In the late 1940’s, a new genre of music was starting to take shape. Music artists were starting to combine different elements of country, western, and rhythm and blues (R&B) to create what would eventually evolve into rock and roll. Of these earliest artists, Bill Haley and His Comets would rise to popularity and become known as (if not, one of) the Father(s) of rock and roll. Haley was not the creator of rock and roll, but he was the one that changed rock and roll from a “ ‘virtually an underground movement, something kids listened to on the sly,’ wrote journalist Alex Frazer-Harrison. ‘This changed after ‘Rock Around the Clock.’ The music was everywhere’.” Bill Haley in the late 1940s and early 1950s was part of multiple bands and music
