Around this time, he was named Sax Player of the Year by Down Beat magazine.
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Research conducted by Haley historian Chris Gardner for a February 2006 article on Pompilli for Now Dig This magazine resulted in no evidence being found that Pompilli performed on the Marterie's version of "Crazy Man, Crazy".
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The honking style was fading somewhat by the early 1950s, but the honkers themselves suddenly found themselves providing rousing solos for doo wop groups; an example was Sam "The Man" Taylor's eight-bar romp on The Chords' 1954 "Sh-Boom." Bill Haley also used honking sax men Joey D'Ambrosio and Rudy Pompilli on his rock and roll records, including "Rock Around the Clock."