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The hand jive is a dance particularly associated with music from the 1950s, rhythm and blues in particular. It involves a complicated pattern of hand moves and claps at various parts of the body. It resembles a highly elaborate version of pat-a-cake. Hand moves include thigh slapping, crossing the wrists, fist pounding, hand clapping, and ...
Grease is a musical with music, lyrics, and a book by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey.Named after the 1950s United States working-class youth subculture known as greasers and set in 1959 at the fictional Rydell High School in Northwest Chicago [1] (based on Taft High School in Chicago, Illinois, [2] and named after rock singer Bobby Rydell [3]), the musical follows ten working-class teenagers as ...
Grease. (film) Grease is a 1978 American musical romantic comedy film directed by Randal Kleiser (in his feature directorial debut) from a screenplay by Bronté Woodard and an adaptation by co-producer Allan Carr, based on the stage musical of the same name by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey. [ 3]
Willie and the Hand Jive. " Willie and the Hand Jive " is a song written by Johnny Otis and originally released as a single in 1958 by Otis, reaching #9 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and #5 on the Billboard R&B chart. [1] [2] The song has a Bo Diddley beat and was partly inspired by the music sung by a chain gang Otis heard while he was touring.
The soundtrack was released on April 14, 1978, two months ahead of the film's release. As with most musicals of the period, the vocal takes recorded for the album release–and in some cases the instrumental background as well–do not lock to picture but were recorded during entirely different soundtrack sessions often months prior or subsequent to the performances used for lip sync in the film.
Kathleen Marshall. Grease: The New Broadway Cast Recording is the cast album for the 2007 Broadway production of the hit musical, Grease. The show, directed by Tony Award -winner Kathleen Marshall, played at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre in New York City. This recording features performances from the cast of Grease including Jenny Powers, Matthew ...
Sha Na Na. Sha Na Na was an American rock and roll and doo-wop revival group formed in 1969. The group performed a song-and-dance repertoire based on 1950s hit songs that both revived and parodied the music and the New York City street culture of the 1950s. [2] [3] After gaining initial fame for their performance at the Woodstock Music and Art ...
RETROSPECTIVE: As the 1978 musical movie extravaganza turns 45 this week, Mark Beaumont speaks to the composer and musicians behind its iconic, underdog soundtrack