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Music Appreciation

thucythucy

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2. Two of the greatest:

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Fri Apr 28, 2023, 09:52 PM

Apr 2023

The Blue Caps were one of the best bands ever--and yet hardly remembered today. But watch them go to town on "Town Hall."

The story I heard was that Vincent originally meant it to be "Be-Bop Lula" but whenever he sang it he kept dropping in that extra syllable, so: "Be-Bop-A-Lula." And the rest, as they say, is history.

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On this day, April 17, 1960, Eddie Cochran died and Gene Vincent was injured in a UK car accident. [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2023 OP

Ain't no cure for the summertime blues. marble falls Apr 2023 #1

Two of the greatest: thucythucy Apr 2023 #2