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- Announcer: And now, Electronovision presents your hosts for 'Command Performance'. Two of America's most exciting young stars - Jan and Dean!
- Dean Torrence: Hi.
- Jan Berry: We'd like to start it off tonight with a fantastic act. The guy who started it all back in 1958: Chuck Berry!
- Chuck Berry: [singing] Way down in Louisiana close to New Orleans, Way back up in the woods among the evergreeens, There stood a log cabin made of earth and wood, Where lives a country boy named Johnny B. Goode, Who never ever learned to read or write so well, But he could play a guitar just like a-ringin' a bell, Go-go! Go, Johnny, go! Go...
- Jan Berry: Tonight they're ready for Mr. Soul, the dynamic Marvin Gaye!
- Marvin Gaye: [singing] Oh, oh, yeah, yeah, I try to put my arms around you, All because I want to hold you tight...
- Themselves: [Gerry and the Pacemakers - singing] How do you do what you do to me? I wish I knew, If I knew how you do it to me, I'd do it to you...
- Chuck Berry: [singing] Sweet Little Sixteen, She's got the grown-up blues, Tight dresses and lipstick, Wearin' high-heel shoes, Oh but tomorrow morning, She'll have to change her trend, Be sweet sixteen, Back in class again...
- Dean Torrence: And now for that grooviest of groups, the fantastic Miracles!
- Smokey Robinson: [singing] You take sugar and spice, Everything nice, And youve got a little girl, yeah yeah...
- Jan Berry: You've heard a little bit of one type of surfin' sound, now we'll go with another one.
- Jan Berry, Dean Torrence: [singing] Don't be afraid to try the newest sport around
- Dean Torrence: It's catching on in every city and town
- Jan Berry, Dean Torrence: You can do the tricks the surfers do, Just try a Quasimodo or the Coffin too
- Dean Torrence: Grab your board and go sidewalk surfin' with me...
- Themselves: [the Beach Boys - singing] After six hours of school I've had enough for the day, I hit the radio dial and turn it up all the way, I got to dance, dance, dance...
- Lesley Gore: [singing] I'm young and I love to be young, I'm free and I love to be free, To live my life the way I want, To say and do whatever I please...
- Jan Berry: Come on now, let's hear a roar.
- Dean Torrence: The sweetest sound: Leslie Gore.
- Lesley Gore: [singing] Maybe I know that he's been a cheatin', Maybe I know that he's been untrue, But what can I do...
- Jan Berry: Okay, let's have a warm welcome to the real surfers, the one and only, the five and only, Beach Boys!
- Themselves: [the Beach Boys - singing] If everybody had an ocean, Across the U.S.A., Then everybody'd be surfin', Like Californi-a, You'd see them wearin' their baggies, Huarache sandals too, A bushy bushy blond hairdo, Surfin' U.S.A...
- Jan Berry: All right, Mr. Nitzsche, how about a downbeat for the baby lovin' Supremes
- Diana Ross: [singing] He gave me the eye, But I just passed him by, I treated him unkind, But he didn't seem to mind...
- Themselves: [the Rolling Stones - singing] Time is on my side, yes it is, Time is on my side, yes it is, 'Cause I got the real love, the kind that you need...
- Jan Berry: You are about to meet probably the wildest guy in the business today.
- Dean Torrence: Where are the flames?
- Jan Berry: Wait a second. He's brought down houses from coast to coast.
- Dean Torrence: Where are the flames?
- Jan Berry: Cool it a second, will ya. And border to border.
- Dean Torrence: Where are the flames?
- Jan Berry: The Flames are right here, tonight! Yeah, right here. James Brown and his Famous Flames!
- James Brown: [singing] You got your high-heeled sneakers on, And your slip-in mules, You got your high-heeled sneakers on, And your slip-in mules, You're alright, You know you're out of sight, You got a shapely figure mama, That keeps us uptight, You got a shapely figure mama, That keeps us uptight, You're too much, You know you're out of sight...
- Jan Berry: Here they are, those five fellows from England, The Rolling Stones!
- Mick Jagger: [singing] I said the joint was rockin', A goin' 'round and 'round, Yeah, reelin' and a-rockin', What a crazy sound, But they never stopped rockin', 'Til the moon went down...
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