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...Smokey Joe?s Cafe" was the first of what Leiber called "radio playlets": menacing narratives in blues settings. "Riot in Cell Block #9" (later speeded up and jollied up for Elvis as "Jailhouse Rock"); "Black Denim Trousers and Motorcycle Boots" (about a moto-madman who "hit a screamin? diesel that was California-bound"); and "Framed" (in which the narrator is picked up by cops, fingered by stool pigeon, railroaded by prosecuting attorney). Lumpen tragicomedies, they had an implicit warning for their black listeners: that life was unfair to the underclass. As Leiber says in the "What?d I Say" book...
...your family can stay at the Grand Californian, the handsomest of all Disney hotels: a huge lobby, comfy beds and, from most rooms, a great view of the new park.) The rides aren't heavily "themed"; you needn't worry about story lines as you enjoy the California Screamin' roller coaster (which looks old-fashioned but has a wicked 360[degrees] loop), get soaked in the Grizzly River Run's whirling rafts and shiver in merry mortal peril on the Sun Wheel (Ferris wheel) as your cab seems to rollick out of control. They're just...
...fishing for blues with doctor cronies off Montauk, on New York's Long Island; Corona Corona cigars; a straw skimmer hat; Herman Wouk. Things that drove him up the wall: misinformation about medicine in movies or on TV; strangers calling him by his first name; my frequent playing of Screamin' Jay Hawkins' I Put a Spell on You; and me, at least before I achieved...
...Children believed to have been fathered by Screamin' Jay Hawkins, legendary bluesman, who died last month...
...DIED. SCREAMIN' JAY HAWKINS, 70, wildly theatrical rock singer; after surgery to treat an aneurysm; in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. He was best known for his drunken rendition of I Put a Spell on You (1956), an underground classic replete with screams, grunts and gurgles...