Billy Haley & Haley's Comets "For Your Dance Party" EP 117, 1953 SIGNED Al Rappa
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~Bill Haley and Haley's Comets~
"Farewell, So Long, Goodbye / Fractured"
"Real Rock Drive / Live It Up!
Al Rappa Signed Label
Base Player
Rare Signature
Original
Admission Ticket 1993
Essex Records # 117 , 1953 EX+Original Recording:
Bill Haley and Haley's Comets
For Your Dance Party
Rock n Roll
Original Hand Signature: All Rappa (Base)
Rare Signature Signed at the Golden Oldie concert in Pennsville Memorial High School Auditorium Pennsville, NJ Saturday May 15, 1993.
General Admission Ticket included
45 RPM EP
Vinyls are clean with all original luster. Record has seen very little play time.
Record grades a EX+
A couple very minor marks only.
No real flaws to list..
Record plays and sounds terrific. Record has been recorded
Both Essex labels are in at least a VG++ condition with only minor wear.
No stickers. Some writing.
SIgned:
All Roppa
Base
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Original Hand Signed by Al Rappa
William John Clifton "Bill" Haley (/?he?li?/; July 6, 1925 – February 9, 1981) was an American rock and roll musician. He is credited by many with first popularizing this form of music in the early 1950s with his group Bill Haley & His Comets and million-selling hits such as "Rock Around the Clock", "See You Later, Alligator", "Shake, Rattle and Roll", "Rocket 88", "Skinny Minnie", and "Razzle Dazzle". He has sold over 25 million records worldwide.
or Your Dance Party! Rock With Bill Haley And The Comets (1951-54)
The Essex EPs: Bill Haley’s Early Black & White Fusion
In the early 50s, before Elvis made his impact on the world’s future, Bill Haley and The Comets were already barreling ahead with what would forever be re-defined as rock and roll. A close listen to these early Essex EPs – released in 1953 and 1954, with some tracks recorded years earlier – will illustrate that Bill and the boys were clearly getting their rockin’ inspiration from an evolving fusion of 50s race records and 40s Texas Swing. The earliest of these recordings, dating from 1951 (the fourth released EP of the For Your Dance Party collection) boasts the most obvious R&B influences, best exemplified by Haley’s cover of “Rocket 88” (by Jackie Brenston, fronting Ike Turner’s Kings of Rhythm – hear the original HERE), which many have called the “first” rock and roll record (as if that could even be pinpointed). Haley’s work carried the hillbilly swing of his professional roots (“Stop Beatin’ Round The Mulberry Bush”) and 40s big band (“Chattanooga Choo Choo”), but Bill and his Comets were re-defining their style on the fly, accenting the slapping bass and frat-boy energy long before “Rock Around The Clock.” And… “Rock This Joint” is essentially an early version of what would become The Comets’ breakthrough hit. Haley was in his late twenties at this time, but he was already looking like an uncool old man, with his big, lumbering frame, blind eye and outdated kiss-curl, so it’s no surprise the charismatic Elvis would quickly assume the throne as The King Of Rock And Roll – despite the fact that Haley first held that very moniker. You can’t dispute the genuine authenticity of Haley’s vision, though, and these Essex EPs capture the rocket-quick evolution of rock and roll’s original development, and its clear lineage to both country and R&B. The vinyl is long gone, but CD versions are at Amazon, like The Best Of Bill Haley And His Comets 1951-1954 (HERE) orThe Birth Of A Legend (HERE).
ESSEX EP-102 (1953)
Rock The Joint (2:13)
Rockin’ Chair On The Moon (2:50)
Crazy, Man, Crazy (2:38)
Pat-A-Cake (2:19)
ESSEX EP-117 (1954)
Live It Up (2:51)
Farewell, So Long, Goodbye (2:18)
Real Rock Drive (2:18)
Fractured (2:09)
ESSEX EP-118 (1954)
Stop Beatin’ Round The Mulberry Bush (2:23)
Watcha Gonna Do (2:29)
I’ll Be True (2:05)
Juke Box Cannonball (2:17)
ESSEX EP-119 (1954)
Chattanooga Choo Choo (2:14)
Green Tree Boogie (2:48)
Dance With A Dolly (2:29)
Rocket 88 (2:30)
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