Hey Daddy-O! Don't Jive Me
Posted 20th June 2010 at 07:22 PM by Sam@Cult Labs
Updated 7th September 2011 at 12:11 AM by Sam@Cult Labs
Updated 7th September 2011 at 12:11 AM by Sam@Cult Labs
Year: 1959
AKA: The Bongo Murders / Beatnik Blast-Off
Tagline: "Squares, Straights and Cops need not apply!"
Hal Manciano had the accendent Beatnik culture firmily in his sights when he churned out Jazz-Poetry, Black Coffee and Murder quickie 'Hey Daddy-O! Don't Jive Me". A grimy story of Reefer, Scat Jazz, Rollnecks and Rumbles, the film proved a big draw in small town Drive-ins, where the flipped out, crazy sounds of the Bongo and the existential Beat-Poetry of the films Hero, Zoot Congo (Boast Fairchild - Kneel & Tremble / Red Nails, Blank Cheques / Big Chief Love Totem) wowed a generation of small town kids, hungry for news of the outside world.
Boast Fairchild - Unused snap from the photo shoot for his 1961 album
"The Meloncholy Moods of Boast Fairchild"
Manciano had little time for the Beats, describing Allen Ginsberg as "That two-faced little fruit" and the novels of Jack Kerouac as "Diarrhea for the eyes" although he enjoyed the company of William Burroughs on more than one occasion, leading to rumours that he was to direct a version of The Naked Lunch on ice.
The films barebones plot, designed only to link a series of crazy Bongo Frug-outs, wildly inaccurate Reefer outrages and back alley knife duels, sees Zoot Congo attempting to break into the East Side Poetry scene only to find himself inplicated in the murder of Bobby Plimsolls, the owner of The Wig Coffee Bar, epicentre of the shady world of the Beatniks, were free love and Free Jazz collides with the criminal underbelly of the big, bad city.
Love interest comes courtesy of Florida Jones (Kathy Bluster - Two Days to Matricide / The Love Cravers / Red Light Girls Meet the Invisible Man) , a rich uptown Jewess with a taste for artistic squalor. Can she throw of the shackles off her repressive upbringing and learn to get loose? Or will her naivety and trust fund lead her to a sticky end?
Kathy Bluster - Press Photo from the 1962 picture Betty Bowls a Big One
Although featuring real Beats who were paid in Espresso and a cameo apperance by well known East Side freak Firehound, a blind street musician who dressed like a ceremonial greek guard and played self made instruments such as the Thought-Pipe, the films real strength comes from the many leading experimental Jazz players of the era who make apperances. In some cases this film represents the only footage of some true legends of the Jazz underground.
Eagle-eyed chin strokers will spot luminaries like Alto Sax player Jimmy 'Buff' Buffley, Drummer 'Arms' Patterson, Atonal Voice Jazz pioneer Quincy Bobo Calloway and Trombone innovator 'Black' Jimmy White.
As was typical of Z-Grade exploitation movies of the era, Hey Daddy-O bookends the movie with moralizing disclaimers, stating the filmmakers intentions to educate and raise awareness of "The Scourge of Race Music, Infecting the Mind of today's youth, dragging them down the fiery road to VICE, DISEASE, MADNESS and MURDER!". Hal even went as far as to play a fake doctor at the start of the movie, issuing a stern warning to parents and teens alike, about the peril of free thinking, reading and beard growth.
This is all a ruse of course, a crooked smokescreen designed to allow more expliclit material into the picture, such as a brief shot of a ladies bra and the aforementioned Reefer party.
In conclusion, Daddy-O represents a unique glimpse of a lost sub-culture at it's flowering and despite the bad blood on set*, it remains an essential document for all students of experimental Word-Jazz.
Boast Fairchild - Selected Filmography
1958 Kneel & Tremble
1959 Hey Daddy-O! Don't Jive Me
1959 Elephant Ride to Athens
1960 The Moody Ones
1960 Baked by the Sun
1960 Dracula's Italian Cousin
1961 Wacky Beach Wipe Out
1961 Red Nails, Blank Cheques
1963 Big Chief Love Totem
1964 The First Mouse on the Moon
1965 Queen of the Sky Cats
1966 Django 3D
1967 Herbie Goes Rogue
1969 Proust! The Movie
1970 The Woodstock Murders
1971 Herbie Goes Postal
1972 Save My Heart for Cincinatti
1973 Sordid Tales of the Me Generation
1974 Harold & Maude 2: The Next Mission
1975 Herbie Stalks the Night
1975 Stick Up at the Nut House
1975 Sister Reckless
1975 Sister Reckless For President
1977 They Stole The Eiffel Tower!
1979 Herbie Goes Cruising (XXX Version)
1980 The Scum Hunters
1981 A Viking in Central Park
1982 Shaolin Monk Academy
1983 The Santa Claus Virus**
*Hal Manciano was arrested in the second week of production after throwing a steaming Cappuccino into supporting actor Trent Wilheim's, star of the hit TV show Skiffle Spies, face
** Boast quit acting to open his own Psychic TV Network
AKA: The Bongo Murders / Beatnik Blast-Off
Tagline: "Squares, Straights and Cops need not apply!"
