Let's Go-Go to a Surf Party, a Ski Party and a PJ Party! (Part 2 of My Series A+ Songs from B, C and D Movies)

 Hi, I'm Clarence Rutherford. 

 The guys call me Lumpy uh, a real cool friend. 
 Welcome to Pt. 2 of Shady Del Knight's series 
 A+ Songs from B, C and D Movies. My father 
 says I'm grounded if he catches me hanging 
 out with Shady Del Knight.  He says Shady's 
 an even worse influence than Eddie. I'll take 
 my chances. Here's Shady now with more 

 cool tunes from low budget beach party, 
 ski party and PJ party flicks of the 60s. 

I did the math. 99% of low budget "teensploitation" movies are schlock.
I'm pretty sure the actors who played
teenage characters in them were older
than I am now. 😃 The plots of those
movies are preposterous, the acting
is terrible and so is most of the music.
Watch the trailer of the 1965 cheapy
The Beach Girls and the Monster!

I read somewhere that 60s beach movies were aimed, not at teenage audiences,
but instead at middle aged men (like Shady) who wanted to gaze at bikini clad
women and relive their youth. I loved Annette Funicello but didn't care for
her beach movies. They aren't funny, most of the characters are unlikable
jerks and the music is awful. Occasionally however a genre film delivers
on the music, and that's what this series is about, salivating the best
performances culled from those B (as in bad), C (as in camp)
and D (as in dumb and dumber) flicks.

 JAMES BROWN 

 AND THE FAMOUS FLAMES 

Holy Godfather of Soul, Batgirl! It's James Brown along with the
late, great Yvonne Craig, together in the 1965 flick Ski Party
starring heartthrob Frankie Avalon and Dwayne Hickman
from TV's The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis!

You wouldn't expect to find Mr. Dynamite on the slopes or hanging out
with a bunch of snow whites at a ski lodge, but anything goes in these
lowbrow teen romps. Brother James steals the show in this picture,
performing a brand new song that went on to become the biggest
hit of his career a few months later-- "I Got You ( I Feel Good)."

 "I Got You (I Feel Good)" - James Brown 

 (Dec. 1965/Jan. 1966, highest chart pos. 
 #1 R&B/#2 Cash Box/#3 Hot 100, scene 
 from June 1965 movie Ski Party) 

 LESLEY GORE 

Why beach movies are released in wintertime and movies set at ski lodges

are released in summertime is beyond me. Anyhoo, one of the shortest pop

hits on record was used in the Ski Party soundtrack. Here now is lovely

Lesley Gore singing her top 20 hit "Sunshine, Lollipops And Rainbows"

as she and her friends take the bus to fun and folic at a mountain retreat.

 "Sunshine, Lollipops And Rainbows"  - Lesley Gore 

 (July 1965, highest chart pos. #13 Hot 100/#19 Cash Box, 
 from June 1965 movie Ski Party) 

 JACKIE DeSHANNON 

 PATRICIA MORROW & LORY PATRICK 

Prolific singer/songwriter Jackie DeShannon appeared in two
rock & roll movies, C'mon, Let's Live a Little, a 1967 film
featuring Bobby Vee, and Surf Party, a beachy keen
1964 picture starring pop crooner Bobby Vinton.

In this scene from Surf Party, pajama partiers Jackie DeShannon,
Patricia Morrow and Lory Patrick stay up way past their bedtime
and feel a song coming on. Watch the fun as the girls cavort
their way through "Never Comin' Back."

 "Never Comin' Back" - Jackie DeShannon 

 with Patricia Morrow and Lory Patrick 

 (from Feb. 1964 movie Surf Party) 

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 STAN GETZ & 

 ASTRUD GILBERTO 

In Part 1 you saw and heard The Animals perform a song in the 1964 movie

Get Yourself a College Girl. Also appearing in the film are Astrud Gilberto,

the Brazilian samba and bossa nova singer who cracked the top 5 on

the U.S. chart that year with the single "The Girl From Ipanema,"

and legendary tenor sax player Stan Getz who backed Astrud.

Here are Astrud and Stan doing their hit in College Girl.

 "The Girl From Ipanema" - Stan Getz/Astrud Gilberto 

 (June/July '64, highest cht. pos. #5 Hot 100 & Cash Box, 

 from Dec. 1964 film Get Yourself a College Girl) 

 DONNA LOREN 

As we gaze at Dr Pepper Girl Donna Loren above on the cover of the
September - October 1964 issue of the Dr Pepper Clock Dial Magazine,
a publication that was only available to Dr Pepper employees, and below
gracing a Dr Pepper calendar in the summer of 1966, the time has come to
wrap up my scholarly two-part salute to quick and dirty B, C and D movies.

Before we sail into the sunset, let's take one last spin around the dance floor,
groovin' to a hot number by that Pepper of a Girl, Donna Loren, as she sings
"Among The Young" in a scene from the 1964 teen romp Pajama Party
starring Disney regulars Tommy Kirk and Annette Funicello!

 "Among the Young" - Donna Loren 

 (from Nov. 1964 film Pajama Party) 

 Beaver, I hope you 

 learned your lesson. 

 If you spend your 
 time watching B, 
 C and D movies, 
 you'll become 
 an F student.  

 Yeah, woll... here's the thing, 

 dad. I don't know much about 

 history. Don't know much 

 biology. Don't know much 

 about algebra. Don't know 

 what a slide rule is for.  

 But I do know 4 and is 8,  

 and if Donna Loren took me 

 on a date, what a wonderful 

 world this would be. 

Hey, got time for one more

drive-in ditty? Check out this

performance by an unknown

band in the 1965 film Go Go

Mania aka Pop Gear (UK title).

I never heard of these chaps...

but I think they've got potential.

Have a Shady day!