It's Trad, Dad!

Compromised by editing but a not-bad delivery by American Gary U.S. Bonds of his solid (charted at #27) follow-up to his hit Quarter To Three, in the British rock'n'roll variety vehicle from producer Milton Subotsky, Ring-A-Ding Rhythm (a.k.a. "It's Trad, Dad"), 1962.

One of several American rockers introduced in cabaret, with Richard Lester directing shortly before he made A Hard Day's Night for The Beatles, a sweaty Del Shannon (the camera zooming into ECU) with a decent Doc Pomus song, which did not chart, in producer Milton Subotsky's Ring-A-Ding Rhythm (a.k.a. It's Trad, Dad!), 1962.

Brit pop stars Helen Shapiro and Craig Douglas, kind-of playing themselves, are looking to defend their local pop music scene when American director Richard Lester (who would direct John Lennon and The Beatles in A Hard Day's Night, 1964) breaks a bunch of walls to set up a muscular bit by Lennon's favorite singer, Virginia-born rockabilly Gene Vincent, in Ring-A-Ding Rhythm (a.k.a. It's Trad, Dad!), 1962.

Just for a moment suggesting an art film, director Richard Lester opens the movie that got him the job directing The Beatles' A Hard Day's Night, American transplant producer Milton Subotsky's Brit-pop music showcase Ring-A-Ding Rhythm (a.k.a. It's Trad, Dad!), 1962.