1955– the year Ballyhoo takes place. Bo Diddley is on the bill. 12 acts for $2.00 or $1.50 in advance!
Hey, this is Tea. With issue 1 looking solid, I sent the first draft of the script to issue 2 over to David. It’s in good shape, although there are a couple of pages that need script tuning. Mostly there is a two or three page sequence that needs some work. Meanwhile, I jumped into issue 3 a little bit and got to a scene where Maryjo is handed a poster for a rock n’ roll show by her “uncle,” who is slightly remorseful for scolding her in issue 2 (you can read that scene HERE).
That made me want to look up classic 50s rock show posters to see what Maryjo would be looking at. Love it. Here’s just a few of the posters I found.
1956. What strikes me as interesting is that it looks like Bill Haley and the Comets are the only white act on the bill.
1957. Note that Fats Domino is billed much higher than Chuck Berry at this point.
Elvis in person! 1956.
Ballyhoo 