Forty Cups of Coffee / Hook, Line and Sinker

Item

Title

Forty Cups of Coffee

Hook, Line and Sinker

Rights

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Creator

Haley, Bill, 1925-1981

Comets (Musical group)

Donofrio, Jessica

Date

1957

Description

Bill Haley and His Comets 45 RPM vinyl record released in 1957 by Decca Records includes songs "Forty Cups of Coffee" and "Hook, Line and Sinker". “Forty Cups of Coffee” was written and originally recorded by Danny Overbea in the early 1950s. “Forty Cups of Coffee” was recorded by Bill Haley and His Comets in 1957 was number 70 on the United States Billboard charts. “Hook, Line and Sinker” was written by Haley, Eddie Khoury, and Ronnie Bonner. “Forty Cups of Coffee” was performed live on the Ed Sullivan Show on April 28, 1957.

Bill Haley and His Comets, also known as Bill Haley and the Comets and Bill Haley’s Comets, were an American Rock and Roll band founded in 1952. The band is well known for the single “Rock around the Clock” which was the biggest selling Rock and Roll single in the history of the genre and was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1982. The band has had more than 100 past members but in 1952 when adopting the name “Bill Haley and the Comets” the members were Bill Haley, Johnny Grande, Billy Williamson and Marshall Lytle. The band remained active until Bill Haley passed in 1981.

Bill Haley (July 6, 1925 – February 9, 1981, born William John Clifton Haley in Highland Park, Michigan was an American singer, songwriter, musician and band leader. He was known as the “Silver Yodeling Bill Haley” and one of the top American cowboy yodelers in the 1940s. At that time, he started his career as the “Rambling Yodeler” and started his country music band “The Saddlemen”. In 1952, “The Saddlemen” were renamed “Bill Haley with Haley’s Comets” which was then revised to “Bill Haley and the Comets” following the release of single “Crazy, Man Crazy”. Bill Haley was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987.

Matrix Number Side A: 100703-1
Matrix Number Side B: 89599-4
Side A: Forty Cups of Coffee 02:30:00
Side B: Hook, Line and Sinker 02:32:00

Forty Cups of Coffee Lyrics