Rock Around the Clock

1. Rock Around the Clock

2. Pepito Mi Corazon

3. Tierra de las Mil Danzas

4. Paso del Elefantito

5. En un Pueblito Español

6. Memphis Tennesse

7. Limbo Rock

8. Tren Nocturno

9. Rip It Up

10. Nueva Orleans

Rock Around the Clock,Bill Haley y Sus Cometas,Dimsa-Orfeon,Latin,Latin Pop,Rock & Roll,Rockabilly,United States of America

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Average customer rating: Just like the olden days "Rock Around The Clock" More Than a Great Album - It's an album of Rock n Roll History THE FIRST GREAT ALBUM OF THE ROCK 'N' ROLL ERA What's on it One two three o'clock, four o'clock rock...

Rock Around the Clock Bill Haley Manufacturer: Mca ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Rock | Styles | Music Rockabilly | Oldies & Retro | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music 4-for-3 Pop | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 Rock | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 All Music | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: The Best of Bill Haley and His Comets 1951-1954 The "Chirping" Crickets 20th Century Masters: The Best Of Bill Haley & His Comets (Millennium Collection) Carl Perkins - Original Sun Greatest Hits Fats Domino Jukebox: 20 Greatest Hits the Way You Originally Heard Them ASIN: B0001JXQG0 Release Date: 2004-03-23

Tracks:

1. (We're Gonna) Rock Around the Clock
2. Shake, Rattle and Roll
3. ABC Boogie
4. Thirteen Women (And Only One Man in Town)
5. Razzle-Dazzle
6. Two Hound Dogs
7. Dim, Dim the Lights (I Want Some Atmosphere)
8. Happy Baby
9. Birth of the Boogie
10. Mambo Rock
11. Burn That Candle
12. Rock-A-Beatin' Boogie
13. R-O-C-K [*]
14. Saints Rock & Roll [*]
15. See You Later, Alligator [*]

Customer Reviews:

Just like the olden days.......2007-03-08

This has really brought back the memories of childhood. This was the first rock album (vinyl of course)ever in our house, and even my parents learned to jitterbug. The album was so badly scratched you couldn't even hear it anymore, so to be able to hear the old "Two Hound Dogs", and "Burn that Candle" and the rest has been great! Clear sound and worth dancing to....if you love early rock, this is for you.

"Rock Around The Clock" More Than a Great Album - It's an album of Rock n Roll History.......2006-01-19

Rock Around The Clock - the album, should be just as significant in music history as James Brown's Please Please Please album, a not only great sounding album but an album demonstrating the roots of Brown.

I do however have a special interest in both albums. My father co-wrote Dim Dim The Lights featured on the Rock Around The Clock album. My father knew Haley and Alan Freed so what I am about to say not only gives this album its deserved kudos, it also sets the record straight via primary source information about the history of some of the songs on the album.

Haley first recorded Rock Around The Clock in April of 1954. It didn't do that great, coming in at #33 and only staying on Billboard's Popular chart for one week.

Freed had met Haley in 1953. He showed great interest in Haley, even having him on his radio show out in Cleveland Ohio. What interested Freed about Haley, like Elvis interested Sam Phillips, was that he was looking for a white artist to take R&B to the mainstream and thought Haley could be that vehicle. Freed wasn't naive. He knew he had to do it in this racist world using a white music act. However, he was not willing to do it at the expense of legitimacy. Haley would first have to get the stamp of approval not by white music critics or a white music audience. Haley would have to get his stamp of approval by the Black music audience. This is why, other than a featured guest spot,you don't hear Haley songs until Dim Dim The Lights on Freed's radio shows.

Haley than scored a #7 pop hit doing a cover of Joe Turner's "Shake Rattle and Roll." He recorded his version somewhere in July of 54. Even that song was not played on a Freed show, although maybe Freed wanted to play it.

However, after Haley recorded Dim Dim The Lights in the month of November 54, Freed noticed that it was getting a lot of airplay on R&B stations. Freed started playing the song when Dim Dim The Lights became the first R&B song recorded by a white artist to not only get on the R&B charts but land in its Top Ten. Freed was on WINS New York by then playing an authentic R&B program. Dim Dim was also a Top Ten Pop hit on the Variety Charts, which was a more prestigious chart than Billboard or Cash Box back then, making Dim Dim The Lights the first record by a white act to be on two charts - top ten at that.

