Rock & Roll & oldies.

A group of concerned adults try to ban rock and roll music in their town because they think that the music promotes juvenile delinquency. It's now up to a disc jockey and a hipster to defend the music in a televised trial. The movie also features several rock and roll performances by Fats Domino, Big Joe Turner, Tommy Charles and Anita May.

Christy runs a rock and roll nightclub on a carnival pier with his righ-hand-man Benny. Christy has a crush on the club's star, Natalie Cook, but she has eyes for Stanley, a local business man, who wants to buy out the club. When the club is sold and Christy is asked to stay on, as a party clown, he plots to destroy the club and abduct Natalie away from Stanley.
Musical performances by The Platters, David Houston, Bob Luman and His Shadows, and the Blockbusters.

A young teenage girl (Tuesday Weld) desperately tries to earn enough money to buy a dress for a school rock and roll dance. This early rock and roll feature, the 3rd in a series of 5 starring Disc Jockey and Rock N Roll impresario Alan Freed, includes performances by artist Chuck Berry, La Vern Baker, Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers, The Flamingos, The Moonglows and The Johnny Burnette Trio.

Pete Porter and Honey Wynn become overnight sensations as a romantic singing duo. But what will become of their budding love affair when their feuding, back-stabbing managers persuade them to go solo? Music by a host of top-notch singing sensations including: Fats Domino, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, Jimmy Bowen, Buddy Knox, and Charlie Gracie.

Denied his high school diploma because of a schoolyard fight, Danny Fisher (Elvis Presley) is unsure how he's going to support himself and his unemployed father. He briefly flirts with a life of crime before a club owner hears him singing and offers him a job. Things look promising until rival club owner and Danny's former boss, Maxie (Walter Matthau), tries to lure him back with threats and the charms of his sometimes-girlfriend, Ronnie (Carolyn Jones).

A young man, Vince Everett (Elvis Presley), is convicted of manslaughter after being drawn into a bar fight while trying to defend a woman. In prison, Everett finds salvation when his cellmate, a country singer named Hunk Houghton (Mickey Shaughnessy), hears him sing and pegs him as a future star. Once released, Everett gets a job in a night club and meets Peggy Van Alden (Judy Tyler), a young woman who works for a record company and who, like Houghton, also sees talent in Everett.

Weary of the road, rock star Arnie Haines (Alan Dale) returns to his small town to relax. But when he learns that his hometown has banned rock 'n' roll, Haines doesn't take it lying down. He has a whole new task ahead of him: to prove to the adults that the kids are all right and rock music is okay. With the support of popular disc jockey Alan Freed and some musical assistance from the likes of Bill Haley and the Comets and singer Little Richard, Haines is off to a terrific start.

Alan Freed is “Mr. Rock and Roll” as he sets out to prove that rock ‘n’ roll doesn’t cause juvenile delinquency. Terrific original rock ‘n’ roll legends perform their classics!

Tommy Adane (Julius LaRosa) is a professional singer once renowned for his smooth crooning. But with the emergence of rock 'n' roll, Adane is finding himself and his performance style painfully out of date. He initially resists the rising influence of this new music -- that is, until his devoted and hip girlfriend, Kathy (Phyllis Newman), personally introduces him to the tunes of her favorite artists. Freshly inspired by some of rock 'n' roll's stars, Adane transforms from crooner to rocker.

Bill Haley & Caterina Valente sing 'Vive le rock and roll' from the 1958 German film 'Hier bin ich, hier bleib' ich' (Here I am, here I stay).

