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, Aside from a Rare, an Indeed Welcome Anomolie from All the Crop Controlled Same-Ness...
and Capitulations from Cow-Towing, Assembly Line Produced, Cookie-Cutter-Idol Cuteness...that came Shrink-Wrapped a Prevab "Show" for Sale.
The "Product" also came with "Hidden Contract Clause", Written in "Invisible-Ink & Blood"...
"We've Got Your Cash...Now we want Your Soul"
But Wait..."What's that I hear"?...
Like a "Voice" in the Wilderness at the Record Store was the Music Productions of Phil Spector.
