50s performances of Johnny Burnette, Conway Twitty, Ronnie Hawkins and Jack Scott

Burnette’s ‘hound dog’ from the ‘Ted Mack Amateur Hour’, September 1956

Burnette’s ‘lonesome train’ from the film ‘Rock, Rock, Rock!’, 1956

There are two videos on YouTube which purport to show Johnny Burnette performing ‘the train kept a rollin” but are edited with other film with excerpts from the two above clips.

Burnette’s ‘you’re sixteen’, 1960

Twitty’s ‘it’s only make believe’, 1958

Twitty’s ‘it’s only make believe’from Dick Clark’s ‘Saturday Night Beechnut Show’, 1958

Hawkins’s ‘forty days’, on Dick Clark’s ‘Saturday Night Beechnut Show’, 1959

Hawkins’s ‘need your lovin” from a Fox Movietone News reel probably repeated at the time in b&w on Canadian tv, 1959

Hawkins’s famous camelwalk (short edited clip which show two other 50s clips of unknown provenance: a performance of  ‘Mary Lou’ and an unidentified colour film showing him do the camelwalk on a pavement)

Scott’s ‘what in the world’s come over you’ from Dick Clark’s ‘Saturday Night Beechnut Show’, January 1960