Comments on: 29: “Rock Around the Clock” is used in the movie Blackboard Jungle http://xponentialmusic.org/blogs/885mmmm/2007/10/18/29-rock-around-the-clock-is-used-in-the-movie-blackboard-jungle/ Just another Xponentialmusic.org weblog Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:54:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.2.1 By: CMBannan http://xponentialmusic.org/blogs/885mmmm/2007/10/18/29-rock-around-the-clock-is-used-in-the-movie-blackboard-jungle/#comment-19497 CMBannan Thu, 18 Oct 2007 14:44:04 +0000 http://xponentialmusic.org/blogs/885mmmm/2007/10/18/29-rock-around-the-clock-is-used-in-the-movie-blackboard-jungle/#comment-19497 This seems appropriate today (10/18). Today is Chuck Berry's birthday. This seems appropriate today (10/18). Today is Chuck Berry’s birthday.

]]> By: Pat http://xponentialmusic.org/blogs/885mmmm/2007/10/18/29-rock-around-the-clock-is-used-in-the-movie-blackboard-jungle/#comment-19496 Pat Thu, 18 Oct 2007 14:41:15 +0000 http://xponentialmusic.org/blogs/885mmmm/2007/10/18/29-rock-around-the-clock-is-used-in-the-movie-blackboard-jungle/#comment-19496 My friend's mother once was at a friend's house, hanging out in the basement. Down there, there was a drum set. When my friend's mother went to sit behind the drum set (one of the first time's she had ever been behind a drum set), she noticed that the front of the bass drum was turned around to show "Bill Halley and the Comets" facing her. It was the drum set of her friend's father, the drummer from the Comets, who was inducted into the Upper Darby High School Wall of Fame (Next to Jim Croce probably), in 1999 or 2000. (I forget the year). After an induction speech by a dancer and a mathemetician, both rather boring, this little old man walks to the podium. He stands there and doesn't say anything at first. Then, out of no where, awakening the high school students, he bangs his hands on the podium and yells, "Are you ready to Rock and Roll?!" I've been a fan of the comets ever since. My friend’s mother once was at a friend’s house, hanging out in the basement. Down there, there was a drum set. When my friend’s mother went to sit behind the drum set (one of the first time’s she had ever been behind a drum set), she noticed that the front of the bass drum was turned around to show “Bill Halley and the Comets” facing her. It was the drum set of her friend’s father, the drummer from the Comets, who was inducted into the Upper Darby High School Wall of Fame (Next to Jim Croce probably), in 1999 or 2000. (I forget the year).

After an induction speech by a dancer and a mathemetician, both rather boring, this little old man walks to the podium. He stands there and doesn’t say anything at first. Then, out of no where, awakening the high school students, he bangs his hands on the podium and yells, “Are you ready to Rock and Roll?!”

I’ve been a fan of the comets ever since.

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