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Bill Haley & His Comets on Ed Sullivan show

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Bill Haley and His Comets' song "Rock Around the Clock" was the first rock n roll song to reach the Billboard charts number one spot.  

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Bill Haley & His Comets

Bill Haley & His Comets was an American rock and roll band that was founded in 1952 and continued until Haley's death in 1981. The band, also known by the names Bill Haley and the Comets and Bill Haley's Comets (and variations thereof), was the earliest group of white musicians to bring rock and roll to the attention of white America and the rest of the world. From late 1954 to late 1956, the group placed nine singles in the Top 20, one of those a number one and three more in the Top Ten.

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