Rock-A-Beatin' Boogie
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| "Rock-A-Beatin' Boogie" | ||||
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| Single by Bill Haley & His Comets | ||||
| from the album Rock Around the Clock | ||||
| B-side | "Burn That Candle" | |||
| Released | October 1955 | |||
| Recorded | September 22, 1955 | |||
| Studio | Pythian Temple studios, 135 West 70th Street, New York City | |||
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| Length | 2:17 | |||
| Label | Decca | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Bill Haley | |||
| Producer(s) | Milt Gabler | |||
| Bill Haley & His Comets singles chronology | ||||
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"Rock-A-Beatin' Boogie" is a 1952 song composed by Bill Haley and first recorded by the Esquire Boys in 1952. Bill Haley and the Comets recorded the song in 1955 for Decca. The song was featured in the 1956 movie Rock Around the Clock.
The Bill Haley single peaked at #41 on the Billboard chart in 1955 and #4 in the UK on the Record Retailers chart.[1] The 1954 recording by The Esquire Boys peaked at #42 on the Cash Box singles chart that year.
Danny Cedrone recorded the first version of the song with his group the Esquire Boys and "nitery singer" Kay Karol.[2] It was released as a 78 single on Rainbow 200, backed with "If It's Love You Want To Borrow" in December, 1952.[3] A second recording of "Rock-A-Beatin' Boogie", released on Guyden 705-A, was recorded without piano accompaniment or Kay Karol. It reached no. 42 on the Cash Box pop singles chart on October 30, 1954.[4]
"Rock-A-Beatin' Boogie" was also recorded by Bill Haley and the Comets on September 22, 1955 and was released in October 1955 as a single in the U.S. on Decca 29713, backed with "Burn That Candle", as Brunswick 5509 in the UK, as Festival SP45-807 in Australia, and as Decca 333510A in Argentina as "Boogie En Rock". "Rock-A-Beatin' Boogie" reached #41 on Billboard, #24 on Cash Box, and #4 on the UK charts in January, 1956.[5]
The song was featured on the 1970 live album Bill Haley's Scrapbook: Live at the Bitter End on Kama Sutra Records as KSBS 2014 which was recorded on December 16, 1969.
The single appeared on the 1955 Decca album, Rock Around the Clock. The recording was featured on the 1989 song medley "Swing the Mood" by Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers, which was no. 1 for five weeks on the UK charts, becoming the second best-selling single of 1989 in the UK, and also went no. 1 in these countries in 1989: Norway, Ireland, Germany, France, Austria, Australia, and Holland. The single reached no. 11 in the US on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and no. 7 on the Billboard Hot Dance chart.
