As an historical movie document, Jimmy Clanton doing one of his top ten hits ("Just A Dream", "Venus in Blue Jeans") would have made this movie come alive. So also with big stars the Cadillacs, Eddy Cochran, Ritchie Valens, and Jackie Wilson. The only one who gets to sing his hits, albeit in a toned-down way, is the great Chuck Berry, with his trademark dance moves alive and well.
Alan Freed and the plot are simply terrible. This would have been better as a concert. And we would not want Sandy Stewart singing religious fables to us. Her songs needed to be beefed up or deleted altogether. This was supposed to be early rock and roll.
They still were proving that rock and roll didn't lead to "juvenile delinquency" as most adults, some vociferously, were claiming. Pastors, ministers, and preachers all condemned the new music from the pulpit, and many adults of the "older generation" saw rock and roll as being from the fires of the pit. As a famous evangelist said, only one would win out: either Christianity or rock and roll. Thankfully, people became more rational, and we all know what happened as a result of rock and roll's early years in the 1950s.
Alan Freed and the plot are simply terrible. This would have been better as a concert. And we would not want Sandy Stewart singing religious fables to us. Her songs needed to be beefed up or deleted altogether. This was supposed to be early rock and roll.
They still were proving that rock and roll didn't lead to "juvenile delinquency" as most adults, some vociferously, were claiming. Pastors, ministers, and preachers all condemned the new music from the pulpit, and many adults of the "older generation" saw rock and roll as being from the fires of the pit. As a famous evangelist said, only one would win out: either Christianity or rock and roll. Thankfully, people became more rational, and we all know what happened as a result of rock and roll's early years in the 1950s.