The Girl in Gold Boots Reviews

Portraying the youth culture of the 1960s without let-up, this musical has sex, drugs, death, draft-dodging, motorcycles, and rock'n' roll among its period appurtenances. Amiable draft evader Daniels joins delinquent biker Pace and his new-found friend McRae, an aspiring starlet, on their trip to Hollywood. Pace introduces his friend to his go-go girl sibling, Byrnes, and her boss, club manager Herron. The latter, piqued with his star prancer because of her drug habit, plans to replace her with the gilt-shod McRae. The eavesdropping Jones, now janitoring, discovers that Pace, Herron, and Bagdad have committed a murder during a drug theft. Faced with exposure exceeding even that of the female leads, the evil drug disseminators threaten the lives of Daniels and McRae but are outfought and apprehended. Daniels manfully elects to serve his country after all. Songs include the title song, "Do You Want to Laugh or Cry?" "For You," "Hello, Michelle," "One Good Time, One Place," (Chris Howard); "Lonesome Man," (George Eddy); "You Gotta Come Down," (Jody Daniels, Bobby Batson); "Everything I Touch Turns to Gold," (Denise Norwood); "Cowboy Santa," (Nick Busillo);"Wheels of Love," "Sin," "Minnie Shimmy," (Jay Colonna, Jerry Wallace); "Jimmy's Girl," (Laurence Gray); "Strange Things," (Jay Schlessinger).