The band also performs live on camera during a brief rehearsal prior to lip-synching to the Decca recording of "R-O-C-K." The performance of "Rudy's Rock" is the only Haley song performed live on camera while an off-air recording from the film would be released in Germany in the 1990s (as part of the Hydra Records Haley compilation album On Screen), a proper studio-quality recording from the set has yet to be released. No soundtrack album was released for the film in North America, though some foreign compilation albums were released as a tie-in (such as a reissue of the 1955 album Rock Around the Clock - which included six of the Haley recordings featured in the film - on Festival Records FR12-1102 in Australia, which featured a promotional image from the film on its sleeve). "Happy Baby" - Haley - first verse and chorus only." Only You (And You Alone)" - The Platters."Bacalao Con Papa (Codfish And Potatoes)" - Martinez."Teach You to Rock" - Freddie Bell and the Bellboys."Solo Y Triste (Sad And Lonely)" - Martinez."Cuero (Skins)" - Tony Martinez and His Band.Boogie" - Haley - first verse only, off-screen " Rock Around the Clock" - Bill Haley and His Comets.
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Talbot good-naturedly accepts defeat as they watch the TV broadcast end with Lisa and her dancing partner, her brother Jimmy, dancing as the Comets sing "Rock Around the Clock".
Once the contract is signed and the tour begins - climaxing in the Comets and other groups appearing on a coast-to-coast television broadcast - Hollis reveals that he and Johns married quickly during the time it took to draw up the contract. Johns agrees to those terms and Talbot launches their career with a national tour, confident that the contract's marriage prohibition will drive a wedge between Hollis and Johns. Talbot's final play is to agree to sign the group to a three-year contract that will secure their future, but only on the condition that Johns agree not to marry during the term of that contract. The resulting booking in Freed's venue grants the Comets the exposure they need in spite of Talbot's efforts. But Hollis maneuvers around her by calling in a favor owed to him by disc jockey Alan Freed. Next, Talbot simply blacklists Hollis and his acts from the venues she controls. But instead, the teens and adults there are excited by the music and embrace it enthusiastically. First, she books the band into a traditionally conservative venue, expecting them to reject the band's brash new sound. Talbot's primary interest in Hollis, however, is to have him marry her as she has been wooing him for some time, and she's determined to prevent him from succeeding without his working directly for her agency, and Lisa in any event. Hollis then turns to agent Corinne Talbot, who handles bookings for nearly all of the venues in which Hollis needs the band to play to gain them exposure. Convinced that rock and roll will be the next big thing, Hollis strikes a deal to manage the group and also strikes up a romance with dancer Lisa Johns. While traveling through a small farming town, he attends the local teenage dance and is introduced to rock and roll music and dancing, in the person of local band Bill Haley & His Comets and their associated dancers. As band manager Steve Hollis observes that big band dance music is failing to draw audiences any longer, he comes across a new sound that piques his interest. Rock Around the Clock tells a highly fictionalized rendition of how rock and roll was discovered. The same recording was used for the opening of Rock Around the Clock, marking a rare occasion in which the same song opens films released in a short interval (the recording would be used once again to open the 1973 film American Graffiti). The film was shot over a short period of time in January 1956 and released in March 1956 to capitalize on Haley's success and the popularity of his multimillion-selling recording " Rock Around the Clock," which had played over the opening credits of the 1955 teen flick Blackboard Jungle and is considered the first major rock and roll musical film. It was produced by B-movie king Sam Katzman (who would produce several Elvis Presley films in the 1960s) and directed by Fred F.
Rock Around the Clock is a 1956 musical film featuring Bill Haley and His Comets along with Alan Freed, the Platters, Tony Martinez and His Band and Freddie Bell and His Bellboys. $1.1 million (US) or $4 million (world gross)
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