1/31/09
Music related Feature films:
Most of these are high
quality recordings of TV broadcasts.
60s-70s ~Anti-Drug films :
DRUG ABUSE - "THE CHEMICAL TOMB"
NARCOTICS - "PIT OF DESPAIR" (Part one and two)
A SLENDER THREAD (1965)
The Sons of Adam perform in a club scene ,WOW!
A SWINGING AFFAIR (1963)
An aspiring
boxer gets his ass
kicked.
Features
several performances by
Dick Dale
& the Deltones
for no particular
reason. (85 mins.)
A SWINGIN” SUMMER (1965)
Raquel Welsh
Gary Lewis and the Playboys sing several tunes.
“BATTLE OF THE MODS” (CRAZY BABY) (1966) (color)
Mods and Rockers do drunken battle in
“Liverpool” pubs.
An Italian production
me thinks.
Pretty –
boy singer “Ricky” does his Elvis impersonation and everybody
dances.
Weird thing
is, the Mods and the Rockers look and act exactly the same…….
“Be My
Guest” (1965)
Stars Steve Marriot
Plot Summary: A family inherits a seaside hotel and has
trouble filling it up until their son's rock group begins packing 'em in...
Performances by:
Nashville Teens
Kenny and the Wranglers
Nightshades
Plebs
BEAT GIRL (WILD FOR
KICKS) (1960)
Great “Cavern” type club scenes.
The kids of the Beatle-generation hit the clubs
and Adam Faith rocks out.
Cool music and “Beat” vibe!
UNCUT version, sharp quality!
“BIKINI BEACH” (1964)
A millionaire
sets out to prove his theory that his pet chimpanzee is as intelligent as the teenagers
who hang out on the local beach, where he is intending to build a retirement
home.
Includes the
only appearance of the Pyramids on film! (99 mins.)
Beach Blanket Bingo (1965)
Hondells
Beach Party (1963)
Frankie and
Annette
Dick Dale and the
Deltones
Blonde on a Bum Trip (1968)
Cool club scenes with the Bit-o-Sweet band.
Tagline: Come along with a blonde on a trip you'll never forget!
Plot Outline: A naive young college student, who is
majoring in chemistry, is persuaded by her roommates and a would-be drug dealer
to make LSD for them, and she winds up getting caught up in the
"acid" lifestyle.
A cheaply made exploitation flick of interest as a cultural
artifact.
Breaking Glass (1980)
Plot Outline: A female rock singer is determined to rise to the
top of the profession, letting nothing stand in the way of her goal.
Blast-Off Girls (1967)
Tons of great live performance scenes!
Plot Outline: A sleazy record promoter tries to make it big
with a local Chicago garage band and plans to make them famous while keeping
the profits for himself.
Beyond The Valley of the Dolls (1970)
(cool movie about
a female garage band – The Carrie Nations
THE COOL ONES (1967)
A dancing girl
invents a new
dance called
the "Tantrum".
Features the
Leaves in several
club scenes.
(98 mins.)
DISK-O-TEK HOLIDAY
(a.k.a. JUST FOR YOU) U.K. film. (1966)
US edit of England's "Just for You". Bob Foster, Arnie
Ginsburg. Songs include: Band Of Angels: "Hide & Seek", The
Bachelors: "Teenage Valentino", "Low In The Valley." The
Vagrants: "Oh Those Eyes", Peter & Gordon: "Leave Me
Alone", "Soft As The Dawn". The Chiffons: "Nobody
Knows", Freddy & The Dreamers: "You Were Made For Me",
"Just For You", Johnny B. Great: "If I Had A Hammer".
Louise Cordet: "It's So Hard To Be Good", The Applejacks: "Tell
Me When", Jackie & The Raindrops: "Locomotion", The Merseybeats:
"Milkman", The Rockin' Ramrods: "Play It", The Orchids:
"Mr. Scrooge", Millie Small: "Sugar Dandy", Freddy Cannon:
"Tallahassee Lassie", "Buzz Buzz A-Diddle-It",
"Beachwood City."
