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...made a mistake in not filing a letter of resignation at the time I qualified for my congressional race," she confessed. Democrats were transported. "She is the chief election officer of the state and doesn't understand election law," sneered a Democratic Party spokesman. So? Sonny Bono was a singer who didn't understand singing--and that didn't keep him out of Washington...
...knows where Phillips got this gift of creative listening? Says singer Jim Dickinson: "There are people who will say about Sam's period of genius that ... it is the same period of time as his alcoholism, and it's also right after his shock treatment therapy" in 1951. Dickinson recalls a time when Sam took a screwdriver to a fuse box. "It looked like lightning struck the thing. And Sam has yet even to recoil. He says, 'A little one-ten doesn't hurt you. You need a two-twenty every now and then just to know you're alive...
...itemizes a lover's complaint, "You shake my nerves and you rattle my brain..." Mid-rant, he muses that passion has its perverse perks ("You broke my will, but what a thrill"), before surrendering to ecstatic inanity: "Goodness gracious! Great balls of fire!" The second verse, which explains the singer's agitation as an agreeable form of sexual psychosis, punctuates the news with three right-hand arpeggios, while the bass drum is joined by a foreground tapping (presumably the rim of the snare drum), as if someone is keeping time on the mike with his buck teeth. In the bridge...
...affront! Jerry Lee was, after all, the consummate keyboard man, with the best left hand in the business. Pumpin' that piano was his religion and his most consummate vice. But even commercially, his retort seemed to make commercial sense in 1956, when some of the best rockers were singer-pianists: Little Richard, Ray Charles and JLL's fellow Louisianans Fats Domino, Allen Toussaint and Huey "Piano" Smith. If '50s record producers thought they could make a mint with a white kid who sang like a black man, why couldn't a white kid who played like a black...
...Tall Sally") but in the fourth and sixth, giving the lyric room to build to a natural dramatic climax and the pianist room to paint his sound-portrait. Of course there's a slew of arpeggios (eight, to the all-time record 11 in "Great Balls") and the satyr-singer's invocation of the magic moment "when your hips start rockin'/ Honey, and your knees start knockin'." For a transcendent 1min, 58 secs., find the song on the Jerry Lee CD "25 All-Time Greatest Sun Recordings...