Its story is about a boy and girl, Pete Porter and Honey Wynn (played respectively by Paul Carr and Freda Holloway), who become overnight sensations as a romantic singing duo who run into trouble when their squabbling managers (Kay Medford and Bob Pastene), try to turn them into solo acts.

Jamboree features influential American disc jockeys Alan Freed and Dick Clark appearing as themselves, along with a roster of international DJs in cameo roles and several leading rock, pop and country & rockabilly acts of the time.

Clark acts as the host for a televised musical variety show within the film, with performances by Fats Domino ("Wait and See"); Buddy Knox ("Hula Love"); Jimmy Bowen ("Cross Over"); Charlie Gracie ("Cool Baby"); Jerry Lee Lewis ("Great Balls of Fire", in a version different from his Sun 45 release[1]); Louis Lymon and the Teenchords ("Gone");[2] Carl Perkins ("Glad All Over"); Jodie Sands ("Sayonara"); Frankie Avalon ("Teacher's Pet"); Slim Whitman ("Unchain My Heart"); The Four Coins ("A Broken Promise"); and Count Basie and His Orchestra, with Joe Williams on vocals ("I Don't Like You No More").

(He is listed in the film's disc jockey credits as a DJ at WFIL in Philadelphia, the city where, at the time, he also hosted the original local program that would become American Bandstand.)

[7] Warner Brothers Records made a small number of copies of the movie sound-track album, which were sent to disc jockeys as a promotional tool.

[8] Variety called the film "old-fashioned in concept, reminiscent of the eariy days of talking pictures when producers slapped a group of singing acts together; Perhaps okay for program situations where younger patrons like their vocalistics.

"[9] Filmink called it "one of a number of low budget rock’n’roll movies made around this time, which took a thin story and shoved them full of musical acts.