Don’t Stay Up Too Late.

This blog’s going dormant until I can figure out if I want to save anything else I’ve posted here. Meanwhile, what little fun there ever was...

To any music ministers who insist on singing Rich Mullins’ “Sometimes By Step” at the masses I attend: The line in the first verse runs “Som...

Yesterday, Friday, was kind of emotionally overwhelming for me. (No, I’m not getting personal . Still talking about art/entertainment/cultur...

So I guess as a reaction to all the the two-minute rock & roll songs I’ve been living with while I compiled the previous list (to make t...

Halfway through this list, I realized that one of the songs I had wanted to include when I first conceived the list had somehow gotten left ...

Frankie Ford “Sea Cruise” (Huey Smith) Ace, 1959 Hey, where have I heard those horn charts before? (No, really. The first time I heard this,...

The Johnny Otis Show “Willie And The Hand Jive” (Johnny Otis) Capitol, 1958 He was a Greek entrepreneur who played black so well that his so...

Mose Allison “Young Man Blues” (Mose Allison) Prestige, 1957 Yeah, you probably have the Live At Leeds version in your head already (“ain’t...

Ray Charles “Hallelujah I Love Her So” (Ray Charles) Atlantic, 1957 All the traditional historians of rock & roll will tell you that Ray...

Little Richard “Long Tall Sally” (Richard Wayne Penniman/Robert Blackwell/Enotris Johnson) Specialty, 1956 “I’m a teacher too. I taught Pau...