Go, Johnny, Go!

Instead, he gets a job as an usher in a theater, but is fired on his first day for dancing in the aisle to Jo Ann Campbell's "Mama Can I Go Out".

During the performance, Alan Freed announces a talent search for a singer to be renamed "Johnny Melody".

After hearing the show, Julie rouses Freed and they trail Johnny to the area of the jewelry store, at one point flipping a coin to decide in which direction to look.

Freed sends Johnny away with Julie and diverts the police by pretending to be a drunk who tossed the brick.

Jazz legend Dave Brubeck appears uncredited as the piano player backing Chuck Berry when he sings "Little Queenie".

was filmed in 1-week over five days starting Monday morning January 5, 1959, at the Culver City, California studios of Hal Roach Productions.

A theatrical release poster for Go, Johnny, Go! highlighting Ritchie Valens ' role in the movie by prominently showing his photograph (by far the largest section in the poster), listing his name in the cast as "The Late Ritchie Valens" as a mark of respect in the manner deceased persons are traditionally referred to (as Valens died before the movie was released) and displaying that name in bold font to make it more prominent