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Takes me just a few minutes to add it. Stephan KŒNIG 13:10, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
...I think it's better to write, seeing you wrote the others with them, the others too :-) I just corrected some mispellings and incomplete titles :-). See you later, alligator! Stephan KŒNIG 17:24, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
I told you a few days ago this song firstly appeared as "Rock..." then issued in stereo as "New rock..." on a DECCA E.P.: want to get the reference? :-) Stephan KŒNIG 17:25, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
:Rock the joint "1" = mono version; Rock the joint "2" = mono version as well and New rock the joint (retitled) = stereo version. My friend Terry and I have very good ears, indeed. S.K.
At no time did Rudy Pompilli ever use the spelling "Rudi" for his first name. (???) 23skidoo 12:48, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
and the latter was only a mispelling!!! Stephan KŒNIG
Stephan KŒNIG 18:07, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
::::Quite a pity instead of collaborating... 81.243.173.11 22:45, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
The Whisky a go go LP was released under the name Bill Haley and His Comets (Mr. Go Go/live) then issued in the UK on EMBER in 1969. Not 1968!!!
a.k.a. Albert Scholz...S.K. (always the same nunskull) :-) who was related as the brother of Hank Thompson but the latter was NOT the singer of Honky Tonk Angels...
The original version sung in Spanish was released in May 1961 and the English one in September 1961...as a "favor to the Organization" (sic). 81.244.186.196 21:15, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
What about Spanish labels DIM and Maya ??? Stephan KŒNIG 20:04, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
If anyone with this on their watchlist has heard any news reports that John "Bam-Bam" Lane died on Feb. 18 (he ran one of the post-Haley editions of the Comets), please note it here. I'm seeking confirmation of this news before I put it into the article. 23skidoo 19:54, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
Would you like to get both photos again ? Tell me. S.K.
Noting that Elvis, Chuck Berry and other contemporaries have articles about their individual record albums, I have started a series of articles on the album releases by the Comets. These articles need album cover images. I no longer submit images to Wikipedia, so someone else will need to do this. Please ensure any images are probably cited for fair use otherwise they'll just get deleted. 23skidoo 16:46, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
See Wikipedia:Footnotes for an explanation of how to generate footnotes using the <ref(erences/)> tags Nhl4hamilton ( talk) 04:37, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
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As I understand WP:CITE, non-professoinal online sources such as the IMDb and Amazon reviews are not allowed as sources for citing facts in an article. In particular, I have removed a statement, sourced by an Amazon review, that stated that Freed and others began playing Rock Around the Clock because of the success of Shake Rattle and Roll and Dim Dim the Lights. None of my printed reference works nor my direct contacts related to Haley (yeah, yeah, WP:NOR) support this. The interest in Rock Around the Clock, as indicated in the new Rock n' Roll is Born documentary, came from Blackboard Jungle using it. Before that, it was seen as a failed single no different than, say, Haley's earlier failed single "Straight Jacket". 23skidoo ( talk) 12:19, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
I think the add of Bill Haley's ultimate LP released by Sonet on its budget label EUROPA, Germany, 1980 is a good one. This vinyl LP is practically unknown but I can tell everyone I bought it in March 1981 along with the 1979 Sonet other LP. I don't know if it was only issued in Germany. No traces in other countries. Surfrider1962 ( talk) 16:04, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
To add further information of the 1979 UK dates. I played guitar and vocals in his Cambridge UK date back then as support to a successful show as Flash Dave and the Thunderbolts. The venue was the Kelsey Kerridge Sports Hall Cambridge UK( 5000 seats) on November 24th 1979. I have posters and press cuttings to support this. Musictada ( talk) 19:39, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
The discography is terribly cluttered, confusing, and needs an overhaul. There is a section for single releases, which is nice and neat, but it has no dates and chart positions. The chart position section is miserable. They should combined, or at least fixed. Cashbox seems unnecessary, and the dates are for charting and not release. This discography is one of the worst on wikipedia. 24.0.60.105 ( talk) 09:15, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
I removed the following:
At one point when Bill Haley & His Comets were performing Rock Around the Clock live an incident occurred when a bunch of fans started going crazy and even going up on stage and throwing a bunch of instruments around. This was because Rock Around the Clock was supposed to be about the World Ending which a lot of people in the newer generation didn't realize. During the incident Bill Haley jumped off stage and ran off. The Rock Around the Clock Scandal is one of The Top 100 Music Scandals in music history.
I have read quite a bit of the history of rock and roll and I have never heard of this. I also did a Google search on "Rock Around Clock Scandal" with no results.
Alex20850 ( talk) 01:43, 13 December 2009 (UTC)
There were some riots during a couple of performances in Germany in the 50s, the first rock and roll performances in the country. http://www.rttnews.com/Media/SlideShow/SlideShow.aspx?ID=209&Slide=4 "In 1958 Bill and the Comets toured Germany, another major sensation, with full scale riots at the Berlin and Essen shows." http://thegardnerfamily.org/haley/gallery/1955-1958.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by BDUAres ( talk • contribs) 13:57, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
Why, what, where, and how does this article need additional citations for verification? Hyacinth ( talk) 10:35, 2 July 2011 (UTC)
Anonymous user 118.136.31.183 has plagiarized the copy from the Deep Impact page and linked the headline, both of which are no-no's. User 118.136.31.183: either re-write this with a direction directly based on the Comets of leave it out of here. I'll welcome other thoughts here before removing the section outright. -- Stlamanda ( talk) 01:50, 11 July 2013 (UTC)
With a lowercase H for "his". In common with logic (cf. "and the Comets") and several record sleeves, not to mention the "IN PERSON" ad pictured in the article. Rothorpe ( talk) 19:44, 6 May 2014 (UTC)
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It's clear that "Bill Haley and His Comets" is more accurate and common than "Bill Haley & His Comets". Should not the page be moved to reflect this? 24.235.74.199 ( talk) 18:43, 3 April 2020 (UTC)