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.

* Satirical songwriter Tom Lehrer's 1953 song " Lobachevsky " was based on a number that Kaye had done, about the Russian director Constantin Stanislavski, again with the affected Russian accent.

Although Johnson would attest in a 1984 radio interview that the " two tribes " of the song potentially represented any pair of warring adversaries ( giving the examples of " cowboys and Indians or Captain Kirk and Klingons "), the song does contain the line " On the air America / I modelled shirts by Van Heusen ", a clear reference to then US President Ronald Reagan, who had advertised for Phillips Van Heusen in 1953 ( briefly reviving the association in the early 1980s ), and whose first film had been titled Love Is On The Air.

Some well-known songs are " Ol ' Man River ", " Can't Help Lovin ' That Man " and " Make Believe " from Show Boat ; " Indian Love Call " from Rose-Marie ; " People Will Say We're in Love " and " Oklahoma " ( which has been the official state song of Oklahoma since 1953 ) from Oklahoma!

The Hollywood Flames had also recorded " I Know " in 1953, a song which has been called " a chord-for-chord blueprint for " Earth Angel ," and which featured the same Curtis Williams piano intro that Williams himself reused on the Penguins hit.

Hippos were mentioned in the novelty Christmas song " I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas " that became a hit for child star Gayla Peevey in 1953.

According to the Haley biographies Bill Haley by John Swenson and Rock Around the Clock by Dawson, the song was offered to Haley in the wake of his first national success " Crazy Man, Crazy " in 1953, after being copyrighted with the U. S. Library of Congress on March 31.

In 1953 Haley scored his first national success with an original song called " Crazy Man, Crazy ", a phrase Haley said he heard from his teenage audience.

" Crazy Man, Crazy " was the first rock and roll song to be televised nationally when it was used on the soundtrack for a 1953 television play starring James Dean.

* Django Reinhardt performed this song, and it can be found on the album Keep Cool: Guitar Solos ( 1950 – 1953 ).

On 28 October 1953, on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the anthem, the Harian Umum daily published their own English, German, and Dutch translations of the song.

Previously the scat backing vocal " doo-wop " can be heard in The Clovers ' 1953 release " Good Lovin '" ( Atlantic Records 1000 ) and in the chorus of Carlyle Dundee & The Dundees ' 1954 song " Never " ( Space Records 201 ).

* Muddy Waters, musician who mentioned Rolling Fork in his 1953 recording of the classic blues song, " Baby Please Don't Go ", was born in nearby Jug's Corner.

The evocative characteristics of Borodin's music made possible the adaptation of his compositions in the 1953 musical Kismet, by Robert Wright and George Forrest, perhaps most notably in the song, " Stranger in Paradise ".

Shortly after Bart began composing songs for Unity Theatre, contributing material ( including the title song ) to their 1953 revue Turn It Up, and songs for their 1953 pantomime, an agitprop version of Cinderella.

When Burke arrived for his first recording session at the Atlantic Records studio at 1841 Broadway, Manhattan, New York on 13 December 1960, he was given four songs, including his first Atlantic release, " Keep the Magic Working ", which was a flop, and " Just Out Of Reach ( Of My Two Empty Arms )", a cover of a country song written and recorded by Virgil " Pappy " Stewart, that had been a minor hit for Faron Young in 1953 (# 10 C & W ), and later for Patsy Cline.

The Royals released " Get It " ( 1953 ), an R & B song with possibly sexually oriented lyrics, which some radio stations refused to play, although it still made it to number 6 on the Billboard R & B chart.

In June 1953, they recorded a version of Darrell Glenn's country song " Crying In the Chapel ".

He is often credited with writing " Zombie Jamboree ", although the song was actually written by Lord Intruder ( Winston O ' Conner ), who released it on the B-side of his 1953 single " Disaster with Police ".

Otis produced, co-wrote, and played drums on the original recording of " Hound Dog " written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller with vocals by Big Mama Thornton, and was given a writing credit on all six of the 1953 releases of the song.

Another song Ebb wrote with Springer was " Heartbroken " ( 1953 ), which was recorded by Judy Garland, the mother of his future protégée, Liza Minnelli.

The pair made a rare feature film appearance in MGM's 1953 production Main Street to Broadway, in which Rodgers played the piano and Hammerstein sang a song they had written.

Fans of the strip ranged from novelist John Steinbeck, who called Capp " possibly the best writer in the world today " in 1953, and even earnestly recommended him for the Nobel Prize in literature — to media critic and theorist Marshall McLuhan, who considered Capp " the only robust satirical force in American life.

Between 1952 and 1972, he hosted at least five television shows – three different talk shows called The Al Capp Show ( 1952 and 1968 ) and Al Capp ( 1971 –' 72 ), Al Capp's America ( a live " chalk talk ," with Capp providing a barbed commentary while sketching cartoons, 1954 ), and a CBS game show called Anyone Can Win ( 1953 ).

In 1953, Brian Pippard, motivated by penetration experiments, proposed that this would modify the London equations via a new scale parameter called the coherence length.

In Scots Law, Davie v Magistrates of Edinburgh ( 1953 ) provides authority that where a witness has particular knowledge or skills in an area being examined by the court, and has been called to court in order to elaborate on that area for the benefit of the court, that witness may give evidence of his opinion on that area.

Clokey's first animated film was a 1953 three-minute student film called Gumbasia, a surreal montage of moving and expanding lumps of clay set to music in a parody of Disney's Fantasia.

