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Hard To Find Films
Films From the Silent era and up that you can't find anywhere else!
LET'S ROCK 1958 early rock 'n roll
Archaeologists of pop music need to see this film, especially as it was
made so early and is specifically about the early days of rock and
roll. It was released in 1958, but shot in 1957, and one of the
characters in the film says: 'Rock and roll has existed for two years
now.'
It is chiefly notable
for including film of Danny and the Juniors performing the number one
hit of 1957, 'At the Hop'. By 1958, kids were no longer using the word
'hop', and were embarrassed by it, because it was 'last year's word',
and they didn't wish to be thought to be behind the times. But this
song was played for years because it is particularly lively and catchy,
and it still figures in the Golden Oldies today. Danny and the Juniors
look like awkward bank clerks standing there inert in their suits and
ties, singing unconvincingly 'let's go to the hop'. No spangle-wear had
yet appeared in pop, at least not in this film.
Another famous song in
the film, sung by the Royal Teens, is 'Short Shorts'.
At that stage, before drugs had come
in, kids thought the most extreme behaviour was for girls to show their
legs and whine to their parents about it.
Short
shorts were brought back a decade later, at the end of the 1960s, as
'hot pants'.
The finest musical number in the film, and the only
sophisticated one, is Della Reese (who is really beautiful in this film!) singing 'Lonelyville'. She was Nina
Simone before Nina Simone was.
Roy Hamilton, who died tragically aged only 40, is shown in the
film recording two songs. He was one of the top singers of those days,
with a personality like Harry Belafonte, and a smile always on his
face. He had come out of the gospel tradition and had a properly
trained voice. Ironically, for the theme of this film, Roy Hamilton was
famous for singing ballads, and later singers such as the Righteous
Brothers copied him but made an over-the-top pastiche out of his style.
Paul Anka is shown aged 16 singing a pop number.
Phyllis Newman is very sweet and
fetching in the role of the songwriter girl in the story. Because she
has ideas and wants to talk about them, Julius LaRosa can only
categorize her as 'a kook'. At that time, girls won't supposed to
think. There are some nice location scenes of New York City.
Very nice quality print.
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