley was quickly given the title " Father of Rock and Roll ," by the media, and by teenagers that had come to embrace the new style of music.

" Rock Around the Clock " was the first record ever to sell over one million copies in both Britain and Germany and, in 1957, Haley became the first major American rock singer to tour Europe.

Haley was soon eclipsed in the United States by the younger, sexier Elvis, but continued to enjoy great popularity in Latin America, Europe, and Australia through the 1960s.

Haley made a succession of bizarre, mostly monologue late-night phone calls to friends and relatives in which he seemed incoherently drunk or ill. Haley's first wife has been quoted as saying, " He would call and ramble and dwell on the past, his mind was really warped.

Haley was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987.

In March 2005, the British network Sky TV reported that Tom Hanks was planning to produce a biopic on the life of Bill Haley, with production tentatively scheduled to begin in 2006.

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.

Contenders for the title of " first rock and roll record " include Goree Carter's " Rock Awhile " ( 1949 ); Jimmy Preston's " Rock the Joint " ( 1949 ), which was later covered by Bill Haley & His Comets in 1952 ; and " Rocket 88 " by Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats ( actually an alias for Ike Turner and his band The Kings of Rhythm ), recorded by Sam Phillips for Sun Records in March 1951.

Haley actually recorded this song on five occasions ( a Spanish language version for Orfeón of Mexico City and an English version for the US label Newtown Records ( both in 1964 ), two live versions for Buddah Records recorded in New York in 1969 ( neither of which were released for 25 years ), and once more in Nashville, Tennessee for the Swedish Sonet Records label in 1970 ).

In 1961 – 1962, Bill Haley y sus Cometas ( as the band was known in Latin America ) signed with the Orfeón label of Mexico and scored an unexpected hit with " Twist Español ", a Spanish language recording based on the Twist dance craze that was sweeping America at the time.

In addition, Bill Haley and the Comets also scored chart hits in Latin America, Mexico, and India during the period 1961 – 1966 with recordings such as " Twist Español ", " Florida Twist ", " Spanish Twist ", " Caravan Twist ", and " Land of a Thousand Dances ".

Bill Haley recorded prolifically during the 1940s, often at the radio stations where he worked, or in formal studio settings.

Three months earlier, on April 12, 1954, Bill Haley & His Comets recorded " Rock Around the Clock ".

Defensive end Pierce Holt recorded 10. 5 sacks, as did linebacker Charles Haley.

The best-known and most successful rendition was recorded by Bill Haley and His Comets in 1954.

Although first recorded by Italian-American band Sonny Dae and His Knights on March 20, 1954, the more famous version by Bill Haley & His Comets is not, strictly speaking, a cover version.

The original arrangement of the song bore little resemblance to the version recorded by Haley, and was in fact closer to a popular instrumental of the day called " The Syncopated Clock " ( written by Leroy Anderson ).

In 1964, Bill Haley and His Comets recorded a sequel song entitled " Dance Around the Clock ".

Haley would re-record " Rock Around the Clock " many times over the years ( even scoring a substantial hit with a version recorded for Sonet Records in 1968 ), but never recaptured the magic.

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 album consisted of newly recorded renderings of Haley classics from the 1950s, along with some previously unrecorded songs.

Haley began his rock and roll career with what is now recognized as a rockabilly style in a cover of " Rocket 88 " recorded for the Philadelphia-based Holiday Records label in 1951.

Haley and His Comets then recorded " Rock Around the Clock ", Haley's biggest hit, and one of the most important records in rock and roll history.

Late in 1954, Haley also recorded another hit, " Dim, Dim The Lights ", which was one of the first R & B songs recorded by a white group to cross over to the R & B charts.

There was also some experimentation with Haley's style during this time ; one single for Orfeon was a folk ballad, " Jimmy Martinez ", which Haley recorded without the Comets.

During this year, Haley — without the Comets — recorded a pair of demos in Phoenix, Arizona: a country-western song called " Jealous Heart " for which he was backed by a local mariachi band ( and similar in style to the earlier " Jimmy Martinez ", and late-60s-style rocker called " Rock on Baby " backed by a group called Superfine Dandelion.

In 1968, Haley and the Comets recorded a single for the United Artists label, a version of Tom T. Hall's " That's How I Got to Memphis " but no long-term association with the label resulted.

One of the first of these shows, held at the Felt Forum at Madison Square Garden in New York City, resulted in Haley receiving an eight-and-a-half minute standing ovation following his performance, as Nader related in his recorded introduction to Haley's live album Bill Haley's Scrapbook, which was recorded a few weeks later at New York's Bitter End club.