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Release Date: 1956

Cast: Little Richard, Alan Dale, Fay Baker, Patricia Hardy, Pierre Watkin, Alan Freed, Jana Lund

Categories: Movies, Musical

Don't Knock the Rock is a 1957 rock and roll film starring Alan Dale as a rock star who returns to his hometown to rest up for the summer only to find that rock and roll has been banned there by disapproving adults. With the help of disc jockey Alan Freed and film headliners Bill Haley and His Comets, they set out to prove that the music isn't as bad as adults think. Other acts in the film were Little Richard, The Treniers, and Dave Appell and the Applejacks. The Treniers were an energetic R&B combo who recorded what are regarded as several of the first rock and roll recordings, including... MORE

Don't Knock the Rock is a 1957 rock and roll film starring Alan Dale as a rock star who returns to his hometown to rest up for the summer only to find that rock and roll has been banned there by disapproving adults. With the help of disc jockey Alan Freed and film headliners Bill Haley and His Comets, they set out to prove that the music isn't as bad as adults think. Other acts in the film were Little Richard, The Treniers, and Dave Appell and the Applejacks. The Treniers were an energetic R&B combo who recorded what are regarded as several of the first rock and roll recordings, including the first version of "Rock-A-Beatin' Boogie", which Haley wrote and later claimed inspired Alan Freed to coin the term "rock and roll". The Applejacks were the house band for the famed Cameo-Parkway Records. Applejacks guitarist Dave Appell produced, arranged, and co-wrote many Cameo-Parkway hits during the early 1960s including "Let's Twist Again", "Wild One", "Bristol Stomp", "Mashed Potato Time" and "South Street." The film was an immediate follow-up to the earlier Rock Around the Clock, which had also starred Haley and Freed. Although Haley and the Comets were the top-billed stars of this LESS