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Aug 10 08 12:53 PM
capmonte wrote: Monsterpal wrote: I like 'em both. It's interesting that none of the teen monster movies had any rock and roll in them until HORROR OF PARTY BEACH, at least none that I can recall. I don't know that I would call them "rock and roll," but tons of the 50s movies, particularly the AIPs, stopped the action for a song or two. TEENAGE WEREWOLF, HOW TO MAKE A MONSTER, BLOOD OF DRACULA spring to mind. Maybe it's just Herman Cohen's movies? Oh wait, isn't there a particularly awful one in GIANT GILA MONSTER?
Monsterpal wrote: I like 'em both. It's interesting that none of the teen monster movies had any rock and roll in them until HORROR OF PARTY BEACH, at least none that I can recall.
I don't know that I would call them "rock and roll," but tons of the 50s movies, particularly the AIPs, stopped the action for a song or two. TEENAGE WEREWOLF, HOW TO MAKE A MONSTER, BLOOD OF DRACULA spring to mind. Maybe it's just Herman Cohen's movies? Oh wait, isn't there a particularly awful one in GIANT GILA MONSTER?
I sure wouldn't call any of those anemic songs genuine rock'n'roll. They seem more like novelty tunes to me. Everyone of them is dreadful, but they're pretty amusing. "Eeny-meeny" is a work of musical genius compared to Don Sullivan's numbers. Gila Monster does have a brief instrumental that sounds vaguely like rock just before the monster attacks the sock hop in the barn, as does The Spider's re-animation scene in the gym. Revenge of the Creature has the bit at the seafood place on the Florida pier. But to me none of these musical interludes sounds like the rock'n'roll that kids actually listened to in those days, just a pale imitation. The Carmichael and Katz scores at least sound like authentic jazz of the period, although a jazz expert may disagree.
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