April in Paris (song) perfect, show me why it isn't." Freddy Martin and Henry King had the earliest hits of this song, at the very end of 1933. It has been performed by many artists, including Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Billy Eckstine, Bill Evans, Charlie Parker, Coleman Hawkins, Frank Sinatra, Mary Kaye Trio, Billie Holiday, Thelonious Monk, Bud Powell, Erroll Garner, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Benny Goodman, Dinah Shore, Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey, Joni James, Blossom Dearie, Doris Day, Alex Chilton, Wynton Marsalis, Andy Williams, Amanda Thorpe, Michel Legrand, and Dawn Upshaw. Basie's 1955 recording is the most famous, and that particular performance was
Rock Around the Clock (film) debuted in the 1955 teen flick "Blackboard Jungle", and is considered the first major rock and roll musical film. Haley's 1954 recording was previously played over the opening credits of "Blackboard Jungle" and the same recording was used for the opening of "Rock Around the Clock", marking a rare occasion where the same recording opened films released in such a short interval (the recording would be used once again to open the 1973 film "American Graffiti"). "Rock Around the Clock" tells a highly fictionalized rendition of how rock and roll was discovered. As band manager Steve Hollis observes that big