01.Wayne Walker - All I Can Do Is Cry 02.Sleepy La Beef - All The Time 03.Bill Love - Baby I'll Never Let You Go 04.Bobby Lollar - Bad Bad Boy 05.Janis Martin - Bang Bang 06.Don Woody - Barking Up The Wrong Tree 07.Tennessee Bill - Be Boppin' Baby 08.Mack Banks - Be Boppin' Daddy 09.Bobby Lord - Beautiful Baby 10.Don Woody - Bird Dog 11.Marvin Rainwater - Boo Hoo 12.Ronnie Self - Bop A Lena 13.Vern Pullens - Bop Crazy Baby 14.Don Willis & the Orbits - Boppin' High School Baby 15.Ric Cartey - Born To Love One Woman 16.Jackie Lee Cochran - Buy a Car 17.Lee Finn - Cat All Night 18.Johnny Carroll - Crazy Crazy Lovin' 19.Art Adams - Dancing Doll 20.Joe Clay - Did You Mean Jelly Bean 21.Billy Praeger & the Caravans - Do It Bop 22.Pat Cupp & the Flying Saucers - Do Me No Wrong 23.Bob Doss - Don't Be Gone Long 24.Alvis Wayne - Don't Mean Maybe Baby 25.Curtis Gordon - Draggin' 26.Mickey Gilley - Drive In Movie 27.Joe Clay - Ducktail 28.Bob & Lucille - Eeny Meeny Miney Mo 29.Benny England - Eloping 30.Carl Mann - Gonna Rock & Roll Tonight 31.Mac Curtis - Grandaddy's Rockin' 32.Skeets McDonald - Heartbreakin' Mama 33.Bill Lawrence - Hey Baby 34.Jackie Lee Cochran - Hip Shakin' Mama 35.Larry Donn - Honey Bun 36.Dale Vaughn - How Can You Be Mean To Me 37.Al Rex - Hydrogen Bomb

01.Love Me-The Phantom 02.Jello Sal-Benny Ingram 03.I'm Ready-Hank Cochran 04.Hip Hip Baby-Dennis Herold 05.Playmates-Derrell Felts 06.Slip, Slip, Slippin' In-Eddie Bond 07.Straight Skirts-Gene Summers 08.Jitterbop Baby-Hal Harris 09.I'm Ready-Hank Mizell 10.Riverside Jump-Jackie Lee Cochran 11.Sixteen Chicks-Joe Clay 12.If I Had Me A Woman-Mack Curtis 13.Worried 'Bout You Baby-Maylon Humphries14.Rockin' Bones-Ronnie Dawson 15.Wild Wild Woman-Steve Wright.

To prove his theory that rock and roll is on its way out, a sociologist tries to convince a "bop" singer to switch to calypso, much to the ire of her Hollywood nightclub manager.

Mike Wilson, a young police officer, poses as a student under the alias Tony Baker and thus infiltrates a high school in order to investigate a narcotics ring. He lives in an apartment with Gwen Dulaine, a married woman who pretends to be his aunt in public but attempts to seduce him in private.
"Tony" flirts with pupil Joan Staples and incurs the wrath of teacher Arlene Williams as he makes acquaintances in school. He discovers that Joan uses marijuana and inquires about where she purchases it. He ultimately learns that a mysterious man known only as "Mr. A" is the one who sells drugs to the students, helped by an assistant called Bix. With help from an undercover cop, Quinn, who risks his life to save Mike's, the criminals are apprehended and Joan promises Mike that her drug use is over.

A 1950s musical drama following a couple who start their own record label. Financed by her Aunt Sarah (Linda Gray), Joan (Mary Steele) and her boyfriend, songwriter Harry (Lee Patterson), open a coffee bar to provide young people with a hangout. When café worker and singer Terry (Terry Dene) struggles to get a recording contract, they decide to help him by expanding their business into their own independent label. As Terry rises to fame, a major label tries to take over their company.

A hot-rod-happy teenager joins a rock 'n' roll band to earn the money needed to enter his car in a national meet...unknown to his two aunts who have forced him to live a subdued lifestyle if he wishes to inherit their fortune. - The highlight of this movie is the appearance of Gene Vincent & The Blue Caps singing "Dance in the Street", "Baby Blue", "Lovely Loretta", and "Dance to the Bop".

