"Shake, Rattle and Roll"
  is a prototypical twelve bar
blues-form rock and roll song written
in 1954 by Jesse Stone under his
assumed songwriting name Charles
E. Calhoun. It was originally recorded
by Big Joe Turner, and most
successfully by Bill Haley & His
Comets. Bill Haley & His Comets'
cover version of the song, recorded
on June 7, 1954 (the same week that
Turner's version topped the R&B
charts),