3D/Biela

Biela's Comet in February 1846, soon after it split into two pieces.
Discovery
Discovered by:	Wilhelm von Biela
Discovery date:	February 27, 1826
Alternative designations:	1772; 1806 I; 1832 III; 1846 II; 1852 III; 1826 D1
Orbital characteristics A
Epoch:	September 29, 1852 [1]
Aphelion:	6.190 AU
Perihelion:	0.8606 AU
Semi-major axis:	3.5253 AU
Eccentricity:	0.7559
Orbital period:	6.619 a
Inclination:	12.550°
Last perihelion:	September 24, 1852
Next perihelion:	Disintegrated in 1852.

Biela's Comet or Comet Biela (official designation: 3D/Biela) was a periodic comet first recorded in 1772 by Montaigne and Messier and finally identified as periodic in 1826 by Wilhelm von Biela. It was subsequently observed to split in two and has not been seen since 1852. As a result it is currently considered to have been destroyed, although remnants appeared to have survived for some time as a meteor shower.

Discovery[link]

The comet was first recorded on 8 March 1772 by Jacques Leibax Montaigne;^[2] during the same apparition it was independently discovered by Charles Messier. It was also recorded in 1805 by Jean-Louis Pons, but was not recognized as the same object. After the 1772 and 1805 apparitions a number of attempts were made by Lalande (1774), Gauss (1806) and Bessel (1806) to calculate a definitive orbit, Gauss and Olbers both noting a similarity between the 1805 and 1772 comets, but it was not possible to prove a link.^[2]

Confirmation as periodic[link]

It was Wilhelm von Biela, an army officer serving at the fortress town of Josefstadt, who observed the comet during its 1826 perihelion approach (on February 27) and calculated its orbit, discovering it to be periodic with a period of 6.6 years. At the time it was only the third comet known to be periodic, after the famous comets Halley and Encke. The comet was named after Biela, although there was initially some controversy due to a later but independent discovery by Jean-Félix Adolphe Gambart, who also provided the first mathematical proof linking the 1826 and 1805 comets (letters from Biela and Gambart were published in the same issue of the Astronomische Nachrichten). A third claim was made by Thomas Clausen, who had independently linked the comets.

The comet appeared as predicted during its 1832 apparition, when it was first recovered by John Herschel on 24 September.^[2] The orbital elements and ephemeris calculated by Olbers for this return created something of a popular sensation, as they showed that the comet's coma would likely pass through the Earth's orbit during a close approach on October 29. Subsequent predictions, in the media of the time, of the Earth's likely destruction overlooked the fact that the Earth itself would not reach this point until November 30, a month later, as pointed out by François Arago in an article designed to allay public fears.^[3] Despite this, the fact that Biela's Comet was the only comet known to intersect the Earth's orbit was to make it of particular interest, both to astronomers and the public, during the 19th century.

The 1839 apparition was extremely unfavourable and no observations were made.

Disintegration[link]

The comet was recovered on November 26, 1845, by Francesco de Vico. Initially a small, faint nebulosity, subsequent observations showed that something remarkable had happened to it. Matthew Fontaine Maury, observing on 14 January 1846, noted that an apparent companion was located 1 arc minute north of the comet.^[4] After this announcement many astronomers began observing the comet, and noted that the two elements (usually referred to as "Comet A" and "Comet B" in modern nomenclature) alternated in brightness, developing parallel tails as they approached perihelion. Some observations indicated an "archway of cometary matter" extending between the two nuclei.^[5]

In 1852 the comet was again recovered more or less as predicted, with "Comet A" being recovered first, by Angelo Secchi on August 26.^[6] "Comet B" was finally relocated on September 16, and once again both nuclei alternated in brightness during the period of observation. "A" was last detected on this apparition on September 26 and "B" on September 29, in both cases by Otto Wilhelm Struve. Subsequent orbital calculations indicated that the nuclei had probably split around 500 days before the 1845 apparition,^[7] though more recent work has determined that it may have occurred near aphelion in late 1842.^[8]

Neither part could be found on their predicted periodic returns in 1859 (in any case an unfavourable return for viewing), 1865, and 1872. However, on November 27, 1872, a brilliant meteor shower (3,000 per hour) was observed radiating from the part of the sky where the comet had been predicted to cross in September 1872. This was the date when Earth intersected the comet's trajectory. These meteors became known as the Andromedids or "Bielids" and it seems apparent that they indicated the death of the comet. The meteors were seen again on subsequent occasions for the rest of the 19th century, but have now faded away, probably due to gravitational disruption of the main filaments.

