Ernest P. Worrell's Rock-A-Billygoat - Volume 1: Friday Night on a Dollar Bill with a Peroxide Blonde in a Hopped Up Model Ford!

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"C'mon Everybody" - Eddie Cochran

 (Dec. 1958/Jan. 1959, highest chart pos. #35 Hot 100/#6 UK,
perf. on Dick Clark's Saturday Night Beechnut Show)

That was Eddie Cochran corruptin' the minds of our young'uns with
the devil's music A-K-A rock'n' roll. Eddie's "C'mon Everybody" made
Rolling Stone Magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

Hey there, Vern!

This here's your old buddy Ernest

P. Worrell. I'm back behind the mic

to host my first official radio show
here on S-P-M-M... the greatest
little station in the nation.

Ain't none of my beeswax, Vern, but

you look a little peaked this morning.

Up all night doin' the Texas Two Step?

While you're busy varnishin' the deck I'll be supervisin' the job to make sure you do it right, sippin' an ice cold Meller Yeller and playin' stacks 'o' wax to get your toes tappin' and your heart flutterin'.

Here's a young rockabilly rock 'n' roller from Texas by the name of Huelyn Duvall. Huelyn has shared a stage with Eddie Cochran, Johnny Horton, Bobby Darin,
Dale Hawkins and other name stars.

In 1958 Huelyn released a single
with "Juliet" as the plug song.

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The B is killer and today it's the better known of the two. Let's paint the town red,
Vern, hangin' out with Huelyn Duvall as he does-- "Friday Night On A Dollar Bill!"

"Friday Night On A Dollar Bill" - Huelyn Duvall

(Sept. 1958, B side of "Juliet")

More exciting than a Texas twister, that's Huelyn Duvall with one of the great

sounds of 1958 - "Friday Night On A Dollar Bill." Today a dollar bill will get

you a cup of coffee if you shop around long enough. By that time your

sweetie's hooked up with a rich city slicker and you ain't never

gonna see her again. That's the name of that tune, Vern!

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Ernest on S-P-M-M Retrosonic Radio, Vern.
The platters I play are aged to perfection in
oak barrels in mama's cellar. Nuthin' fancy,
just meat & taters old school rock & roll,

country, be bop and rock-a-billygoat. Now

here's Bobby Fuller rockin' the jailhouse

with his biggun "I Fought The Law!"

"I Fought the Law" - Bobby Fuller Four

(Feb./Mar. 1966, highest chart pos. #9)

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My boy Bobby Fuller there with his
top 10 hit "I Fought The Law" and,
I'll be ding - the law done won.
While Bobby's cryin' in his cell,
let's hear from Phil and Don.

They're cryin' in the rain!

"Crying In The Rain" - The Everly Brothers

(Jan./Feb. 1962, highest chart pos. #6)

Phil and Don there, Vern, The Everly
Brothers. Those boys are "Crying In
The Rain," sobbin' in the storm and
weepin' in the wind - a crossover hit
that brushed the top 5 on the pop chart
in the early part of 1962. If you're just
tunin' in, this is your old buddy Ernest
with my brand spankin' new radio show
Rock-A-Billygoat here on S-P-M-M,
the station with personality.

This cool kitty was leader the Stray Cats, the Long Island rockabilly trio that
had crossover hits in the early 80s with "Rock This Town," "Stray Cat Strut" and
"(She's) Sexy + 17," and here's another piece of trivia for you, Vern. At the top
of the show you saw and heard rock 'n' roll legend Eddie Cochran. Well, this fella
played Eddie in the film La Bamba. He's Brian Setzer and, hang on to your hat,
'cause we're goin' cruisin' with a "Peroxide Blonde in a Hopped Up Model Ford!"

"Peroxide Blonde in a Hopped Up Model Ford" 
- Brian Setzer And The Nashvillains

(from 2007 album Red Hot & Live!)

From the 2007 album Red Hot & Live! that was Brian Setzer, the hepkitty from
The Stray Cats, along with his band The Nashvillains, doin' "Peroxide Blonde in
a Hopped Up Model Ford," covering a song originally waxed by Gene Simmons.
Now I don't mean the Gene Simmons with the two foot long tongue. I'm talkin'
about Jumpin' Gene Simmons, the boy from Tupelo who had a country-style
novelty hit with "Haunted House" in the weeks leading up to Halloween '64.

Speakin' of Tupelo, it's no secret that my good buddy Shady Blue is

Stuck Like Glue on that Mississippi boy Elvis the Pelvis. I'm here to
tell ya that the King of Rock & Roll has me All Shook Up, too, Vern.

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In the summer of '58 Elvis starred in King Creole with Carolyn Jones (Morticia Addams) as his lady co-star. King Creole was the longest film Elvis ever made and his last black and white movie. Here's The King with one of the songs from the flick - "Dixieland Rock!"

"Dixieland Rock" - Elvis Presley

(from July 1958 film King Creole)

Ole swivel hips, Elvis Presley there with "Dixieland Rock,"

from the soundtrack of one of his best movies, King Creole.

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Holy smoke, Vern, look at the time!

I gotta run. (My bladder's about to

burst from all that Meller Yeller.)

If you liked what you heard today

on Rock-A-Billygoat, then stick
around, 'cause I'll be back with
another batch of heartland hits

in two shakes of a lamb's tail.

In the meantime, in between time, stay tuned for my good buddy Robert W. Morgan,
coming up after the news to get you Morganized with the super sounds of the 60s.
To play us off, here's Johnny Rivers live at the Whisky a Go Go doing a medley
of two nifty numbers - "La Bamba" and "Twist And Shout." Now this is your
old pal Ernest P. Worrell droppin' the mic and sayin' so long. I'll catch you
on the flip-flop, but till then remember to keep the bugs off your glass
and the bears off your tail... don't take any wooden nickels, and
don't do anything I wouldn't do... know what I mean, Vern?

Medley - "La Bamba"/"Twist And Shout" - Johnny Rivers

(from 1964 album Johnny Rivers At The Whisky À Go-Go)