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LP record "Bill Haley & The Comets" (Polskie Nagrania "Muza" 12″ 33⅓ rpm LP, SX 2417)
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A 12-inch, 33⅓ rpm long-play vinyl record in a printed paper sleeve, manufactured by Polskie Nagrania on its "Muza" label — the Polish state record company — and licensed from GNP-Crescendo Records (USA). It collects twelve rock and roll numbers performed by Bill Haley & The Comets: Side A — "I'm Walkin'," "High Heel Sneakers," "Blue Suede Shoes," "Tossin' and Turnin'," "Flip Flop and Fly," "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On"; Side B — "C.C. Rider," "Lawdy Miss Clawdy," "Bring It On Home to Me," "Personality," Haley's own "Crazy Man Crazy," and Chuck Berry's "Rock and Roll Music." The cream Polskie Nagrania/Muza disc label reads "POLSKIE NAGRANIA," "muza," "ZAIKS," "S 33," "SX 2417 A," "GNP - CRESCENDO RECORDS," "Made in Poland." Condition: worn; a blue "409" stamp and a pencilled "L70" on the back.
2025.1.305
This LP is another instance of the recurring ArchCuS pattern in which Western popular music reached Cuba pressed in the socialist bloc — here the foundational genre, American rock and roll, on a Polish state-label LP. It parallels the Czechoslovak Supraphon EP (Karel Vlach) and the Soviet "MK" tango discs: international/Western repertoire manufactured in Eastern Europe and circulating into Cuba. Bill Haley & His Comets were an American rock and roll band formed in 1947 and continuing until Haley's death in 1981, whose "Rock Around the Clock" was the best-selling rock single in the history of the genre; this 1986 LP is therefore a posthumous compilation of his later GNP-Crescendo–era recordings of standards. The bilingual liner notes read rock and roll's birth through a class-and-race lens congenial to a socialist publishing context — emphasizing the US cultural division "white and black," country music versus rhythm and blues, and Bill Haley as the white performer who fused the two. Priced in złoty for the Polish home market.
33 RPM Record
The Cabrera Arús family collection
Leopoldo Arús Gálvez collection
2025.1
E. Pomorska
Media Artist
Adam Halber
Liner Notes
Polskie Nagrania Muza
Rock and Roll
1986
Warsaw
Poland
Eastern Europe
Europe
The liner notes detail Bill Haley's rise to stardom as a country-turned-rock-and-roll artist. He performed covers of rock songs written by Black artists in order to market rock and roll music as accessible to white Americans.
The front cover is a stippled black-and-white portrait of a laughing Bill Haley against a red starburst; the back carries bilingual (Polish/English) liner notes by Adam Halber, the full track list with composer credits and timings, sleeve design by E. Pomorska, "Made in Poland," and "Cena/Price zł 400."
Manufactured (pressed) by Polskie Nagrania in Poland (Warsaw), 1986. The master recordings are licensed from GNP-Crescendo Records (Los Angeles, USA) and derive from Bill Haley's late-career re-recordings of c. 1968–1973; the specific session cities are not stated.
I'm walkin'
Fats Domino
Composer
Dave Bartholomew
Composer
English
High Heel Sneakers
Robert Higginbotham
Composer
English
Blue Suede Shoes
Carl Lee Perkins
Composer
English
Tossin' and turnin'
Malou Rene
Composer
Ritchie Adams
Composer
English
Flip flop and fly
Charles Calhoun
Composer
Lou Willie Turner
Composer
Whole lotta shakin' goin' on
Dave Williams
Composer
Sunny David
Composer
English
C. C. Rider
Ma Rainey
Composer
Lawdy Miss Clawdy
Lloyd Price
Composer
Bring it on home to me
Sam Cooke
Composer
Personality
Harold Logan
Composer
Lloyd Price
Composer
Crazy man crazy
Bill Haley
Rock and roll music
Chuck Berry
31 cm
31 cm
vinyl, record case
Case
Fair
Leopoldo Arús Gálvez
owner
Bill Haley
artist
Havana
Cuba
Caribbean
Central America
use
Warsaw
Poland
Eastern Europe
Europe
production
Recording: the tracks are Haley's late-period GNP-Crescendo/Sonet re-recordings; exact recording dates and cities are not given on the sleeve.
Provenance: the printed "zł 400" is a Polish-market price; the blue "409" stamp and pencilled "L70" are later marks.