Possible observations and searches[link]

There were, however, inconclusive observations during the 1865 and 1872 returns. Charles Talmage, using ephemerides provided by John Russell Hind, claimed to have briefly observed a nebulous object in approximately the right position in November 1865. James Buckingham also observed two nebulosities in 1865 after studying Hind's predictions, but Hind subsequently stated that they were unlikely to be Biela's Comet, as they were much closer together than the two components of the comet should have been. A puzzling observation recorded as X/1872 X1, seen by N. R. Pogson in late 1872 from the Madras Observatory, was also speculated to be a recovery of Biela's Comet, though once again this was later shown to have been unlikely.

Despite the apparent destruction of the comet, there were a number of searches for it during the later 20th century. Brian G. Marsden and Zdeněk Sekanina attempted to calculate a likely orbit for any remaining parts of the comet; it was during a search using Marsden's calculations that Luboš Kohoutek discovered Comet Kohoutek. It has been calculated that the mass of the debris left in the Andromedid meteor stream is still much less than the total mass of the comet. Given that it is more likely that the main mass loss occurred near aphelion before the 1845 apparition, it seems possible that fragment A at least may still exist as a 'dormant' comet.^[9]

There have been several attempts to identify objects discovered subsequently either as Biela's Comet or as a remnant of it. The German astronomer Karl Ristenpart attempted several times to prove a link with the comet now known as 18D/Perrine-Mrkos, which had a very similar orbit to Biela apart from a differing Argument of Perihelion.^[10] Despite this, it was not possible to prove any relationship and Perrine-Mrkos, an intrinsically faint object, has itself since been lost. Comet 207P/NEAT (P/2001 J1), discovered in 2001 by the NEAT asteroid survey, was also found to have a similar orbit to Biela's Comet, and it was initially thought possible that it was in some way related to it.^[11]

Meteoric impacts[link]

Biela's Comet was the subject of several panics over close approaches to Earth. An 1877 newspaper illustration from Chile, captioned "inevitable impact of the Earth with Comet Biela"

Biela has sometimes been proposed as the source of meteoric impacts on Earth.

A fringe theory links together several major fires that occurred simultaneously in America, including the Great Chicago Fire and the Peshtigo Fire, claiming that they were caused by fragments of Biela's Comet striking the Earth.^[12] The theory was first proposed by Ignatius L. Donnelly in 1883, and was revived in a 1985 book^[13] and further explored in an unpublished 2004 scientific paper.^[14] However, scientists with expertise in the area dispute that such a scenario is possible; meteorites in fact are cold to the touch when they reach the Earth's surface, and there are no credible reports of any fire anywhere having been started by a meteorite.^[15][16] Given the low tensile strength of such bodies, if a fragment of an icy comet were to strike the Earth, the most likely outcome would be for it to disintegrate in the upper atmosphere, leading to an air burst explosion analogous to that of the Tunguska event.^[17]

On November 27, 1885, an iron meteorite fell in northern Mexico, at the same time as a 15,000 per hour outburst of the Andromedid meteor shower. The Mazapil meteorite has sometimes been attributed to the comet, but this idea has been out of favor since the 1950s as the processes of differentiation required to produce an iron body are not believed to occur in comets.

Importance in scientific history of luminiferous aether[link]

Biela's Comet (and Comet Encke) had a role in scientific history in the generally-discredited concept of luminiferous aether: as its orbit perturbed and shortened, the shortening could only be ascribed to the drag of an "ether" through which it orbited in outer space. One reference (see External links) reads:

Encke's comet is found to lose about two days in each successive period of 1200 days. Biela's comet, with twice that length of period, loses about one day. That is, the successive returns of these bodies is found to be accelerated by this amount. No other cause for this irregularity has been found but the agency of the supposed ether.

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Comet Biela

• 3D at Gary W. Kronk's Cometography
• The Mazapil meteorite: From paradigm to periphery
• Comet 3D/Biela orbital simulation from JPL (Java)
• Comet P/2001 J1 (NEAT) orbital simulation from JPL (Java)
• Importance in history of luminiferous aether, search for Biela's Comet

Radosław Majdan

Radosław Majdan
Personal information
Full name	Radosław Majdan
Date of birth	(1972-05-10) May 10, 1972 (age 40)
Place of birth	Szczecin, Poland
Height	1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Playing position	Goalkeeper
Club information
Current club	Polonia Warsaw
Number	99
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
1989–2001	Pogoń Szczecin	225	(0)
2001–2002	Göztepe İzmir	31	(0)
2002	PAOK	4	(0)
2003	Bursaspor	6	(0)
2003	F.C. Ashdod	12	(0)
2004–2006	Wisła Kraków	65	(0)
2006–2007	Pogoń Szczecin	27	(0)
2007–2010	Polonia Warsaw	30	(0)
National team‡
2000–2002	Poland	7	(0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 30 June 2010. † Appearances (Goals). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 30 June 2010

Radosław Majdan (Polish pronunciation: [raˈdɔswaf ˈmajdan]) (nicknamed Rada [Polish pronunciation: [ˈrada]]; born May 10, 1972 in Szczecin) is a Polish former football goalkeeper.

