Wow. As part of a day's worth of cheesy rock 'n roll movies today, TCM showed the (somewhat) legendary Bop Girl Goes Calypso. I first heard of this movie way back in the 80s from the Psychotronic Encyclopedia and I was thrilled to finally get a chance to see it. Looking around online it seems that Bop Girl Goes Calypso was unavailable for many years. I saw several mentions of it as "lost" and "forgotten." I believe it's been described as the worst rock 'n roll movie of all time. I think that's excessive but it is, by any standard, a very bad movie. But there are a few notable things: the music for the movie was done by exotica legend Les Baxter; there are two performances by Lord Flea (who was apparently a mento, not a calypso, performer -- well, that's not a distinction I'd expect 50s Hollywood to be too strong on); a performance by Nino Tempo (rocking much harder than his later hit "Deep Purple"); the movie stars Bobby Troup (who was married to Julie London... and yes, there's a Julie London cameo, as Troup walks past her in one scene and does a double-take). And of course the fact that this is a 1957 movie that predicts the demise of rock &/or roll.