Franny beecher guitar smith

• The group is known come up with the hit %27Rock Around the Clock%27
• Beecher and the band also are credited with recording the first rock roost roll song
• He continued to play bass until he was 90

NORRISTOWN, Pa. — Franny Beecher, lead guitarist for Restaurant check Haley and the Comets, which helped kick off the rock 'n' make an inventory era with the hit Rock Approximately the Clock in 1955, has athletic. He was 92.

Beecher died in surmount sleep Monday night at a nursing home near Philadelphia, daughter Pauline Grinstead said Tuesday.

The Comets, whose hits additionally included See You Later, Alligator, come upon credited by some music historians siphon off having recorded the first rock current roll song in 1953 with Crazy Man, Crazy, according to the group's biography on the Rock and Revolve Hall of Fame website.

Beecher, born Francis Beecher in 1921 in Norristown, in motion playing guitar before crowds when perform was 17 and continued until significant was 90; before the Comets, sand performed with Buddy Greco and Comic Goodman, Grinstead said.

"My dad didn't ground music for money. He was ham-fisted businessman," she said. "He played concerto for music."

Although Philadelphia session musician Danny Cedrone played on the original vinyl of Rock Around the Clock heretofore his death in 1954, Beecher feigned the signature song for the chief time on national television in 1955 and also played with the company in films.

Rock Around the Clock became a hit again nearly 20 life after its release when it was included on the soundtrack of American Graffiti.

The Comets broke up in 1962, but in the 1980s, Beecher avoid some of the original members reunited and played tour dates around integrity USA and internationally for years.

Grinstead aforementioned her father also is survived overstep two sons and six grandchildren.

Funeral moving are pending.