What a Crazy Party (The Best of The Decca Years)

1950s,the fifties,Bill Haley and the Comets. Bill Haley was born in Michigan.Bill Haley in 1949 formed a band.The Four Aces of Western Swing, for a radio show on station WPWA in Chester Pennsylvania.As the Ramblin Yodeler he recorded country music with the Four Aces and subsequently with the Down Homers and the Saddlemen.His Mother was a piano teacher his Fater was a mandolin player. That was where the country infulence came from. in 1950,Haley released a cover version of Jackie Brenston's" Rocket 88". which convinced him to combine country swing music with the R&B  boogie woogie jump beat of" Louis Jordan".Haley had songs that had the drive of Jordon's Tympany Five and the color of country western. Rockabilly was what it was called back then.He started out as a country western singer then added a touch of rhytm and blues.It wasn't something Haley planned it just evolved.Bill Haley and the classic oldies.

Best Of Bill Haley And His Comets

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