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In 1987, he recorded a single with Kim Wilde for Comic Relief: a cover of the Christmas song " Rockin ' Around the Christmas Tree " with some extra comedy lines written by Smith and Jones.
( This event is cited in the Haley biographies Sound and Glory by John Haley and John von Hoelle, and Bill Haley by John Swenson and in Still Rockin ' Around The Clock, a memoir by Comets bass player, Marshall Lytle.
* 1968-Biggest Hits ( re-recordings plus new tracks ) ( Sonet 9945 ); issued in England as Rock Around the Clock ( Hallmark SHM 668 ) and in North America as Rockin ' ( Pickwick SPC 3256 )
** Still Rockin ' Around the Clock ( Rollin ' Rock Records, 1999 )
* " Rockin ' Around the Christmas Tree "
* Rockin ' Around the World – Bill Haley & His Comets
She is best known for her 1960 hit " I'm Sorry ", and 1958's " Rockin ' Around the Christmas Tree ", a US holiday standard for more than 50 years.
Lee recorded the song, " Rockin ' Around the Christmas Tree ", in July with a prominent twanging guitar part by Hank Garland.
" Rockin ' Around the Christmas Tree " got noticed in its third release a few months later, and sales snowballed ; the song remains a perennial favorite each December and is the record with which she is most identified by contemporary audiences.
In 2008, her recording of " Rockin ' Around the Christmas Tree " marked 50 years as a holiday standard, and in February 2009, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences gave Lee a Lifetime Achievement Grammy.
She followed it up with a version of Nat " King " Cole's " Unforgettable ", and then two highly successful duets in 1960 with Brook Benton, " Baby ( You've Got What It Takes )" ( Number 5 pop, Number 1 R & B ) and " A Rockin ' Good Way ( To Mess Around and Fall in Love ) (# 7 pop, # 1 R & B ).
# " Rockin ' Around the Christmas Tree "
; The Archies Christmas Album ( 2008 ): Here Comes Santa Claus / Up on the Housetop / Rockin ' Around the Christmas Tree / Holly Jolly Christmas / Jingle Bell Rock / I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus / Run Rudolph Run / Santa Claus is Coming to Town / Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas / Sleigh Ride / Archies Christmas Party / Christmas in Riverdale
Although he was Jewish, he specialized in Christmas songs and wrote many standards, including " Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer " ( a hit for Gene Autry and others ), " I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day " ( first recorded by Bing Crosby ), " Rockin ' Around the Christmas Tree " ( a hit for Brenda Lee ), " A Holly Jolly Christmas " ( recorded by the Quinto Sisters and later by Burl Ives ), Sliver and Gold ( for Burl Ives ) and " Run Rudolph Run " ( recorded by Chuck Berry ).
* Rockin ' Around the Christmas Tree – 1958
" Her popularity, especially in her native UK, was revitalised and she scored further Top 10 hits in 1987 with " Another Step ( Closer to You )" ( recorded with Junior ) and " Rockin ' Around the Christmas Tree " ( a Comic Relief charity single, recorded with comedian Mel Smith ).
* Rockin ' Around Britain-Pete Frame-Omnibus Press-Bio Data
* Rockin ' Around The Christmas Tree Tour ( December 2007 )
On January 3, 2007, the standard onboard audio track for California Screamin ' was temporarily replaced with a remixed version of the Red Hot Chili Peppers ' " Around the World ," and the attraction was renamed Rockin ' California Screamin.
His compositions included " Birth Of The Boogie ", " A Rockin ' Little Tune ", " Goofin ' Around " with Franny Beecher, " Lean Jean ", " Better Believe It ", and " Two Shadows ".
In 2010 Williams contributed a cover version of " The Way You Dog Me Around " for the compilation LP Daddy Rockin Strong: A Tribute to Nolan Strong & The Diablos.
Marks ' holiday standard " Rockin ' Around the Christmas Tree " appears as instrumental background music when Rudolph first arrives at the Reindeer Games and meets Fireball.
He is also author of Rockin ' Around Britain.
Rockin ' Around Britain.

