Bye Bye Birdie
Charles Strouse
['funkadelic', 'the spinners', 'pointer sisters', 'willy van hemert', 'laura pausini', 'dylan', 'the temptations', 'dj manian', 'jan hammer', 'davis', 'superfly', 'steven van zandt', 'jack wall', 'ben howard', 'arcade fire', 'bob dylan', 'roy harper', 'ghostface killah', 'kalomira', 'justin rutledge', 'charles ives', 'christopher guest', 'ricky martin', 'therion', 'yardbirds', 'embrace', 'bad meets evil', 'nate dogg', 'tame impala', 'the left banke', 'beatle', 'per gessle', 'anouk', 'the knack', 'rubberbandits', 'karlheinz stockhausen', 'frightened rabbit', 'georg philipp telemann', 'hubert giraud', 'the cult', 'michael', 'manic street preachers', 'patrick doyle', 'senses fail', 'jim varney', 'cat stevens', 'the soft boys', 'pretty ricky', 'feargal sharkey', 'hawthorne heights', 'shankar jaikishan', 'nik kershaw', 'little feat', 'the get up kids', 'brandy', 'traci lords', 'cher', 'christina milian', 'the surfaris', 'bob sinclar', 'maurice sendak', 'boot camp clik', 'yolanda be cool', 'chris colfer', 'maroon 5', 'the vandals', 'camper van beethoven', 'seger', 'alison moyet', 'split enz', 'dixie chicks', 'jerry fielding', 'leonard cohen', 'johnny nash', 'the lumineers', '50 cent', 'falstaff', 'master p', 'dottie west', 'robbie williams', 'sugababes', 'supertramp', 'rob hotchkiss', 'al pacino', 'beck', 'tony banks', 'enrique iglesias', 'ray stevens', 'keri hilson', 'loverboy', 'kasabian', 'barbara dickson', 'labrinth', 'laura nyro', 'my ruin', 'far east movement', 'linkin park', 'the tragically hip', 'natalia kills']
Bye Bye Birdie
Bye Bye Birdie is a stage musical with a book by Michael Stewart, lyrics by Lee Adams, and music by Charles Strouse. Originally titled Let's Go Steady, the satire on American society is set in 1958. The story was inspired by the phenomenon of popular singer Elvis Presley and his draft notice into the Army in 1957. The rock star character's name, "Conrad Birdie", is word play on the name of Conway Twitty. Twitty is best remembered today for his long career as a country music star, but in the late 1950s, he was one of Presley's rock 'n' roll rivals. The original 1960–61 Broadway production was a Tony Award–winning success. It spawned a London production and several major revivals, a sequel, a 1963 film and a 1995 television production. The show also became a popular choice for high school and college productions.