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Go, Johnny, Go!

GO, JOHNNY, GO!
 
 
Go, Johnny Go!  is a 1959 rock and roll film starring Alan Freed as a talent scout searching for a future rock and roll star.  Co-starring in the film are Jimmy Clanton, Sandy Stewart, and Chuck Berry.  The film has also been released as Johnny Melody, The Swinging Story and The Swinging Story of Johnny Melody.  (More from Wikipedia)
 
 
Chuck Berry also starred in two early rock and roll movies, Rock Rock Rock (1956) and Go, Johnny, Go! (1959, with the film name taken from a line in “Johnny B. Goode”).  In the latter film, Berry appeared with the early rock and roll DJ and impresario Alan Freed.  I believe I saw Go, Johnny, Go! many years ago, and I recall (perhaps incorrectly) that Berry was the only African-American in the whole movie, though he never looked out of place. 

 

(June 2013/1)