Rock Around The Clock (film) - Songs Performed in The Movie

Songs Performed in The Movie

  1. "Rock Around the Clock" - Bill Haley and His Comets
  2. "See You Later Alligator" - Haley
  3. "Rock-A-Beatin' Boogie" - Haley
  4. "A.B.C. Boogie" - Haley - first verse only
  5. "Cuero (Skins)" - Tony Martinez and His Band
  6. "Mambo Capri" - Martinez
  7. "Solo Y Triste (Sad And Lonely)" - Martinez
  8. "Razzle-Dazzle" - Haley
  9. "Teach You to Rock" - Freddie Bell and the Bell Boys
  10. "Bacalao Con Papa (Codfish And Potatoes)" - Martinez
  11. "Only You (And You Alone)" - The Platters
  12. "R-O-C-K" - Haley
  13. "Happy Baby" - Haley - first verse and chorus only
  14. "Mambo Rock" - Haley - chorus only
  15. "Giddy Up a Ding Dong" - Bell
  16. "The Great Pretender" - Platters
  17. "Rudy's Rock" - Haley

No soundtrack album was ever released for the film. The performance of "Rudy's Rock" is the only Haley song performed live on camera and while an off-air recording taken 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. The band also performs live on camera during a brief rehearsal prior to lip-synching to the Decca recording of "R-O-C-K".

"Rock Around the Clock" is heard three times in the film - once over the opening credits, again in a brief rendition of the opening verse during a montage, and again at the end where only the last verse is heard.

A few months prior to shooting the film, the Comets had undergone a major change in personnel, with several members leaving the group. As a result, most of the songs lip-synched in the film actually feature a different line-up of musicians than those shown performing. The only songs on which all musicians shown on screen were also involved in the recording session are "See You Later Alligator" and "Rudy's Rock". During the performances of "Rock Around the Clock", Franny Beecher is shown playing the guitar for Danny Cedrone, who had originally been on the recording session, and who had died 18 months earlier. Cedrone's guitar work can also be heard on "ABC Boogie", the opening bars of which are performed off-camera.

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