Bill Haley and His COMETS~Rockin' Around The World LP~Early Australian Festival~in great condition ( for its age). Plays great as well..with a few pops & clicks.

Rockin' Around the World

Rockin' Around the World was the sixth album of rock and roll music by Bill Haley and His Comets. Released in March 1958 on the Decca Records label, Decca 8692, the album was produced by Milt Gabler, who produced all of Haley's recordings for Decca. It was the second of three "themed" albums that Haley produced for the label. This album featured versions of well-known folk songs from around the world, rearranged in rock and roll style, including new lyrics, by Haley and his songwriting partners, Milt Gabler, Rusty Keefer, and Catherine Cafra. It is not known how much, if any, input Haley himself had into the writing process.

Examples of the new arrangements include "Come Rock with Me," based upon the melody of "’O sole mio", which was later again adapted by Elvis Presley as "It's Now or Never", and "Piccadilly Rock," which was based upon the melody of "London Bridge is Falling Down". Most of the melodies were in the public domain, with the exception of "Rockin' Matilda," based upon "Waltzing Matilda", which was still in copyright and thus credited to its original writers. Haley's steel guitar player, Billy Williamson, performs lead vocals on one track, "Jamaica D.J."

No hit singles resulted from this album, although Haley later re-recorded one track, "Vive la Rock and Roll", which incorporated the melody of "Frère Jacques", in a duet with Catarina Valente for the 1959 German movie Hier bin ich - hier bleib' ich (Here I Am, Here I Stay) released by Central Cinema Company Film (CCC).

Contents

• 1 Track listing
• 2 Personnel
• 3 References
• 4 External links

Track listing[edit]

All songs written by Bill Haley, Milt Gabler, Rusty Keefer, and Catherine Cafra except where noted.

1. Pretty Alouette (Traditional)
2. Me Rock-a-Hula
3. Wooden Shoe Rock
4. Vive la Rock and Roll
5. Come Rock With Me (Arranged with new lyrics by Bill Haley, Milt Gabler, Rusty Keefer, Catherine Cafra)
6. Jamaica D.J.
7. Piccadilly Rock
8. Rockin' Matilda (Andrew Banjo Paterson, Marie Cowan)
9. Rockin' Rollin' Schnitzelbank (Traditional)
10. Rockin' Rita
11. Oriental Rock
12. El Rocko

Personnel[edit]

• Bill Haley – rhythm guitar, vocals on all but 6
• Franny Beecher – lead guitar
• Billy Williamson – steel guitar, vocals on 6
• Johnny Grande – piano
• Al Rex – bass
• Ralph Jones – drums
• Rudy Pompilli - tenor saxophone
• Joe Olivier - second guitar [1]

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1. "Fireball"
   Released: October 1971

Fireball is the fifth album by English Rock band Deep Purple, released in 1971 and the second with the classic Mk II line-up. It was recorded at various times between September 1970 and June 1971. It would become the first of the band's three UK No. 1 albums, though it didn't stay on the charts as long as its predecessor, Deep Purple in Rock.

Contents

• 1 Singles
• 2 Releases and reissues
• 3 Members' views on the album
• 4 Later influences
• 5 Track listing
  • 5.1 Original European release
  • 5.2 Original US/Canadian/Japanese release
• 6 Personnel
• 7 Charts
• 8 Certifications
• 9 References
• 10 External links

Singles[edit]

The original UK version had "Demon's Eye" as its third track, but did not include "Strange Kind of Woman," which was instead released as a single there. It was vice versa on the American and Japanese releases. The boogie-inspired "Strange Kind of Woman" single reached No. 8 in the UK.

"Strange Kind of Woman" has been a staple of the live set up to the present day, and "Fireball" also made a few live appearances, mainly as an encore. "Strange Kind of Woman" and "The Mule" appear on the 1972 live album Made in Japan, with the latter morphing into an Ian Paice drum solo.

"Anyone's Daughter" was played on the 1993–1994 tours, while "Fools", "No One Came", "I'm Alone", "Demon's Eye" and "No No No" have all made periodic appearances in various tours since 1996.

Releases and reissues[edit]

The original vinyl release was in a gatefold sleeve, with a generic Harvest LP-bag and a lyric-insert.

In September 2010 a limited edition 24k gold CD was released by Audio Fidelity. The CD was mastered from the original master tapes by Steve Hoffman. The gold CD contained the original USA track listing with "Strange Kind of Woman" and does not have "Demon's Eye".

Members' views on the album[edit]

Most of the band doesn't consider the album a classic, but it is one of Ian Gillan's favourites. He stated in a 1974 interview: "The reason I liked that so much was because I thought, from a writing point of view, it was really the beginning of tremendous possibilities of expression. And some of the tracks on that album are really, really inventive."[4] However, Gillan also said that the inclusion of "Anyone's Daughter" on the album was "A good bit of fun, but a mistake."[5]

Blackmore, in particular, stated publicly that he was not overly pleased with Fireball. He said of the production: "Fireball...that was a bit of a disaster, because it was thrown together in the studio. Management pressure, we had no time. 'You gotta play here, here, there, then you've got to make an LP.' I told them, 'you want an LP, you've got to give us time.' But they didn't. I just threw ideas to the group that I thought up on the spur of the moment."[4]

Later influences[edit]

On 9 April 2011 episode of That Metal Show, guitar virtuoso Yngwie Malmsteen stated that his older sister had given him Fireball when he was eight years old, and "it changed everything" for him.

King Diamond also mentions Fireball as the first studio album he purchased as a teenager and an important influence in his future career.[6]

Track listing[edit]

All songs written by Ritchie Blackmore, Ian Gillan, Roger Glover, Jon Lord and Ian Paice.

Original European release[edit]

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