In total, Majdan has played seven matches for Polish national team. The first was on January 26, 2000 (notably he played against U.S. in the 2002 FIFA World Cup). Between 2006-2010 he was a member of the West Pomeranian Regional Assembly. Currently he is goalkeepers trainer for his last club Polonia Warsaw

Player career[link]

He retired in May 2010 becoming the sports director of his last club Polonia Warsaw.

He has many tattoos, including the logo of Pogoń across his left chest.

Majdan and his ex wife "Doda" (Dorota Rabczewska), a popular Polish pop singer, were called the "Polish Beckhams."

Clubs[link]

• Pogoń Szczecin
• Göztepe Izmir
• PAOK FC
• Bursaspor
• F.C. Ashdod
• Wisła Kraków
• Pogoń Szczecin
• Polonia Warsaw

Political career[link]

In 2006 local election he was elected to the West Pomeranian Regional Assembly III Term. He polled 15,262 votes in 1 district, candidating from the Civic Platform list. He was a member of Education, Culture and Sport Committee. During next election in 2010 he gave up his political career.

External links[link]

• Official site (in Polish)
• National Football Teams

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Bill Haley
Bill Haley on television in 1955.
Background information
Birth name	William John Clifton Haley
Also known as	Jack Haley, Johnny Clifton
Born	(1925-07-06)July 6, 1925 Highland Park, Michigan, United States
Died	February 9, 1981(1981-02-09) (aged 55) Harlingen, Texas, United States
Genres	Rock and roll, country, rockabilly
Occupations	Singer-songwriter, musician, bandleader
Instruments	Vocals, guitar, slap bass
Years active	1946–1980
Labels	Cowboy, Atlantic, Keystone, Center, Holiday, Essex, Decca, Warner Bros. Records, Orfeón, Dimsa, Newtown, Guest Star, Logo, APT, Gone, United Artists, Roulette, Sonet, Buddah, Antic, Arzee
Associated acts	Bill Haley & His Comets, The Down Homers

William John Clifton "Bill" Haley ( /ˈheɪliː/; July 6, 1925 – February 9, 1981) was one of the first American rock and roll musicians. He is credited by many with first popularizing this form of music in the early 1950s with his group Bill Haley & His Comets (inspired by Halley's Comet) and million selling hits such as, "Rock Around the Clock", "See You Later Aligator", and "Shake Rattle and Roll". He has sold over 100 million records worldwide.^[1]

Biography[link]

Early life and career[link]

Bill Haley was born in Highland Park, Michigan as William John Clifton Haley. Because of the effects of the Great Depression on the Detroit area, his father moved the family to Boothwyn, Pennsylvania, near the town of Chester, when Bill was seven years old. Haley's father William Albert Haley was from Kentucky and played the banjo and mandolin, his mother Maude Green originally from Ulverston in England was a technically accomplished keyboardist with classical training.^[2] Haley told the story that when he made a simulated guitar out of cardboard, his parents bought him a real one.^[3]

The anonymous sleeve notes accompanying the 1956 Decca album "Rock Around The Clock" describe Haley's early life and career thus: "Bill got his first professional job at the age of 13, playing and entertaining at an auction for the fee of $1 a night. Very soon after this he formed a group of equally enthusiastic youngsters and managed to get quite a few local bookings for his band."

The sleeve notes continue: "When Bill Haley was fifteen [c.1940] he left home with his guitar and very little else and set out on the hard road to fame and fortune. The next few years, continuing this story in a fairy-tale manner, were hard and poverty stricken, but cramful of useful experience. Apart from learning how to exist on one meal a day and other artistic exercises, he worked at an open-air park show, sang and yodelled with any band that would have him and worked with a traveling medicine show. Eventually he got a job with a popular group known as the "Down Homers" while they were in Hartford, Connecticut. Soon after this he decided, as all successful people must decide at some time or another, to be his own boss again - and he has been that ever since.’ [Note: these notes fail to account for his early band, known as the Four Aces of Western Swing. During the 1940s Haley was considered one of the top cowboy yodelers in America as "Silver Yodeling Bill Haley".]^[4]

The sleeve notes conclude: "For six years Bill Haley was a musical director of Radio Station WPWA in Chester, Pennsylvania, and led his own band all through this period. It was then known as Bill Haley's Saddlemen, indicating their definite leaning toward the tough Western style. They continued playing in clubs as well as over the radio around Philadelphia, and in 1951 made their first recordings."