Young musician Jimmy Daley needs to come up with $300 to purchase the electric guitar he wants. He pawns his law books, to the disappointment of his father, a doctor whose goal is for Jimmy to become a lawyer.
Jimmy's jealous nature results in a ruckus at a party and $150 in damage to a neighbor, which Dr. Daley insists his son pay. His girlfriend Joan Wright learns that a battle of the bands has a cash prize. Jimmy and his group end up losing the contest, but he earns the respect of his dad.

Hefty hoodlum Marty "Fats" Murdock (Edmond O'Brien) employs has-been agent Tom Miller (Tom Ewell) to transform his girlfriend, Jerri Jordan (Jayne Mansfield), into a singing star because he trusts Tom not to make a pass at her. However, the more time Tom spends with the stunning blonde, the more smitten he becomes. His troubles multiply when he realizes that Jerri can't sing a note, is not in love with Murdock and wants to settle down with a nice man like himself......A star studded movie with some REAL BIG names singing their hits...including such luminaries as: Gene Vincent, Eddie Cochran, Fats Domino, The Platters, Little Richard, The Treniers, Eddie Fontaine and Johnny Olenn.

At the end of another successful rock-'n'-roll concert at Loew's State Theater, groundbreaking disc jockey Alan Freed (Alan Freed) announces a talent search from the stage. Somewhere in the audience, wide-eyed usher and aspiring singer Johnny (Jimmy Clanton) listens attentively. Determined to become Freed's latest discovery, Johnny struggles to raise the money he'll need to record a demo. Along the way, he falls for fellow singer and orphan Julie Arnold (Sandy Stewart).- Songs from Jimmy Clanton, Jackie Wilson, Chuck Berry, Eddie Cochran, and Richie Valens among others.

This film (recorded in 1954) features various performers at the Apollo Theatre in Harlem, New York City. Performers include Nat 'King' Cole, Cab Calloway (Minnie the Moocher), Faye Adams, Little Buck, Willie Bryant, Nipsey Russell, Lionel Hampton, Count Basie, Bill Bailey, Ruth Brown, Herb Jeffries, Sarah Vaughan, Big Joe Turner (Shake, Rattle and Roll), Amos Milburn, Martha Davis, Mantan Moreland, and Freddie Robinson.

There were originally two different programmes
"IT'S LITTLE RICHARD" Released 8th January 1964 and "WHOLE LOTTA SHAKING" Released 19th March 1964, both recorded at the Granada TV studio in Manchester, UK.
Both shows were spliced together and reshown as "Don't Knock The Rock" in 1977.

Delivery man Deke Rivers is discovered by, and recruited to join a country and western band. However, Deke's road to stardom is complicated by a romantic dilemma involving the band's publicist and singer. Among the many musical highlights are `Teddy Bear' and `Lonesome Cowboy'.

One of the better documentaries about the beginnings of the Big Beat/Rock & Roll. Alan Freed was instrumental in bringing this mix of Rhythm & Blues/Country/Western Swing to a nationwide audience. His Rock'n'Roll concerts helped to break down the segregation of black and white fans. Great footage of the main stars of Rock'n'Roll music of the 1950s.

Cloud Nine, the local teen hangout, has been taken over by a pair of escaped killers, who hold the local teens hostage. The bartender realizes it’s up to him to save the kids. Appearances by top recording group The Platters plus The Blockbusters.

Orchestra manager Steve Hollis realizes that big-band music is dead. People want something new, but what? On their way to New York, Steve and his companion Corny, stop at a motel in a small place called Strawberry Springs. It's Saturday evening, and a huge number of young people are going to the Town Hall to listen to a local band called Bill Haley and His Comets, playing a new kind of music called rock'n'roll. It is accompanied by a new way of dancing, led by the siblings Lisa and Jimmy Johns. Steve immediately recognizes that this could be what all America is waiting for...