My dad told me once that he was driving a Dodge of his when he heard this on the radio for the first time. He told me he almost drove off a bridge he was laughing so hard.
Currently listening to Johnny Cash in the background while I get on with some marking ahead of the final week of term (the powers that be at the university for which I work clearly don't care about observing an Easter Holiday - though I do get the two statutory bank holidays - so our term rolls right on over Easter). I've also recently been tracking Youtube recently for new bits. I'm a bit of a sucker for modern pop songs recast in an older, rockabilly style. These guys are a prime example:
Edging into a more modern period, The New Piccadillys (I hope they put out an album I can track down, still looking...) are a recent discovery. Their musical stylings come from the Beatles if they'd stuck with rock and roll, while fast-forwarding to the later sixties and seventies for material. It's quite the mix.
Jimi was a big Beatles fan, I'm sure he'd have loved this:
As was Joey Ramone....
Joe Strummer and the Clash boys were clear indeed that by the tail end of the seventies, at least, "phoney Beatlemania [had] bitten the dust", but all the same...
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