Bill Haley & His Comets[link]

Bill Haley and the Comets performing during 1974

During the Labor Day weekend in 1952, The Saddlemen were renamed Bill Haley with Haley's Comets (inspired by a popular mispronunciation of Halley's Comet), and in 1953, Haley's recording of "Crazy Man, Crazy" (co-written by Haley and his bass player, Marshall Lytle although Lytle would not receive credit until 2001) became the first rock and roll song to hit the American charts, peaking at no.15 on Billboard and no.11 on Cash Box. Soon after, the band's name was revised to Bill Haley & His Comets.

In 1953, a song called "Rock Around the Clock" was written for Haley.^[5] He was unable to record it until April 12, 1954. Initially, it was relatively unsuccessful, staying at the charts for only one week, but Haley soon scored a major worldwide hit with a cover version of Big Joe Turner's "Shake, Rattle and Roll", which went on to sell a million copies and became the first ever rock 'n' roll song to enter British singles charts in December 1954 and became a Gold Record. He retained elements of the original, but threw some country music aspects in to the song (specifically, Western Swing) and cleaned up the lyrics. Haley and his band were important in launching the music known as "Rock and Roll" to a wider, mostly white audience after a period of it being considered an underground genre. When "Rock Around the Clock" appeared behind the opening credits of the 1955 film Blackboard Jungle starring Glenn Ford, it soared to the top of the American Billboard chart for eight weeks. The single is commonly used as a convenient line of demarcation between the "rock era" and the music industry that preceded it; Billboard separated its statistical tabulations into 1890-1954 and 1955–present. After the record rose to number one, Haley was quickly given the title "Father of Rock and Roll," by the media, and by teenagers that had come to embrace the new style of music.

"Rock Around the Clock" was the first record ever to sell over one million copies in both Britain and Germany and, in 1957, Haley became the first major American rock singer to tour Europe. Haley continued to score hits throughout the 1950s such as "See You Later, Alligator" and he starred in the first rock and roll musical movies Rock Around the Clock and Don't Knock the Rock, both in 1956. Haley was soon eclipsed in the United States by the younger, sexier Elvis, but continued to enjoy great popularity in Latin America, Europe, and Australia through the 1960s.

Death and legacy[link]

A self-admitted alcoholic (as indicated in a 1974 radio interview for the BBC), Haley fought a battle with alcohol into the 1970s. Nonetheless, he and his band continued to be a popular touring act, enjoying a career resurgence in the late 1960s with the Rock and roll revival movement and the signing of a lucrative record deal with the European Sonet Records label. After performing for Queen Elizabeth II at a command performance in 1979, Haley made his final performances in South Africa in May and June 1980. Prior to the South African tour, he was diagnosed with a brain tumor, and a planned tour of Germany in the fall of 1980 was canceled.

The October 25, 1980 edition of the German paper Bild reported that Haley had a brain tumor. It quoted British manager Patrick Maylan as saying that Haley "had taken a fit and went over the seat. He didn't recognize anyone anymore" after being taken to his home in Beverly Hills. It also reported that a doctor at the clinic where Haley had been taken said, "The tumor can't be operated on anymore."^[6]

"The Berliner Zeitung" reported a few days later that Haley had collapsed after a performance in Texas and been taken to the hospital in his home town of Harlingen, Texas.^[6] However this account is questionable as Bill Haley never performed in the United States in 1980.

Despite his ill health, Haley began compiling notes for possible use as a basis for either a biographical film based on his life, or a published autobiography (accounts differ), and there were plans for him to record an album in Memphis, Tennessee, when the brain tumor began affecting his behavior and he went back to his home in Harlingen, Texas, where he died early in the morning of February 9, 1981.

Martha, Bill's widow, who was with him in these troubling times, denies he had a brain tumor as does his old, very close friend, Hugh McCallum. Martha and friends related that Bill did not want to go on the road any more and that ticket sales for that planned tour of Germany in the fall of 1980 were slow. According to McCallum, "It's my unproven gut feeling that that [the brain tumor] was said to curtail talks about the tour and play the sympathy card."

It was obvious that his drinking problem was getting worse. According to Martha, by this time she and Bill fought all the time and she told him to stop drinking or move out so he moved out into a room in their pool house. Martha still took care of him and sometimes he would come in the house to eat, but he ate very little. "There were days we never saw him," said his daughter Martha Maria.