Marvin had a small but memorable role in The Wild One ( 1953 ) opposite Marlon Brando ( Marvin's gang in the film was called " The Beetles "), followed by Seminole ( 1953 ) and Gun Fury ( 1953 ).

In December 1953, it unanimously approved what is now called the NTSC color television standard ( later defined as RS-170a ).

Clokey started his adventures in clay with a 1953 freeform clay short film called Gumbasia ( 1953 ) which shortly thereafter propelled him into his more structured Gumby TV series.

In 2007 the Decolonization Subcommittee called for the United Nations General Assembly to review the political status of Puerto Rico, a power reserved by the 1953 Resolution.

Between 1948 and 1953 a motor bus service was operated by a company called Jamaica Utilities.

In 1953, American gynecologist John Morris provided the first full description of what he called " testicular feminization syndrome " based on 82 cases compiled from the medical literature, including 2 of his own patients.

Brazilian assembly of the Beetle, where it is called " Fusca ", started in 1953, with parts imported from Germany.

A commemorative plaque is posted on the outside wall with the inscription " Eugene O ' Neill, October 16, 1888 ~ November 27, 1953 America's greatest playwright was born on this site then called Barrett Hotel, Presented by Circle in the Square.

J. J. Grandville created a fantasy flower called Pensée in his Fleurs Animées, and the 1953 Disney animated film Alice in Wonderland featured a chorus of singing pansies in the Garden of Live Flowers scene.

Also legislated at this time was a spur of Route 28 called Route S28, which became Route 18 in 1953.

In 1953, the foundation received a gift of 28 important works from the Estate of Katherine S. Dreier, a founder of America's first collection to be called a modern art museum, the Société Anonyme.

Prior to incorporation ( in 1953 ) the town was called Del Rey Woods.

On May 19, 1760, after coming to Sevilleta, Bishop Tamarón passed the ruins of “ the house they called Colorada ,” and from that point on they began to see pens of ewes, corrals, and small houses ( Adams 1953: 201 ).

* 1953 – Rocco Rock, American wrestler ( d. 2002 )

* 2002 – Rocco Rock, American wrestler ( b. 1953 )

There are sources that indicate that " Rock Around the Clock " was written in 1953, but documents uncovered by historian Jim Dawson indicate it was in fact written in late 1952.

Nonetheless, rumors of a 1953 demo recording by Haley persist to this day, although surviving members of the Comets deny this, as did Haley himself ( quoted in the Swenson biography ) ; a late-1960s bootleg single of the Decca Records version of " Rock Around the Clock ", with " Crazy Man, Crazy " on the B-side and carrying the Essex label, occasionally turns up for sale with the claim that it is the demo version.

* Rocco Rock ( 1953 – 2002 ), professional wrestler, half of The Public Enemy with Johnny Grunge.

That community was the first White Rock, which was abandoned by 1953.

These were initiated on infertility patients of Dr. John Rock in Brookline, Massachusetts using progesterone in 1953 and then three different progestins in 1954.

* Seminole ( film ), a 1953 movie starring Rock Hudson and Anthony Quinn

Zeb Turner's February 1953 recording of " Jersey Rock " with its mix of musical styles, lyrics about music and dancing, and guitar solo, is another example of the mixing of musical genres in the first half of the 1950s.

* Seminole ( 1953 ), Highly fictionalized American western film directed by Budd Boetticher and starring Rock Hudson and Anthony Quinn as Osceola.

Ireland retired in 1953, settling in the small hamlet of Rock in Sussex, where he lived in a converted windmill for the rest of his life.

The Flairs ’ 1953 record " She Wants To Rock ", on Modern Records, featured Berry ’ s bass vocals, and was an early production by Leiber and Stoller.

* I Had A Love / She Wants to Rock Me ( 1953 )

The group's first single and only major hit, " Gee ", released in June 1953, has been credited with being the first Rock n ’ Roll hit by a rock and roll group.

The early records of the club were destroyed in a major flood during 1953, their loss referenced in the song " Canvey Island " on the album Do You Like Rock Music?

In 1953, the unit flew the Sikorsky HRS-1 and during this period took part in Operation Desert Rock, the first atomic test to use ground troops.

Formerly in the Bull Ring was the Rock and Fountain pub, which became the home of the original Llantrisant Workingmen's Club in May 1953, it was founded by Freeman of Llantrisant, Seth Morgan.

Opened in 1953, the Youth Science Institute-Alum Rock Science and Nature Center, operated by the Youth Science Institute, features natural history exhibits and a collection of live teaching animals, including several injured and non-releasable hawks and owls that are found in the region.

Rock ( Natasha, 1953 )

The premier of the movie was held at the Saban Theatre, the former Fox Wilshire Theatre, in Beverly Hills, California, on November 4, 1953, with the attendance of Humphrey Bogart, Cecil B. DeMille, Robert Mitchum, Lucille Ball, Rock Hudson, Debbie Reynolds, Shelley Winters, Mitzi Gaynor, Jeffrey Hunter, Michael Rennie, among other celebrities.

Little Rock Air Force Base was authorized in 1953 and opened on January 24, 1955.

Construction of Little Rock Air Force Base began on November 6, 1953 and the base was officially activated by Strategic Air Command ( SAC ) on August 1, 1955, hosting SAC's 384th Bombardment Wing ( 384 BMW ) flying the Boeing B-47E Stratojet and the 70th Reconnaissance Wing ( 70 RW ) flying the RB-47 Stratojet and KC-97 Stratotanker.

In 1953, St. Charles Rock Road was completed as a divided two-lane highway along much of its length.