Talk of The Villages Florida - 15 Songs That Defined the Boomer Generation.

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Originally Posted by big guy (Post 1118066)

I agree about "Rock Around the Clock" by Bill Haley and his Comets. First rock n roll song I ever heard and it drove me wild! There was a movie by the name of Blackboard Jungle, with Rock Around the Clock & Jailhouse Rock as theme songs, about a school in New York (I think Brooklyn). I was never a fan of Elvis but Bill Haley recorded "Jailhouse Rock" before Elvis.

I found this on Wikipedia which agrees that "Rock Around the Clock" was the first Rock and Roll song:

"Their first session, on April 12, 1954, yielded "Rock Around the Clock", which would go on to become Haley's biggest hit, and one of the most important records in rock and roll history.

Although Haley's "Shake, Rattle and Roll" never achieved the same level of historical importance as "Rock Around the Clock", it actually predated it as the first major international rock and roll hit, although it did not attain the Number 1 position in the American charts, but became his first gold record."