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Where Is the Music?

I constantly hear people my age (around 45-50) say that “Music has gone to the dogs, man!” They bemoan rap and dance music, as well as the drugstore cowboys who wail about their own favorite topic: “My baby done gone.” Well, Sparky, as an oldtimer who remembers Bobby Riddell in Bye Bye Birdy, I have [...]

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The Million Dollar Session

On December 4, 1956, in Sam Phillip’s Sun Records recording studio, Carl Perkins and his brother, Buck, has just finished recording Your True Love with a cocky young session player named Jerry Lee Lewis on the piano. In the control room Sam Phillips was really happy with a tune and piped through the studio speakers, [...]

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