Invoice Haley and his Comets had been amongst the chief ambassadors of rock’n’roll, on document, on stage and certainly on the large display. After their quintessential “Rock Around The Clock” had been launched within the 1955 movie The Blackboard Jungle, it turned such a definitive tune of this new musical sensation that it prompted a movie in its personal title, launched by Columbia Footage in March 1956.
In the meantime, with their frontman Haley now already previous his thirtieth birthday, the group had been quickly including to their tally of hits. They’d adopted up with the additional 1955 chart entries “Razzle Dazzle” and “Burn That Candle” earlier than turning to an R&B tune from that yr for his or her subsequent success.
Within the final weeks of the yr, Invoice Haley and co went into the studio with producer Milt Gabler to chop their model of “Later Alligator,” a quantity written by Robert Guidry that seized on a catchphrase of the period. The unique, by Louisiana artist Bobby Charles, was recorded in 1955, however the Chess single didn’t floor till the next March, and even then was solely on the R&B chart for every week and didn’t cross over to the pop market.
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Renamed “See You Later, Alligator” and capturing the flavour of their earlier hits, their model was launched on Decca on January 2, 1956. Two weeks later, it was within the charts, climbing to No.6 on all of Billboard’s pop surveys, in a 19-week run. By April, the group had been on the silver display and charting once more with “R-O-C-K,” which was featured within the Rock Round The Clock film. By then, Haley and his Comets had made the tune a smash.
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