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Eddie's 'Jewel In The Crown' however, was a song that changed the face of popular music - "Rock Around The Clock". Always a gambler and innovator, he paid $250 for something that many of his contemporaries had turned down. Yet within eighteen months, "Rock Around The Clock" was a sensation, on its way to becoming one of the most performed songs of all time and generating record sales of more than one hundred and seventy million. Today it holds pride of place in Washington's Honour Roll Of Hits and is much sought after for film and television usage as the definitive musical icon of the fifties.

Displaying a unique ability for spotting raw talent, Eddie Kassner's successes during the late fifties and early sixties spanned a wide range of musical styles and tastes. From the classic rhythm and blues of Chuck Willis, who's mournful "I Feel So Bad" was recorded by Elvis Presley, to the teeny pop "Bobby's Girl", to big ballads, like the Ivor Novello award-winning, "Portrait Of My Love", the hits kept coming. Here are just a few more examples: "White Rose Of Anthens", "Java", "With These Hands", "Shout! Shout!", "Close Your Eyes" and "Pepe".
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