Don't Knock the Rock Page #5

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The effect seems evident, and the modus operandi seems clear...

but the cause really eludes me.

Hey, hold on. Would you play that chorus over in a different key?

What I mean is...

It just seems like dancing to me.

Why are people like my mother and the Mayor so steamed up?

Your mother?

Oh, I'm Francine MacLaine. My mother writes a newspaper column.

That MacLaine.

What'd she do? Send you out here for more material to slug me with?

Hardly.

She doesn't think you belong in the company of nice little girls.

Well, so long, Miss MacLaine.

Wait a minute.

I didn't say that was my opinion.

I'd like to talk to you.

What about?

My mother's column appears in about 150 newspapers.

If she blasts you, man, you're blasted good.

I'd like to try and change her mind.

Hey, you on the level?

There's a principle involved.

Teenagers are almost adults.

They're entitled to their own opinions not what somebody dictates for them.

So you think your mother could make me or break me, huh?

Her column always manages to stir up something.

It's like living inside of a hurricane.

But I wouldn't want it to even try and hurt you.

Maybe we should both go to the beach.

It'll be nice and quiet there.

We can have a man-to-man talk.

Sure. Man to man.

I'll get a suit. Will you wait for me?

Go ahead. Sing it.

That was lovely.

I didn't know you could sing that kind of a song.

The people who buy my records like rock and roll.

The public always decides what kind of entertainment it's going to get.

It's a business, just like any other business.

Oh, that's for sure.

You know, I've come to the conclusion that

rock and roll is a symptom of the young people.

Asserting themselves for their right to do things as they think fit.

They resent the wrong kind of discipline by parents.

Parents would never understand that.

Sometimes people assert themselves in the wrong way.

How did you get so smart at your age, little girl?

Isn't that beside the point?

Pretty, too.

And you couldn't have spent your time in beauty parlors.

Thank you.

You know, for two years I've been wondering what all the shooting is about.

What people really see in the way I sing.

You just told me.

I did?

Sure. It isn't me at all.

Arnie Haines is just a name.

If it weren't Arnie Haines, it'd be somebody else.

Kids just pick somebody like me and wave me like a flag.

They wanna hold me in front of their parents' noses

like a pair of red britches in front of a bull.

Of course. That's it.

Miss MacLaine, you're all right.

Boy, I've been thinking for so long about...

Why did you kiss me?

Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't even know I had...

You know, you shouldn't look like that if you don't want to be kissed.

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