NORWICH – What better a way to spend the holiday season than with some old time rock and roll favorites the whole family can enjoy?

Toys for Tots and Millennia Entertainment present Bill Haley’s Comets: Greatest Hits and Christmas Favorites at 7 p.m. Friday at the Chenango County Council of the Arts.

After bursting into the music industry in the 1950s, Bill Haley along with his Comets later would be remembered as one of the earliest groups of all-white musicians that introduced rock and roll to America and the rest of the world.

Later being compared to the Beatles and Rolling Stones who gained popularity a decade later, Bill Haley and the Comets were the rock and roll band of the 50s. With Haley’s spit curl haircut and the band’s matching plaid dinner jackets, the Comets will be forever remembered as a iconic symbol of that musical era.

In 1955 the band’s song “Rock Around The Clock” was featured in teen movie “Blackboard Jungle,” which led the song to later become a number one hit. The Comets toured the world, performed for Queen Elizabeth II and were featured regularly on Dick Clark’s American Bandstand. The band continued to create hit after hit including “See Ya Later, Alligator” “Rip It Up” “Rock the Joint” and “Crazy Man Crazy.”