Bill Haley and the Comets - Rock Around The Clock (live TV 1969)
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- čas přidán 21. 08. 2024
- Courtesy of the Clark Santee video archive, a reminder of where it all began. Almost 70 years later, it's difficult to overstate the impact of one man and his band and this song when first released in 1954. An unlikely star, Bill Haley's Rock Around The Clock provided the cornerstone for a seismic cultural revolution, teenagers worldwide tearing up cinemas screening Blackboard Jungle, thus paving the way for Elvis et al from Sun Records. Seen here live in 1969 playing to a younger audience, Bill Haley never changed his act from the beginning, figured he never needed to. Hail hail rock'n'roll!
Why is such an energetic song being played to such a dead audience? That audience it what you call “square”!
Debe ser porque el rock a cambiado muchisimo
Mychas cosas pasaron de 1955 hasta 1970
El twist, la Invasion Británica, El garage rock y el movimiento hippie
Because in 1969 kids weren't listening to 50s rock.
@@LinkRocks That’s because they don’t know what real music is. I like early-60s rock but late 60s rock sucks IMO.
@@TheMassacreFilms Song writing went a LONG way in the 60s. I love the simplicity of early rock n' roll by all means, but to say that late 60s rock sucks? Nonsense. Rock in the late 60s into the 70s truly became something incredible, beyond what anyone in the 50s could've possibly imagined. It is a narrow minded viewpoint to say that 50s rock is "real music" and anything after that sucks, and makes it look like you can't handle anything deeper than the musical safety of old rock n' roll.
@@worshiptheanimal Listen. The songwriting of the late ‘60s is good by any means. It’s just that the sound isn’t my cup of tea. The ‘60s sound I prefer is the early ‘60s teen pop, surf rock (early Beach Boys albums and the like), and early Beatlemania. 1965 was Rock’s last golden year IMO. 1966 was alright. As I said, the songwriting of the late ‘60s isn’t the problem. I’m just don’t like sound. Mainstream music got better in the mid ‘70s with disco. And again in the ‘80s with New Wave.
The TRUE KING of Rock and Roll
How can anyone sit still with this!??
LEGEND and PIONEER...audience was the equivalent of today's hipsters
I saw this when it first aired in late 1969/early 1970. It was part of a series featuring mostly folk-rock artists of the day and they all received the same apathetic audience response, I guess to show how mature and serious they were. This was also when anything more than 15 minutes old was considered passe. This just before the Rock & Roll Revival took off big time and the new generation realized it was fun to let loose.
This might be my favorite live version of Rock Around The Clock (the drummer, especially is on fire!)....and it is almost wasted by this audience until the last three seconds. I can only assume that there must have been some "Footloose" rule that prevented dancing.
That's Bill Nolte on drums.
He should be alive, to show people how genuine rock is. Thanks for the video, wonderful in itself !
It is odd to our modern eyes that the audience was so stoic. I’m guessing they were instructed to be well-behaved. I doubt any of them wanted to just sit there on their hands.
Lively music played to dead audience 😢
times have changed since 1955.
The Comets lineup: Rey Cawley (correct spelling) on bass, Rudy Pompilli on sax, Bill Nolte on drums, Nick Nastos (a.k.a. Nick Masters) on lead guitar, and Ray Parsons on 2nd rhythm guitar. This would have been taped within weeks of Parsons joining the group, too. For Haley fans except for Parsons this was the lineup from the classic 1969 Bitter End concert recording released on the album "Bill Haley's Scrapbook".
Bill Haley & His Comets was the start of the rock n roll revolution.
The kids in 1969 in this video are a bunch of squares that don't know the
real thing when they see it. Bill Haley's Comets first national hit was in 1953
Crazy Man Crazy a year before Elvis recorded That's All Right in 1954.
Crazy Man Crazy was in fact Elvis's favourite song of Bill Haley.
Maybe Bill was square for them being young hippies lol
That was then
Wasted on an audience of squares!
True, but by 1969, 15 years later, people had different tastes when it came to music
I think it was because it was for a TV show of some sort. Probably scripted for the audience.
Nice song, the inventor of rock
@@JR-dd8bf no neither him nor Elvis invented rock.
Who’s the guitarist? He NAILS that solo and it’s notoriously difficult
The guitarist's name is Nick Nastos.
He plays it a bit differently from Danny Cedrone’s original. Especially the descending chromatic runs at the end. But it’s still great!
I definitely wouldn’t say he nailed it but he’s very good!
His killer solo album is finally up digitally which is what brought me here. songwhip.com/nicknastosandhisfireballers/guitars-on-fire
@@Andrestau.XD12 He also was billed under the name Nick Masters.
That's a dancin song, not a sit there like a bump on a log song.
Those late 60's kids had ZERO interest in rocking around the clock...
Rudy on sax.
Are the audience German by any chance 🤣
I thought the audience was wax dummies until they started clapin
Audience haven’t got a clue 😂😂😂😂😂
What is this TV show??
one with a brain-dead producer. everyone shoulda been dancing.
Problem is these peoples in this venue were stoned , it was 1969. So they didnt already realise the fact.
Bill Haley was great here and the audience were a bit too lively and filled with rioters 😅