41 Original Hits From The Soundtrack Of American Graffiti
Various Artists / Audio CD (June 22, 1993)
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Disc: 1 1. (We're Gonna) Rock Around The Clock - Bill Haley And The Comets 2. Sixteen Candles - The Crests 3. Runaway - Del Shannon 4. Why Do Fools Fall In Love - Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers 5. That'll Be The Day - Buddy Holly 6. Fanny Mae - Buster Brown 7. At The Hop - Flash Cadillac & The Continental Kids 8. She's So Fine - Flash Cadillac & The Continental Kids 9. The Stroll - The Diamonds 10. See You In September - The Tempos 11. Surfin' Safari - The Beach Boys 12. He's The Great Imposter - The Fleetwoods 13. Almost Grown - Chuck Berry 14. Smoke Gets In Your Eyes - The Platters 15. Little Darlin' - The Diamonds 16. Peperment Twist - Joey Dee & The Starlighters 17. Barbara Anne - The Regents 18. Book Of Love - The Monotones 19. Maybe Baby - Buddy Holly 20. Ya Ya - Lee Dorsey 21. The Great Pretender - The Platters |
Disc: 2 1. Ain't That A Shame - Fats Domino 2. Johnny B. Goode - Chuck Berry 3. I Only Have Eyes For You - The Flamingos 4. Get A Job - The Silhouettes 5. To The Aisle - The Five Satins 6. Do You Wanna Dance - Bobby Freeman 7. Party Doll - Buddy Knox 8. Come Go With Me - The Del-Vikings 9. You're Sixteen-You're Beautiful (And You're Mine) - Johnny Burnette 10. Love Potion No. 9 - The Clovers 11. Since I Don't Have You - The Skyliners 12. Chantilly Lace - The Big Bopper 13. Teen Angel - Mark Dinning 14. Crying In The Chapel - Sonny Till & The Orioles 15. A Thousand Miles Away - The Heartbeats 16. Heart And Soul - The Cleftones 17. Green Onions - Booker T. & The M.G's 18. Only You (And You Alone) - The Platters 19. Goodnight, Well It's Time To Go - The Spaniels 20. All Summer Long - The Beach Boys |
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A hallmark film of the 1970s. In a series of touching and telling vignettes, AMERICAN GRAFFITI follows a memorable crew of small-town teenagers through
one momentous night in 1962. Director Lucas' modest, near-verite approach contrasts strikingly with his glitzy following film, STAR WARS.
Steve (Ron Howard), a clean-cut youth, is to leave for college the next day; Curt (Richard Dreyfuss), the class intellectual, is also slated for college but has doubts about his future; Laurie (Cindy
Williams), Curt's sister and Steve's girlfriend, is upset by the latter's impending departure; Terry (Charles Martin Smith) is a hopeless nerd who desperately yearns to be "cool"; John (Paul LeMat),
who's very cool indeed, drives "the fastest car in the valley" and is constantly being forced to prove that boast. After the school dance, everyone goes cruising. John picks up loquacious 13-year-old
Carol (Mackenzie Phillips), thinking she's much older until she climbs aboard his 1932 Ford Deuce Coupe. Steve and Laurie, driving about in his 1958 Impala, clash over their ambitions; he's full of
hope for the future, while she's afraid her life is over at 17. Curt goes off in search of the elusive Girl in the White T-Bird, while Terry has an adventure with a reputedly "experienced" older girl
(Candy Clark).
Based on George Lucas' own teenage hot-rodding days in Modesto, California, the appeal of AMERICAN GRAFFITI is in its fragmentary scenes; the nervous camera jumps from character to character to
present a powerful collage of American youth on the brink of maturity and the complex experiences of the coming decade. The enormous financial and critical success of GRAFFITI--it grossed over $100
million domestically--allowed Lucas the freedom to finance one of the most beloved and highest-grossing films of all time--STAR WARS--and spawned numerous imitations, even inspiring the long-running
TV sitcom "Happy Days." The film boosted the careers of a host of young performers including Dreyfuss, Howard, Williams, LeMat, Smith, Clark, Phillips, Harrison Ford, Kathleen Quinlan, and Suzanne
Somers.
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