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In Concert - Rock Around Clock

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I saw this film at least a dozen times when it came out in the fifties. I was 15 then, I believe, and just starting to get a love for music that I wanted to consider "mine". Every single song that bacame popular was in it--along with the two great hits of the Platters, up to that time, "Only You" and "The Great Pretender". In my opinion, Bill Haley started it all--Little Richard was great,but Haley was there first. Elvis was king, no doubt about it, but we danced to Bill Haley---the first one in the jukebox at a place near me had "ABC Boogie"---very danceable tune---then "See You Later, Alligator", "Razzle Dazzle", and "Rock-a-Beatin' Boogie", "Happy Baby"---Wow-----you could really dance to those tunes---my parents hated them, of course--as they hated Richard, Elvis and most of the others----they didn't even like Pat Boone----strange that the signature hit "Rock Around the Clock" was never popular (around my city anyway)--it was a bit too fast to dance to-----and believe me,jiving was the thing to do in the fifties. I am so glad to have this movie in my DVD collection and heartily recommend it to any fan who really appreciates fifties rock 'n roll.

It was wonderful to relive my past when people people got up and danced in the aisles when Rock Around the Clock was first released.