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Advertisement from 1957. According to a contemporary review for The New York Times, the film was "a mélange of mediocre melodrama" that sought to "portray sisters who run afoul of the law and are sent to a prison farm populated almost entirely by rock 'n' roll addicts...Call it a fate almost worse than death," and noted that "the amazingly endowed Miss Van Doren [...] renders a variety of ...
Lord Rockingham's XI was a group of British session musicians, led by Harry Robinson (1932–1996), who had a No. 1 hit on the UK Singles Chart in 1958 with "Hoots Mon". [1] [7] [8]
The Charles brothers played with a fluctuating personnel until 1964, when they met Buddy Randell (vocals and sax) (birth name: William Crandall). [1] Randell was previously of the Rockin' Saints and The Royal Teens, who had a hit with "Short Shorts" in 1958.
They became popular in the Pacific Northwest from the late 1950s to the early 1960s, [2] performing saxophone-driven R&B and Chuck Berry rock and roll. [3] Their biggest hit was " Tall Cool One ", first released in 1959, and they have been credited as being "one of the very first, if not the first, of the American garage bands ."
Stony Island is a 1978 American musical drama film directed by Andrew Davis.It concerns an up-and-coming rhythm and blues band in Chicago. [2] Set in various places in Chicago, including gritty Stony Island Avenue, it stars Richard Davis, the director's brother, [3] and features early appearances from Dennis Franz and Rae Dawn Chong as well as numerous local musicians including saxophone great ...
One of the most memorable, if infamous and incongruous, moments in Joel Schumacher’s 1987 vampire classic The Lost Boys is that crazy concert scene, when a hulking, shirtless, and most ...
Plas John Johnson Jr. (/ p l æ z /) (born July 21, 1931) [1] is an American soul-jazz and hard bop tenor saxophonist, probably most widely known as the tenor saxophone soloist on Henry Mancini’s "The Pink Panther Theme". He also performs on alto and baritone sax as well as various flutes and clarinets.
Cash Box called "Rock and Roll Girls" a "pure rock celebration" and said that "Fogerty’s lead vocal is classic." [8] Rolling Stone Magazine critic Kurt Loder praised "Rock and Roll Girls" as "a rather spectacular demonstration of what can still be done with three shitty chords and a blazing sax.” [9] The Age critic Mike Daily described it as having "the breezy appeal of a Buddy Holly song."