Trivia

Queen Elizabeth II requested a print of this film be shown at Buckingham Palace, one of this first times this was done with a major motion picture.

This is the first full-length rock'n'roll movie.

Ralph Jones , the drummer for Bill Haley and the Comets, took lots of home movies during the band's visit to Hollywood. This footage--which has been used by documentary filmmakers--includes the only known color footage from the set of this film.

No soundtrack album was ever released for the film in North America, though some foreign compilation albums were released as a tie-in. The performance of "Rudy's Rock" is the only Bill Haley and the Comets song performed live on camera and while an off-air recording taken from the film would be released in Germany in the 1990s (as part of Hydra Records' Haley compilation album "On Screen"), a proper studio-quality recording from the set has yet to be released. The band also performs live on camera during a brief rehearsal prior to lip-synching to the Decca recording of "R-O-C-K".

A few months prior to shooting, Bill Haley and the Comets had undergone a major change in personnel, with several members leaving the group. As a result, most of the songs lip-synched in the film feature a different line-up of musicians from those shown performing. The only songs on which all musicians shown on screen were also involved in the recording session are "See You Later Alligator", the rehearsal prior to "R-O-C-K" and the live-on-camera rendition of "Rudy's Rock". During the performances of "Rock Around the Clock", Franny Beecher is shown playing the guitar for Danny Cedrone, who had originally been on the recording session, and who had died 18 months earlier. Cedrone's guitar work can also be heard on "ABC Boogie", the opening bars of which are performed off-camera.