For more about Bill Haley:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Haley


For more about "Rock Around the Clock":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Around_the_Clock

Every Friday night in the 4th-6th grades my parents dropped me off at the local recreation center for a dance. The grown-ups called it a Sock Hop and always played this as the final song. This was about 1970 so we thought is was SO old.

The dance mostly consisted of the boys fidgeting on one side and the girls praying on the other, and we did skits. I did Donnie Osmond's Puppy Love, lip-synched to a giant stuffed poodle. LOL.

Undubbed original live version.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaR_Bssx9ag&mode=related&search=

I can't help but picture the opening credits of Happy Days as soon as I hear those first chords

Thank you Bizarrodave. I'm glad you found the original. What threw me off was that the uploader had mispelled Haley as "Hailey." I didn't try looking it up with the correct spelling.

Anyway I have replaced the with the real audio from the performance. I hope there is no objection.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'bill haley, live, performance' to 'bill haley, live, performance, 50s' - edited by swampgirl

*dead, working embed here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5fsqYctXgM

This published video has been declared non-functional; embed code must be fixed within 2 days or it will be sent to the dead pool - declared dead by rasch187.

Dead video replaced.