Thanks for this interview with a somewhat forgotten figure! "Jim Wise" is a phonetic spelling for Jim Myers, who not only published "Rock Around the Clock" but co-wrote it (as "Jimmy de Knight"). Also, the guitarist on the Bill Haley "Rock Around the Clock" session was not Franny Beecher, but Danny Cedrone, who died accidentally only two months later and never got to know what a classic it would become. Still, it's understandable that Gabler would remember Franny Beecher better, as he ended up staying with Haley for eight years after coming in as Cedrone's replacement.
Thanks for this interview with a somewhat forgotten figure! "Jim Wise" is a phonetic spelling for Jim Myers, who not only published "Rock Around the Clock" but co-wrote it (as "Jimmy de Knight"). Also, the guitarist on the Bill Haley "Rock Around the Clock" session was not Franny Beecher, but Danny Cedrone, who died accidentally only two months later and never got to know what a classic it would become. Still, it's understandable that Gabler would remember Franny Beecher better, as he ended up staying with Haley for eight years after coming in as Cedrone's replacement.