to turn off Toby Laboutillier before he gets to the pop hits of 1965. It seems to be the year that pop music in the US took a real nosedive. I mean, "Hang on Sloopy?" "We Got To Ge Out Of This Place?" "Summer Nights?" "Where The Action Is?" "Who'll Be The Next In Line?"
Geesh! It's almost enough to make me want to hear The Association.
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BTW -- Big Mama Thornton's actual record of "Hound Dog," a song written by two New York Jews(!) btw, , came out in 1952. 😎
ReplyDeleteOooh, I'll bet you didn't think the whole friggin' world didn't know who wrote it, did you. Jerry Leiber was originally from Baltimore, which you apparently didn't know and the songwriting duo met in Los Angeles where Leiber was in high school and Stoller was in college, he graduated from high school in LA, too. So they were hardly confined to your parochial little world. This performance is from 1965. I believe from West Germany.
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