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| | Greasers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Greasers is a subculture that started in the 1950s and continued through the mid-1960s. | | | In the 1950s the Greasers were rebellious, forming gangs and riding motorcycles or souping up hot rods. | | | Music of the Greasers was Rockabilly, Elvis, Gene Vincent, Eddie Cochran and other "rebellious" music of the era. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greaser
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| | Actors' Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre Coral Gables Florida |
| | The musical is based around some of the subcultures of 1950s high school America, including the "tough guy" working-class greasers from which the musical takes its name. | | | Can you name any famous Rock ‘N Roll singers from the 1950’s that adapted the “greaser” look in order to appeal to the young music listening crowd? | | | He was a 'greaser' at Taft High where he played guitar and sang with such illustrious groups as DDT and the Dynamiters and Lefty and the El-Rays. |
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http://www.actorsplayhouse.org/grease_guide.htm
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| | St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: Mod |
| | A style of dress was evolving that eschewed the churlish vulgarity of the 1950s greaser teddy boy. | | | West Indian immigrants began to settle in London during the 1950s&; an unsettling development for the traditionally xenophobic British, especially for the working class, to whose neighborhoods they intruded and whose presence promised an unwelcome economic dislocation. | | | Of the many youth subcultures that have sprung from pop music, few style cults have endured as long as mod, which involves an almost religious fealty to style as a way to transcend class distinctions. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_tov/ai_2419100816
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| | Black Leather and Blue Denim, A 50s Novel - Jay Dubya - Microsoft Reader eBooks |
| | Black Leather and Blue Denim, A '50s Novel is adult literature for anyone who loves 1950s' teen culture, and it might just be the ultimate '50s book that captures the innocence of teen' life and also the danger, the adventure and the tragedy of '50s greaser' gang conflict. | | | The K's are a band of ruthless thugs that terrorize eggheads ('50s brainiacs), jocks and other greasers. | | | The story involves a turf/power struggle between two Pennsylvania greaser' gangs, the Diablos and the Kamikazes. |
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http://www.ebookmall.com/ebook/65070-ebook.htm
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| | Actors' Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre Coral Gables Florida |
| | The musical is based around some of the subcultures of 1950s high school America, including the "tough guy" working-class greasers from which the musical takes its name. | | | He was a 'greaser' at Taft High where he played guitar and sang with such illustrious groups as DDT and the Dynamiters and Lefty and the El-Rays. | | | The show is set in the 1950s, in and around Rydell High School as the students return after the summer vacation.The boys are members of the "T Birds" (Danny, Kenickie, Roger, Sonny Latieri, Doody) and the girls form the "Pink Ladies" gang (Betty Rizzo, Jan, Marty, Frenchy). |
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http://www.actorsplayhouse.org/grease_guide.htm
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| | Dannii Minogue's Home On The Web - The Only Site That Dannii Calls Home |
| | Warren (a high school teacher during the 1950s) wrote songs that parodied the primitive sounds of the early rockers, while I (a greaser student back in the 1950s) composed tunes that I felt paid imitative homage to the originals. | | | Several hours later - with daylight approaching - I hit upon the idea that it should be about the kids I went to high school with during the golden age of rock 'n' roll: mainly the "greasers" and their cool, tough girlfriends. | | | That same year, the recording industry acknowledged GREASE with a Grammy nomination for Best Score From an Original Cast Show Album; and in 1978 the record album of the movie version went multi-platinum with sales of over 8 million. |
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http://www.dannii.com/acting/grease.htm
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| | Sha Na Na - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The band's best known and most recognizable member was Jon Bauman, whose stage persona was of a "greaser" named "Bowzer". | | | Sha Na Na Sha Na Na were a rock and roll/comedy group from New York City, who performed covers of doo wop hits from the 1950s and sent up 1950s New York street culture in their performances. | | | They began under the name The Kingsmen, when the members were attending Columbia University, but changed the name due to the Pacific Northwest group of the same name famous for "Louie, Louie". |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sha_Na_Na
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| | CSULB Online 49er: v10n133: Psychobilly Freakout' hits Southern California |
