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The hand jive is also featured prominently in the Broadway musical Grease (1971) through the song "Born to Hand Jive"; in the movie adaptation of the musical, the song is performed by Sha Na Na. On a DVD audio commentary for the movie, choreographer Patricia Birch mentions that the dance also went by the much more risque name " hand job ", but ...
The soundtrack was released on April 14, 1978, two months ahead of the film's release. [1] As with most musicals of the period, the vocal takes recorded for the album release–and in some cases the instrumental background as well–do not lock to picture but were recorded during entirely different soundtrack sessions often months prior or subsequent to the performances used for lip sync in ...
Grease is a musical with music, lyrics, and a book by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey.Named after the 1950s United States working-class youth subculture known as greasers and set in 1959 at the fictional Rydell High School in Northwest Chicago [1] (based on Taft High School in Chicago, Illinois, [2] and named after rock singer Bobby Rydell [3]), the musical follows ten working-class teenagers as ...
The lyrics tell of a man named Willie who became famous for doing a hand jive dance. [1] [2] In a sense, the story is similar to that of Chuck Berry's "Johnny B. Goode", which tells of someone who became famous for playing the guitar and was released two months before "Willie and the Hand Jive". [1]
Their tracks on the film and Grease soundtrack include two songs from the original 1971 musical: "Those Magic Changes" and "Born to Hand Jive", and four songs from the early rock-and-roll era: versions of Elvis Presley's covers of "Hound Dog" (1956) and "Blue Moon" (1956), a cover of the Imperials' "Tears on My Pillow" (1958), and a cover of ...
Grease: You're the One That I Want! is an NBC reality television series designed to cast the lead roles of Sandy Dumbrowski and Danny Zuko in a $10 million Broadway revival of the 1971 musical Grease directed and choreographed by two-time Tony Award-winner Kathleen Marshall.
5. "The Role You Were Born to Play" Yes: Season 4, Volume 1 [20] [48] "Born to Hand Jive" Grease: Mercedes Jones, Marley Rose, Jake Puckerman and Ryder Lynn with Unique Adams, Mike Chang, Sam Evans, Joe Hart, Sugar Motta, Brittany Pierce and Kitty Wilde: 5. "The Role You Were Born to Play" Yes: Presents Glease [45] "Greased Lightnin'" Grease
Grease: The New Broadway Cast Recording is the cast album for the 2007 Broadway production of the hit musical, Grease.The show, directed by Tony Award-winner Kathleen Marshall, played at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre in New York City.