Comets
Bill Haley's New Comets is a rock and roll band founded in 1987 by singer Joe "Bill" Clifton. As only legal successors of the original performers this band keeps Bill Haley's music alive in its original 1950s style with original instrumentation, stage outfits and stage acrobatics. In 2004, the group was awarded 'Artists of the Year' by the German Artists Magazine appreciating their artistic merits for classic rock and roll. In 2007, original Comet, Pete Davenport, joined the band with his steel guitar. In 2011, original Haley guitarist Bill Turner, will join the band for their international tours. In 2011, Bill Haley's daughter, Gina Haley, will start working with the New Comets on the remembrance of her father's work, touring with them for the first time internationally. The band's most important event remains November 5, 1989, when the original 1954 Comets went back on stage in Bristol, England, inviting the New Comets to perform together. Impressed by the high musical standard and the authentic presentation of their 'fostersons' (Marshall Lytle: "I saw Bill and myself on stage 40 years ago!"), the American musicians officially gave symbolic validation to use their name and deemed them worthy successors of their work. This honor had never before been granted to any other succession-band by their originals. |
Date Range of DAHR Recordings: 1954 - 1964
Roles Represented in DAHR: Musical group
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Recordings (Results 76-100 of 104 records)
Company | Matrix No. | Size | First Recording Date | Title | Primary Performer | Description | Role | Audio |
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Decca | 105119 | 6/9/1958 | Ida, sweet as apple cider | Comets ; Bill Haley | Musical group | |||
Decca | 105120 | 6/12/1958 | Whoa Mabel! | Comets ; Bill Haley | Musical group | |||
Decca | 105121 | 6/12/1958 | Marie | Comets ; Bill Haley | Musical group | |||
Decca | 105126 | 6/12/1958 | Eloise | Comets ; Bill Haley | Musical group | |||
Decca | 105127 | 6/12/1958 | Corrine, Corrina-1 ; Corrine, Corrina-2 | Comets ; Bill Haley | Musical group | |||
Decca | 105174 | 6/18/1958 | B.B. Betty | Comets ; Bill Haley | Musical group | |||
Decca | 105175 | 6/18/1958 | Sweet Sue, just you | Comets ; Bill Haley | Musical group | |||
Decca | 105176 | 6/18/1958 | Charmaine | Comets ; Bill Haley | Musical group | |||
Decca | 106322 | 1/7/1959 | The dragon rock | Comets ; Bill Haley | Musical group | |||
Decca | 106323 | 1/7/1959 | A.B.C. rock-1 | Comets ; Bill Haley | Musical group | |||
Decca | 106324 | 1/7/1959 | The cat walk (Instrumental) | Comets ; Bill Haley | Musical group | |||
Decca | 106416 | 1/29/1959 | I got a woman | Comets ; Bill Haley | Musical group | |||
Decca | 106417 | 1/29/1959 | (Now and then) There's a fool such as I | Comets ; Bill Haley | Musical group | |||
Decca | 106418 | 1/29/1959 | Be by me | Comets ; Bill Haley | Musical group | |||
Decca | 106419 | 1/29/1959 | Where did you go last night? | Comets ; Bill Haley | Musical group | |||
Decca | 107440 | 4/27/1959 | Caldonia-1 | Comets ; Bill Haley | Musical group | |||
Decca | 107441 | 4/27/1959 | Shaky (instr. ) | Comets ; Bill Haley | Musical group | |||
Decca | 107643 | 6/19/1959 | Ooh! Look-a-there, ain't she pretty-1 | Comets ; Bill Haley | Musical group | |||
Decca | 107644 | 6/19/1959 | (Thanks for the) Summer souvenir | Comets ; Bill Haley | Musical group | |||
Decca | 108122 | 9/17/1959 | Puerto Rican peddler | Comets ; Bill Haley | Musical group | |||
Decca | 108123 | 9/17/1959 | (Put another nickel in the jukebox) Music, music, music! | Comets ; Bill Haley | Musical group | |||
Decca | 108124 | 9/23/1959 | Skokiaan | Comets ; Bill Haley | Musical group | |||
Decca | 108125 | 9/23/1959 | Drowsy waters | Comets ; Bill Haley | Musical group | |||
Decca | 108126 | 9/24/1959 | Two shadows | Comets ; Bill Haley | Musical group | |||
Decca | 108127 | 9/24/1959 | In a little Spanish town ('Twas on a night like this) | Comets ; Bill Haley | Musical group |
Citation
Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Comets," accessed November 5, 2024, https://adpprod1.library.ucsb.edu/names/309301.
Comets. (2024). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved November 5, 2024, from https://adpprod1.library.ucsb.edu/names/309301.
"Comets." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2024. Web. 5 November 2024.
DAHR Persistent Identifier
External Sources
Wikipedia: Bill Haley's New Comets
Linked Open Data Sources
LCNAR: Comets (Musical group) - http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83046568
Wikidata: Bill Haley's New Comets - http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4909263
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