Rock Around The Clock

Forty Shades Of The Anthem
 

 

44 covers of the rock'n roll anthem (it seems) from the sublime to the bad, even to the very bad, through the simply boring, overseas versions, raps, reggae, instrumentals, marching bands, whistled versions, iconoclast or faithful covers : it was a pleasure to compile these songs.  Hope you'll have as much fun as me!

tracklist

- Artie Malvin - Rock Around The Clock
 - Big Freedia - Rock Around the Clock                                      
 - Bill Haley - Al Compás del Reloj                                         
 - Buddy Knox - Rock Around the Clock                                       
 - Caroline - Rock Around The Clock With Jesus Tonight                      
 - Chiemi Eri - Rock Around The Clock                                       
 - CookiePine - Rock Around the Clock                                       
 - David Paul - Rock Around the Clock
 - Dick Parker - Rock Around the Clock                                      
 - Die Optimisten - Rund um die Uhr                                         
 - Ernie Smith - Rock Around the Clock                                      
 - Frankie Carle - Rock Around the Clock                                    
 - Gary's Gang - Rock Around the Clock
 - Gilgiola Cinquetti  - Rock Around the Clock                              
 - Gloria Ríos - El Relojito                                           
 - Gunnar Siljabloo Nilson - Rock Around the Clock                          
 - Jimmy Sturr - Rock Around The Clock                                      
 - Kimiko Wakiyama - Rock Around The Clock                                  
 - Laxmikanth Kumar Kandiah  - Rock Around The Clock                        
 - Lillo - Rock Around The Clock                                            
 - Line Renaud  - Rock Around The Clock                                     
 - Mae West - Rock Around The Clock                                         
 - Major Worries - Rock Around the Clock                                    
 - Maria Angelica - Graine De Violence                                      
 - Marthe Fleurant et les Persuaders - Rock Around The Clock                
 - Michael Fobes - Rock Around The Clock (Stairway To Stardom)
 - Mickey Katz - Knock Around the Clock                                     
 - Mortier Dance Organ - Rock Around the Clock                              
 - Pat Boone - Rock Around the Clock                                        
 - Sex Pistols - Rock around the Clock                                      
 - Swiss Army Central Band (Dir.Christoph Walter) - Rock Around The Clock   
 - Telex - Rock Around the Clock                                            
 - The Countdown Kids - Rock Around the Clock                               
 - The Dixie Harmonairs - Rock Around the Clock                             
 - The Evans Sisters - Rock Around The Clock                                
 - The Isley Brothers - Rock Around the Clock                               
 - The Melody Sisters - Onder De Klok                                       
 - The Ohio State University Marching Band - Rock Around the Clock          
 - The Peter Pan Singers - Rock Around The Clock                            
 - The Royal Tank Regiment Cambrai Band - Rock Around the Clock             
 - The Snowmen - Rock Around the Clock                                      
 - Tiny Tim - Rock Around The Clock (Live in Chicago)
 - Vesa-Matti-Loiri  - Rock Around The Clock                                
 - Waterford High School Wildcat Marching Band - Rock Around the Clock      

Freddie Ross Jr. (born 1978), better known by her stage name Big Freedia
is a gay American rapper known for her work in the New Orleans
genre of hip hop called bounce music.

Shirley and Anne Evans (the Evans Sisters) from Manitoba, Canada

Laxmikanth Kumar Kandiah from Kuala-Lumpur (Malaysia) whistling Rock Around The Clock.
One of the best whistled cover available on youTube

Line Renaud had her own revue at the Casino de Paris

Wayne Jones, a.k.a. Major Worries, a Reggae artist, born 1966, Jamaica, killed August 1987.

The Melody Sisters, a Dutch singing duo consisting of twin sisters
Julie Lankester and Elly Lankester, both born 1933, Amsterdam

 

Michael Fobes [Forbes?] from his performance on "Stairway To Stardom", a TV show. Stairway to Stardom, a public-access television series that aired in New York City from 1979 to the early 1990s hosted by Frank Masi.