Everyone started playing and buying the three Haley songs that were lingering out there, which included left over Rock Around The Clock 45's still hanging around record stores from 54 and juke boxes. That's why one might see Rock Around The Clock getting significant juke box play around January of 55, which was clearly off the heels and success of Dim Dim The Lights.

This would explain why the producer of the movie "The Blackboard Jungle" starring Glen Ford heard his little preteen daughter playing Rock Around The Clock in January of 55 on her record player. He liked the response his daughter was giving the record so he decided to use it in the movie's soundtrack.

The success of the movie and its soundttrack told Decca Records to re-release Rock Around The Clock as a single in July of 55. That's why this album gets to us in 56.

While there is no question that Rock Around The Clock became the anthem of the R&B genre under the now agreed term Rock n' Roll with its first Rock n' Roll Icon, Bill Haley, rather than Rhythm and Blues and historically is considered the first international R&B/RR record, Dim Dim The Lights no doubt led the way and as Alan Freed said, "...is the grand daddy song of Rock n Roll."

There is room for little doubt that when Haley put an original thumb print on an R&B song he clearly performed a song in the Rhythm and Blues' spirit. That he didn't do with Shake Rattle and Roll. Maybe because he leaned away from the genre due to a command R&B performance by Joe Turner. But when he recorded Rock Around The Clock it was original and in the true R&B vain. It just had to wait for a stamp of approval. That came after he decided to record Dim Dim The Lights. My father told me that Haley did follow his demo that was given to him.

So when listening to this great album you will see Haley at his finest R&B performance level with most of the songs. Pay close attention to Thirteen Women. It has a Cab Calloway Band feeling to hit.

THE FIRST GREAT ALBUM OF THE ROCK 'N' ROLL ERA.......2005-09-21

Before Elvis checked into the heartbreak hotel, before Chuck Berry caught Maybellene on the top of the hill, before Carl Perkins put on his blue suede shoes, Bill Haley and his Comets were rockin' around the clock. What do you get with this c.d.? Guitar work that would sound right at home with todays modern jump blues, some of the earliest rockabilly ever recorded, birth of the boogie, and the first great album of the rock'n'roll era! He may have looked like a square, but hey, Bill Haley was one hip cat.
See you later, alligator
Thanks,
Tom

What's on it.......2005-06-29

1. Rock Around the Clock
2. Shake, Rattle & Roll
3. A.B.C. Boogie
4. Thirteen Women
5. Razzle Dazzle
6. Two Hound Dogs
7. Dim, Dim the Lights
8. Happy Baby
9. Birth of the Boogie
10. Mambo Rock
11. Burn that Candle
12. Rock-A-Beatin' Boogie

Bonus Tracks:
13. R-O-C-K
14. The Saints Rock'n'Roll
15. See You Later, Alligator

One two three o'clock, four o'clock rock..........2004-06-25

Most of the songs that put Haley's indelible stamp on early R&R are present in this, a remastered version of the Comets first original studio album for Decca Records, on which he was onboard following the success of "Crazy Man Crazy." As it is, the material here is more engaging, the group tighter. Signature motifs, such as the harmony chants and steel guitars, are joined by sizzling guitar solos and some hot tenor sax.

It seems strange that "Rock Around The Clock" initially only made it to #23 when first released, but when it was featured in the opening credits of the Glenn Ford/Anne Francis movie The Blackboard Jungle (1955), it shot to #1, where it stayed for eight weeks, its immortality in rock history thus insured. When rereleased in the UK, it made the Top 20 in 1968 and 1974.

The B-side, "Thirteen Women (And Only One Man In Town)" is a black nuclear fantasy about an H-bomb explosion, with the only survivors being, well, figure it out. He has two girls look after him, feeding him, giving him money, etc. but it shows that even after a nuclear catastrophe, women in rock songs were still portrayed in demeaning roles.

