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50s performances of Gene Vincent

‘be-bop-a-lula’ from the film ‘The Girl can’t Help It’, 1956

‘dance to the bop’ on Dick Clark’s ‘American Bandstand’, 1957

‘dance to the bop’, unknown provenance with crazy editing, 1957-58

‘dance in the street’ & ‘baby blue’ from the film ‘Hot Rod Gang’, 1958

‘dance to the bop’ from the film ‘Hot Rod Gang’, 1958

‘be-bop-a-lula’ & ‘high blood pressure’ & ‘rip it up’ & ‘dance to the bop’ & ‘you win again’ & ‘for your precious love’ from the ‘Town Hall Party’, October 1958

‘rocky road blues’ & ‘pretty Pearly’ & ‘be-bop-a-lula’ & ‘high-school confidential’ & ‘somewhere over the rainbow’ from the ‘Town Hall Party’, July 1959  along with (at 13:19) ‘roll over Beethoven’ & ‘somewhere over the rainbow’ (except for end) from the ‘Town Hall Party’, November 1959

‘somewhere over the rainbow’ (end) & ‘she-she-Sheila’ from the ‘Town Hall Party’, November 1959

‘blue-jean bop’ & ‘sexy ways’ from an RAI programme, Italy, 1960

‘spaceship to Mars’ from the film ‘It’s Trad, Dad’, 1961

‘rocky road blues’ live in Brussels, Belgium, October 1963

‘be-bop-a-lula’ live in Brussels, Belgium, October 1963

‘long tall Sally’ live in Brussels, Belgium, October 1963

‘temptation baby’ from the film ‘Live it Up’, 1963

‘be-bop-a-lula’ from the Granada tv programme ‘Don’t Knock the Rock’, 1964 (whole show included as it’s the only clip which shows the bikers entering the studio)

‘you are my sunshine’ from the Granada tv programme ‘Don’t Knock the Rock’, 1964

‘say, mama’ from the Granada tv programme ‘Don’t Knock the Rock’, March 1964

‘what’d I say’ & ‘whole lotta shakin’ goin’ on’ live at the Cavern Club, Liverpool, for the French tv music programme ‘Age Tendre et Tête de Bois’, May 1965

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