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* Rockin ' around the Christmas tree at kimwildetv. com.
Four of its cuts made the country music charts based on seasonal airplay: the title track, " Hangin ' ' round the Mistletoe ", " Rockin ' Little Christmas " and a rendition of " Winter Wonderland ".
They recorded a cover of The Misunderstood's " Children of the Sun " for Timberyard Records ' Christmas compilation Rockin Bethlehem.

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Tracks included old classics such as " Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas ", " Rockin Around the Christmas Tree ", and " Silver Bells ", as well as original Christmas music.
Along with the title track, the album featured a variety of original Christmas tunes and Christmas classics, such as " Rockin ' Around the Christmas Tree " and " You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch ".
* " Rockin ' Around the Christmas Tree " ( 2010 ) Last Rockers
#"( I Saw Santa ) Rockin ' Around The Christmas Tree " ( Brian Wilson / Al Jardine ) – 2: 23

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In the book Rockin ' out of the Box: Gender Maneuvering in Alternative Hard Rock, one instance of Love's culturally subversive stage antics was noted at a 1995 concert:
The halftime show was titled " Rockin ' Country Sunday " and featured country music stars Clint Black, Tanya Tucker, Travis Tritt, Brooks & Dunn, and Wynonna Judd.
The same year, it was announced for September the release of Goin ' Down Rockin ': The Last Recordings, a set of twelve songs recorded by Jennings and bassist Robby Turner before his death in 2002.
It was previously known as Labatt Saturday Night ( later just called Saturday Night, after Labatt dropped its title sponsorship ), and was best known for the theme song " The Place'll Be Rockin ' ' Cause It's Saturday Night " performed by The Carpet Frogs member Michael Zweig.
Today, the pregame theme song was reverted to " The Place'll Be Rockin '" in a newer-yet-different recording.
The song was also featured in Alvin and the Chipmunks ' 1990 television special Rockin ' Through the Decades, as part of the fifties medley and its soundtrack.
" Cozy Corner " was formerly " Rockin ' Rodney's " a business famous throughout the region for its giant hamburgers.
His father, guitarist Elias Amabilis Palma, was one of the founding members of the Mexican rock ' n ' roll band Los Rockin Devil's.
", for example, and in the 1940s were already playing " Rockin ' Is Our Bizness ," which was a reworded version of Jimmie Lunceford's " Rhythm Is Our Business " of the 1930s ( the Trenier twins got their start playing in Lunceford's band ).
While most of the venues were small listening clubs, the real highlight of ’ 95 was being the opening act on the Can ’ t Stop Rockin tour with Fleetwood Mac, REO Speedwagon and Pat Benatar.
He was absent when the band joined the Beach Boys, Chicago and Olivia Newton-John on " Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin ' Eve " that December.
Sidney Simien aka Rockin ' Sidney and Count Rockin ' Sidney, ( April 9, 1938 – February 25, 1998 ) was an American R & B, zydeco, and soul musician who began recording in the late 1950s and continued performing until his death.
Rockin ' Sidney was a long-time zydeco musician who played almost every style of music, from Caribbean beats to blues.
He took to wearing a turban and was known as " Count Rockin ' Sidney ".
His first major song with his own lyrics was " Rockin ' Chair ", recorded by Armstrong and Mildred Bailey, and eventually with his own hand-picked studio band ( featuring Bix, Bubber Miley, Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Bud Freeman, Eddie Lang, Joe Venuti, and Gene Krupa ) on May 15, 1930.
Uttoxeter is the home of Rockin ' Johnny Austin MBE, recognised for his charity work and for rock and roll songs such as Rockabilly Stroll which was a minor hit in the 1980s.
It was released on the show's soundtrack, That ' 70s Album ( Rockin ').
By the middle 1970's, the Lombardo TV show was facing competition, especially for younger viewers, from Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin ' Eve, but Lombardo remained popular among viewers, especially older ones.
One of the numbers recorded at the first session was the ebullient boogie " Rockin ' the House ," from which his band would take its name.
The second single was " Rockin ’ Johnny Home "/" Ole Reb " ( Gothic GOX-001 ), which was released on May 29, 1961.
He has also done several remixes, such as Technotronic's " Rockin ' Over the Beat " ( which was featured in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III soundtrack ) and served as a record producer for other Factory Records acts such as Happy Mondays ( whose second single Freaky Dancin he produced in 1986 ).

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