Dateline Diamonds (1965)
Tagline: The hottest rocks in Britain being smuggled by the
hottest rockers in Britain.
Plot Outline: An ex-con manages a top band in the UK, and
he wants to re-enter the crime scene.
The Small Faces perform.
DECLINE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION (1981)
Excellent copy
taken from Japanese laserdisc. Awesome footage of Germs, Black Flag &
Circle Jerks. Runs about 100 minutes.
Educational Archives - Sex & Drugs
60’s and 70’s educational films
the Sonny Bono clip.
“ELEKI NO
WAKDAISHO” (1965)
(The Young General’s
Electric Guitar) 1965- Youthful Ventures inspired groups participate in a
“Battle of the Bands” type TV show in 1960s Japan. Somehow also
involves playing American football.
"FERRY CROSS
THE MERSEY" (1965)
Plot
Summary: Gerry and
Fred Marsden, Les McGuire, and Les "Chad" Chadwick portray themselves
(Gerry & the Pacemakers) in a romp through the early 1960's Liverpool Beat
Scene.
Lot's of cool
Liverpool groups!
“Fun on the way to Göthenburg”(1967)
A Swedish send up of “A Hard Day’s Night” with:
Lee Kings
Spotnicks
Ola & Janglers
Jerry Williams & the Violents
Shanes
Sten & Stanley
GO ASK ALICE (1973)
gradual fall into the world of drugs.
William Shatner plays the clueless, square
Dad!
Also includes a weird, low budget TV episode
of “When Jenny, When?” from 1979.
Stars Maureen McCormick of “The Brady Bunch”
as a high-school sex pot.
Ghost Of Dragstrip Hollow (a.k.a. Haunted Hot Rod) [1959]
How To Stuff A Wild Bikini [1965]
Frankie and Annette
“THE GIRL CAN’T HELP IT” (1956)
Gangster hires down-and-out press agent to make his blonde bimbo girlfriend
a singing star.
Little Richard
The Platters
Fats Domino
Stoned
out hippie road picture.
Country
Joe and the Fish perform
"Get Down GRAND FUNK" (1968) (80 mins.)
(color)
Spring break in 1968!
Drunken kids fool around in Daytona Beach and a few bands become
momentarily coherent enough to lip-sync to their tunes. Very odd, low-tech
psych. touches. Strange indeed.
Grand Funk
Tams
Billy Joe Royal
Swinging Medallions
GET YOURSELF A COLLEGE GIRL (1964) (color)
A college co-ed tries to balance her time writing songs
and dealing with her publisher whom tries to pursue her.
Beach movie type with snow instead of sand.
DC5
Animals
Standells
More.........
(1 hour 25 mins.)
Ghost Goes Gear (1966) (color)
M6
St. Louis Union
Go,
Johnny, Go! (1959)
Plot Outline:
Rock-n-roll promoter Alan
Freed holds a talent search to develop a new rock star, then must find the
elusive, mystery contestant (Jimmy Clanton) who doesn't know he has won.
Alan Freed ... Himself
Jimmy Clanton ... Johnny Melody
Sandy Stewart ... Julie Arnold
Chuck Berry ... Himself
Jackie Wilson ... Himself
Ritchie Valens ... Himself
The Cadillacs ... Themselves
Jo-Ann Campbell ... Herself
The Flamingos ... Themselves
Harvey Fuqua ... Himself (as Harvey)
Eddie Cochran ... Himself
Herb Vigran ... Bill Barnett
Frank Wilcox ... Mr. Harold Arnold
Barbara Woodell ... Mrs.
Arnold
Milton Frome ... Mr. Martin
(75 min)
GONKS GO BEAT (1965)
Off –
beat, semi-science fiction British film with:
Trolls
Gram Bond
Organization (With Ginger Baker and Jack Bruce)
Lulu
Nashville
Teens (1 hour 25 mins.) (8
quality)
HOT RODS TO HELL (1967)
A squares-ville family intend on buying a
motel and club but are hassled by the
local teenage punks.
Mickey Rooney Jr.s band plays great
garage music in several club scenes.