| | The Reverend's legions of fans are just as eccentric as he is. Southern California surf punks and 1950s greaser look-a-likes, both young and old, can be seen in attendance. | | | For two nights Southern California recently got a taste of some southern fried rockabilly jams. | | | The Reverend Horton Heat will bring its hyper rockabilly experience back to Southern California Sept. 6 at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles, and Sept. 7 at the San Diego Street Scene. |
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http://www.csulb.edu/~d49er/archives/2003/summer/diversions/v10n133-psychobilly.shtml
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| | Buy.com - Happy Days (Complete First Season) : DVD : Tom Bosley : Ron Howard : Erin Moran : Donny Most : Marion Ross : Anson Williams : Henry Winkler : Garry Marshall : Peter Baldwin : Mel Ferber : Paramount |
| | But it was the finger-snapping charm of the Cunninghams' upstairs tenant, greaser Arthur "Fonzie" Fonzarelli (Henry Winkler), that vaulted the series into the annals of television history--and ensured Fonzie's leather jacket a permanent spot in the Smithsonian collection. | | | Centered around a suburban whitebread family in 1950s Milwaukee, the series chronicled the wholesome misadventures of teenager Richie Cunningham (Ron Howard), his bobby-soxer younger sister Joanie (Erin Moran), their exasperated parents Howard (Tom Bosley) and Marion (Marion Ross), and Richie's on-the-make high school buddies Potsie (Anson Williams) and Ralph (Donny Most). | | | Gear up for the upcoming major motion picture starring Tom Hanks and Audrey Tatou by trying to crack the code. |
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http://www.buy.com/prod/Happy_Days_Complete_First_Season/q/loc/322/40245446.html
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| | Gaming Illustrated - Grease DVD review |
| | Straight edged and innocent Sandy falls in love for local cool-guy greaser bad-boy Zuko in a movie about high school life in the 1950s. | | | Olivia Newton-John rocketed to stardom in her American film debut as the adorable and sexy Sandy who's determined to win Zuko's heart. | | | John Travolta became the world's box-office king with his unforgettable performance as Danny Zuko in this film version of the smash hit Broadway musical about the fabulous '50s. |
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http://www.gamingillustrated.com/grease.php
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| | Actors' Playhouse at the Miracle Theatre Coral Gables Florida |
| | The musical is based around some of the subcultures of 1950s high school America, including the "tough guy" working-class greasers from which the musical takes its name. | | | He was a 'greaser' at Taft High where he played guitar and sang with such illustrious groups as DDT and the Dynamiters and Lefty and the El-Rays. | | | Music and dance are used to heighten the emotions and energy in GREASE. |
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http://www.actorsplayhouse.org/grease_guide.htm
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| | BBC News FILM Ron Howard's happy days |
| | The series, set in the rock 'n' roll years of the 1950s, saw Howard playing the all-American teenager Richie Cunningham, alongside infamous greaser Fonzie. | | | He left Happy Days in 1980, and by 1984, the young filmmaker managed to make his mark with romantic comedy Splash. | | | In 1977 he directed and starred in Grand Theft Auto, a film starring teenagers in which cars are smashed up for the delight of the audience. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/entertainment/2002/oscars_2002/1777174.stm
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| | Pasco: It's still the word |
| | In it, greaser Danny Zuko, in ducktails and leather jacket, falls for the new girl in school, the prim and proper Sandy Dumbrowski. | | | Grease is a satire of 1950s music, clothes and morals among teenagers, set in Chicago at the fictional Rydell High School. | | | He was Joe Vegas in Fame and was featured in the recent River Ridge drama show, Tapestry. |
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http://www.sptimes.com/2003/11/07/news_pf/Pasco/It_s_still_the_word.shtml
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| | "Happy Days" (1974) |
| | The show followed the Cunningham family (father Tom Bosley, mother Marion Ross, son Ron Howard and daughter Erin Moran) in Milwaukee throughout the 1950s. | | | Plot Outline: The Cunningham family live through the 1950's with help and guidance from the lovable and almost superhuman greaser, Fonzie. | | | Howard, his friends (Don Most and Anson Williams) and their misadventures with school and girls dominated the show's story-lines early on. |
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070992
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| | RollingStone.com: Johnny Horton Music, Biography, Influences, Followers, Related Projects, Contemporaries |
| | In the late 1950s, Johnny Horton was one of the first musicians to fuse down-home Honky-Tonk songwriting with wild Rockabilly rhythms. | | | Although Elvis Presley's early material hinted at this musical hybrid, Horton's take on the hillbilly/greaser marriage was much more exaggerated. | | | RollingStone.com: Johnny Horton Music, Biography, Influences, Followers, Related Projects, Contemporaries |
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http://rollingstone.com/artist/bio/_/id/2230?...&pageregion=nav
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