Boppin' At The High School Hop Indeed!

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"Y'know, there's nothin' like tearing up a good club now and then."

Jerry Lee Lewis Month

Via Deke's Tumbler

Jerry Lee 101

This song was recorded in one take at Sun Studios.

"If I'm going to Hell, I'm going there playing the piano."

Promo ad, 1968

A favorite by "The Killer"

Something kinda tells me I'm gonna like it here...

Jerry Lee

June Is Jerry Lee Lewis Month

Jerry Lee Lewis - "Occupation - Rock 'n' Roll"

Live Like A King...

...The King of Western Swing, that is.

You can do so by purchasing Bob Wills' Fresno home, known back then as the Triple-B Ranch - named for Bob, his wife Betty, and their son Bob Jr.  The somewhat derelict house stands about 10 miles NE of downtown Fresno and it turns out a developer would really like to tear it down to build a subdivision of shiny new houses.  Local preservationists, however, are doing their best to save it and that's where you come in.  The developer has agreed to sell the house for $1, provided you move it and pay for all the associated expenses.  Google map

This is the house, by the way, where Wills resided during the time he and his Texas Playboys recorded the fabled Tiffany Transcriptions in San Francisco, one of the band's many artistic high water marks.  These were basically live recording sessions that were distributed to various radio stations for syndication purposes.

Mace And Grenades: Instrumentalists Sing

1 Johnny Otis: Willie And The Hand Jive
2 Al Casey & Corkey & The Bats: Give'n Up
3 Chet Baker: That Old Feeling
4 Woody Herman & His Orch. (voc Woody Herman): Misirlou

5 Albert Ayler: New Generation
6 Randy Rudolph (aka Boots Randolph): Percolator
7 Hugh McCracken: You Blow My Mind
8 The Cramps (ld voc Ivy): Get Off The Road
9 Little Beaver: I Love The Way You Love
10 The Clash, voc Paul Simonon: The Guns Of Brixton
11 Roy Clark: Thank God And Greyhound
12 Leon McAuliffe: Choo Choo Ch'Boogie
13 Little George Benson: She Makes Me Mad
14 The Ventures: Cookies And Coke (their only vocal ever?)
15 Jimmy & Duane: Soda Fountain Girl (Duane Eddy & Jimmy Delbridge)
16 Hugh Masekela: I Wasn't Made For These Times
17 King Curtis: Ridin' Thumb
18 Jack Nitzsche: Marie
19 Dick Dale & The Del-Tones: Those Memories Of You
20 Lonnie Mack: Where There's A Will There's A Way
21 Mickey Baker: Love Me Baby
22 Link Wray: Fallin' Rain
23 Doc Severinsen: Okefenokee
24 Cliffie Stone Orch., voc Speedy West & Billy Strange: Barracuda
25 Stuff Smith: Here Comes The Man With The Jive
26 NRBQ, voc Tom Ardolino: 1-2-3
27 Jimmy Page: She Just Satisfies
28 Jeff Beck: Hi Ho Silver Lining
29 Jerry Cole: Come On Over To My Place
30 Hal Blaine: Bang Bang Rhythm
31 Dr. Feelgood: Paradise (voc Wilco Johnson -- Lee Brilleaux refused to sing this one!)
32 Huey 'Piano' Smith & The Clowns: You're Down With Me
33 Wingie Manone (pic above) & His Orch.: Stop The War (The Cats Are Killin')
34 Ike Turner: Takin' Back My Name
35 Jimmy Nolen: Let's Try Again
36 Koko Taylor with Willie Dixon: Insane Asylum
37 Lionel Hampton: What's Happening, Baby
38 Moondog: All Is Loneliness
39 Oscar Peterson Trio: Calypso Blues
40 Charles Mingus: Eat That Chicken
41 Travis Wammack: There's A UFO Up There
42 The Sex Pistols (voc Steve Jones): Silly Thing
43 Hugh Masekela: Mace And Grenades

MACE AND GRENADES