No it wasn’t.
When I was a young lad I was a musician. I played in a nostalgia band called Jade 50’s in the late 70’s and early 80’s. We were based out of Chicago. We use to play with Dick Clark Good Old Rock and Roll Shows all over the Midwest, we were the band for Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, The Coasters, Shirels, Freddy Cannon, Little Anthony and so on. In 1978 we got to play at the premier of the movie Grease, which was held at the Chicago Theater. We played before the movie and at the cast party afterword.
Funny because recently we’ve been watching these Grease intros and so on. Funny it should come up from someone else.
Fun stuff.
But no, not the greatest of all. Not nearly.
The Sound of Music was better, and timeless
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059742/
But , yeah, Grease was pretty cool
Especially Olivia Newton John
God Bless Olivia Newton John. That woman could sing.
In the mid 70s, my parents went to one of her concerts.
God Bless Olivia Newton John. That woman could sing.
In the mid 70s, my parents went to one of her concerts.
Animated by John Wilson, the British-American who did videos for the Sonny And Cher Show; the film Shinbone Alley etc
The song sucks and the musical isn’t in the same hemisphere as My Fair Lady or Camelot and many others.
Love Gease. The movie, stage productions right down to the middle school drama club productions. But nothing beats My Fair Lady in my humble opinion.
A show that presents as the path to social acceptance the decision to embrace the appearance and manners of a slut.
Olivia Newton-John
Hubba-Hubba!
Never understood why they had a disco song as the theme to a movie that takes place in the 50s.
written by Barry Gibb
I loved the music in Grease but hated its message. I always loved, “Singing in the Rain”, “The Music Man”, “On the Town”, “Mary Poppins”, “The Sound of Music”, “Fiddler on the Roof”, “Paint Your Wagon”, and I’ve also enjoyed “Little Shop of Horrors”.