Roustabout was a 1964 musical movie starring Elvis Presley, Barbara Stanwyck, and Joan Freeman in a story set in a traveling carnival — for which Presley recorded the song titled "Roustabout".
While in this position, a "web setter" spins the rope in a wide arc around the performer creating enough centrifugal force to push him or her into a near-horizontal position.
One day, Vinnie, (Stephen Brennan), one of the men thrown out of work, and his brother-in-law, Arthur, (Eamon Morissey), happen to see a videotape of the 1964 Elvis Presley film Roustabout, in the village bar.
He appeared in films such as Bop Girl Goes Calypso (1957) with the Bobby Troup Trio, Roustabout (1964) with Elvis Presley and Barbara Stanwyck, and They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (1969) with Jane Fonda.
When Freetime was axed by ITV in 1985, he helped to establish The Children's Channel, where he presented a show called Roustabout.
Persons who lived and worked near Whizbang during its heyday included oilmen E.W. Marland and Frank Phillips and future actors Ben Johnson, Jr., a cowboy and rodeo star, and Clark Gable who worked as a roustabout in the oil fields.