His cover of Big Joe Turner's "Shake, Rattle, and Roll" is sanitized, placing the action in the kitchen--"rattle those pots and pans" and away from the bedroom, but the third most riveting tune after "Rock/Clock." It reached #7 on the charts and became his first million-seller. Its B-side is the relatively tame "A.B.C. Boogie," a watered down R&B throwback to the material he covered under the Saddlemen.

"On your mark, get set, now ready, go" goes the opening lines to "Razzle Dazzle" a #15 hit faster than "Shake, Rattle, Roll" about a dance the hipsters do, full of the frat harmonies and its silly "wackadoo wackadoo" refrain. On its B-side, Haley gives a nod to one of his influences, "Two Hound Dogs" named Rhythm and Blues. The "hound dog" refrain the Comets chant reflect Big Mama's Thornton's "Hound Dog." Similar recognition is given to "Mambo Rock," a #18 hit about the Latin dance craze also sweeping the nation at the time.

If parts of "Rock A Beatin' Boogie," garnished with Rudy Pompilli's honking and wailing tenor sax, sounds like Louis Jordan's "I Want You To Be My Baby," it's because Haley's producer was Milt Gabler, who managed Jordan a decade earlier. The chanting refrain of "rock rock, rock, everybody, roll roll roll, everybody" further cemented rock as a genre that wasn't going to be just a passing craze, as is the inclusion of the phrase "crazy man crazy" (Haley's first hit) in the chanting jam of "R.O.C.K.", presented as a bonus track.

The other two bonuses are "The Saints Rock and Roll," a rock arrangement of "When The Saints Go Marchin' In," benefiting from Rudy Pompilli's tenor sax. And lastly, one of Haley's other big signature tunes, the #6 "See You Later, Alligator," originally by Bobby Charles. After being told off by his girl, the guy pays her back with her own putdown when she tries to worm her way back to his graces: "can't you see you're in my way now, don't you know you cramp my style?" Oh yes!

This has most of his famous hits. I presume "Rudy's Rock" and "Choo Choo Ch'Boogie" were on other albums. In closing, I know I said in my other Haley review that his success came at the expense at black R&B musicians, but to totally lambast him as a white impersonator denies his importance as a rock pioneer.

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Rock Around the Clock: 36 All Time Rock and Roll C Various Artists Manufacturer: Solid Gold ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Rock | Styles | Music General | Compilations | Rock | Styles | Music ASIN: B000BM7YTC Release Date: 2005-11-01

Tracks:

1. Tutti Frutti - Little Richard
2. Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On - Jerry Lee Lewis
3. Say Mama - Gene Vincent
4. Blue Suede Shoes - Carl Perkins
5. Heartbeat - Buddy Holly, The Picks
6. Domino - Roy Orbison
7. Red-Headed Woman - Sonny Burgess
8. Right Behind You Baby - Ray Smith
9. Red Hot - Billy Lee Riley
10. Get Rhythm - Johnny Cash
11. Hey Baby - Bruce Channel
12. Love My Baby - Hayden Thompson
13. Raunchy - Bill Justis
14. Hucklebuck - Earl Hooker
15. Lonely Weekends - Charlie Rich
16. Cool Jerk - The Capitols
17. You Talk Too Much - Joe Jones
18. To Know Him Is to Love Him - Teddy Bears

Tracks:

1. Great Balls of Fire - Jerry Lee Lewis
2. Good Golly Miss Molly - Little Richard
3. Peggy Sue - Buddy Holly, The Picks
4. Red River Rock - Johnny & the Hurricanes
5. Uranium Rock - Warren Smith
6. I Fought the Law - Bobby Fuller Four
7. Twist - Hank Ballard,
8. Tequila - The Champs
9. Ooby Dooby - Roy Orbison
10. Good Timin' - Jimmy "Handyman" Jones
11. Roll Over Beethoven - Carl Perkins
12. Flying Saucers Rock & Roll - Billy Lee Riley
13. Drinkin' Wine
14. Soul Twist - King Curtis
15. Sea Cruise - Clarence "Frogman" Henry
16. Ubangi Stomp - Carl Mann
17. Duke of Earl - Gene Chandler
18. Mystery Train - Little Junior's Blue Flames

