Bill Haley & His Comets - Strictly Instrumental (1959)
Tracklist front / back album covers
"Joey's Song" (Joe Reisman)
"Music! Music! Music!" (Bernie Baum, Stephen Weiss)
"Mack the Knife" (Kurt Weill, Bertolt Brecht, Marc Blitzstein)
"In a Little Spanish Town" (Mabel Wayne, Sam M. Lewis, Joe Young)
"Two Shadows" (Johnny Grande, Billy Williamson)
"Shaky" (Franny Beecher, Billy Williamson)
"Strictly Instrumental" (Bennie Benjamin, Edgar Battle, Sol Marcus, Eddie Seiler)
"Skokiaan" (Tom Glazer, August Msarurgwa)
"Puerto Rican Peddler" (Johnny Brandon)
"Drowsy Waters" (Jack Ailau)
"Chiquita Linda" (Un Poquito de tu Amor) (Julio Gutierrez)
"The Catwalk" (Franny Beecher, Billy Williamson)
Bill Haley & His Comets Band Members / Musicians
Bill Haley – rhythm guitar
Franny Beecher – lead guitar
Billy Williamson – steel guitar
Johnny Grande – piano
Ralph Jones – drums
Rudy Pompilli - tenor saxophone
Al Rex – bass guitar on 1 11
Al Pompilli - bass guitar on 6 12
Al Rappa - bass guitar on all others
Recorded over the span of more than 18 months, Strictly Instrumental was the ninth rock and roll album by Bill Haley & His Comets, and their final album of new material for Decca Records (although Decca would release previously unissued recordings during the 1960s). Produced by Milt Gabler (the last full album he would produce for Haley), the album collects instrumental recordings made by Haley and the Comets between June 1958 and their final Decca recording sessions in September 1959. (The band subsequently began recording for Warner Bros. Records in January 1960).
