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During the Labor Day weekend in 1952, the Saddlemen were renamed Bill Haley with Haley's Comets. The name was inspired by the supposedly official pronunciation of Halley's Comet and was suggested by Bob Johnson, program director at radio station WPWA where Bill Haley had a live radio program from 12:00 noon to 1:00 p.m.
Two additional groups claim the name Bill Haley's Comets and have extensively toured in the United States since forming in the 1980s: one originally led by Haley's 1965–68 drummer John "Bam-Bam" Lane, the other run by Al Rappa, who played bass for Haley off and on between late 1959 and early 1969. (The 1959 album "Strictly Instrumental" on ...
James William Haley (September 22, 1943—July 3, 2022) was a Texas politician and teacher that was a member of the Texas House of Representatives for District 10, and was a member of the Texas Senate representing District 3.
The John Lane version of Bill Haley's Comets recorded a live album in the early 2000s, along with a Christmas single. Al Rappa's version of Bill Haley's Comets have recorded tracks with Joey Welz, including the 2011 album Rock and Roll Survivors released on the Canadian-American label. The 1954–55 Comets (a.k.a.
Aug. 6—HARLINGEN — Voters are going to get a chance to decide whether to set term limits on the mayor's and commissioners' tenures in office. Tense confrontations marked the four-hour meeting ...
Bill Haley issued a public apology on Thursday. A Lee’s Summit R-7 School District board member issued a public apology on Thursday for a controversial table display he constructed at a recent ...
Harlingen (/ ˈ h ɑːr l ɪ n dʒ ɪ n / HAR-lin-jin) [6] is a city in Cameron County in the central region of the Rio Grande Valley of the southern part of the U.S. state of Texas, about 30 miles (48 km) from the coast of the Gulf of Mexico.
Bill Haley Bill Haley & His Comets: 55: February 9, 1981: Harlingen, Texas, U.S. Brain tumor or heart attack [14] Mike Bloomfield The Paul Butterfield Blues Band: 37: