Rock around the clock

Rock around the clock

Rock Around the Clock

(We're Gonna) Rock Around the Clock
Single par Bill Haley & his Comets
Face A Thirteen Women (and Only One Man in Town)
Face B (We're Gonna) Rock Around the Clock
Sortie 15 mai 1954
Enregistrement 12 avril 1954
Pythian Temple à New York
Genre(s) Rock 'n' roll
Format 45 tours
Auteur(s) Max C. Freedman / Jimmy De Knight
Label Decca
Classement #1 US, 1955
Singles de Bill Haley & his Comets
Straight Jacket
Straight Jacket
Straight Jacket
Shake, Rattle and Roll
Shake, Rattle and Roll
Shake, Rattle and Roll

(We're Gonna) Rock Around the Clock est une chanson de rock 'n' roll de Bill Haley & the Comets, précédemment enregistrée par Sonny Dae & the Knights, et composée en 1952 par Max C. Freedman et Jimmy De Knight (James E. Myers). Premier de l'histoire du rock à se classer N°1, ce morceau est devenu emblématique du genre musical et est reconnu partout sur terre comme étant l'hymme du rock 'n' roll.

Le 12 avril 1954, le chanteur Bill Haley, alors âgé de 29 ans, et son groupe « The Comets » enregistrent au Pythian Temple de New York une des chansons qui révélera le rock'n'roll au monde entier. Edité par la maison de disques Decca en face B du simple Thirteen Women (and Only One Man in Town) en mai 1954, ce titre passe tout d'abord inaperçu, malgré une pleine page de publicité dans le magazine Billboard[1] : le 29 mai, il entre à la 23ème place du Top des meilleures ventes et disparaît la semaine suivante[2].

Mais Jimmy De Knight, conseiller technique pour le film Graine de violence (Blackboard Jungle), choisit ce titre comme chanson principale du film. Celui-ci sort en mars 1955, et le disque, réédité, entre au Top en mai et s'y installe numéro 1 des ventes aux États-Unis du 9 juillet au 27 août, pendant 8 semaines[3]. Avec son inclusion dans un nombre incalculable d'anthologies du rock 'n' roll, les ventes mondiales de ce morceau dépassent les 30 millions d'exemplaires en plus de 50 ans[4], d'autant plus que John Swenson indiquait déjà ce chiffe en 1982[5].

Rock Around the Clock est devenu le titre d'un film en 1956 avec John Archer et Martha Wentworth qui jouait déjà dans Graine de violence.

Pour être certain d'avoir la version originale du morceau, celle-ci a une durée de 2 mn 08 et doit mentionner, parmi les musiciens, le contrebassiste Marshall Lytle et le guitariste Danny Cedrone qui, hélas, n'a pu savourer le succès mérité puisqu'il est mort, d'une crise cardiaque, quelques mois après l'enregistrement, à la fin de l'été 1954.

Ce morceau est 158e dans le classement des 500 plus grandes chansons de tous les temps du magazine Rolling Stone. Il figure entre autres dans le film American Graffiti de George Lucas.

Interprétations

Parmi les artistes ayant interprété cette chanson, on peut citer notamment :

Notes et références

  1. ↑ Nick Tosches, Héros oubliés du rock'n'roll, Allia, 2000
  2. ↑ Jim Dawson and Steve Propes, What was the first rock'n'roll record ?, Faber & Faber, 1992
  3. ↑ (en) Number-one hits of 1955 (USA)
  4. ↑ Jim Dawson, Rock around the clock : the record that started the rock revolution !, Backbeat Books, 2005
  5. ↑ Jonh Swenson, Bill Haley, Star, 1982
  6. ↑ Second Hand Songs
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