THE picture in the fan-mag showed this gangly kid in jeans and a sweat shirt, his face contorted, mouth wide open, beating with both hands on a bongo set round his shoulder, over it the headline BONGO ...

Sleazy talent agent Johnny Jackson discovers teenager Bert Rudge singing in a coffee house. Despite Bert's protestation that he really is only interested in playing bongos, Johnny starts him on the ...

A fast-talking would-be pop impresario leads a pageant of sleazy characters hoping to cash in on fresh talent in the 1959 British film Expresso Bongo, now available in the U.S. for the first time. At ...