In addition to the drinking problems, it had become obvious that he also was having serious mental problems; Martha Maria said that, "It was like sometimes he was drunk even when he wasn't drinking." After he'd been jailed by the Harlingen Police, Martha had the judge put Haley in the hospital where he was seen by a psychiatrist who said Bill's brain was overproducing a chemical, like adrenaline. The doctor prescribed a medication to stop the overproduction but said Bill would have to stop drinking. Martha said, "This is pointless." She took him home, however, fed him and gave him his first dose. As soon as he felt better, he went back out to his room in the pool house and the downward spiral continued until his death.^[7]

Haley's death certificate listed "Natural causes: Most likely heart attack" as the 'Immediate Cause' of death. The next lines, 'Due to, or as a consequence Of" were blank.^[8]

Haley made a succession of bizarre, mostly monologue late-night phone calls to friends and relatives in which he seemed incoherently drunk or ill. Haley's first wife has been quoted as saying, "He would call and ramble and dwell on the past, his mind was really warped." A belligerent phone call to a business associate was taped and gives evidence of Haley's troubled state of mind.^[9]

Media reports immediately following his death indicated Haley displayed deranged and erratic behavior in his final weeks, although beyond a biography of Haley by John Swenson, released a year later, which described Haley painting the windows of his home black, there is little information extant about Haley's final days.

Haley was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987. He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.^[10]

Songwriters Tom Russell and Dave Alvin addressed Haley's demise in musical terms with "Haley's Comet" on Alvin's 1991 album Blue Blvd. Dwight Yoakam sang backup on the tribute.

Haley's original Comets still tour the world. They released a concert DVD in 2004 on Hydra Records, played the Viper Room in West Hollywood in 2005, and performed at Dick Clark's American Bandstand Theater in Branson, Missouri in 2006-07.

In March 2007, the Original Comets pre-opened the Bill Haley Museum in Munich, Germany.^[11] On October 27, 2007, ex-Comets guitar player Bill Turner opened the Bill Haley Museum for the public.

Asteroid[link]

Main article - 79896 Billhaley

In February 2006, the International Astronomical Union announced the naming of asteroid 79896 Billhaley to mark the 25th anniversary of Bill Haley's death.

Children[link]

This unreferenced section requires citations to ensure verifiability.

Married three times, Bill Haley had at least four children. John W. Haley, his eldest son, wrote Sound and Glory, a biography of Haley, while his youngest daughter, Gina Haley, is a professional musician based in Texas. Scott Haley is an athlete, while Haley's youngest son, Pedro Haley, is also a musician.

He also had a daughter, Martha Maria, from his last marriage with Martha Velasco.

Bill Haley Jr. (Haley's second son and first with Joan Barbara "Cuppy" Haley-Hahn) publishes a regional business magazine in Southeastern Pennsylvania (Route 422 Business Advisor). He sings and plays guitar with a band called "Lager Rhythms," and appeared with the "Original Comets" at the Bubba Mac Shack in Somers Point, New Jersey, in 2004 and 2005, and at the Twin Bar re-dedication ceremony in Gloucester City, New Jersey, in 2007. He is currently writing a biography about his father, concentrating on the years 1949-61.

He also appeared live before a sellout crowd with the Comets as recently as March 19, 2011 when he was invited onstage for the grand finale at the Pioneers of Rock & Roll Show at Cannstatter's Ballroom on Academy Rd. in N.E. Philadelphia. The show featured the Original Comets and Philadelphia's first original rock artist, Charlie Gracie. Also appearing was one of the favorite local Doo Wop groups - The Emeralds. Highlights of the show can be seen on YouTube.

Biographies[link]

• In 1980, Haley began working on an autobiography entitled The Life and Times of Bill Haley but died after completing only 100 pages. The work is registered with the U.S. Copyright Office but has yet to be released to the public.
• In 1982, John Swenson wrote Bill Haley: The Daddy of Rock and Roll (published in the UK under the title, Bill Haley).
• In 1990, Haley's eldest son, John W. Haley, along with John von Hoëlle wrote Sound and Glory, a biography focusing mostly on Haley's early life and peak career years. This book is out of print.
• A German-language biography was published soon after Haley's death, written by Peter Cornelsen and Harald D. Kain.
• A book on the history of Haley's most famous recording, Rock Around the Clock: The Record That Started the Rock Revolution by Jim Dawson was published in June 2005.^[12]

Film portrayals[link]

Unlike his contemporaries, Bill Haley has rarely been portrayed on screen. Following the success of The Buddy Holly Story in 1978, Haley expressed interest in having his life story committed to film, but this never came to fruition. In the 1980s and early 1990s, numerous media reports emerged that plans were underway to do a biopic based upon Haley's life, with Beau Bridges, Jeff Bridges and John Ritter all at one point being mentioned as actors in line to play Haley (according to Goldmine Magazine, Ritter attempted to buy the film rights to Sound and Glory).

Bill Haley has also been portrayed - not always in a positive light - in several "period" films:

• John Paramor in Shout! The Story of Johnny O'Keefe (1985)
• Michael Daingerfield in Mr. Rock 'n' Roll: The Alan Freed Story (1999)
• Dicky Barrett (of The Mighty Mighty Bosstones) in Shake, Rattle and Roll: An American Love Story (also 1999)

In March 2005, the British network Sky TV reported that Tom Hanks was planning to produce a biopic on the life of Bill Haley, with production tentatively scheduled to begin in 2006.^[13] However this rumor was quickly debunked by Hanks.

