60 years ago: Ed Sullivan introduces America to rock and roll from Stratford

60 years ago, on August 7, 1955, Bill Haley introduced American to rock and roll from an unlikely venue, the American Shakespeare Festival Theatre in Stratford, Connecticut. Haley, and his band, the Comet’s, performed “Rock Around the Clock” on that stage for a taping of Ed Sullivan’s ‘Toast of the Town’ (later that year the show […]