Don't Knock the Rock (1956)

Bill Haley: Bill Haley

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• [Bill Haley walks up to a table with Arnie Haines and Alan Freed] 

  Bill Haley : How we doin', Dad, the newspaper gal diggin' us?

  Arnie Haines : Yeah, real deep. She sounds like she has us plowed way under already.

  Alan Freed : That's freedom of the press.

  Bill Haley : Yeah, and I always thought that freedom of the press was a tailor who irons your suits for nothing. It shows you.

  [everyone laughs a forced and phony laugh, and then they all get up and leave; Bill Haley looks offended] 

• Bill Haley : How about listening to my new tune "Goofin' Around"? See if you dig it.

• Bill Haley : I don't know whether I ought to speak to you guys or not.

  Arnie Haines : Why is that?

  Bill Haley : The only way I can get more publicity than you - is to go up Broadway without my underwear.

  Arnie Haines : Yeah, well, the next time it'll be Alan here doing the Lady Godiva, not Arnie Haines.

• Bill Haley : [singing]  Blue suede shoes, Nylon thread, Jaguar hat, Gonna knock 'em dead, 'Cause I'm rockin', Rockin' on down the line, Hot dog buddy buddy, A hot dog all the time...

• Bill Haley : The newspaper gal digging us?

  Arnie Haines : Yeah, real deep. She sounds like she has us plowed way under already.

  Alan Freed : That's freedom of the press.

  Bill Haley : Yeah, and I always thought freedom of the press was a tailor who ironed your suits for nothin'.

• Franny Beecher - Guitarist, The Comets : Let's rip it up!

  Bill Haley : [singing]  Well, it's Saturday night and I just got paid, Fool about my money, don't try to save, My heart says go, go, have a time, 'Cause it's Saturday night, and baby I feel fine, I'm gonna rock it up, I'm gonna rip it up, I'm gonna shake it up, I'm gonna break it up, I'm gonna lock it up, At the ball tonight...