Crazy, Man, Crazy, 1953 (apex)
The first film with a Rock and Roll theme song was "Blackboard Jungle" (1955). The song was "Rock Around the Clock" by Bill Haley and the Comets.
Whitney Houston, with her 1987 album, Whitney, became the first female artist to have an album debut at number one on the Billboard charts. The album produced six singles.
Michael Jackson's "You Are Not Alone" single (1995) was the first single to debut at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts. The first album to debut at #1 on the Billboard popular-album chart was Elton John's Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy (1975).
The first solo female act to reach a Number One Billboard ranking was Kitty Wells. On 1952 she reached the top of the Country Billboard Chart in America with 'It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels'.
Bill Haley
The rock era charts began in January 1955. Prior to July, most of the hits that year were pretty much vanilla pop, Until Rock Around the Clock by Bill Haley and The Comets raced to the top of the charts in early July, 1955
Haley's first group as a leader was the Four Aces of Western Swing. Then he formed Bill Haley and the Saddlemen around 1949-1950, which became Bill Haley and the Comets in 1952.
I Want to hold your hand
Originally recorded by Big Joe Turner, a blues legend. It was later recorded by Bill Haley and the Comets, and became his first chart hit, rising to number 7 in August, 1954.
Chicago
Bill Haley and the Comets in 1954
2001
"It's Still Rock and Roll to Me"
Crazy Man, Crazy"
2000
there! I've said it again-bobby vinton
1992