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Word: beatin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...revival singers do, but gave no thought to a musical career. A couple of years ago, Presley, working as a truck driver, was seized with the urge to hear his own voice, took his guitar with him and made a recording in a public studio. "It sounded like somebody beatin' on a bucket lid," Presley recalls. "But the engineer at this studio had a recording company called Sun, and he told me I had an unusual voice, and he might call me up sometime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Teeners' Hero | 5/14/1956 | See Source »

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