Rock Around the Clock
Bill Haley & His Comets 
Words and Music by Max Freedman and Jimmy DeKnight
Introduced in the 1955 film "The Blackboard Jungle" 
starring Glenn Ford as the teacher and Vic Morrow 
and Sidney Poitier as students. Twelve years later, 
Poitier reversed the role and played a teacher in 
a similar story, "To Sir With Love"



Chart 

Debut 
  
Weeks

# 

Label
 
Seller

May 1955

18

1

Decca

Top 100

Nov 1955

 

1

Decca

Hot 100

March 1974

 

39

 
    

One, two, three o'clock, four o'clock rock
Five, six, seven o'clock, eight o'clock rock
Nine, ten, eleven o'clock, twelve o'clock rock
We're gonna rock around the clock tonight

Put your glad rags on, join me, Hon
We'll have some fun when the clock strikes one
We're gonna rock around the clock tonight
We're gonna rock, rock, rock, 'til broad daylight
Gonna rock, gonna rock around the clock tonight

When the clock strikes two, three and four
If the band slows down we'll yell for more
We're gonna rock around the clock tonight
We're gonna rock, rock, rock, 'til broad daylight
Gonna rock, gonna rock around the clock tonight

	instrumental interlude

When the chimes ring five, six, and seven
We'll be right in seventh heaven
We're gonna rock around the clock tonight
We're gonna rock, rock, rock, 'til broad daylight
Gonna rock, gonna rock around the clock tonight

When it's eight, nine, ten, eleven too
I'll be goin' strong and so will you
We're gonna rock around the clock tonight
We're gonna rock, rock, rock, 'til broad daylight
Gonna rock, gonna rock around the clock tonight

	instrumental interlude

When the clock strikes twelve, we'll cool off then
Start a'rockin' round the clock again
We're gonna rock around the clock tonight
We're gonna rock, rock, rock, 'til broad daylight
Gonna rock, gonna rock around the clock tonight