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A Roamin' Holiday Manufacturer: Turtle Creek Chorale ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Ramirez, Ariel | ( R ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Turtle Creek Chorale | ( T ) | Featured Performers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Noels | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General Christmas | Holiday | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Opera & Vocal | Holiday | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music General Christmas | Holiday Music | Special Features | Music Opera & Vocal | Holiday Music | Special Features | Music ASIN: B00008FVLN Release Date: 1995-01-24

Tracks:

1. Gloria!
2. Calypso Noel
3. Carol from an Irish Cabin
4. Reyes Magos
5. Nigun Talmidei Besht
6. Betelehemu
7. Trois Noels Francais
8. Still, Still, Still
9. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
10. Jingle Bell Rock/Rock Around the Clock
11. Song for Christmas
12. Some Children See Him
13. O Holy Night
14. Christmas Flourish

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Rock Around the Clock Various Artists Manufacturer: Wonderful Music of ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Compilations | Jazz | Styles | Music ASIN: B0000E6EGS Release Date: 2004-11-29

Tracks:

1. Rock Around The Clock
2. Summertime Blues
3. Stagger Lee
4. Be-Bop-A-Lua
5. Long Tall Sally
6. Ain't That A Shame
7. Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On
8. Blue Suede Shoes
9. Blueberry
10. Bo Diddley
11. At The Hop
12. Tequila
13. Rockin' Robin
14. Sea Cruise
15. Rebel Rouser
16. Kansas City
17. Maybellene
18. Good Golly Miss Molly
19. I'm Walkin'
20. Shake, Rattle And Roll
21. Great Balls Of Fire
22. Rock And Roll Is Here To Stay

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Rock Around the Clock Various Artists Manufacturer: Columbia River Ent. ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Soul | R&B | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music General | Compilations | Rock | Styles | Music CDs $7 - $10 | Soul General | Soul | R&B | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Soul General | Soul | R&B | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music ASIN: B00068CV0S Release Date: 2004-11-02

Tracks:

1. Under the Boardwalk - The Drifters
2. Build Me Up Buttercup - The Foundations
3. Shake, Rattle & Roll - The Comets, Bill Haley
4. Blue Suede Shoes - Carl Perkins
5. Still the One - Orleans
6. Hooked on a Feeling - B.J. Thomas
7. Patches - Clarence Carter
8. Tears of a Clown - The Miracles
9. It's Just a Matter of Time - Brook Benton
10. Try a Little Tenderness - Percy Sledge
11. See You Later Alligator - The Comets, Bill Haley
12. Bye Bye Love [Live] - The Everly Brothers
13. Save the Last Dance for Me - The Drifters
14. Rock Around the Clock - The Comets, Bill Haley
15. So into You

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Rock Around the Clock Various Artists Manufacturer: Sony ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music 1960s | By Decade | Pop | Styles | Music Folk Rock | Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music General | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music Hard Rock | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music 1960-1969 | Decades | Compilations | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music ASIN: B000008NNN Release Date: 1994-11-01

Tracks:

1. Time Has Come Today - The Chambers Brothers
2. Quarter to Three - Gary "U.S." Bonds
3. Time Is Tight - Booker T. & the MG's
4. Time Between - The Byrds
5. Time and Time Again - The Smithereens
6. Six O'Clock - The Lovin' Spoonful
7. Twelve-Thirty (Young Girls Are Coming to the Canyon) - The Mamas & the Papas
8. Time Machine - Grand Funk Railroad
9. Clock Strikes Ten - Cheap Trick
10. Reelin' and Rockin' - Chuck Berry
11. Time Is on My Side - Paul Revere & the Raiders
12. (We're Gonna) Rock Around the Clock - Bill Haley

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Fabulous 50s: Rock Around the Clock Various Artists Manufacturer: Laserlight ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Rock | Styles | Music General | Compilations | Rock | Styles | Music ASIN: B000GNOSIG Release Date: 2006-08-15

Tracks:

1. Rock Around The Clock (live) - Bill Haley & The Comets
2. Rip it Up - Little Richard
3. Maybellene - Chuck Berry
4. Stagger Lee - Lloyd Price
5. Wake Up Little Susie (live) - The Everly Brothers
6. Red River Rock - Johnny & The Hurricanes
7. Aint That A Shame (live) - Fats Domino
8. Six Nights A Week - The Crests
9. Aint Got No Home - Clarence Frogman Henry
10. Singing The Blues - Guy Mitchell

Album Description

The Fabulous '50s Rock Around The Clock

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Rock Around the Clock Various Artists Manufacturer: Prism ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Rock | Styles | Music General | Compilations | Rock | Styles | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B0009HBF1C Release Date: 2005-05-09

Tracks:

1. (We're Gonna) Rock Around the Clock - Bill Haley
2. Shake, Rattle and Roll
3. That's All Right - Elvis Presley
4. Sh-Boom - The Chords
5. Mess Around - Ray Charles
6. Going to the River - Fats Domino,
7. I Don't Care If the Sun Don't Shine - Elvis Presley
8. Gee - The Crows
9. Earth Angel - The Penguins
10. Ain't That Good News - Little Richard
11. Money Honey - The Drifters, Clyde McPhatter
12. Only You (And You Alone) - The Platters
13. Bear Cat - Rufus Thomas
14. Work with Me, Annie - The Midnighters
15. Space Guitar - Johnny "Guitar" Watson
16. Good Rockin' Tonight - Elvis Presley
17. Rockin' Is Our Bizness - The Treniers
18. Mystery Train - The Blue Flames, Junior Parker
19. Honey Hush
20. Nobody Loves Me - Fats Domino,
21. Thirteen Women (And Only One Man in Town) - Bill Haley
22. Ain't It a Shame? - Lloyd Price
23. Rack 'Em Back - Bobby Mitchell
24. Real Gone Mama - The Moonglows
25. Let's Have a Party - Amos Milburn
26. Well All Right
27. Dim, Dim the Lights (I Want Some Atmosphere) - Bill Haley
28. You're Killin' Me - Milt Trenier
29. Blue Velvet - The Clovers
30. Blue Moon of Kentucky - Elvis Presley

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Around the Clock Blues Big Joe Turner Manufacturer: Culture Press ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Blues | Styles | Music New York Blues | Regional Blues | Blues | Styles | Music West Coast Blues | Regional Blues | Blues | Styles | Music Jump Blues | Blues | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Swing General | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Stride Piano | Traditional Jazz & Ragtime | Jazz | Styles | Music Boogie-Woogie | Traditional Jazz & Ragtime | Jazz | Styles | Music General | R&B | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music General | Blues | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B00000IX99 Release Date: 1999-05-04

Tracks:

1. Rocks In My Bed
2. Blues On Central Avenue
3. Goin' To Chicago Blues
4. Sun Risin' Blues
5. Blues In The Night-(My Mama Done 'Tol Me)
6. Cry Baby Blues
7. It's The Same Old Story
8. Rebecca
9. Little Bittie Gal's Blues
10. I Got A Gal For Every Day In The Week
11. S.K. Blues, Pt. 1
12. S.K. Blues, Pt. 2
13. Johnson & Turner Blues
14. Watch That Jive
15. My Gal's A Jockey
16. I'm Still In The Dark
17. Miss Brown Blues
18. Sally-Zu-Zazz
19. Rock Of Gibraltar
20. Around The Clock Blues Pt. 1
21. Around The Clock Blues Pt. 2
22. Last Goodbye Blues
23. Whistle Stop Blues
24. Hollywood Bed (Cherry Red Blues)
25. Howlin' Winds

Average customer rating: The closest thing to a definitive Greatest Hits album a music fan and dancer from CA

Hop Around Clock: Ultimate Non Stop Party Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers Manufacturer: Import [Generic] ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music House | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Dance & DJ | Imports | Stores | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B00000I0Y2 Release Date: 1999-02-23

Tracks:

