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Latest revision as of 06:20, 26 March 2012
One of the artifacts of the 1970's fad for the 1950's was the 1978 flick, American Hot Wax, which dramatized real-life Cleveland DJ Alan Freed's championing of rock and roll. Real rockers Jerry Lee Lewis, Chuck Berry, and Screamin' Jay Hawkins appeared as themselves, but for some reason, fictionalized versions of other real groups were created like this Chantels/Shirelles stand-in.
See also The Chesterfields, Clark Otis, Professor LaPlano and the Planotones, Timmy and the Tulips.