Discography[link]

Prior to the formation of Bill Haley and the Saddlemen, which later became The Comets, Haley released several singles with other groups. Dates are approximate due to lack of documentation.^[14]

As Bill Haley and the Four Aces of Western Swing

1948

• Too Many Parties and Too Many Pals (vocal by Tex King)/Four Leaf Clover Blues (Cowboy CR1201)

1949

• Tennessee Border/Candy Kisses (Cowboy CR1202)

As Johnny Clifton and His String Band

1950

• Stand Up and Be Counted/Loveless Blues (Center C102)

Many Haley discographies list two 1946 recordings by the Down Homers released on the Vogue Records label as featuring Haley. Haley historian Chris Gardner, as well as surviving members of the group, have confirmed that the two singles: "Out Where the West Winds Blow"/"Who's Gonna Kiss You When I'm Gone" (Vogue R736) and "Boogie Woogie Yodel"/"Baby I Found Out All About You" (Vogue R786) do not feature Haley.^[15] However, the tracks were nonetheless included in the compilation box set Rock 'n' Roll Arrives released by Bear Family Records in 2006.

See the discography section of Bill Haley & His Comets for a list of the singles and album releases made by Haley with the Saddlemen and the Comets from 1950 onwards.

Unreleased recordings[link]

Bill Haley recorded prolifically during the 1940s, often at the radio stations where he worked, or in formal studio settings. Virtually none of these recordings were ever released. Liner notes for a 2003 CD release by Hydra Records entitled Bill Haley and Friends Vol. 2: The Legendary Cowboy Recordings reveal that several additional Cowboy label single releases were planned for the Four Aces, but this never occurred.

A number of previously unreleased Haley country-western recordings from the 1946-1950 period began to emerge near the end of Haley's life, some of which were released by the Arzee label, with titles such as "Yodel Your Blues Away" and "Rose of My Heart." Still more demos, alternate takes, and wholly unheard-before recordings have been released since Haley's death. Notable examples of such releases include the albums Golden Country Origins by Grassroots Records of Australia and Hillbilly Haley by the British label, Rollercoaster, as well as the aforementioned German release by Hydra Records. In 2006, Bear Family Records of Germany released what is considered to be the most comprehensive (yet still incomplete) collection of Haley's 1946-1950 recordings as part of its Haley box set Rock n' Roll Arrives.

Compositions[link]

Bill Haley's compositions included "Four Leaf Clover Blues", "Crazy Man, Crazy", "What'Cha Gonna Do", "Fractured", "Live It Up", "Farewell, So Long, Goodbye", "Real Rock Drive", "Rocking Chair on the Moon", "Sundown Boogie", "Birth Of The Boogie", "Two Hound Dogs", "Rock-A-Beatin' Boogie", "Hot Dog Buddy Buddy", "R-O-C-K", "Rudy's Rock", "Calling All Comets", "Tonight's the Night", "Hook, Line and Sinker", "Sway with Me", "Paper Boy (On Main Street U.S.A.)", "Skinny Minnie", "B.B. Betty", "Eloise", "Whoa Mabel!", "Vive la Rock and Roll", "So Right Toight", "Football Rock and Roll", and "Chick Safari". He also wrote or co-wrote songs for other artists such as "Calypso Rock" for Dave Day and The Red Coats on Kapp in 1956, "A.B.C. Rock" and "Rocky the Rockin' Rabbit" for Sally Starr on Arcade, and "(Ya Gotta) Sing For The Ladies" and "Butterfly Love" for Ginger Shannon and Johnny Montana in 1960 on Arcade as well as the unissued "I'm Shook" in 1958.

Quotations[link]

Frankly, our market is the teenagers. They are the ones we constantly try to please. We keep very close to them, listening for their new expressions and asking what they want in the way of music.

NME - October 1955^[16]

There has to be a Cadillac music and a Ford music. Tchaikovsky and Bach is Cadillac music, while we play more down-to-earth Ford music. It's got a good solid beat that can't be missed... definitely designed for teenage kids to dance to.

