Jamboree (1957 film)
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Directed by | Roy Lockwood |
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Cinematography | Jack Etra |
Edited by | Robert Broekman |
Music by | Neal Hefti |
Production company | Vanguard Pictures |
Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
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Running time | 86 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Jamboree, known as Disc Jockey Jamboree in the United Kingdom, is a 1957 American rock and roll film directed by Roy Lockwood. Its story is about a boy and girl, Pete Porter and Honey Wynn (played respectively by Paul Carr and Freda Holloway), who become overnight sensations as a romantic singing duo who run into trouble when their squabbling managers (Kay Medford and Bob Pastene), try to turn them into solo acts. Against this backdrop in cameo performances appear some of the biggest names of rock and roll in the 1950s lip-syncing to their recordings.
Overview
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Jamboree is a film that was built upon the popularity of a name which at the time was becoming associated with rock and roll music and it appears to have derived its name from a show starring disc-jockey
Jamboree was essentially a music film in the manner of music videos that followed many years later on MTV where the story was secondary to the musical performances, with the amateurish acting becoming less relevant than the musical performances. However, this movie is of historical importance due to the performances by various musical acts.
Featured stars
Included in Jamboree are
Brazilian singer Cauby Peixoto has a cameo appearance in the film under the name Ron Coby. Cauby had a brief rock-and-roll phase is in his career, recording "Rock'n'Roll in Copacabana".
Dick Clark is the host of the "second hour" of a "United Charities" telethon to raise money to fight what is described only as "this dreaded disease". Clark is listed as a DJ for WFIL Philadelphia in the credits (at the time, he also hosted the original Philadelphia edition of what eventually became American Bandstand). Clark introduces a number of disc jockeys from across the U.S. and Canada. These DJs then introduce the featured stars. Later in the film, Jack Jackson (ATV) and Chris Payne (BBC) in London, Werner Goetze (Bayerischer Rundfunk) in Munich, and Chris Howland (Westdeutscher Rundfunk) in Cologne, Germany are shown introducing "Pete and Honey" records on the air. Finally, performances are the entertainment at a convention of the Music Operators of America, a group of jukebox owners that bought 150 records per week in the 1950s.[2]
Cast
- Alan Freed as Disc-jockey
- Fats Domino as Himself
- Jerry Lee Lewis as Himself
- Jimmy Bowen as Himself
- Jack Jackson as Himself
- Buddy Knox as Himself
- Charlie Gracie as Himself
- Joe Williams as Himself
- Jodie Sands as Herself
- Frankie Avalon as Himself
- Lewis Lymon and the Teenchords as Teen Group Band
- Slim Whitman as Himself
- Carl Perkins as Himself
- Jack Payne as Himself
- Andy Martin as Himself
- Aaron Schroeder as Songwriter
- The Four Coins as Singing Group
- Cauby Peixoto as Ron Coby
- Rocco and his Saints as Rock band
- Connie Francis as Herself
- Kay Medford as Gracie Show
- Robert Pastene as Lew Arthur
- Paul Carr as Peter Porter
- Freda Holloway as Honey Wynn
- David King-Wood as Warren Sykes
- Jean Martin as Cindy Sykes, Asst. Mgr.
- Tony Travis as Stage Manager
- Leonard Schneideras Asst. Stage Mgr.
- Ed Bonner as Disc-jockey, St. Louis
- Joe Finan as Disc-jockey, Cleveland
- Dick Clark as Disc-jockey, Philadelphia
- Milt Grantas Disc-jockey, Washington
- Jocko Henderson as Disc-jockey, New York
See also
References
- ^ "Doo-Wop". Tracy_prinze.tripod.com. Retrieved 2013-07-12.
- ISBN 0-316-73497-7
External links
- Jamboree at IMDb