Rock n' Roll the Early Days and the High-Energetic Popularity that Came With was Soon Halted by a String of Negative Events.
So the Powers that Be that Tried to Kill the Art-Form from the Beginning with No Success Got What They Wanted.
Elvis Went Into the Army...Chuck Berry got Arrested for Taking a Teen Girl Across the State-Line...Jerry Lee Lewis Married His 13 Year Old Cousin...Little Richard Stopped Recording and Touring Having Found the Lord and Became a Preacher...Buddy Holly Died in a Plane-Crash.
This Opened Up a Void and Filling that Void in Pop-Culture was a "Clean-Cut" Invasion of White-Bread Singers Like Fabian...Paul Anka...and Frankie Avalon to Name a Few.
Also Chubby Checker Re-Recorded a Hank Ballard Song that Stiffed, but Not This Time.
The Song "The Twist" was a Huge Hit as was the Dance. Joey Dee and the Starliters Recorded "The Peppermint Twist (also a Hit).
An Unforeseen Happening Made Sure that the "Craze" was Dead as Fast as it Came Alive.
What Happened was...The Parents of the Baby-Boomers Started Twisting Along with the Teens. That was the "Death Knell".
At the Heart, but Not the Only Attraction of Rock n' Roll was a Rebellious, Youthful Battle-Cry of Anti-Establishment Zest.
Mom and Dad Doing "The Twist" Turned Teens Off and They Moved On to Other "Groovy" Things.
This Low-Low-Budget Movie was Nothing More than the Capitalist Establishment's Way of Separating the Youth from Their Pocket-Money (a new development in America's post-war Booty).
This "Twist Phenom" was just Another Void-Filling, Soul-Less, Family Friendly Entry Along with the Aforementioned Replacements for the Departed "Hell-Raisers".
In a Short-Time Young-Folks Discovered and Wholly Embraced a "New-Sound" that Originated in Britain and an Invasion was Imminent.
So Much for "The Twist", Chubby Checker, The Peppermint Lounge, and its 15 min.
The Movie is Hyper-Innocent without an Edge and Belongs in the Graveyard, Dead and Buried.
But it May Be Worth a Watch for Those who Came of Age at the Time (between Elvis and The Beatles).
It Might Provide a Heart-Beat of Nostalgia for Those that were Young in an Unfortunate Time that was a Vast Nothingness in Top 40 "Rock n' Roll Radio"...Do you Remember?
It was the Era of "Teen-Idols" Between Elvis and The Beatles.
Where the Only Thing of Quality to be Found at the Record Store was the Music Productions of Phil Spector.
So the Powers that Be that Tried to Kill the Art-Form from the Beginning with No Success Got What They Wanted.
Elvis Went Into the Army...Chuck Berry got Arrested for Taking a Teen Girl Across the State-Line...Jerry Lee Lewis Married His 13 Year Old Cousin...Little Richard Stopped Recording and Touring Having Found the Lord and Became a Preacher...Buddy Holly Died in a Plane-Crash.
This Opened Up a Void and Filling that Void in Pop-Culture was a "Clean-Cut" Invasion of White-Bread Singers Like Fabian...Paul Anka...and Frankie Avalon to Name a Few.
Also Chubby Checker Re-Recorded a Hank Ballard Song that Stiffed, but Not This Time.
The Song "The Twist" was a Huge Hit as was the Dance. Joey Dee and the Starliters Recorded "The Peppermint Twist (also a Hit).
An Unforeseen Happening Made Sure that the "Craze" was Dead as Fast as it Came Alive.
What Happened was...The Parents of the Baby-Boomers Started Twisting Along with the Teens. That was the "Death Knell".
At the Heart, but Not the Only Attraction of Rock n' Roll was a Rebellious, Youthful Battle-Cry of Anti-Establishment Zest.
Mom and Dad Doing "The Twist" Turned Teens Off and They Moved On to Other "Groovy" Things.
This Low-Low-Budget Movie was Nothing More than the Capitalist Establishment's Way of Separating the Youth from Their Pocket-Money (a new development in America's post-war Booty).
This "Twist Phenom" was just Another Void-Filling, Soul-Less, Family Friendly Entry Along with the Aforementioned Replacements for the Departed "Hell-Raisers".
In a Short-Time Young-Folks Discovered and Wholly Embraced a "New-Sound" that Originated in Britain and an Invasion was Imminent.
So Much for "The Twist", Chubby Checker, The Peppermint Lounge, and its 15 min.
The Movie is Hyper-Innocent without an Edge and Belongs in the Graveyard, Dead and Buried.
But it May Be Worth a Watch for Those who Came of Age at the Time (between Elvis and The Beatles).
It Might Provide a Heart-Beat of Nostalgia for Those that were Young in an Unfortunate Time that was a Vast Nothingness in Top 40 "Rock n' Roll Radio"...Do you Remember?
It was the Era of "Teen-Idols" Between Elvis and The Beatles.
Where the Only Thing of Quality to be Found at the Record Store was the Music Productions of Phil Spector.