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"Teen Beach Movie, Disney Channel&amp;apos;s new musical, is a not-so-fresh take on a film phenomenon from the 1960s, when musicians like the Animals and Stevie Wonder kept PG-parties hopping long into the night. The stories went like this: A boy (Frankie Avalon) and a girl (Annette Funicello) go on an adventure, with someone (eventually) breaking into a song. Here are Avalon and Funicello&amp;apos;s top five scenes, plus three more that define the genre.\r\nBest Summer Songs of All TimeGidgetRelease Date: April 10th, 1959Gidget, which tells the story of a California teen who falls for two surfer boys, was &amp;quot;a frothy hit for Columbia Pictures&amp;quot; says Encyclopedia of Surfing author Matt Warshaw. Such a hit, in fact, that in spawned two sequels, two novelizations and two television spin-offs. In the clip above, Sally Field, in her first performance, appears as Gidget in the 1965 sitcom of the same name. It&amp;apos;s a far-cry from Lincoln and Places in the Heart, but hey &amp;#x2013; if you gotta start somewhere, it might as well be Malibu.\r\n Beach PartyRelease Date: August 7th, 1963An anthropologist studies wild teen behavior. Enough to carry a 101-minute movie? When surf rocker Dick Dale soundtracks the party, why not? Dale ranks 74th on Rolling Stone&amp;apos;s list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time, and he scores this scene with the Del Tones&amp;apos; &amp;quot;Swingin&amp;apos; and A-Surfin&amp;apos;.&amp;quot; Watch closely near the one minute mark and you&amp;apos;ll witness Frankie Avalon pass what appears to be a joint to a fellow partyer.\r\n Muscle Beach PartyRelease Date: March 25th, 1964The slapstick hits hard in this Beach Party sequel, which marks the screen debut of &amp;quot;Little&amp;quot; Stevie Wonder, who released his debut The Jazz Soul of Little Stevie Wonder in late 1962.\r\n Ride the Wild SurfRelease Date: August 5th, 1964California surf-rebel Mickey Dora was hired as a stunt double for this picture; watch him charge with style and you&amp;apos;ll understand why Men&amp;apos;s Journal listed this as one of the 15 Best Surf Movies of All Time. Street-cred aside, any movie with a twilight dance party &amp;#x2013; and characters named Steamer and Auggie &amp;#x2013; sounds like (beach) business as usual to us.\r\n Beach Blanket BingoRelease Date: April 14, 1965Bingo has it all: parachuting, a kidnapped teen idol, and (believe it) a mermaid. Plus, with Paul Lynde sneering at everyone and Don Rickles insulting, well, everyone, it&amp;apos;s no wonder Leonard Maltin called this &amp;quot;the ultimate wallow in &amp;apos;60s surfing nostalgia.&amp;quot;\r\n How to Stuff a Wild BikiniRelease Date: July 14th, 1965Because sometimes, on a cloudy day, the best slapstick is a motorcycle race over the river and through the woods.\r\n Back to the BeachRelease Date: August 7th, 1987It took six writers, Pee-wee Herman and a young Lori Loughlin (still a year away from her Full House debut) to lure back Frankie and Annette. The highlight: Fishbone&amp;apos;s performance of &amp;quot;Jamaica Ska,&amp;quot; which the band agreed to do in support of their first full-length album, In Your Face.\r\nPsycho Beach PartyRelease Date: August 4th, 2000When early-60s values collide with a slasher-film, you get Psycho Beach Party, which was adapted from the 1987 off-Broadway hit of the same name. Yes, that&amp;apos;s a 26-year old Amy Adams dancing the night away. Did she get it worse than Sally Field in Gidget? Let us know in the comments section below."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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