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Artist: Bill Haley's Original Comets Title: Rock Is Fifty Venue: Jet Propulsion Laboratory City:   Pasadena, California, USA Date: Tuesday, 5 Jul 2005 Collection:   Attended     Wishlist  Community:  1 Attended

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Notes

Special noon-hour concert given by the original members of Bill Haley's Comets for staff at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. This unusual concert was organized by promoter Martin Lewis as part of the Rock is Fifty celebrations marking the 50th anniversary of Rock Around the Clock hitting #1 on the US charts and what would have been the 80th birthday of Bill Haley. The concert was held at JPL to celebrate the successful arrival the previous evening of the Deep Impact space probe at Comet Tempel 1, the first time a probe impacted the surface of a comet.

Comets line-up: Marshall Lytle (bass), Joey Ambrose (sax), Dick Richards (drums), Franny Beecher (guitar) and Johnny Grande (piano).

Comments and Reviews

23skidoo 8th Aug 2023		I don't have a list of what songs were performed, but I think it was their usual set at the time. Rock Around the Clock was videotaped and webcast. I was there and Shake Rattle and Roll opened the set and they would have done See You Later Alligator and Saints Rock and Roll too, with Rock the Joint (with a reprise of the final verse of Clock) as a finale. As I recall the drum set Dick was provided with was missing a hi-hat cymbal so at the last minute a member of what I guess was an in-house band at the JPL lent him his.

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