- Steve Hollis: The public's going in for sounds, Georgie. They want to hear small groups, vocalists, novelty combos.
- Steve Hollis: You listen to me, the only thing that stayed up-to-date in this band of your's is your watch.
- Steve Hollis: Why don't you get wise to yourself, Georgie? Take a look at the figures on record sales and then look at the size of the crowds you've been drawing. Maybe I should book you into a schoolhouse during a fire drill. You might be able to clear 'em out fast.
- Corny LaSalle: Steve's givin' you the right hop, Pop. I don't like funerals either. See you around the cemetery.
- Steve Hollis: Do we leave in the morning?
- Corny LaSalle: Ready at eight! Soon as I put on my traveling clothes and LuLu Bell here
- [referring to to his bass]
- Corny LaSalle: puts on her G-string.
- Steve Hollis: According to the map and it's been right the past three days, we should hit a little town called Strawberry Springs in time to stay over for the night. Its sort of a short cut.
- Corny LaSalle: Oh. Sounds good enough to eat.
- Steve Hollis: What does?
- Corny LaSalle: Strawberry short cut.
- Steve Hollis: Oh, Corny, go back to sleep, will ya.
- Steve Hollis: Say, Pop, where's everybody goin'?
- Motel Operator: The youngins'? This is Saturday night, neighbor. Youngins' wouldn't miss their dance at the Meetin' Hall.
- Steve Hollis: You mean they're all going to a dance?
- Motel Operator: This is Saturday night.
- Corny LaSalle: It's probably a dance for squares.
- Steve Hollis: Square dance?
- Corny LaSalle: That's what I said. They've probably been doin' that kinda stuff up here for the last 100 years.
- Bill Haley and his Comets: [singing] See you later alligator, after 'while crocodile, See you later alligator, after 'while crocodile, Can't you see you're in my way now, Don't you know you cramp my style...
- Steve Hollis: Corny, how long has it been since you've seen a dancehall jump like that?
- Corny LaSalle: About three years ago at Roseland - when that flea circus act got loose.
- Corny LaSalle: What is that outfit playin' up there?
- Steve Hollis: I don't know. It isn't boogie. It isn't jive and it isn't swing. It's kinda all of 'em.
- Corny LaSalle: Hey, sister, what do you call that exercise your gettin'?
- Girl Dancer #1: This is rock-n-roll, brother! And we're rockin' tonight!
- Steve Hollis: Say, pardon me friend, could you tell me what the name of that band is?
- Boy Dancer #1: Later, man, later. I'm gone, now. I don't dig nothin'!
- Steve Hollis: Miss, pardon me, do you know the name of that orchestra that's playing?
- Girl Dancer #2: Crazy, man! Crazy!
- Bill Haley: Are you serious? You mean you've never heard of Bill Haley and the Comets?
- Steve Hollis: Well, I - I been kinda sick. I don't get out much.
- Bill Haley: Well, stick around alligator, Rock will cure anything you have.
- Steve Hollis: Say friend, you back in this world yet?
- Boy Dancer #1: Descending, Daddy-O. Comin' in on a cloud.
- Bill Haley: [singing] You gotta jump! You gotta jive! You gotta dance! To be alive! You do the rock-a-beatin' boogie, Rock-a-beatin' boogie beat! Rock-a-beatin' boogie, b. o. o. g. i. e!
- Corny LaSalle: Say, that was real keen.
- Bill Haley: Thank you.
- Corny LaSalle: Would you mind telling me what you fellas were playing?
- Bill Haley: Well, it's easy alligator, all you do is play the music upside down.
- Corny LaSalle: I suppose for waltzes you play it sideways?
- Bill Haley: Waltzes - watch your language, man. There are ladies present.
- Lisa Johns: I hadn't thought dancing to rock-n-roll was talent.
- Corny LaSalle: Take my word for it, honey, any gal that can make a guy's eyes pop out the way you can, has plenty of talent.
- Steve Hollis: Business is business. Corny, I'm so sure about that Haley bunch and that girl. If I could just get them signed to a contract and promote them right, we got a sensation on our hands.
- Corny LaSalle: You want to take it from old Cornball? With the face and the figure on that Lisa doll, huh, she's probably been promoted by experts!
- Steve Hollis: Oh, I'm not talkin' about that kind of pro- Hey, maybe I am. Sure! Sure, a romance, Corny. That way I may be able to soften her up into makin' a deal.
- Corny LaSalle: Hey, now, wait a minute. These farmers up here have shotguns.
- Steve Hollis: Get off of it. She's no farmer's daughter. You heard her say so herself. Her father owns the motel.
- Corny LaSalle: In that case, he probably has two shotguns!
- Lisa Johns: Does your friend always do things on the spur of the moment?
- Corny LaSalle: It depends on who's wearing the spurs.
- Steve Hollis: I was wondering how you'd look in a bathing suit.
- Lisa Johns: I bet you were.
- Steve Hollis: I must have my imagination overhauled. You even look better than what I had dreamed up.
- Lisa Johns: Smell the strawberries? They grow wild around here.
