Benny Holiday
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Here's a fun photo of a young Benny Holiday for you (on the right) complete with wild Gene Vincent-style Rockabilly hair:
So my Mum really dug the style, being a rocker herself back in the 50s, but my Dad . . . not so much. He was older than Mum and was a young feller in the War Years, and he didn't go much on the crazy hair and cat clothes look himself. There was a bit of friction, but, you know what? There was supposed to be! I was a teenager, for cryin' out loud! I was supposed to be rebellious! (Although I wasn't a rude kid, just very individual). We actually had a very close relationship, it was just my personal style that bugged Dad for a few years, but by the time I was out of my teenage years, he'd gotten used to it.
The irony is that I got heavily into 40s jump blues and swing just after my dad passed away when I was 25 - he'd have gone nuts for the suits I bought then!
Anyway, the moral of the story is, just be yourself, man. You're young, be wild and crazy, wear whatever you like. Enjoy your youth with youthful abandon. It's all over too soon, daddy-o.
So my Mum really dug the style, being a rocker herself back in the 50s, but my Dad . . . not so much. He was older than Mum and was a young feller in the War Years, and he didn't go much on the crazy hair and cat clothes look himself. There was a bit of friction, but, you know what? There was supposed to be! I was a teenager, for cryin' out loud! I was supposed to be rebellious! (Although I wasn't a rude kid, just very individual). We actually had a very close relationship, it was just my personal style that bugged Dad for a few years, but by the time I was out of my teenage years, he'd gotten used to it.
The irony is that I got heavily into 40s jump blues and swing just after my dad passed away when I was 25 - he'd have gone nuts for the suits I bought then!
Anyway, the moral of the story is, just be yourself, man. You're young, be wild and crazy, wear whatever you like. Enjoy your youth with youthful abandon. It's all over too soon, daddy-o.