Danny Cedrone, session guitarist for Bill Haley and His Comets, is born in Jamesville, NY.
Ralph Jones, drummer for Bill Haley and His Comets, is born in Pennsylvania.
Fran Beecher, session guitarist for Bill Haley and His Comets, is born in Norristown, Pennsylvania.
Dick Richards (birth name: Dick Boccelli), drummer for Bill Haley and His Comets, is born in Yeadon, Pennsylvania.
Rudy Pompilli, saxophonist for Bill Haley and His Comets, is born in Chester, Pennsylvania.
Billy Williamson, steel guitar player for Bill Haley and His Comets, is born in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania.
Al Rex (birth name: Albert Piccirilli), bassist for Bill Haley and His Comets, is born in New York City.
Johnny Grande, pianist for Bill Haley and His Comets, is born in Philadelphia.
Marshall Lytle, bassist for Bill Haley and His Comets, is born in Old Fort, North Carolina.
Joey D’Ambrosio (a.k.a. Joey Ambrose), saxophonist for Bill Haley and His Comets, is born in Philadelphia.
Bill Haley records a cover of Jackie Brenston’s “Rocket 88,” possibly qualifying it as the first rock and roll record by a white artist.
Bill Haley records a rocking version of Jimmy Preston’s R&B song “Rock the Joint.” The guitar solo by Danny Cedrone is very similar to the one he will play on “Rock Around the Clock.”
Bill Haley records “Crazy, Man, Crazy,” a slang-filled song that will reach #12 and is considered by some to be the first rock and roll record.
Bill Haley and His Comets record “Rock Around the Clock” at Pythian Temple, a New York studio.
“Rock Around the Clock” debuts as the B side of “Thirteen Women,” reaching #56.
Danny Cedrone, session guitarist for Bill Haley and His Comets, dies in South Philadelphia from injuries suffered in a fall. He is thirty-three years old.
“Shake, Rattle and Roll,” Bill Haley and His Comets’ cover of Big Joe Turner’s R&B hit, reaches #7.
Blackboard Jungle - a drama about high-school delinquency that uses “Rock Around the Clock,” by Bill Haley and His Comets, in its soundtrack – is released.
“Rock Around the Clock,” by Bill Haley and His Comets, reaches Number One for the first of eight weeks.
Joey Ambrose, Dick Richards and Marshall Lytle leave Bill Haley and His Comets and form the Jodimars.
Elvis Presley and Bill Haley and His Comets share a bill at a high school in Cleveland, Ohio.
Bill Haley and His Comets record “See You Later, Alligator.” It will enter the Top Forty in January 1956 and peak at #6.
Rock Around the Clock, a rock and roll film starring Bill Haley and His Comets – who performs nine songs – is released.
Bill Haley and His Comets, Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers, and the Platters embark on rock and roll’s first package tour, dubbed “Galaxy of the Stars.”
A reissued “Rock Around the Clock,” by Bill Haley and His Comets, cracks the Top Forty for one week nineteen years after it topped the chart.
Rudy Pompilli, saxophonist for Bill Haley and His Comets, dies of lung cancer in Philadelphia. He is fifty-one years old.
Billy Williamson, steel guitar player for Bill Haley and His Comets, dies of cancer in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. He is seventy-one years old.
Ralph Jones, drummer for Bill Haley and His Comets, dies in Chester, Pennsylvania. He is seventy-nine years old.
Johnny Grande, pianist for Bill Haley and His Comets, dies of cancer in Clarkesville, Tennessee. He is seventy-six years old.
The Comets are inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at the 27th annual induction dinner. Smokey Robinson is their presenter.