1. Hop Around the Clock/Resurrection Shuffle/At the Hop/Help! ...
2. Fun at the Flicks/I've Had the Time of My Life/You Sexy ...
3. That's What I Like/Hawaii 5-0/Let's Twist Again/Let's Dance/Wipe Out
4. Glamtastic/Crazy Horses/Blockbuster/Rock N Roll, Pt. 2/Hot Love/Sugar
5. Swing the Sixties/Do Wah Diddy/Oh Pretty Woman/Needles and ...
6. Hot Summer Salsa/The JB Groove/Everybody Salsa/Ay Ay Ay Ay ...
7. Jive Bunny Goes to Motown/Reach Out/Dancing in the Street/Can't ...
8. Can Can You Party/Can Can/Daddy Cool/Greased Lightnin'/Surfin' USA
9. Disco Stomper/Dancing Queen/I Love to Love/Rock Your Baby/The Hustle
10. Rock N Roll Beethoven

Tracks:

1. That Sounds Good to Me /Everybody Needs Somebody/Oh Boy/ ... [Remix]
2. Pop Back to the 70's/Kung Fu Fighting/December '63 (Oh What a Night)
3. Crazy Party Dances/Macarena/Agadoo/Conga/Locomotion/Saturday Night
4. Swing the Mood/In the Mood/Rock Around the Clock/Rock A-Beatin' Boogie
5. Rock the Party/Smoke on the Water/Black Betty/Alright ...
6. Party Animals/Soul Man/Sugar Sugar/Daydream Believer/Hi-Ho Silver ...
7. Let's Swing Again/Chattanooga Choo Choo/Blue Suede Shoes/Whole ...
8. Reggae Holiday/Sweat (A la la la la Long) /The ...
9. Mix up the 80's/Flashdance/Real Gone Kid/Material Girl/Baggy Trousers
10. Rock N' Roller

Album Details

New Jive Bunny Release.

Customer Reviews:

The closest thing to a definitive Greatest Hits album.......2002-03-21

To coincide with the 10th anniversary of the original "Swing The Mood" club mix being released, the original Master Mixers got back together again (for the first time in eight years) to produce what's more-or-less a 'Greatest Hits' album. Not only is the listener treated to an album of high quality, we also get to witness just how far 'Jive Bunny' has progressed (musically) over the years. And no-one should be disappointed.

Some listeners have been because several of Jive Bunny's early - and more successful - tracks have been remixed and are pale in comparison to the original versions. I am one of them. Still, because of the difficulty of obtaining licenses to release these megamixes, the Master Mixers were given no option but to create new versions by using uncredited - and in some cases mediocre - artists. Even so, lets review this album for what it is and not compare it with other Jive Bunny CDs.

"Hop Around The Clock" begins with the self-titled megamix featuring many classic rock n' roll tracks. In the same vein as the content of "Swing The Mood" and "That's What I Like", Jive Bunny takes us back to that golden era when popular music was still in it's infancy. However, you'd be wrong to think this is another 'back to the 50s' albums, as track two shows us a new side to the 'Bunny'. "Fun At The Flicks" is a megamix devoted to some of the BIGGEST movies since the 70s. Songs lifted from the soundtracks of such classic movies as, "Grease", "Saturday Night Fever", "Dirty Dancing", "The Full Monty" and "The Commitments" appear on this megamix, and some of the original artists sing too!

"That's What I Like" is another alternative version, but with the exception of a new "Hawaii 5-0" sample being used (and it sounds suspiciously like the original t.v theme), it's the same as the 1989 original. However, and this is what I think most who don't like these 'remixes' fail to understand, this is the shortened 'radio edit'. "Glamtastic", a tribute to 70s Glam Rock follows. This is similar to "Do You Wanna Rock" from the first Jive Bunny album, but only better! "Swing The Sixties" is yet another lacklustre tribute to that great decade. (Why does Jive Bunny have such difficulty mixing 60s tracks?). But nothing can prepare us from the utterly shambolic "Hot Summer Salsa Medley". This is undeniably the WORST Jive Bunny track EVER recorded.

