Rockabilly Cats, the newest chapter in the Michigan Rock and Roll Legends Hall of Fame’s The Birth of Michigan Rock and Roll video series, is now available for viewing in the Robert and Anne Hachtel Theater at the Historical Museum of Bay County.
Rockabilly is a musical blend of hillbilly/country and rhythm & blues often associated with the 1950’s recordings of Elvis Presley and Carl Perkins at Sun Records in Memphis. 
Jack Scott was the most successful of Michigan’s young rockabilly stars, placing 19 songs on the Billboard Hot 100 from 1958 to 1961. The other early artists from the state covered in our red-hot rockabilly video are Johnny Powers, Danny and The Galaxies, Lafayette Yarborough, Vic Gallon & Dennis Coffey, and Danny Zella and His Zell Rocks.
The song-filled Rockabilly Cats video employs clips from 1950’s movies: The Wild One with Marlon Brando and Lee Marvin, Rebel Without a Cause starring James Dean and Natalie Wood, and Running Wild, featuring a great dance sequence with blonde bombshell Mamie Van Doren.
Always looking to make the videos in the series both interesting and fun to watch, they also delight viewers with scenes from silent movies and instructional films for teens from the 1950s.
The museum is located next door to City Hall at 321 Washington Avenue. Hours are 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM Tuesdays through Fridays and noon to 4:00 PM on Saturdays.
