Bill Haley & His Comets - Rock with Bill Haley and the Comets ( 1954 )

 

Personnel

The Comets

• Bill Haley – rhythm guitar, vocals
• Billy Williamson – steel guitar
• Johnny Grande – piano; organ on 11
• Marshall Lytle – double bass
• Dick Richards - backing vocals on 9 11

Additional musicians

• Danny Cedrone – lead guitar on 1 2 4 6 12
• Art Ryerson - lead guitar on 3 5 7 8 9 10 11
• Billy Gussak – drums on 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
• Cliff Leeman - drums on 11
• Tony Lance - baritone saxophone on 3 9 11
• Dave Miller - clapboard on 11, backing vocals on 7 

Note: no drums were used on tracks 1, 2, 12. According to the Haley biography Sound and Glory by John W. Haley and John von Hoelle (Dyne-American, 1990), numerous other individuals participated on backing vocals on 7, including record executive Jerry Blaine.

Track listing

1. "Rock the Joint" (Harry Crafton, Wendell Keane, Harry Bagby)
2. "Rockin' Chair on the Moon" (Bill Haley, Harry Broomall)
3. "Farewell, So Long, Goodbye" (Bill Haley)
4. "Real Rock Drive" (Bill Haley)
5. "Fractured" (Bill Haley, Marshall Lytle)
6. "Stop Beatin' Round the Mulberry Bush" (Bickley Reichner, Clay Boland)
7. "Crazy Man Crazy" (Bill Haley)
8. "Pat-a-Cake" (Billy Williamson, Bill Haley)
9. "Live It Up" (Bill Haley)
10. "What'cha Gonna Do" (Bill Haley)
11. "I'll Be True" (William McLemore)
12. "Dance with a Dolly" (Terry Shand, Jimmy Eaton, Mickey Leader)