Mortier Dance Organ: "Rock Around the Clock", Museum Speelklok, Utrecht. May 2013.
A dance organ is a mechanical organ designed to be used in a dance hall or ballroom. Being intended for use indoors, dance organs tend to be quieter than the similar fairground organ.
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Dance_organ (I had no idea)

"Al Compás del Reloj"  =Rock Around The Clock redone in Mexico in the sixties,
El Señor Haley, the originator, backed by Sus Cometas (His Comets) a group of unidentified local musicians. Arriba! Arriba!

Swiss Army Central Band (Dir.Christoph Walter)

The Snowmen before the melting

Gloria Ríos, nee Gloria Ramírez Gómez (1928-2002)
"The Mexican Rita Hayworth"

See her performance at YT here
"Gloria in excelsis Deo"

Shiva

Krishna Shiva

Down To Heavenly
Included in this file are six of his songs including
the one above (some sort of The Essential Shiva)

 

If you don't know this artist, be prepared to hear something really special that I find difficult to qualify : hard rock, perhaps, hard to listen, that is for sure. 

Legally changed his name to Krishna Shiva :

I ran across a book about Shiva in storage of a chicken coupe I converted for a living space that I rented one summer in Seattle (it was in a ‘friends’ backyard). I one day years later saw that name in light on my chest. I have also, more than once, had physical changes to my masculine force that is much associated with Shiva. So when my music was getting kind of close to be being on an acceptable level, I legally changed it to that.

According to Shiva's own words:

Originally from Seattle.  Born in Renton near it.  Took a few guitar lessons. Considered Professional bowling, decided to pursue university studies instead. Attended University of Washington, majored in Pre-Law, then Business Administration, then Philosophy.  Senior year accepted at Harvard University. Played the wooden flute and practiced the piano at the university.  But 'guitar' was calling!  Soon moved to near Lake Tahoe, Carson City.  Liked the nude beaches on the east side of Lake Tahoe, but the green grass of 'the Big Easy' Mississippi River, and the thunder and lightning, drew me to Quincy Illinois. Played a few gigs, in Florida, California, and Quincy. Bore down tho to really bring out my music and be worth its love songs. Besides horseback riding, been doing that mostly.  Horseback riding, (another way to have magic in life.) from bareback to jumping to cross country romping, I love the get up and go of it!  

Main music influences Jimi Hendrix, Carlos Santana, Pink Floyd, Fleetwood Mac, White Snake, Deep Purple, Chris Isaak, Julio Iglesias, B.B. King, Megadeth, Diana Ross, Motley Crue, Rob Thomas, Ice Cube, Nelly, Alannah Myles, Joan Jett,  and many heavy metal sounds, love metal, the 'blues', Motown, and others.

From research, authored a short book on major religions and animal worship. Another thing; all my music is strictly original.  Authored, composed, and performed by me.  

According the Associated Press, Shiva was sentenced in 2010 for one count of misdemeanor cruelty to animals.

1-year probation for man who fed horse hot peppers

QUINCY -- A Quincy man accused of abusing his riding mare by feeding her hot peppers has been sentenced to one year of probation without monitoring.

The Quincy Herald-Whig reports that 54-year-old Krishna Shiva received the sentence for one count of misdemeanor cruelty to animals. He pleaded guilty in September. Shiva was accused of riding the 7-year-old mare without shoes on a gravel road, whipping her with a leather strap and force-feeding her hot peppers.

Shiva also must pay a $300 fine and other costs.

Shiva lost ownership of the mare after a forfeiture hearing Sept. 3 in Quincy. The mare, named, Diva, will now be given to a horse rescue facility. Animal welfare officials say she is suffering from a collapsed lung and will never be ridden again.

Carburetor Blues

Tex Miller & Jean

 
Carburetor Blues

This is from 1968 based on the RI number (Recordings Inc. - Baltimore, Maryland). No further info.