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.