Hal Manciano had the accendent Beatnik culture firmily in his sights when he churned out Jazz-Poetry, Black Coffee and Murder quickie 'Hey Daddy-O! Don't Jive Me". A grimy story of Reefer, Scat Jazz, Rollnecks and Rumbles, the film proved a big draw in small town Drive-ins, where the flipped out, crazy sounds of the Bongo and the existential Beat-Poetry of the films Hero, Zoot Congo (Boast Fairchild - Kneel & Tremble / Red Nails, Blank Cheques / Big Chief Love Totem) wowed a generation of small town kids, hungry for news of the outside world.
Boast Fairchild - Unused snap from the photo shoot for his 1961 album
"The Meloncholy Moods of Boast Fairchild"
Manciano had little time for the Beats, describing Allen Ginsberg as "That two-faced little fruit" and the novels of Jack Kerouac as "Diarrhea for the eyes" although he enjoyed the company of William Burroughs on more than one occasion, leading to rumours that he was to direct a version of The Naked Lunch on ice.
The films barebones plot, designed only to link a series of crazy Bongo Frug-outs, wildly inaccurate Reefer outrages and back alley knife duels, sees Zoot Congo attempting to break into the East Side Poetry scene only to find himself inplicated in the murder of Bobby Plimsolls, the owner of The Wig Coffee Bar, epicentre of the shady world of the Beatniks, were free love and Free Jazz collides with the criminal underbelly of the big, bad city.
Love interest comes courtesy of Florida Jones (Kathy Bluster - Two Days to Matricide / The Love Cravers / Red Light Girls Meet the Invisible Man) , a rich uptown Jewess with a taste for artistic squalor. Can she throw of the shackles off her repressive upbringing and learn to get loose? Or will her naivety and trust fund lead her to a sticky end?
Kathy Bluster - Press Photo from the 1962 picture Betty Bowls a Big One
Although featuring real Beats who were paid in Espresso and a cameo apperance by well known East Side freak Firehound, a blind street musician who dressed like a ceremonial greek guard and played self made instruments such as the Thought-Pipe, the films real strength comes from the many leading experimental Jazz players of the era who make apperances. In some cases this film represents the only footage of some true legends of the Jazz underground.
Eagle-eyed chin strokers will spot luminaries like Alto Sax player Jimmy 'Buff' Buffley, Drummer 'Arms' Patterson, Atonal Voice Jazz pioneer Quincy Bobo Calloway and Trombone innovator 'Black' Jimmy White.
As was typical of Z-Grade exploitation movies of the era, Hey Daddy-O bookends the movie with moralizing disclaimers, stating the filmmakers intentions to educate and raise awareness of "The Scourge of Race Music, Infecting the Mind of today's youth, dragging them down the fiery road to VICE, DISEASE, MADNESS and MURDER!". Hal even went as far as to play a fake doctor at the start of the movie, issuing a stern warning to parents and teens alike, about the peril of free thinking, reading and beard growth.
This is all a ruse of course, a crooked smokescreen designed to allow more expliclit material into the picture, such as a brief shot of a ladies bra and the aforementioned Reefer party.
In conclusion, Daddy-O represents a unique glimpse of a lost sub-culture at it's flowering and despite the bad blood on set*, it remains an essential document for all students of experimental Word-Jazz.
Boast Fairchild - Selected Filmography
1958 Kneel & Tremble
1959 Hey Daddy-O! Don't Jive Me
1959 Elephant Ride to Athens
1960 The Moody Ones
1960 Baked by the Sun
1960 Dracula's Italian Cousin
1961 Wacky Beach Wipe Out
1961 Red Nails, Blank Cheques
1963 Big Chief Love Totem
1964 The First Mouse on the Moon
1965 Queen of the Sky Cats
1966 Django 3D
1967 Herbie Goes Rogue
1969 Proust! The Movie
1970 The Woodstock Murders
1971 Herbie Goes Postal
1972 Save My Heart for Cincinatti
1973 Sordid Tales of the Me Generation
1974 Harold & Maude 2: The Next Mission
1975 Herbie Stalks the Night
1975 Stick Up at the Nut House
1975 Sister Reckless
1975 Sister Reckless For President
1977 They Stole The Eiffel Tower!
1979 Herbie Goes Cruising (XXX Version)
1980 The Scum Hunters
1981 A Viking in Central Park
1982 Shaolin Monk Academy
1983 The Santa Claus Virus**
*Hal Manciano was arrested in the second week of production after throwing a steaming Cappuccino into supporting actor Trent Wilheim's, star of the hit TV show Skiffle Spies, face
** Boast quit acting to open his own Psychic TV Network
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