Each week, the pop culture website Pop-A-Looza shares some posts from my vast 'n' captivating Boppin' (Like The Hip Folks Do) archives. The latest shared post is a study of an imaginary soundtrack for a film that never existed: Jukebox Express.
My concept of Jukebox Express, a wholly fabricated 1958 rock 'n' roll flick I made up outta nothing, was first introduced with this post in 2018:
"What is Jukebox Express? And how in the world does it combine That Thing You Do!, King Kong, I Love Lucy, Happy Days, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Gilligan's Island, My Favorite Year, Singin' In The Rain, Three Amigos!, an instrumental by the Fleshtones, Charles Chaplin's Limelight, Bye Bye Birdie, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Room Service, Batman: The Animated Series, Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls, Pleasantville, The Honeymooners, the 1970s Ellery Queen TV series, Back To The Future, Weird War Tales, the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Animal House, The Girl Can't Help It, the pilot episode of The Monkees, King Creole, The Andy Griffith Show, John Waters' Cry-Baby, Please Don't Eat The Daisies!, The Beverly Hillbillies, Twin Peaks, The Rocketeer, WKRP In Cinncinati, and Funnyman?
"I don't know yet. I won't know unless or until I write it. Oughtta be fun."
It was fun to concoct, and I retain a giddy sense of satisfaction in the resulting work. Its chronicle was revealed here, and a guide to its previously-existing fictional players can be seen here.
In the broad, specialized category of writing about music that does not exist, I put together a fake This Is Rock n' Roll Radio playlist built from that very idea, and I followed with an annotated guide to that playlist. I also wrote a fictional biography of the Archies, a fantasy about a 1976 Beatles reunion concert, a what-if examination of my favorite power pop group the Flashcubes becoming stars, the first few pages of a Green Hornet story idea about the death of a young rock 'n' roll star in 1966, some snarky riffing on imaginary musical combos, and a pair of short stories about rock 'n' roll, the unsold "Home Of The Hits" and the fabulously successful "Guitars Vs. Rayguns."
Plainly, I like music, and I like makin' stuff up. We have yet another example of that today, as Jukebox Express, an imaginary soundtrack for a film that never existed, is the latest Boppin' Pop-A-Looza.
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