Bill Haley Net Worth is
$5 Million

Mini Biography

William John Clifton Haley – better referred to as Expenses Haley, leader from the first-ever rock and roll & roll music group The Comets – is just about the greatest music pioneer from the 20th hundred years. He was the 1st white designer to record a tempo & blues strike – the 1951 “Rocket 88” for Dave Miller’s subsidiary label Vacation – and obtained a rockabilly strike in 1952 with “Rock and roll The Joint” (Essex) a long time before the word was known as well as the design was used by Sam Phillips on Sunlight Information, when Phillips documented performers like Elvis Presley and Charlie Feathers. In 1953 Haley came into the Billboard & Cashbox Best 20 along with his structure “Crazy Guy Crazy”. Some historians believe this track is the 1st rock and roll & move record, and additional historians disagree, but there is no question that it had been definitely the first ever to enter the pop graphs. In 1954 Haley appreciated two million-sellers with “Dim Dim The Lighting” and “Tremble, Rattle & Move” for the main label Decca (today MCA). His documenting of “Rock and roll NIGHT AND DAY” was found in the MGM film Blackboard Jungle (1955) starring Glenn Ford and a Sidney Poitier, aswell as the underrated Vic Morrow, who was simply intensely criticized for his allegedly Marlon Brando-like functionality, but who was simply just carrying out what most every youthful professional in the US–including Adam Dean, who strangely enough was hardly ever criticized for it–did, that was screen Brando’s at that time relaxing rebelliousness. It provided Haley his initial #1 strike, which as of this writing may be the greatest-selling one record ever. From 1955 to 1960 Haley appreciated 22 Best 30 Strikes and made an appearance in four films – a brief called GATHER of Tempo (1954), then Rock and roll Night and day (1956) and do not Knock the Rock and roll (1956), and in a German film, Hier bin ich – hier bleib’ ich (1959) alongside Caterina Valente, with whom he sang the duet “Viva La Rock and roll & Move”. In 1960 Haley, embroiled in main legal problems associated with his divorce, fled to Mexico, where he became referred to as the “Spanish Ruler Of Twist” and had a best-selling record in Latin America with “Florida Twist”. He also starred in three films there, before having a significant worldwide return in 1968, when “Rock and roll NIGHT AND DAY” produced the international graphs again, rating #1 in Britain and the united kingdom. In 1970 he documented an artistically extremely successful recording in Nashville entitled “Rock and roll Around THE UNITED STATES” (Sonet), and starred in the Peter Clifton-directed The London Stone Display (1973) along with Jerry Lee Lewis, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley and Small Richard. He made an appearance in Allow Good Times Move (1973) and toured thoroughly using the Richard Nader Revival Bundle Displays. He also documented the theme melody for the strike TV series Content Times (1974) starring Henry Winkler and Ron Howard. In 1976 his saxophonist for 25 years, Rudy Pompilli, passed away of lung cancers; from then on Haley retired for 3 years. “I used to be from the business for days gone by 3 years,” he described, “because my saxophone participant died. We had been collectively for 25 years, and we’d a pact–if he passed away first I’d prevent playing, and easily died first he’d not play. However now Personally i think the mourning period has ended, and I’m about 80% all set back on the highway.” In 1979 he toured the united kingdom and Germany, also playing a control efficiency for the Queen. It had been at the moment that he was identified as having a mind tumor, and some years afterwards, on Feb 9 1981, he passed on after a tour of South Africa. Presently a couple of four rings playing under “The Comets” banner, one getting the state one led by Al Rappa, who’s the just musician of the lineup that has any Haley connection, having performed bass for him between 1959 and 1969. Another music group is normally led by Joe E. Rand, who once fronted a Comet lineup comprising musicians who in fact used Haley. Another music group feature drummer John “Bam Bam” Street, who proved helpful for Haley between 1962 and 1969. The “primary” band, nevertheless, continues to be playing, and includes Englishman Jacko Buddin performing a great job within the Haley vocals and offering all the unique Comets: Franny Beecher (lead acoustic guitar), Joey Ambrose (sax), Dick Richards (drums) and Marshall Lytle (dual bass), plus they lately recorded a superb recording for the NEVADA based Rollin Rock and roll label of Ronny Weiser. They’re still rocking night and day !!!

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Quick Facts

Full Name	Bill Haley
Died	February 9, 1981, Harlingen, Texas, United States
Profession	Singer-songwriter, Film Score Composer, Bandleader
Nationality	American
Spouse	Martha Velasco, Barbara Joan Cupchak
Children	Gina Haley, John W. Haley, Scott Haley, Bill Haley Jr.
Parents	William Albert Haley, Maude Green
Awards	NME Award for World Musical Personality
Nominations	NME Award for Favourite US Male Singer
Movies	The Wretches Are Still Singing, The London Rock and Roll Show, Venga a bailar el rock, Rock Around the Clock