With original songs written by Jack Elliott and Lou Quadling, this will never be a threat to "Hairspray" or "Bye Bye Birdie". In fact, I'd rather be forced to go to the umpteenth high School revival of "Birdie" then have to listen to any of the pedestrian songs in this college musical ever again. and how many colleges do you know that have proms? The title alone and the setting gives evidence to the fact that this is not going to be a memorable experience.
While the song music isn't so bad, the lyrics that are written to go with it are some of the most wretched I have ever heard. Is simply an excuse for college prom going planners to what time search for talent to appear which gives us Louis prima and Keely Smith and snippets of other novelty performers of the time. Jill Corey has a good singing voice and Paul Hampton is charming, and they are no way at fault for the insipidness of this film.
I can't imagine the young movie going crowd spreading good word of mouth for this after seeing it in its first week because the songs, not only badly written, but extremely dull for the time. This is the type of film that might have done well as a B musical 20 years before (and one that would definitely have been rejected for Judy and Mickey, at least with these songs), but with late 1950's young adult sensibilities, it certainly is not hep.
While the song music isn't so bad, the lyrics that are written to go with it are some of the most wretched I have ever heard. Is simply an excuse for college prom going planners to what time search for talent to appear which gives us Louis prima and Keely Smith and snippets of other novelty performers of the time. Jill Corey has a good singing voice and Paul Hampton is charming, and they are no way at fault for the insipidness of this film.
I can't imagine the young movie going crowd spreading good word of mouth for this after seeing it in its first week because the songs, not only badly written, but extremely dull for the time. This is the type of film that might have done well as a B musical 20 years before (and one that would definitely have been rejected for Judy and Mickey, at least with these songs), but with late 1950's young adult sensibilities, it certainly is not hep.