Sharp copy in color!
"HAVING A WILD WEEKEND" (1965)
Dave Clark
Five
In HAVING A
WILD WEEKEND, the Dave Clark Five, popular Merseyside competitors of the
Beatles during the 1960s, play fictional characters in the their film debut
rather than exploit their own personalities as the Fab Four had in A HARD DAY'S
NIGHT. When popular model Dinah (Barbara Ferris) feels she needs some R and R,
she and Steve, Lenny, Rick, Mike, and Dennis (the Dave Clark Five), a bunch of
stuntmen that she's just met on a commercial shoot, head for an island off the
coast of Devon in the production company's white Jaguar.
(90 mins.)
“HORROR OF PARTY BEACH” (1964)
Super cheesy beach film with many frat-rock performances
by the Del-Aires.
Sea creatures created from radioactive sludge
terrorize a beach community.
“It's a Bikini World” (1967)
Cool , color performances by:
Toys
Castaways
Gentrys
“IT’S TRAD, DAD” (1962)
The hero and
heroine want to popularize a trad jazz in their town. Some older people feel
displeased about a trad jazz.
Gene Vincent, Del Shannon , Gary U.S. Bonds, Chubby Checker,
John Leyton, Helen Shapiro & more
JOURNEY TO TIME (1969?)
sniffing glue to shooting heroin.
"Journey to Time" by Kenny and the Kasuals in the soundtrack.
Live It Up (1963)
Tagline: Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! - It's got the new beat that beats 'em
all!
Music and lyrics composed by Joe Meek
Cool, cheesy, campy, bizarre performances by obscure UK bands.
With Steve Marriot on DRUMS!
The Love-Ins (1966) (95 mins.)
This full-length movie modeled after Timothy Leary's popularity
explores the evils of "turning on" in the 60's. These freak outs,
hippies, diggers, LSD experiences and love-ins are WAY OUT.
Mary Jane (1968)
High –School kids smoke pot, drive like maniacs
And upset the old folk.
The
MINX (1969)
The Cyrkle perform in
various club scenes
Muscle Beach Party [1964]
Frankie Avalon
Annette
Dick Dale the Deltones
Stevie Wonder
MONDO
MOD (1967) (recent re-master)
Some very cool party scenes with a band.
Ola
& Juliet (1968)
Cool Mod
band,
POP GEAR (1965)
Excellent !
with:
Animals
Beatles
Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas
Spencer Davis Group
Fourmost
Four Pennies
Hermin’ Hermits
Nashville Teens
Sounds INC.
Peter and Gordon
Pajama Party [1964]
Nooney Rickett 4
Annette
Psych-Out (1968)
Jack Nicholson
Tagline: Taste a Moment of Madness...Listen to the Sound of
Purple.
Plot Summary: A deaf girl comes to California in the height of the
Flower Power era.
The PHYNX(1969)
Bizarre campy film about a US gov’t
plan to form a subversive rock band.
Tons of cameos like Ed Sullivan, Dick Clark, Richard Pryor, etc.
(Not a sharp copy, but watchable)
POPCORN (1969)
Swedish color film released in 1971
Interviews and music clips
Love (short live clip with overdubbed sound)
Rolling Stones
Jimi Hendrix
Bee Gees
Joe Cocker
Animals
Traffic
Vanilla Fudge
Twiggy
More…………….
PINK FLOYD –“MORE” (1969)
Classic sixties film
Love, drugs, music
The Trip (1967)
Plot Summary: Peter Fonda is a commercial director going through a
bitter divorce, so he decides to take an LSD trip.
Nude
hippies eat watermelon, dance like dorks
and jam
To their own drummer. Peace out dude…..
Message to Love:
The Isle of Wight Festival (filmed in 1970)
Jimi Hendrix
The Who
Free
Tiny Tim
John Sebastian
Ten Years After
Doors
Moody Blues
Kris Kristofferson
Joni Mitchell
Miles Davis
Leonard Cohen
ELP
Joan Baez
Jethro Tull (Aprox. 120 mins.)
