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...conjunction with the recent Small Press Expo (see TIME.comix coverage), "SPX 2002" has nearly fifty comix artists (most of them unknown) working in a short biographical format. Subjects run wildly from the man in the Godzilla suit to ethnobotonist Richard Evans Schultes to a stock-car-racing monkey named Jocko. Not only fun but educational - I was pleased to learn the origin of the Jacuzzi and the Leslie speaker - this clever theme limits the self-indulgence of the works and virtually forces creators to write linear narratives. You end up with such oddball delights as Nicky B.'s juvenile...
...Jocko Henderson. Douglas Wendell Henderson, from Baltimore, brought a soothing hipster air to his shows on the two "Negro" (but white-owned) radio stations in town, WHAT and WDAS. Imagine a voice with Billy Eckstine's swing and intimacy, to the beat of light brush strokes, as Jocko croons his standard intro: "Hey, daddy-o!/ Hey, mommy-o!/ This is your Ace from Outer Space,/ Jock-o!/ Spinnin' the records on the record machine,/ Correct time now: /five fifteen...
...Kids have no sense of history; they think something was invented the first time they learned of it. So I can't say if another Jocko salutation - "Oo papa doo, and how da ya do?" - and his occasional ejaculation "Great googa-mooga!" were his inventions. Or maybe that was Jocko's WDAS colleague, Georgie Woods, the Man With the Goods (who lived about three blocks from me). But it sounded fresh and seductive to this kid. An evening with Jocko was like an all-night jam session: the records were the familiar choruses, and his patter was the inspired improv...
...running under my memories of certain prime cuts: Shirley and Lee's "Let the Good Times Roll," Mickey & Sylvia's "Love Is Strange," Fats Domino's "I'm in Love Again," Lee Andrews and the Hearts' "Long Lonely Nights" (co-written, according to the label, by Douglas Henderson). If Jocko was baritone, Hy Lit was a nervous tenor. A would-be-pro baseball player from the University of Miami, he called his listeners "babycakes" and himself "Hyski O'Rooney McVoughtie O'Zoot." (Why oh why is Lit's peripatetic paradiddle patter embedded in my pre-teen muscle memory, especially considering...
...Firmly rooted in their eponymous theories of musical "de-evolution," Devo burst onto the musical scene in the late '70s with the memorable "Jocko Homo" and "Mongoloid," and continued producing songs like the oft-covered "Girl U Want" and, yes, "Whip It." The band carved its own niche through minimal instrumentation, precise rhythms and sing-songy atonality; it became known for its cover versions, which "de-evolved" classics like the Rolling Stones' "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" into their bare structural elements. Remembered by most for their early contributions to music video in red flowerpot hats...