Jamboree

 

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JAMBOREE-1957-A divorce couple Grace (Kay Medford) and Lew (Robert Pastene) each manage a singer. Grace manages Pete (Paul Carr) and Lew manages Honey (Freda Holliday). They decide to pair the young singers in a duo and they become an overnight sensation with their innocuous love song “What is There To Say”. The managers manipulate both singers until they break up and everyone becomes are miserable. There are performances by Fat Domino, Jerry Lee Lewis, Jimmy Bowen, Buddy Knox, the Count Basie Orchestra, Joe Williams, Frankie Avalon, The Teenchords (featuring Louie Lymon), Carl Perkins, Slim Whitman, Connie Francis and others. 

Many real-life disc jockeys appear as themselves including Dick Clark, Jocko Henderson and Dick Whittinghill. Produced in the US by Max Rosenberg and Milton Subotsky before they formed the British based film company Amicus. One of only 3 full length movies directed by (British born) Roy Lockwood who later work in radio.

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