Artist: Bill Haley, His Comets

Title: The Decca Years and more

Year Of Release: 1990

Label: Bear Family Records

Genre: Rock'n'Roll

Quality: FLAC (tracks,cue,log,full scans)

Average Bitrate: 757 kbps

Source 5 x CD

Total Time: 5:42:24

Total Size: 2.75 GB

Album Info



(5-CD LP-sized Box-Set with 32-page book) Rock 'n' roll begins here. This set includes everything that Bill Haley recorded for Decca between 1954 and 1960, and again in 1964. All the hits, all the misses, all the album tracks, even two previously unissued demos from 1958. There's also a complete CD of out-takes. A total of 132 tracks including all the original Decca singles, all the LP tracks, and, of course, Rock Around The Clock.



Any casual listener looking over this 132-track five-CD set would probably conclude that it was far more Bill Haley than they need bite off in one gulp -- and they'd be right, as casual listeners. For the serious rock & roll enthusiast, as well as the hardcore Bill Haley fan, however, there's a wealth of worthwhile material to be found here, some of which will amaze even those fans: a dozen great songs and 55 or so more that are good, and another 20 that are fascinating mistakes, and that's a good average for an artist who is generally thought of as having generated just a handful of important records. What Haley had most of all was a distinctive sound -- between the backbeat, the country boogie roots, and the R&B sources -- that pretty much defined white rock & roll for almost its first two years (until Elvis Presley and Carl Perkins emerged in the spring of 1956).





CD 1:

01. Rock Around The Clock

02. 13 Woman

03. Shake Rattle And Roll

04. ABC Boogie

05. Happy Baby

06. Dim Dim The Lights

07. Birht Of The Boogie

08. Mambo Rock

09. Two Hound Dogs

10. Razzle Dazzle

11. ROCK

12. Rock A Beatin Boogie

13. Saints Rock And Roll

14. Burn That Candle

15. See You Later Alligator

16. Paper Boy

17. Goofin Around

18. Rudys Rock

19. Hide The Seek

20. Hey Then There Now

21. Tonightґs The Night

22. Hook Line And Sinker

23. Blue Comet Blues

24. Calling All Comets

25. Choo Choo Ch Boogie

26. A Rockinґ Little Town

27. Hot Dog Buddy Buddy

28. Rocking Through The Rye



CD 2:

01. Don't Knock The Rock (without overdub)

02. Teenager's Mother

03. Rip It Up

04. Don't Knock The Rock

05. Forty Cups Of Coffee

06. Miss You

07. (You Hit The Wrong Note) Billy Goat

08. Rockin' Rollin' Rover

09. Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone

10. You Can't Stop Me From Dreaming

11. I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter

12. Rock Lomond

13. Is It True What They Say About Dixie?

14. Carolina In The Morning

15. The Dipsy Doodle

16. Ain't Misbehavin'

17. The Break Speaks

18. Moon Over Miami

19. One Sweet Ltter From You

20. (I'll Be With You In) Apple Blossom Time

21. Somebody Else Is Taking My Place

22. How Many?

23. Move It On Over

24. Rock The Joint

25. Rip It Up (without handclaps)



CD 3:

01. Me Rock-A-Hula

02. Rockin' Rita

03. Jamaica D.J.

04. Piccadilly Rock

05. Pretty Alouette

06. Rockin' Rollin' Schnitzlebank

07. Rockin' Matilda

08. Vive Le Rock And Roll

09. It's A Sin

10. Mary, Mary Lou

11. El Rocko

12. Come Rock With Me

13. Oriental Rock

14. Wooden Shoe Rock

15. The Walkin' Beat

16. Skinny Minnie

17. Sway With Me

18. Lean Jean

19. Don't Nobody Move

20. Joey's Song (Stereo)

21. Chiquita Linda

22. Dinah

23. Ida, Sweet As Apple Cider

24. Whoa Mabel!

25. Marie

26. Eloise

27. Corrine, Corrina (without handclaps)

28. Joey's Song (Mono)



CD 4:

01. Corrine, Corrina (without handclaps)

02. B.B. Betty

03. Sweet Sue, Just You

04. Charmaine

05. Vive Le Rock And Roll (& Catarina Valente)

06. Hot Dog Buddy Buddy

07. The Dragon Rock

08. A.B.C. Rock

09. The Cat Walk

10. I Got A Woman

11. (Now And Then) There's A Fool Such As I

12. Be By Me

13. Where Did You Go Last Night

14. Caldonia

15. Shaky

16. Ooh! Look-A There, Ain't She Pretty

17. (Thanks For The) Summer Souvenirs

18. Puerto Rican Peddlar

19. Music, Music, Music

20. Skokiaan

21. Drowsy Waters

22. Two Shadows

23. In A Little Spanish Town

24. Strictly Instrumental

25. Mack The Knife

26. The Green Door

27. Yeah She's Evil

28. Football Rock And Roll

29. Six Year-Old Can Rock And Roll



CD 5:

01. Dragon Rock (1)

02. Dragon Rock (2)

03. Dragon Rock (3)

04. Dragon Rock (4)

05. ABC Rock (1)

06. ABC Rock (2)

07. The CatWalk

08. I Got A Woman (1)

09. I Got A Woman (2)

10. I Got A Woman (3)

11. I Got A Woman (4)

12. I Got A Woman (5)

13. I Got A Woman (6)

14. A Fool Such As I (1)

15. A Fool Such As I (2)

16. Be By Me (1)

17. Be By Me (2)

18. Be By Me (3)

19. Where Did You Go Last Night (1)

20. Where Did You Go Last Night (2)

21. Where Did You Go Last Night (3)

22. Where Did You Go Last Night (4)