Memeories

[drpaisley]

What was the #1 song on the date of your birth? Google it and post the results, they said. All the cool kids are doing it, they said. Toss in some YouTube, even!

The double A-side single "Don't Be Cruel/Hound Dog," by Elvis Presley was in the middle of a month and a half run as the Number 1 single in the US. Thankfully, by the time I began to pay attention to radio, it was just in time for the British Invasion and Motown to save music from Elvis, Pat Boone and the hell that was the late '50s, musically.

Hre's my favorite cover of "Don't Be Cruel, by Cheap Trick.

Bun E. Carlos FTW!


And here's Big Mama Thornton (the firt artist to record the original Leiber & Stoller version of "Hound Dog"), with Buddy Guy:

Sweet. Now it's your turn.

Comments

[kalimeg.livejournal.com]

Gad! You were born about when I was in 4th grade, because by that time I was already overexposed to popular music.

Double GAAAAAAAH

[dragonet2.livejournal.com]

Lisbon Antigua, by the Nelson Riddle Orchestra (which apparently included a choir).

Gaaaaaaaaaah! My EEEEERS!

[controuble.livejournal.com]

(Let Me Be) Your Teddy Bear by Elvis *gag*

Guess I just picked a really bad day to get born

[solan-t.livejournal.com]

Over and over (since last night, even) I kept reading the song title as "Ground Hog" and couldn't figure out whatthehell.


The mind is a peculiar thing, innit?

[solan-t.livejournal.com]

Oh, and it was Cher - Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves