Rock the Boat (The Hues Corporation song) The Boat" played a partial role in inspiring the hit "Rock Your Baby". The song was also featured in the 1990 film "The Spirit of '76", the 1993 film "Carlito's Way", the 1996 film "The Cable Guy", the 1999 film "Man on the Moon", the HBO series "The Sopranos" (Season 2, episode 5, Big Girls Don't Cry) and (sung in character by Seth MacFarlane as Glenn Quagmire, Patrick Warburton as Joe Swanson, and Mike Henry as Cleveland Brown) the "Family Guy" episode "A Very Special Family Guy Freakin' Christmas". The song appeared in the 1997 movie "The Devil's Own" with
Rock Around the Clock specified at various hours. However, the verse melody of "Rock Around the Clock" does bear a very close similarity to that of Hank Williams' first hit, "Move It On Over", from 1947. Williams' song was very similar to Charley Patton's "Going to Move to Alabama", recorded in 1929 – which itself was at least partly derived from Jim Jackson's "Kansas City Blues" from 1927. The song also uses phrases from Count Basie's "Red Wagon", first recorded in 1939. According to the Haley biographies "Bill Haley" by John Swenson and "Rock Around the Clock" by Dawson, the song was offered to