This has got to have the best soundtrack from any film ever made. Little Richard, Fats Domino, Gene Vincent, Eddie Cochrane and Julie London all appear as themselves and perform a number. The poster claimed “you’ll Shake, Rattle ‘n’ Roll with laughter” – well, you might, but it’s gloriously, fantastically fifties. Jayne Mansfield’s more preoccupied with shopping for pyjamas for her seven brothers and cooking a good souffle than producing a hit record. It’s enough to make Phil Silvers’ milk boil over.
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Lee James Turnock
May 22, 2010 at 12:18 pm
And whatever happened to ‘the Three Chuckles’, surely the only ‘rock’ band with an accordion player and lyrics like “she’s a cake-baking baby and I love her pies”?
Tom Ronson
March 31, 2022 at 11:31 pm
The musical interludes are fantastic, the rest of the film, not so much.
THX 1139
March 31, 2022 at 11:58 pm
Not true – the music IS fantastic, but this is a Frank Tashlin film and he skewered 1950s America like nobody else.
Richardpd
April 1, 2022 at 10:22 pm
I’ve heard of this but never seen it, but it sounds good.