Bill Haley
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Bill Haley – Shake Rattle & Roll
Biography
Haley was born William John Clifton Haley (some sources append “Junior” to his name, but his eldest son states that this is erroneous) in Highland Park, Michigan and raised in Pennsylvania. Many sources (almost universally predating his death in 1981) state that Haley was born in 1927, which is due to Haley knocking two years off his age for publicity purposes in the 1950s. A few recent sources erroneously give a birth year of 1924.
Haley was blinded in his left eye as a child due to a botched operation. According to biographer John Swenson, Haley later adopted his distinctive spit-curl hairstyle to distract attention from his blind eye. The spit-curl caught on as a 50’s style signature, although Haley and others had worn the hairstyle much earlier.
In 1946, Haley joined his first professional group, a Pennsylvania-based western swing band called The Down Homers run by Kenny Roberts. It has often been reported in musical reference works that Haley’s first professional recordings were made with the Down Homers on a pair of singles released in 1946 by Vogue Records. This was later debunked by Roberts and others, stating Haley had already left the group by the time the singles were made. In the early 2000s, however, a set of 1946 radio recordings by the Down Homers were discovered and Haley is definitely present as he is identified by name and sings a solo number “She Taught Me to Yodel”; these recordings were commercially released for the first time in 2006.
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crownanchor
Rip it up :)
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he's a copy cat.
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<3
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Rock Rock Rock Around the Clock [5]
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Rock Rock Rock Around the Clock [4]
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Claudio_00
rock around the clock !
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promisedeyes
Hell yeah he does look like Buzz.... but more accurately I think Buzz looks like Bill <3
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hearalot
Happy Bday buddy! RIP
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rockin' around the clock with bill haley at http://theozhiztoryblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/its-rocknroll-oclock.html
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davidgeorgea
You got to give this man his due's . I rate him a lot .Now I've worn a hole in the carpet
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Mafia 2
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aline_f
he looks like buzz lightyear [2] HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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he looks like buzz lightyear, hehe.
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Please vote for Elvis Presley in The American Rock League!
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DJGabster
shake rattle and roll! <3
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Rock Rock Rock Around the Clock [3]
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kiicz
Rock Rock Rock Around the Clock [2] *dance, dance* I play this with orchestra, and I fall in love in this song XD
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konungr
Чумовой дедай!
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Attn Billy Haley: I love you. It doesn't matter to me that you're dead. Or... 64 years older than me, thus old enough to be my greatgrandparent. Like you said, anyone can rock :)
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