- Chuck Berry: None of that think back jazz for me. I got enough sweat with the present. The past and future can take care of themselves.
- Johnny Melody: [singing] Angel face, Angel face, Darling, with all your grace, I'm happy to know, You'll be mine always...
- Alan Freed: All right, let's keep rockin' and rollin' with our little blonde bombshell, Jo-Ann Campbell and "Mama, Can I Go Out?"
- Jo-Ann Campbell: [singing] Mama, Can I go out?
- Amy - Freed's Secretary: Does everybody in this county want to be a new Elvis Presley or a Pat Boone?
- Alan Freed: Or, a Dinah Shore or a Gale Storm?
- Julie Arnold: I haven't seen you in years. Don't you recognize me?
- Johnny Melody: It can't be Julie? Little Julie from the orphanage?
- Julie Arnold: That's right!
- Johnny Melody: But, she was short, fat and homely.
- Julie Arnold: She grew out of it.
- Head Usher: That's quite a beat you got there.
- Johnny Melody: Thanks. I dig this. Don't you?
- Head Usher: Not while I'm gettin' paid to usher, I don't.
- Eddie Cochran: [singing] I want a house with a pool, Shorter hours in school, And a room with my own private phone...
- Johnny Melody: Well?
- Mrs. Harold Arnold: It's different. But, I guess it's still music.
- Harold Arnold: I like it. I don't dig it. But, I like it.
- Julie Arnold: [singing] Playmates come out and play with me, And bring your dollies three, Climb up my apple tree, Look down my rain barrel, Slide down my cellar door, And we'll be jolly, jolly friends forever more...
- Chuck Berry: [singing] Long distance information, Give me Memphis Tennessee, Try to find the party, Trying to get in touch with me, She would not leave her number, But I know who placed the call...
- Harold Arnold: Say, it's not too late and Saturday night. What do you say we go to one of those spots where us old fogies can listen to the kind of music that make you kids tick?
- Julie Arnold: Oh, Daddy, that's a wonderful idea!
- Bill Barnett: Tell me Chuck, how is this act you want Alan to see?
- Chuck Berry: Like crazy, man.
- Alan Freed: Aren't we all.
- Johnny Melody: He's got it made!
- Julie Arnold: Well, don't be so impatient. I'm sure he didn't make it until he was 27 or 28 years old.
- Johnny Melody: Who wants to wait till they're middle aged? Not me!
- Julie Arnold: Young man in a hurry.
- Johnny Melody: Big hurry!
- Julie Arnold: No chip on the shoulder, now.
- Johnny Melody: Who me? I'm laughing boy, just singin' a song.
- Johnny Melody: You promised your folks you were gonna drive me home and be right back. And here we are - still parked.
- Julie Arnold: Well, they were young once, too. I'm sure they'll allow me an extra five minutes to say good night.
- Julie Arnold: Do you or don't you know where Mr. Freed went?
- Janitor at Radio Station: Yep.
- Julie Arnold: Well, please tell me.
- Janitor at Radio Station: Well.
- Julie Arnold: Ah, please.
- Janitor at Radio Station: You know where Henry's Hideaway is?
- Julie Arnold: Yes! Yes I do.
- Janitor at Radio Station: He went over there with a few of the boys to sit in on a jam session.
- Chuck Berry: [singing] There she is again standin' over by the record machine, Lookin' like a model on the cover of a magazine, She's too cute to be a minute over seventeen, Meanwhile, I was thinkin', She's in the mood, No need to break it, I got the chance, I oughtta take it, And she'll dance, And we can make it, Come on Queenie, Let's shake it! Go, go, go, Little Queenie...
- Jackie Wilson: [singing] Well I want you to run into me baby, And run with all your might, I want to love you pretty baby, Till the broad day light, I want to thrill you pretty Mama, Till the sun don't shine, Satisfy your soul before I loose my mind, You better know it...
- The Cadillacs: [singing] Our pockets are empty, We are broke, We ain't got a dime, To buy a coke, Can we have some credit, At the candy store? Please Mr. Johnson? Uh-uh, no mo'!
- Bill Barnett: Young lady, you take my advice and latch onto that boyfriend. Like they say in the song, he's gonna be rich as Rockefeller!
- Ritchie Valens: [singing] Well, Bony Moronie, Peggy Sue, yeah, They ain't gonna be around no more, Well, on now dit-a-Little Darlin', We just gonna party some more, Daylight, I love you darlin', Ooh! My head - Now, lay it on!
- Johnny Melody: [singing] A gypsy woman, She read my palm, She said soon, That you'd be gone, Yes, I'm sinking, Like a ship, Oh, yeah, In a stormy sea...
- Johnny Melody: [singing] Everybody, Everybody, Everybody's somebody's fool, You know it baby, You know it baby, Oh, yes, you know, You know it's true...
- Chuck Berry: We always got Ritchie Valens to soothe your jangled nerve. He's swingin'!
- Alan Freed: Crazy.
- Chuck Berry: Hey! Entertain Mr. Freed. He might even play your record if you rock him enough.
- Ritchie Valens: [singing] Well, well, now, now baby, Let's just go all night long, Well, on, on, on, on, darlin', I just want you to go more, There won't be no Tutti Frutti, No, not at all, C'mon baby just, Rock, rock, rock...
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