12/11/2023 0 Comments Rock around the clock![]() ![]() Haley and the band had time for only two takes, and in the first, they played so loud that Haley’s vocals were almost inaudible on tape. The lead guitarist brought in for the session, Danny Cedrone, had not had time to work up a new solo for the instrumental break on “(We’re Gonna) Rock Around The Clock,” so he repurposed one he’d used on a Haley recording two years earlier called “Rock This Joint.” Cedrone was paid $31 for his work that evening, which included performing what is still recognized as one of the greatest guitar solos of all time. With time running out and no chance of extending the session, Haley and his Comets were eager to lay down the song they’d been playing live for many months to enthusiastic audience response. And if Bill Haley was not exactly the revolution’s Thomas Jefferson, it may be fair to call him its John Hancock.īill Haley put his enormous signature on rock and roll history during the final 40 minutes of a three-hour recording session in New York City-a session set up not for the recording of “(We’re Gonna) Rock Around The Clock,” but of a song called “Thirteen Women (and Only One Man in Town).” It took the group nearly all of their scheduled session to get a useable take of “Thirteen Women,” a song that was entirely new to them but was chosen as the A-side of their upcoming single by their new record label, Decca. “Trust me.On April 12, 1954- Bill Haley and His Comets recorded “(We’re Gonna) Rock Around The Clock.” If rock and roll was a social and cultural revolution, then “(We’re Gonna) Rock Around The Clock” was its Declaration of Independence. “I will become a champion,” Gorimbo said. Gorimbo, who boasts a 1-1 record in the UFC, also vowed to make Johnson proud as he continues his career, with high hopes to make an even bigger impact moving forward. “The money that I was going to use for the house, I’m going to build another borehole in my village now when I land in Africa.” “Because you got me this house, I was supposed to get a house to come here,” Gorimbo explained. ![]() Gorimbo had tears in his eyes as he took a tour of his new house, telling Johnson he was going to use this gift as a way to help continue giving back to his home village in Africa. “I wanted to look you in the eye and I wanted to tell you welcome home,” Johnson said as he handed the keys over to an emotional Gorimbo. Johnson then took a drive with Gorimbo that ended at a house the famed WWE superstar purchased for him, which is where Gorimbo can now reside while continuing his training in Miami. The interaction didn’t stop there, as Johnson saw where Gorimbo slept on a couch surrounded by luggage and an inspirational sign made to remind the 32-year-old veteran what he was fighting for. I’ve been there… /rS圜7EiD5I- Dwayne Johnson August 3, 2023 Keep your “My Reason” list close, keep taking care of your people and I’m honored to play a very, very small role in your $7 bucks journey. Welcome home and your family enjoy your new house brother. Just to look you in the eyes and tell you, I got your back.” You took care of your people, and that just says exactly who you are, and that’s why I flew all the way in. “Because you could have taken that money and put it down on a car, on an apartment, but you didn’t. I was here in Miami when I had $7, but then also you win your second fight, then you sell your fight kit, you buy a water well for your village in Zimbabwe so your people can have clean water. “When I found out you had $7 in your bank account, I know what that’s like. “I’ve got to tell you, your story moved me,” Johnson told Gorimbo during their first face-to-face meeting. The gesture moved Johnson, who famously pursued his own dreams after once having only $7 in his bank account, which eventually served as the name for his company, Seven Bucks Productions. If I help, I feel so good, and when I feel so good, I’m dangerous. I don’t want to go back so I can say ‘I helped you guys.’ I don’t want to see that ever again, but that happiness can only help me. “When I got home where I come from and I help these people build this borehole and I helped these kids pay for their school supplies, I don’t have entitlement. A post shared by Themba T L Gorimbo was happier raising that money than I was after my win,” Gorimbo told MMA Fighting. ![]()
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