Guilty Pleasures

Hi Cornfed; now that the C/W stuff is out of the way, I have less to confess too. Emotionally, I think I stopped maturing at about age 15, so sometimes I put either Buddy Holly's "Peggy Sue" or "Rave On" on infinite repeat and groove for about 1/2 an hour on each-- also do this with Three Dog Night's "Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress". There are some other roots rockers such as carefully selected Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Little Richard tunes that I can also do this with. It's hard to find good recordings of early rock on CD though. I also have a high NRG rock recording by Rick Nelson that does it for me-- it's on a cheap label and is some of his later stuff. Cheers. Craig.

garfish: here's one that's true, but hard to believe. the night before buddy holly, richie valens and the big bopper died (after performing at the surfer ballroom in northwest iowa), i saw them all in concert at the orpheum theatre in davenport, iowa. ".....the day the music died," indeed. and another: one of my wife's goood friends was a cheerleader at the highschool in lubbuck, texas when buddy and peggy sue were there; she was a friend of peggy sue's, but barely knew buddy holly.

Long Tall Woman---- Hollies.(and BusStop) I never mahe any mistakes, so I go around correcting for everybody. "Uniquely Mancini" is my fav. by Henry. Such a version of C-Jam Blues. But ,hey I can't type with my head or feet. Herb Alpert's Beat of the Brass-Johna Jones/ Louie Prima are the ones that qualify.Oh,add "French Carousel Music" on MHS. Kinda un-cool.

Stan Freberg's "History of the United States, Part One" which myself and 2 amigos knew all the dialogue AND songs at age 14. Still do and play it (and laugh) all the time.

......what a goof. Thanks for the correction Avguy. I REALLY did know that the Hollies did "Long Cool Woman...". Seems I had it right next to Three Dog Night, who did "Never Been to Spain",-- that song is another guilty pleasure of mine. Thanks. Craig