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This song has appeared prominently in several 'entertainment' contexts, including at least two major Hollywood [motion picture] productions. It was an example of a typical Doo-wop song in the 1973 movie American Graffiti [ 4 ] and it had somewhat of a 'title role' in the 1984 movie Sixteen Candles .
The 1984 John Hughes' teen film Sixteen Candles took its title from The Crests' song, which was re-recorded by The Stray Cats for the Sixteen Candles soundtrack. [citation needed] In June 1987, for a concert in Peekskill, New York, Maestro, Carter, Torres, and Gough (The Original Crests) reunited as "The Crests", which was organized by Carter.
Rev Up is the debut studio album by The Revillos, following the split of the original Rezillos line-up and formation of the new, similarly titled band. It was released in 1980 by record labels Dindisc and Snatzo Recordi. The title track "Rev Up" was used in the 1984 film Sixteen Candles.
Newborn was born in New York City.He has scored or written songs for films such as Sixteen Candles, [1] Weird Science, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, [2] [3] Uncle Buck, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Mallrats, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective [4] and Into the Night, for which he wrote music for B. B. King.
Long Duk Dong is a fictional character who appears in Sixteen Candles, a 1984 American coming-of-age comedy film written and directed by John Hughes.Played by Japanese American actor Gedde Watanabe, the character is a Chinese foreign exchange student and a supporting character in the film set at a US suburban high school.
Molly Ringwald. Jade Tillman Belmes/Getty Images for Creative Coalition Forty years after its release, Sixteen Candles has an undeniable place in the pantheon of American comedies. The box-office ...
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John Peter Mastrangelo (May 7, 1939 – March 24, 2010), known as Johnny Maestro, was an American pop singer.He was the lead vocalist for the doo-wop group The Crests, whose song "16 Candles" went to number two on the Billboard Hot 100. [1]