Today, early early rock n'roll (Rock Around The Clock, Reelin' and Rockin, You Can't Catch Me etc clearly owe to this recording) from a performer I just found out about on Monday.
Next week, to roughly coincide with our one-year anniversary, two good songs I just thought of, one looking backward on a year's accomplishment, the other looking forward to newtimes. Additionally I'll be taking a look through my favorite posts by day of the week and linking them into a all-congratulatory list.
"Bill Haley was the first white man to invent rock 'n' roll, unfortunately he was a small, chubby man who wasn't very good at it. Bill became the only rock singer to die of old age........." Great Pop Things, Colin B. Morton & Chuck Death*
The strip (which I cannot find an image of) goes on in the next panel to christen Elvis Presley the "second white man to invent rock 'n' roll" ("'I'm sorry Elvis but I forgot to iron your karate suit..'/ "'oh that's alright mama'") along with the caption "pure sex".
Bill Haley's usually a punchline, but he did have one B side that can be described as
Hugs!
