Sunday, December 27, 2015

The Perfect Collection: Ninety-Nine Essential Pop Singles # 2 Annette


Over to LA. Now here's a curiosity. Tom Hibbert, whatever his reasons might be, is clearly a devotee of this particular moment in Pop History, Muscle Beach Party, a deeply trashy celebration of Californian early sixties beach culture featuring Annette Funicello and Frankie Avalon and backed by music from The Beach Boys, Dick Dale and strangely the first screen appearance of Stevie Wonder, aged just thirteen. Here's the opening scene. The Beach Boys ham it up massively. Heaven only knows what Mike Love is doing!



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