Claude and Cliff, the two brothers. They were twins and they had other members of their family playing in the band. They were the black Louis Primas, they had that same sound. ‘Rockin’ is our business, that’
Bill Haley & His Comets' "Rock Around the Clock" was released the year before, as a B-side to "Thirteen Women (And Only One Man in Town)." But a year later, director Richard Brooks used it prominently and repeatedly in 'Blackboard Jungle,' a drama about a teacher in a violent, ...
After the Treniers and Bill Haley shared the street with Louis Prima and Steve Gibson and the Red Caps and Liberace, by the late 1950s the town embraced mainstream Rock & Roll with a vengeance. The Garden State Parkway, completed in 1955, brought even bigger crowds to Wildwood. Dick Clark ...