NME - January 1957^[17]

References[link]

Other sources[link]

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• Jim Dawson, Rock Around the Clock: The Record That Started the Rock Revolution! (San Francisco: Backbeat Books, 2005)
• John W. Haley and John von Hoëlle, Sound and Glory (Wilmington, DE: Dyne-American, 1990)
• John Swenson, Bill Haley (London: W.H. Allen, 1982)

External links[link]

• Bill Haley's new Comets web site
• Melody Manor (Bill Haley's house) Google Map
• Bill Haley at the Internet Movie Database
• Answers
• The Bill Haley & His Comets Story (German)

Craig Padilla is an American ambient musician and film score composer, actor, and video producer from Redding,^[1] California.^[2]

Since the mid-90's he has released more than a dozen albums with music primarily inspired by the Berlin School of electronic music and space music on the labels Space For Music, Spotted Peccary Music, Lotuspike and Groove Unlimited, and contributed to numerous compilations, including a tribute album to Michael Garrison.

He also edits and produces videos for local television commercials, infomercials, corporate events, and music videos (he recently created the new video for Bruce Turgon's and Philip Bardowell's new collaborative project PLACES OF POWER) through his production company known as Craig Padilla Creative Video and Sound Productions.

Reception[link]

Jim Brenholts (Allmusic) describes Padilla as "one of the premier Berlin school sequencers in the U.S.A."^[3] while Stewart Mason (also Allmusic) calls him a "Berlin-based electronic music guru"^[4] which is factually a bit misleading, as Craig Padilla lives and performs live in California.^[2]

Discography[link]

The discography includes only albums released on compact disc.

• Eye of the Storm (See Peace Records 1996)
• Patterns of Thought (See Peace Records 1998)
• The Soul Within (See Peace Music 1999)
• Beyond Beta with Skip Murphy (See Peace Music 1999)
• Crystal Garden (See Peace Music 1999)
• Beyond Volume 1 with Skip Murphy (See Peace Music 1999)
• Edge of Eternity (See Peace Music 1999)
• Eccentric Spheres (See Peace Music 2000)
• Music for the Mind - Live (Vol. 1) (See Peace Music 2000)
• Music for the Mind - Live (Vol. 2) (See Peace Music 2000)
• Perspectives on the Dreamworld (See Peace Music 2000)
• Reflections in Mercury with Skip Murphy (See Peace Music 2001)
• Temporal Suspension with Skip Murphy (Space For Music 2001)
• Folding Spaces and Melting Galaxies (Space For Music 2002)
• Vostok (Spotted Peccary, March 2002) (Allmusic: ^[3])
• Planetary Elements with Skip Murphy (Space For Music, September 2003)
• Echo System with Paul Ellis (GROOVE Unlimited, March 2004)
• Genesis (Spotted Peccary, May 2004) (Allmusic: ^[4])
• Planetary Elements (Volume 2) with Skip Murphy (Space For Music, 2005)
• Path of Least Resistance with Zero Ohms (Lotuspike, October 2005)
• Phantasma with Skip Murphy (GROOVE Unlimited, 2006)
• The Light in the Shadow (Spotted Peccary, November 2006)
• Analog Destination with Skip Murphy (GROOVE Unlimited, 2008)
• Below the Mountain (Spotted Peccary, April 2008)
• Cycles (Hemi-Sync / Monroe Institute Products, November 2008)
• Beyond the Portal with Zero Ohms & Skip Murphy (Lotuspike, February 2009)
• The Heart of The Soul (Spotted Peccary, May 2012)

Film Scores[link]

• Phobias (Fear Film/Sub Rosa Studios, April 2003)
• Realms of Blood with Skip Murphy (Fear Film/Sub Rosa Studios, August 2004)
• Dark Woods (JDB/Alliance, May 2006)

Voice Acting[link]

• Penguin Soldier (uncredited) in Popful Mail video game for Sega CD (Working Designs, 1994)
• Hans Bearnt in Growlanser II - The Sense of Justice video game for Playstation 2 (Working Designs, 2004)

References[link]

External links[link]

• Craig Padilla Official Website
• Craig Padilla at MySpace
• Craig Padilla at Space For Music's website
• Craig Padilla at the Internet Movie Database
• Craig Padilla at Allmusic
• Craig Padilla at Discogs
• Craig Padilla at Last.fm
• Craig Padilla at Rate Your Music
• Craig Padilla at YouTube

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Ewa Farna
Ewa Farna at Opole Festival 2009
Background information
Birth name	Ewa Farna
Born	(1993-08-12) 12 August 1993 (age 18) Třinec, Czech Republic
Genres	Pop rock, Pop
Occupations	Singer, lyricist
Instruments	Vocals, drums, keyboards
Years active	2006–present
Labels	Universal Music Group
Website	www.ewafarna.cz (Czech) www.ewafarna.pl (Polish)

Ewa Farna (born 12 August 1993) is a Polish pop rock singer from the Czech Republic. She was born in Třinec, and belongs to the Polish minority in the Czech Republic. Farna released three studio albums with Czech lyrics, which sold platinum in the Czech Republic and were later re-recorded and released with Polish lyrics. Farna is the youngest commercially successful singer in the Czech Republic. She is set to perform at the 2010 Teen Choice Awards with her new English single.