LAS SICODELICAS (1968) 83 MIN, B 1DVD This is a
Mexican-Peruvian co-production from 1968. Starring Isela Vega, Maura Monti and Amadee
Chabot. Also features Peruvian garage-psych legends Los Shains. High camp 60's
fashions and bad-ass babes saturate this Spanish language action-comedy. Sorry
amigo, no subtitles but still very enjoyable. Very hard to find rarity. Sound
is slightly distorted.
Just For The Hell of It (1967)-
This was made by the same people who did Blast Off Girls, made
around the same time & main same actors, features
a garage band & garage score, kinda nasty movie
JUST FOR FUN (1965)
Crickets
Joe Brown
Jet Harris
Tornados
Breakaways, more……
OUT OF SIGHT- (1966) with the Turtles, Gary Lewis, Freddie &
the Dreamers, Astronauts, Dobie Gray. A James Bond spoof…….
Mondo Mod - The Group, Youth Of The World and Sam
The Soul And The Inspirations
MUSICAL MUTINY (1970)
Iron Butterfly
The Fantasy
The New
Society Band
Grit
Terri de Sario
The owner of
the park freaks at everyone getting in for free and pulls the plug on Iron
Butterfly after only two songs: "No money, no music!" Suddenly, local
bands start popping up all over the park to perform for free until, finally,
Iron Butterfly is allowed back on stage to do "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida"
where, for 16-plus bludgeoning minutes, this Seminal Sixties Rock Classic is
Mahonized by a hilarious lack of visual pyrotechnics save for an obligatory
zoom lens going nuts, and a few pieces of stray psychedelic art. (70 mins.)
“RIDE THE WILD SURF” (1964)
A group of
friends go to Hawaii in order to practice surfing, their favorite sport. But
this is not all they do there - they also find love..
(100 mins.)
RIOT ON SUNSET STRIP (1967)
The holy
grail of garage band movie clips.
Great
club scenes
NICE SHARP COPY!!!!!!!
Chocolate
Watchband
Standells
The Enemies
(87 mins.)
A cheesy
film with lot’s of obscure R&B,
Rockabilly
and horrible acting. FUNSVILLE BABY!
ROCK
ROCK ROCK (1956)
Chuck Berry
Moonglows
Johnny Burnett Trio
Frankie Lyman,
more……..
RUTLES – “All You Need Is Cash” (1978)
Fantastic Beatles parody
Written by Eric Idle
(90 mins.)
The Rutles 2: “Can't Buy Me
Lunch” (2002)
“All You Need is Cash”. (56 mins.)
SURF PARTY (1964)
Cute
girls camp on the beach and go to a club.
The
Routers and Astronauts play
a
couple cool surf instrumentals.
(68
mins.)
WILD ON THE BEACH ~ (1965)
Wild, Wild World of Jayne Mansfield - features
a couple bands, mondo film
"What's Good For the Goose" (1969) (color)
Combine classic British comedy star Norman Wisdom with swinging
sixties psychedelia, and you get this outrageous ode to free love as a dull bank
clerk's life is transformed by the shapely forms of two hitchhikers, Sally
Geeson and Sarah Atkinson. On the way to an executive conference at a resort,
Norman experiences life-changing rapture with these two vixens. Directed by
drive-in maestro Menahem Golan (The Apple, Enter the Ninja), this rowdy,
colorful British sex comedy also features a nightclub appearance by cult band The Pretty Things. (Great Quality)
Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows (1968 film)
Nuns on a road trip
Notable for the appearance of the “In Time Group”
(Great Quality)
“Wild Guitar” (1962)
You’ve heard of
B-movies? Here’s a
Z--movie. So bad it’s highly
entertaining. In this 1962
rock ‘n’roll flick, the inimitable Arch Hall, Jr. aims for Elvis,
but comes across more as Michael J. Pollard’s mentally challenged
cousin. Arch Hall, Sr. wrote and
produced, making him a serious rival to Ed Wood. Rob Zombie introduces the film for TCM. Then Mamie Van Doren adds an intro
before the picture actually unspools.
(Great quality!)