Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Rock Around the Clock
2. Thirteen Women
3. Shake, Rattle and Roll
4. ABC Boogie - Bill Haley & His Comets,
5. Happy Baby
6. Dim, Dim the Lights
7. Birth of the Boogie
8. Mambo Rock
9. Two Hound Dogs
10. Razzle Dazzle
11. R-O-C-K
12. Rock-a-Beatin' Boogie
13. Saints Rock and Roll
14. Burn That Candle
15. See You Later, Alligator
16. Paper Boy (On Main Street, U.S.A.)
17. Goofin' Around
18. Rudy's Rock
19. Hide the Seek - Bill Haley & His Comets,
20. Hey Then, There Now
21. Tonight's the Night
22. Hook, Line and Sinker
23. Blue Home Blues
24. Calling All Comets
25. Choo Choo Ch'Boogie
26. Rockin' Little Tune
27. Hot Dog Buddy Buddy
28. Rockin' Through the Rye

Disc 2:

1. Don't Knock the Rock
2. Teenager's Mother
3. Rip It Up
4. Don't Knock the Rock
5. Forty Cups of Coffee
6. Miss You
7. (You Hit the Wrong Note) Billy Goat
8. Rockin' Rollin' Rover
9. Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone
10. You Can't Stop Me From Dreaming
11. I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter
12. Rock Lomond
13. Is It True What They Say About Dixie?
14. Carolina in the Morning
15. Dipsy Doodle
16. Ain't Misbehavin'
17. Break Speaks
18. Moon over Miami
19. One Sweet Letter from You
20. (I'll Be With You In) Apple Blossom Time
21. Somebody Else Is Taking My Place
22. How Many?
23. Move It on Over
24. Rock the Joint
25. Rip It Up [Without Handclaps]

Disc 3:

1. Me Rock a Hula
2. Rockin' Rita
3. Jamaica D.J.
4. Piccadilly Rock
5. Pretty Alouette
6. Rockin' Rollin' Schnitzlebank
7. Rockin' Matilda
8. Vive le Rock and Roll
9. It's a Sin
10. Mary, Mary Lou
11. El Rocko
12. Come Rock With Me
13. Oriental Rock
14. Wooden Shoe Rock
15. Walkin' Beat
16. Skinny Minnie
17. Sway With Me
18. Lean Jean
19. Don't Nobody Move
20. Joey's Song [Stereo]
21. Chiquita Linda
22. Dinah
23. Ida, Sweet As Apple Cider
24. Whoa Mabel!
25. Marie
26. Eloise
27. Corrine, Corrina [Without Handclaps][#]
28. Joey's Song [Mono Version]

Disc 4:

1. Corrine, Corrina
2. B.B. Betty
3. Sweet Sue, Just You
4. Charmaine
5. Vive le Rock and Roll [& Catarina Valente] - Bill Haley & His Comets, Bill Haley, , Caterina Valente
6. Hot Dog Buddy Buddy
7. Dragon Rock
8. A.B.C. Rock - Bill Haley & His Comets,
9. Cat Walk
10. I Got a Woman
11. (Now and Then There's) A Fool Such as I
12. Be by Me
13. Where Did You Go Last Night
14. Caldonia
15. Shaky
16. Ooh! Look-a-There, Ain't She Pretty?
17. (Thanks for The) Summer Souvenirs
18. Puerto Rican Peddlar
19. Music, Music, Music - Bill Haley & His Comets,
20. Skokiaan
21. Drowsy Waters
22. Two Shadows
23. In a Little Spanish Town
24. Strictly Instrumental
25. Mack the Knife
26. Green Door
27. Yeah, She's Evil!
28. Football Rock and Roll
29. Six Year-Old Can Rock and Roll

Disc 5:

1. Dragon Rock [Complete Take]
2. Dragon Rock [Complete Take]
3. Dragon Rock [False Start]
4. Dragon Rock [Complete Take]
5. ABC Rock [False Start]
6. ABC Rock [Complete Take]
7. Catwalk [Complete Take]
8. I Got a Woman [Complete Take]
9. I Got a Woman [Complete Take]
10. I Got a Woman [Complete Take]
11. I Got a Woman [False Start]
12. I Got a Woman [False Start]
13. I Got a Woman [Chatter/Master Take]
14. (Now and Then There's) A Fool Such as I
15. (Now and Then There's) A Fool Such as I
16. Be by Me [Complete Take]
17. Be by Me ... [False Start]
18. Be by Me [False Start]
19. Where Did You Go Last Night [False Start]
20. Where Did You Go Last Night [False Start]
21. Where Did You Go Last Night [False Start]
22. Where Did You Go Last Night [Complete Take]

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #377220 in Music
• Released on: 1992-08-01
• Number of discs: 5
• Formats: Box set, Import
• Dimensions: 2.10 pounds

Customer Reviews

The Boss of Rock & Roll
I grew up listening to Bill Haley; he was the first real Rockabilly/Rock & Roll artist I ever heard. True, Elvis was earlier (and better), but you didn't hear Elvis's Sun Records in San Diego! Nor did you hear the R&B sounds of Big Joe Turner, Bull Moose Jackson and Wynone Harris...and so many others. (For those who love Bill Haley, I heartily recommend those artists; hell, check out all the '40s/'50s Jump Blues singers/bands.)

I remember watching Blackboard Jungle at the theater and jumping up and down to Rock Around the Clock! It was primal and started a passion for rock 'n' roll that's lasted over 50 years.

I was on a big Rock & Roll roots, Rockabilly and Jump Blues binge in the early 90s when the CD explosion really got the record companies to start mining the backroom vaults. I was buying almost all great Bear Family releases and this was my second or third box set, after Jerry Lee Lewis' Sun Sessions and the Carl Perkin's boxes. This set includes everything Bill did for Decca, including some real crap near the end when he lost his way. Most of the good stuff can be found on any of the 1 or 2 CD best-of releases; I recommend the Rock Around the Clock reissue for anyone who's not a Bill Haley/Rockabilly fanatic, like myself.

I like to have them all, and love the look and graphics of this great box set as well as the great book on Haley. It's pricey, but -- if you can afford it -- you can't go wrong with this set!

John

The real Kings Of Rock and Rhythm
The best box-set of the real Rock'n'Roll Kings. They was first and they are greatest of all of them! Their rhythm and drive is inimitable! Real KINGS!!