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Go, Johnny, Go! - (Movie Clip) Memphis, Tennessee

Aspiring rocker Johnny (Jimmy Clanton) and girlfriend Julie (Sandy Stewart) watch Chuck Berry on TV performing his Memphis, Tennessee, in Alan Freed's Go, Johnny Go!, 1959.

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Go, Johnny, Go! -- (Movie Clip) Jackie Wilson
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