Rock Title Songs: Rock Around the Clock
By Four Walls
@FourWalls (69029)
United States
August 15, 2024 11:07am CST
Another one as obvious as the nose on Jimmy Durante’s face. 
(I’ll leave it for you kids to look up Durante and his schnoz.) There are some songs that were safe bets for this monthlong look at songs celebrating rock and roll in their titles, and this is definitely one of them. Sing along once again!
Rock Around the Clock - Bill Haley and His Comets
And yes, I know the real title is “(We’re Gonna) Rock Around the Clock,” but I didn’t feel like updating the database this morning. 
This song, age-wise, is seventy years old now. In terms of music, it’s timeless. From its use in Blackboard Jungle to the theme to Happy Days, it’s one of the defining songs of the advent of what we now call rock and roll.
Rock Around the Clock
Written by Max Freedman and Jimmy DeKnight
Recorded by Bill Haley and His Comets
Released as a single, 1954
We’ll be right in seventh heaven:
(I’ll leave it for you kids to look up Durante and his schnoz.) There are some songs that were safe bets for this monthlong look at songs celebrating rock and roll in their titles, and this is definitely one of them. Sing along once again!
Rock Around the Clock - Bill Haley and His Comets
And yes, I know the real title is “(We’re Gonna) Rock Around the Clock,” but I didn’t feel like updating the database this morning.
This song, age-wise, is seventy years old now. In terms of music, it’s timeless. From its use in Blackboard Jungle to the theme to Happy Days, it’s one of the defining songs of the advent of what we now call rock and roll.
Rock Around the Clock
Written by Max Freedman and Jimmy DeKnight
Recorded by Bill Haley and His Comets
Released as a single, 1954
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@kareng (61772)
• United States
17 Aug
@FourWalls [em]rofl[/em Right!! Always young at heart!
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@marguicha (223795)
• Chile
15 Aug
I remember the first time I heard it as if it was yesterday. I went with my parents to a wedding. I was 11 years old and knew nothing about music. When the dancing began, the older girls (probably from 15 to 17) put this music and started to dance. I was elated.
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@marguicha (223795)
• Chile
17 Aug
@FourWalls Now I like to listen to it. At this time of my life I scarcely walk.
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@FourWalls (69029)
• United States
16 Aug
You know too many of these. I’ll have to put something obscure in here. 
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@Beestring (14694)
• Hong Kong
15 Aug
This was a popular song here. We even have a Cantonese version sung by a local popular singer.
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@FourWalls (69029)
• United States
16 Aug
That is so cool to know. Music really is the universal language.
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@FourWalls (69029)
• United States
17 Aug
One of those happy, innocent early days of rock and roll songs. Cheerful is so accurate!
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@grenery8 (11164)
• Zagreb, Croatia (Hrvatska)
20 Aug
@FourWalls i agree so much with you.
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@royaleagle (178)
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16 Aug
I just listen to it, the music is cool and it have a vibe.
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@FourWalls (69029)
• United States
16 Aug
I completely agree. It really set the pace for music in the later 50s.
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@FourWalls (69029)
• United States
16 Aug
If your watch stopped it might hinder you from singing along, but other than that….
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@kobesbuddy (78871)
• East Tawas, Michigan
15 Aug
I loved this one! Bill Haley and the Comets, this reminds me of Fonzie and Happy Days!
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@kobesbuddy (78871)
• East Tawas, Michigan
16 Aug
@FourWalls And when those couples danced together, they were enjoying themselves!
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@LindaOHio (181717)
• United States
16 Aug
Of course even though I was 6 years old, I heard it later on. Have a great day.
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@FourWalls (69029)
• United States
16 Aug
Before I was born, but it’s a hard song to miss, especially with all the 50s revival things that were going on in the 70s and early 80s.
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