Written by a staffer at Sylvester Cross’ American Music, Nelda Bingo, under the alias of Ned Fairchild, Twenty Flight Rock detailed the travails forced upon a lad so eager to see his girl that he overcomes a broken down elevator by scaling 20 lofty flights of stairs to reach her apartment.Ĭochran cut the tune at a July 1956 demo session at Gold Star Recording Studios with his trusty bassist Connie “Guybo” Smith and his manager Jerry Capehart keeping the torrid beat by slapping a cardboard box in lieu of drums.Ĭochran’s conduit to cinematic immortality was Russian-born movie director Boris Petroff, who asked the lad if he wanted to perform in a movie being directed by Frank Tashlin then titled Do-Re-Mi. Of all the legends-to-be gracing the movie’s incredible musical cast, none was quite as unknown at the time he filmed his part as Eddie Cochran.Įddie hadn’t even signed with Liberty Records yet when he cut the song that he mimed in the movie. But one of those now-historic flicks was an altogether different piece of work, written with grace and style and filmed in gorgeous colour: The Girl Can’t Help It. Rock Around The Clock, Don’t Knock The Rock, Rock Rock Rock! – every one of them scattered irresistible clips of pioneering artists into generally inane plotlines. R ock and roll exploded on the big screen in 1956 and ’57, one hastily conceived movie after another exploiting the new musical trend for all it was worth and then some. Teenagers were flocking to the movies in the 1950s, so, if you were a young rock’n’roller, where better to showcase your looks and sound than at the flicks? And Eddie blew everyone else off the screen… By Bill Dahl
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