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    Just for You (1964)

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    Layabout disc jockey Sam Costa lies in bed and operates the first computerised, push-button hit parade in history. In addition to music the computer also provides grapes, pep pills and a girl!

    The plot is dispensable and mercifully occupies little screen time. It’s really just a backdrop for the movie’s real aim: the presentation of hit songs performed by the artists themselves – in wonderfully vivid Eastman Colour.

    The Merseybeats

    The links of Costa smoking a cigar, wisecracking and at one point attempting to eat an animated haggis, are diverting, but are really just links between the songs.

    Costa introduces Freddie & The Dreamers singing You Were Made For Me and Just For You, The Bachelors (The Fox and Low In The Valley), The Merseybeats (Milkman), The Applejacks (Tell Me When), A Band Of Angels (Hide ‘n’ Seek), Al Saxon (Mine All Mine), Faye Craig (Bongo Baby and Voodoo), The Orchids (Mr Scrooge),  Doug Sheldon (Night Time), Caroline Lee, Roy Sone and Judy Jason (Teenage Valentino), Peter & Gordon (Leave Me Alone and Soft As The Dawn), Millie Small (Sugar Dandy), Jackie and the Raindrops (The Loco-Motion), Mark Wynter (I Wish You Everything), Johnny B. Great (If I had a Hammer), Louise Cordet (It’s So Hard to be Good) and The Warriors (Don’t Make Me Blue).

    The Warriors

    For the American market, several musical performances were cut from the film and combined with new footage of US artists – including The Chiffons, The Vagrants and The Rockin’ Ramrods – and DJ’s from Top 40 Philly stations. It was then released Stateside as Disk-O-Tek Holiday.

    The plot of the American version added a young singer (Casey Paxton) going from studio to studio with his girlfriend in an attempt to convince radio and TV executives to play his song.

    Sam Costa
    Himself
    Peter and Gordon 
    Themselves
    Freddie & The Dreamers 
    Themselves
    The Applejacks 
    Themselves
    Millie Small 
    Herself
    The Merseybeats 
    Themselves
    The Bachelors 
    Themselves
    A Band of Angels 
    Themselves
    Mark Wynter 
    Himself
    Jackie and The Raindrops
    Themselves
    Doug Sheldon 
    Himself
    Louise Cordet 
    Herself
    The Orchids 
    Themselves
    Al Saxon 
    Himself
    The Warriors
    Themselves

    Disk-O-Tek Holiday
    Casey Paxton 

    Himself
    Casey’s Girlfriend
    Katherine Quint
    DJ’s
    Bob Foster
    Arnie Ginsburg
    The Chiffons 
    Themselves
    Freddy Cannon 
    Himself
    The Rockin’ Ramrods 
    Themselves
    The Vagrants 
    Themselves

    Director
    Douglas Hickox
    Vince Scarza (US scenes)

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