So these guys are considered to be one of the first predominately white rock and roll bands to make it big. I find this fact noteworthy only when you compare it to what they had been doing before being labeled as rock and roll. They were a country band. Yup, I said country. In fact Bill Haley was revered as one of America's top yodelers. They became part of the rock and roll family when their sound switched out of country and into rockabilly, and featured slap-back heavily. At the time they were known as the Saddlebacks, and it became clear that just wasn't going to work for their new direction. Thus the Comets were born.
Peace.
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