Queen Elizabeth II requested a print of this film be shown at Buckingham Palace, one of this first times this was done with a major motion picture.
This is the first full-length rock'n'roll movie.
Ralph Jones , the drummer for Bill Haley and the Comets, took lots of home movies during the band's visit to Hollywood. This footage--which has been used by documentary filmmakers--includes the only known color footage from the set of this film.
No soundtrack album was ever released for the film in North America, though some foreign compilation albums were released as a tie-in. The performance of "Rudy's Rock" is the only Bill Haley and the Comets song performed live on camera and while an off-air recording taken from the film would be released in Germany in the 1990s (as part of Hydra Records' Haley compilation album "On Screen"), a proper studio-quality recording from the set has yet to be released. The band also performs live on camera during a brief rehearsal prior to lip-synching to the Decca recording of "R-O-C-K".
"See You Later Alligator" was a brand new recording, having been taped at Decca's Hollywood studio in December 1955, only a few weeks before filming began.