1952

1952 - Rock History

- Bill Haley with the Saddlemen - Rock the Joint vid

Haley's 1952 version of "Rock The Joint" - three years before "Rock Around The Clock" - was an important milestone in the development of rockabilly through the coming together of R&B and country styles.

In 1952, The Saddlemen were renamed Bill Haley with Haley's Comets (inspired by a popular mispronunciation of Haley's Comet)


-First reported Rock and roll riot breaks out at Alan Freed's Moondog Coronation Ball in Cleveland, Ohio. Teenage excitement is blamed for the frenzy (March 21) wiki:Alan Freed
-First UK singles chart published by NME (November 14) wiki:NME
>Bill Haley and the Comets in wikipedia