Biography[link]

Ewa Farna was born on 12 August 1993 in Třinec, Czech Republic. During her childhood she attended Polish Elementary School in Vendryně (Wędrynia) and art school for five years playing piano and a dance school. Farna first attracted attention after winning local talent competitions in both Czech Republic and Poland in 2004 and 2005. After being discovered by producer Lešek Wronka, she released her debut album Měls mě vůbec rád in 2006. This was followed by her gaining the "Revelation of the Year" award in the 2006 "Český slavík" (English: The Czech Nightingale) national music poll. Her second album Ticho, which peaked at number two in the Czech Republic, and the Polish version of her debut, under the title Sam na Sam, were released in 2007. After a tour, the concert DVD Blíž ke hvězdám became the best selling music DVD of 2008 in the Czech Republic. In early 2009, the Polish version of her second album was released as Cicho.^[1][2]

The new album Virtuální was released on 26 October 2009, and her 2009–2010 tour Buď Virtuální started on 3 November 2009 in Brno and the national leg of the tour closed in Prague on 6 December 2009.^[3] The international leg of the tour also covers Poland and Slovakia.

Traffic accident[link]

She had a car crash between Třinec and Vendryně shortly after 6:00 on 22 May 2012; she escaped with only minor scratches.^[4] According to a breath test, she was also driving under the influence of alcohol; she had less than 1 ‰ of blood alcohol content.^[4] She had been celebrating the passing of matura the day before; she was tired while driving and fell asleep from the exhaustion caused by a week-long cram session before the exam.^[5] She would lose her driving licence.^[4]

Discography and charts[link]

Albums[link]

Singles[link]

Other charted songs[link]

Awards[link]

2004

• 1st place in the regional singing contest in Frýdek-Místek

2005

• 1st place in the European Youth Festival in Poland

2006

• 1st place in the Polish television singing contest: Szansa na sukces (Chance for Success)
• Český slavík: "Revelation of the year"

2007

• RGM Music prize from TV Óčko: "Revelation of the year“
• Album Of The Year: Best-Selling Debut of 2006: Měls mě vůbec rád
• Rock&Pop Magazine: "Revelation of the year"
• Anděl 2006: nomination for "Revelation of the year" award
• Platinum certification for the debut Měls mě vůbec rád with over 20 thousand copies sold
• Jetix Kids Awards: Best Singer
• Český slavík: 4th place in the female singer category
• Platinum certification for Ticho

2008

• Anděl 2007: 3rd place in the female singer category
• Týtý: 3rd place in the female singer category
• Jetix Kids Awards: Most Favorite Singer
• Český slavík: 3rd place in the female singer category
• Srebrne Spinki award given by the General Consul of the Polish Republic in Ostrava for musical successes and promoting Polish minority from Zaolzie.^[12]

2009

• 1st place in Opole Festival (Superjedynki): Album of the year – "Cicho"^[13]
• 1st place in Sopot Hit Festival: Polish Hit of Summer – "Cicho"^[14]
• Album Of The Year: Best-Selling DVD: Blíž ke hvězdám
• Anděl 2008: Female singer of the year nomination
• Polish best singer nomination for MTV Europe Music Awards
• 1st place in Best Female Singer in Musiq1 Television Awards (Slovakia)
• Český slavík: 3rd place in the female singer category

2010

• 2nd place in Music category – Telekamery Awards 2010 (Poland)
• Winner in Pop Music category – Best Artist 2009 – Miasto Muzyki Website (Poland)
• 3rd place in Singer Female of the Year 2009 – Bravoora 2009 Awards (Poland)
• Winner of Zlote Dzioby 2009 – Revelation of the Year – RadioWawa Awards (Poland)
• 1st place in Artist of the Year and 1st place in Hit of the Year ("Cicho") – Viva Comet Awards 2010 (Poland)
• Eska Music Awards- Winner in Hit of the year (Cicho)

2011

• 3nd place in Music category – Telekamery Awards 2011 (Poland)
• 1st place in Charts Award (Ewakuacja), Image of the year, Video of the year (Ewakuacja), Album of the year (Ewakuacja)– Viva Comet Awards 2011 (Poland)
• Eska Music Awards- Winner in Hit of the year (Ewakuacja)
• Eska Music Awards- Artist of the year
• Eska Music Awards- Winner in Digital Hit of the year (Ewakuacja)
• Mtv Ema Music Awards - Winner in Best Polish Act

2012

• Viva Comet 2012- Winner in Best on viva-tv.pl (Bez Łez)
• Viva Comet 2012- Winner in Ringtone of the year (Bez Łez)
• Viva Comet 2012- Winner in Female singer of the year

References[link]

External links[link]

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