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The Chesterfields
From Rocklopedia Fakebandica
Jump to navigationJump to searchOne of the artifacts of the 1970's fad for the 1950's was the 1978 flick, American Hot Wax, which dramatized real-life Cleveland DJ Alan Freed's championing of rock and roll. Real rockers Jerry Lee Lewis, Chuck Berry, and Screamin' Jay Hawkins appeared as themselves, but for some reason, fictionalized versions of other real groups were created like this Frankie Lyman and the Teenagers stand-in.
See also The Delights, Clark Otis, Professor LaPlano and the Planotones, Timmy and the Tulips.
