2:36
single, 1956
Written by Gene Vincent, Donald Graves, & Bill Davis
I love me some 1950s rockabilly. This is a sparse, soft-spoken instance of the genre, the staid, prim grandfather of shockabilly and psychobilly stepping out on the town with a quiet, reserved "woo!" It looks good in its denim suit, but it's not going crazy. The screams at :38 and 1:28 are apparently by the drummer, and not by a teenaged girl in the studio showing appreciation, as I first thought. This song's scat-like lyrics are influenced by the 1945 song "Be-Baba-Leba", the 1925 Dixie jazz song "Don't Bring Lulu," and possibly (or apocryphally) the comic strip Little Lulu.
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