- Steve Hollis: You come here often?
- Lisa Johns: Often as I can.
- Steve Hollis: That must be what makes them wild.
- Lisa Johns: Men's imaginations are always faster than they are.
- Steve Hollis: Well, what do you mean by that?
- Lisa Johns: You're leading up to the point when you think you can kiss me.
- Lisa Johns: I think I'm scared. There's a lot of world outside of Strawberry Springs.
- Steve Hollis: Ah, don't worry, honey. Why, the public will dig you the most.
- Corinne Talbot: I offered you $20,000 a year and a chance, if you worked out right, to become a partner.
- Corinne Talbot: Well, my pet, I hope you haven't forgotten your mambo.
- Steve Hollis: No. It's a little bit like swimming. You throw a man in the water, he'll swim. He doesn't want to drown, you know.
- Steve Hollis: It takes a great dance team to demonstrate rock-n-roll. The young folks all over the country want to see how it's done, so they can do it too.
- Mike Dodd: You know these - these lily white hands are working too hard.
- Corinne Talbot: So, you'd rather put them in dish water?
- Mike Dodd: Maybe you'd like playing housewife. Look, boss, we're in the right business, we could write beautiful music together. We could book ourselves into heaven 52 weeks a year.
- Corinne Talbot: I'm changing my campaign. I'm going to play rough!
- Mike Dodd: You think that'll get him?
- Corinne Talbot: I don't know.
- Bill Haley: On your mark!
- The Comets: On your mark!
- Bill Haley: Get set!
- The Comets: Get set!
- Bill Haley: Now, ready!
- The Comets: Ready!
- Bill Haley, The Comets: Go!
- Bill Haley: [singing] Everybody razzle dazzle, Everybody razzle dazzle, Everybody razzle dazzle, If it's all night long, Now here's a dance
- The Comets: A-waka-do, waka-do
- Bill Haley: Everyone can do
- The Comets: A-waka-do, waka-do
- Bill Haley: It's the hipster's dance
- The Comets: A-waka-do, waka-do...
- Corny LaSalle: Are you going to admit that a dame like Corinne beat ya?
- Steve Hollis: Well, look, I'm perfectly willing to keep trying, if you want it that way.
- Corny LaSalle: Crazy, man!
- Jimmy Johns: He's stayin'! Give me some skin! Yeah!
- Tony Martinez: [singing] Rocking and rolling the cha cha cha, Rocking and rolling, Rocking and rolling the cha cha cha...
- Corinne Talbot: I shudder at myself sometimes when I think of the things I do. It's so nice to have power.
- Tony Martinez: Corinne, Confucius say: Woman who want man, thinks of a thousand ways to make him love her. And no ways, to make him hate her.
- Corinne Talbot: That's because Confucius was a man. When Steve hates me enough, he'll know that he can't live without me.
- Steve Hollis: How do you like that, even the radio is singin' the blues. They make a fortune singin' about trouble, we spend a fortune getting into it.
- Corny LaSalle: In short, we spent our roll on rock-n-roll.
- Alan Freed: Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the West River Club. We're very happy to have you with us tonight and we're really going to rock-n-roll. This is your's truly Alan Freed, the old king of the rock-n-rollers. And you're going to meet two of the most exciting combinations you've ever met in your life. And here they are: The Ernie Freeman Combo with the sensational recording group, The Platters!
- Tony Williams: [singing] Only you can make all this world seem right, Only you can make the darkness bright, Only you and you alone can thrill me like you do...
- Bill Haley: [singing] One, Two, Three O'clock, Four O'clock rock, Five, Six, Seven O'clock, Eight O'clock rock, Nine, Ten, Eleven O'clock, Twelve O'clock rock, We're gonna rock around the clock tonight...
- Mike Dodd: More telegrams! Boss, you can't go on ignoring this rock-n-roll stuff anymore. Every hotel and club in the country is wiring for information.
- Mike Dodd: Corinne, listen to me. Steve's in love with Lisa Johns. He's not even looking at other women.
- Corinne Talbot: So you think it's all decided?
- Mike Dodd: Lisa wants a ring on her finger, you want to put a ring threw Steve's nose. Which do you think he'd rather have?
- Bill Haley: [singing] Oh, Strauss discovered waltzes, The Handy man found the blues, Then Haley came along with a rocking song
- Bill Haley, The Comets: Crazy man, crazy, crazy news!
- Bill Haley: R is all the rock, here's the band, it's a moving, O more than act, it's a go-go, grooving, C what I mean is a heart attack action, K like a kiss it's a cool attraction, Ooh, it'll getcha, I'm gonna betcha, R-O-C-K, Rock!
- Corinne Talbot: You're an investment, Lisa. You'll become an idol of the teenagers. You'll develop a big public. Hundreds of fan clubs. College boys will be voting you the girl they'd most want to get caught in a compromising situation with. My agency will be spending a fortune on your publicity and exploitation. The bigger you and the boys become, the more money we'll all make. But, you're the only girl with the outfit. The only one that means: S-E-X. Like a movie star!