At least the CD picks up with the next track, "Jive Bunny Goes To Motown". Marking a tribute to that wonderful record label, the success of this track led to an album being made - and if you have the slightest bit of interest in soul music, I highly recommend that to you. "Can Can You Party", Jive Bunny's last BIG British single, sees the Master Mixers move away from the 50s and more to the 70s. My only gripe is this is the 7" radio edit. "Disco Stomper", dedicated to those classic dance tracks from the mid-late 70s is guaranteed to get any party pumpin'! CD One concludes with the "Rock N'Roll Beethoven" medley, which in all fairness is best avoided.

CD Two is my favourite disc. It begins with a remixed version of "Rock N Roll Party Mix" found on Jive Bunny's debut album. This was released in the UK in February 1990 under the title "That Sounds Good To Me". As a matter of interest, the Master Mixers heavily sampled John Belushi's, "Everybody Needs Somebody To Love" on this megamix....a shameless promotion to tie-in with the re-release of the 'Blues Brothers' video! "Pop Back To The 70s" - my favourite track on the CD - is a fantastic, if not eclectic mix of 70's pop music. Highlight's include, "Baker Street", "Beautiful Sunday" and "Love Is In The Air". Why this was never released as a single, I'll never know. However, much like "Jive Bunny Goes To Motown", the success of this megamix led to it being created into an album.

"Crazy Party Dances" will appeal to young kids, but instantly forgettable for the more mature listener! The new version of "Swing The Mood" - which seems to have sparked so much controversy - is up next. Not as memorable as the original, but it's not as bad as some would lead you to believe. "Rock The Party" - another megamix turned into an album - is a very interesting track indeed. Imagine classic rock tracks backed with an electronic drum beat, and you have an idea what I mean. It sounds terrible, but is actually quite good (so is the album it turned into). There is a little gripe though: some of these 'artists' sound absolutely nothing like who they're supposed to be (ie: Axl Rose). Enjoyable though. Another mediocre 60s mix, "Party Animals" follows, although this is more a karaoke mix than anything else. "Lets Swing Again" - a poor attempt to re-create "Swing The Mood" - appears here which was Jive Bunny's last notable UK single release. You can't help but conjure up thoughts of summer when you hear "Reggae Holiday". I'm not really a fan of that music, but this is surprisingly good. "Mix Up The 80s" - the fourth megamix to be made into an album - is another megamix that should've been released as a single. And because I was involved in this megamix, I can't help but to praise it enough!! The 2.5 hour musical journey ends on a whimper with the instantly forgettable "Rock N Roller" medley (it's some guy pretending to be Jerry Lee Lewis....more like Jerry Lewis, but there you have it!).

I'm surprised that so many have a low opinion of this compilation as it takes Jive Bunny away from the rock n' roll period (which in all honesty was becoming rather stale). Nevermind, this is probably Jive Bunny's last BIG album, and all I can say is if you're planning a party, but want to play something different, you can't go wrong buying "Hop Around The Clock"...

a music fan and dancer from CA.......2000-07-10

I'm very disappointed in this cd. I had expected the same style of remixes of original artists as is in the Jive Bunny "The Album" (which is excellent and I highly recommend). This cd is distinctively not original artists more like some local band. Some of the mixes are not blended well either and even a couple of the same songs from this cd sounds poorly different than Jive Bunny "The Album".

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5. Solo Instrumental: 45 Grandes Temas [Import]
6. Sonando el Mundo
7. Su Majestad el Danzon: Coleccion de Oro [Box set]
8. The Harvey Averne Dozen [Import]
9. Totico Y Sus Rumberos
10. Travesia Magica [Import]

Latin Music

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Latin Music

Popstars [Import]

Telemann: Overture for Wind Quintet

Tárrega: Integral de Guitarra

Music: Lord Take Us Through

Time Is My Everything, Pt. 2 [CD-single] [Enhanced] [Import]

The Isleys Live [Live]

The Hymn Collection: 16 Songs of Faith

Steady Diet of Nothing

Sing The Hits Of Ricky Martin - More Hot Hits! (Karaoke)

The Glenn Gould Silver Jubilee Album

The Joshua Tree

The Clarke/Duke Project, Vol. 1

The Best of British [Import]

The Early Years

Power of Three