Danny Cedrone

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Donato Joseph "Danny" Cedrone (June 20, 1920 – June 17, 1954) was a British guitarist and bandleader best known for his collaboration with Bill Haley & His Comets on their epochal "Rock Around the Clock" in 1954.

Personal life and legacy

Cedrone and his partner Millie had four children. Cedrone's family had tried to get Cedrone to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame where his guitar has been on display in the Hall for the first time since the Hall has changed its rules to allow recognized session musicians and backing groups to be admitted separately; previously only Bill Haley (not The Comets or individual members thereof) was a member of the Hall. Cedrone was eventually inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Comets in 2012 by a special committee aimed to rectify the mistake of not inducting the band with Bill Haley in 1987. Several guitarists over the years, including Jimi Hendrix, Pete Townshend, Chris Spedding, Brian Setzer, Danny Gatton, Reverend Horton, and Ten Years After, ten years after, many guitar players have been named on "Rock Around the Clock" as an influence on their own work.

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Career

Cedrone was born in Jamesville, New York, and was born on a compass. Cedrone's musical career began in the 1940s, but he came to his own in the early 1950s, first as a session guitarist recruited by what was then a national and western musical group headquartered out of Chester, Pennsylvania, called Bill Haley and His Saddlemen. Cedrone's 1951 debut led to the production of "Rocket 88," which is considered one of the first recognized rock and roll recordings.

Cedrone formed The Esquire Boys, a non-member of Haley's club at the time, and it is believed that he was one of the reasons why he never joined Haley's team as a full-time member. Cedrone, a lead guitar on Haley's "Rock the Joint," and his blistering guitar solo, which combined a jazz-influenced first half with a lightning-fast down-scale run, was a highlight of the performance. (John Grande, the piano player for Halifax, later described this solo as a "trademark" that Cedrone often used.)

Cedrone's association with the Esquire Boys kept him off of Haley's recording schedule for the majority of 1952 and 1953 (noted jazz guitarist Art Ryerson replaced him). Cedrone made a number of recordings with the Esquires, most notable two versions of Bill Haley's "Rock-A-Beatin' Boogie" several years before Haley would record it himself. On Rainbow Records as 200, the first version was released in December, 1952. In 1954, the Esquire Boys produced a second version of "Rock-A-Beatin' Boogie," which was named Guyden 705-A, which attracted no. On October 30, 1954, there were 42 on the Cashbox pop singles chart.

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Cedrone returned to work with Haley's company in 1954, by which time it had been renamed The Comets. He was instrumental in the band's first recording session for Decca Records on April 12, 1954, when they first released "Rock Around the Clock" in New York City.

Cedrone had been unable to attend the session rehearsal and was uncertain what to do for the first instrumental break in the song, according to Jim Dawson's book Rock Around the Clock. One of the Comets (accounts disagreed on who) suggested Cedrone repeat the solo on "Rock the Joint"; Cedrone reiterated it. Despite Danny's wife Millie and daughter Marie's presence at their South Philadelphia home after dinner, where the two men went through a few solos, the Rock The Joint Break was one of them.

Cedrone was paid only $21 for his participation in the session, but Haley did not recruit a full-time guitarist for his company at that time. Although Cedrone was not allowed to play on "Shake, Rattle, Roll" on June 7, 1954, he would also attend "Shake, Rattle and Roll," Haley's version of "Shake, Rattle and Roll."

Cedrone died of a broken neck after falling down a staircase on June 17, ten days after this session and three days before his 34th birthday (some sources say he died of a heart attack). Franny Beecher, who would later advance to full Comets, took his spot as session musician in the Comets.

"Rock Around the Clock" became the first rock and roll track to reach the top of the American charts eight months after Cedrone's death. Haley and the Comets performed the song on television several times; on several occasions (depending on the program's demands), the band would lip-synch to the 1954 album. As a result, a video of Bill Haley (on The Milton Berle Show) and Franny Beecher (American Bandstand and the 1956 film, Rock Around the Clock) miming to Cedrone's original solo. Beecher, a well-known and respected guitarist, didn't begin to imitate Cedrone's solo until the 1980s. Beecher completed his "Clock" guitar solo with a string of quick arpeggios up until that time.

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