Talk:Bill Haley & His Comets

message: Takes me just a few minutes to add it.  Stephan KŒNIG 13:10, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: If you have a scan of the label, please go ahead. 23skidoo 15:36, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spanish twist label shot ??? :-) 

message: The Whisky a go go LP was released under the name Bill Haley and His Comets (Mr. Go Go/live) then issued in the UK on EMBER in 1969. Not 1968!!!
*However, it's very strange. The (C) on that LP was 1969 but issued earlier in June 1968. I'm still holding that LP like a true Haley fan.  Surfrider1962 (talk) 15:50, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bill Haley in Mexico 

message: The original version sung in Spanish was released in May 1961 and the English one in September 1961...as a "favor to the Organization" (sic). 81.244.186.196 21:15, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't know about the favor bit, but you're correct that I have the recording order backwards. Will fix. 23skidoo 21:33, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Anyway, I am quite sure! No filthy garbage, my dear. By request of mafioso Vito Genovese. Bill was completely unable to pay the maffia back (IRS on his back for 140.000 USD. At a certain time, Franny Beecher quits the band without to have been paid. Then Billy Williamson, in his turn, throws in the sponge...  Stephan KŒNIG 12:10, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

text: I know Haley got himself involved with the Mob in the early 60s, but unfortunately something like this needs a reputable source in order to be included in the article. Interesting stuff, though. 23skidoo 15:29, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Twist español and Spanish twist... 

message: What about Spanish labels DIM and Maya ???   Stephan KŒNIG 20:04, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: DIM is Dimsa, while Maya was a reissue label. Haley never actually recorded for either; they just re-released recordings made for Orfeon (and also Decca and Sonet). If we were to list all the re-issue labels, there would be hundreds. 23skidoo 13:16, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  DIM and Maya labels 

message: If anyone with this on their watchlist has heard any news reports that John "Bam-Bam" Lane died on Feb. 18 (he ran one of the post-Haley editions of the Comets), please note it here. I'm seeking confirmation of this news before I put it into the article. 23skidoo 19:54, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Seeking confirmation that John Lane has died

message: Noting that Elvis, Chuck Berry and other contemporaries have articles about their individual record albums, I have started a series of articles on the album releases by the Comets. These articles need album cover images. I no longer submit images to Wikipedia, so someone else will need to do this. Please ensure any images are probably cited for fair use otherwise they'll just get deleted. 23skidoo 16:46, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Album articles need images

message: See Wikipedia:Footnotes for an explanation of how to generate footnotes using the <ref(erences/)> tags Nhl4hamilton (talk) 04:37, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Citations & References

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Bill Haley and the Comets.jpg

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:BillHaley1957.JPG

message: As I understand WP:CITE, non-professoinal online sources such as the IMDb and Amazon reviews are not allowed as sources for citing facts in an article. In particular, I have removed a statement, sourced by an Amazon review, that stated that Freed and others began playing Rock Around the Clock because of the success of Shake Rattle and Roll and Dim Dim the Lights. None of my printed reference works nor my direct contacts related to Haley (yeah, yeah, WP:NOR) support this. The interest in Rock Around the Clock, as indicated in the new Rock n' Roll is Born documentary, came from Blackboard Jungle using it. Before that, it was seen as a failed single no different than, say, Haley's earlier failed single "Straight Jacket". 23skidoo (talk) 12:19, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Amazon review as source

message: I think the add of Bill Haley's ultimate LP released by Sonet on its budget label EUROPA, Germany, 1980 is a good one. This vinyl LP is practically unknown but I can tell everyone I bought it in March 1981
along with the 1979 Sonet other LP. I don't know if it was only issued in Germany. No traces in other countries.  Surfrider1962 (talk) 16:04, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Improvement

message: To add further information of the 1979 UK dates. I played guitar and vocals in his Cambridge UK date back then as support to a successful show as Flash Dave and the Thunderbolts. The venue was the Kelsey Kerridge Sports Hall Cambridge UK( 5000 seats) on November 24th 1979. I have posters and press cuttings to support this. Musictada (talk) 19:39, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: UK 1979

message: The discography is terribly cluttered, confusing, and needs an overhaul. There is a section for single releases, which is nice and neat, but it has no dates and chart positions. The chart position section is miserable. They should combined, or at least fixed. Cashbox seems unnecessary, and the dates are for charting and not release. This discography is one of the worst on wikipedia. 24.0.60.105 (talk) 09:15, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Discography 

message: I removed the following:
===Rock Around The Clock Scandal===
At one point when Bill Haley & His Comets were performing Rock Around the Clock live an incident occurred when a bunch of fans started going crazy and even going up on stage and throwing a bunch of instruments around. This was because Rock Around the Clock was supposed to be about the World Ending which a lot of people in the newer generation didn't realize. During the incident Bill Haley jumped off stage and ran off. The Rock Around the Clock Scandal is one of The Top 100 Music Scandals in music history. 
I have read quite a bit of the history of rock and roll and I have never heard of this.
I also did a Google search on "Rock Around Clock Scandal" with no results.
 Alex20850 (talk) 01:43, 13 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rock Around the Clock Scandal 

message: At one point when Bill Haley & His Comets were performing Rock Around the Clock live an incident occurred when a bunch of fans started going crazy and even going up on stage and throwing a bunch of instruments around. This was because Rock Around the Clock was supposed to be about the World Ending which a lot of people in the newer generation didn't realize. During the incident Bill Haley jumped off stage and ran off. The Rock Around the Clock Scandal is one of The Top 100 Music Scandals in music history. 
I have read quite a bit of the history of rock and roll and I have never heard of this.
I also did a Google search on "Rock Around Clock Scandal" with no results.
 Alex20850 (talk) 01:43, 13 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Rock Around The Clock Scandal

message: Why, what, where, and how does this article need additional citations for verification? Hyacinth (talk) 10:35, 2 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: The tag was added in April 2009 when the article had no more than a single ref. . I suppose it could be removed now. --Thrissel (talk) 12:52, 2 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Additional citations

message: Anonymous user 118.136.31.183 has plagiarized the copy from the Deep Impact page and linked the headline, both of which are no-no's.  User 118.136.31.183:  either re-write this with a direction directly based on the Comets of leave it out of here.  I'll welcome other thoughts here before removing the section outright. --Stlamanda (talk) 01:50, 11 July 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Okay, since there are no objections I am removing this outright.  It belongs in that Wiki page, not this one. --Stlamanda (talk) 14:12, 17 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deep Impact section 

message: With a lowercase H for "his". In common with logic (cf. "and the Comets") and several record sleeves, not to mention the "IN PERSON" ad pictured in the article. Rothorpe (talk) 19:44, 6 May 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree that the article should use "and", but "His" should still be capitalized, per correct capitalization rules.  Hence the correct article title is Bill Haley and His Comets. 24.149.45.52 (talk) 03:35, 18 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move to [[Bill Haley and his Comets]]? 

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message: It's clear that "Bill Haley and His Comets" is more accurate and common than "Bill Haley & His Comets".  Should not the page be moved to reflect this?24.235.74.199 (talk) 18:43, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't know enough to say one way or the other, but I'll note that Bill's official website uses "Bill Haley & His Comets" (here) For whatever that is worth. Matt Deres (talk) 12:58, 20 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  "&" vs "and"