February 19, 2016

189 Bill Haley (1925-1981) and his Comets “Rock a-Beating Boogie” 1955

he was lost in thought, …passing the time in a Sambo's on Tyler Street in downtown Harlingen…Bill Haley was making rock and roll records when Elvis was still in high school. For that matter, he was playing rock and roll when Chuck Berry was working in a beauty parlor, Jerry Lee Lewis was studying at the Southwestern Bible Institute, and Little Richard was washing dishes in a bus station…Why didn't anybody seem to remember?” (Michael Hall, Texas Monthly, 2011).

Bill Haley and his Comets “Rock a-Beating Boogie”

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