Before our feature presentation, ACME would like to start the evening with another Bugs Bunny Looney Tunes cartoon, the 1942 Friz Freleng directed, The Hare-Brained Hypnotist :
This cartoon's plot was re-worked for the 1955 cartoon Hare Brush and its opening music was re-used in the 1946 cartoon Hair-Raising Hare.
On April 6, 1962, the Russian newspaper Pravda warned youths about the dangers of twisting. The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour would like to celebrate this momentous date in history by showing a double feature night of Rock and Roll movies, highlighting the evils of The Twist. Today we have two features, the 1959 feature, Go, Johnny, Go, starring Alan Freed, Chuck Berry, Jackie Wilson, and Ritchie Valen (among others,) and the 1962 film, Hey Let's Twist, starring, Joey Dee. So please, get a snack and a beverage, sit back (find the most comfortable seat on the sofa,) and join The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour in watching our first feature - Go, Johnny, Go:
Buddy Holly and The Crickets were reportedly offered guest spots in this picture, but their producer/manager Norman Petty turned the offer down, over the objections of the group, because they would not be paid. This was Ritchie Valens only screen appearance.
In case you need a bathroom break, let's all watch the Fleischer Studios' second of the seventeenth Superman cartoon, The Mechnical Monsters released by Paramount Studion in 1941.
Please note - this cartoon is the first Superman story in which Clark Kent changes into his Superman costume inside a phone booth.
The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour's second feature is the 1962 film, Hey Let's Twist. So kick off your dancing shoes and dig those rhythm and blues.
If you look very hard, you can see the uncredited film debut of Joe Pesci as a dancer. It's also the film debut of Allan Arbus.
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