ROCK A BEATIN' BOOGIE
Created on 23/03/2005Latest update on 13/04/2024
Artist: Esquire Boys with Kay Karol
Author: Bill Haley
Label: Rainbow
Year: 1952
Featuring Danny Cedrone, the guitar player in Bill Haley's Rock Around The Clock. By the time it hit Danny was dead, provoking The Esquire Boys' Rock A Beatin' Boogie reissue on Guyden ('54).
Covers:
- 1954:
Treniers [black band]
- 1955:
Jodimars [feat. three Comets one year before boss/author Haley]
- 1956:
Bill Haley & The Comets [author]
- 1957:
Irène McNeil [in French]
- 1961:
Teddy Raye et ses Teddy Boys [French version]
- 1989:
Jive Bunny [in medley Swing The Mood]
- 2000:
- 2000:
Haley wrote it inspired by his theme song Rock The Joint (again with Danny Cedrone, Haley's rightful equivalent of Scotty Moore).
