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...summer of '57 was a blistering time for primal rock 'n roll. At a million places like South Jersey's Avalon Ballroom (admission: 25 cents), kids worked up a sweet sweat jitterbugging to Bobby Day's "Rockin' Robin," Elvis' "All Shook Up," Ray Charles's "Talkin' 'Bout You," the Crickets' "That'll Be the Day," Little Richard's "Good Golly Miss Molly," the Coasters' "Searchin'," Buddy Knox's "Party Doll," Ricky Nelson's "Be Bop Baby," Fats Domino's "I'm Walkin'," the Everly Brothers' "Bye Bye Love," the Diamonds' "Little Darlin'," the Dell Vikings' "Come Go with...
...guitarist Scotty Moore, bass player Bill Black and Phillips at a primitive console, Elvis Presley fooled around until he came up with a variation on the Arthur Crudup song "That's All Right." It was, too. "That's different," Phillips legendarily said. "That's a pop song now, just 'bout." What it was, just 'bout, was rock 'n roll - a mighty mutant of pop, blues and country, born July 5, 1954, right there at 706 Union Avenue...
...When asked to compare himself and Elvis, Jerry Lee used to say, "We are entirely different performers. 'Bout the only thing we got in common is that we're from Tennessee." Except that Presley was from Tupelo, Miss., Jerry Lee in Ferriday, La. He was born September 29, 1935, 274 days after Elvis, in Ferriday, La. Among his cousins were Swaggart and Mickey Gilley, who much later would mimic Jerry Lee's style and sell far more singles than the Moloch...
...they feel. "It's like the McDonald's of social clubs," says Howard Franks, a veteran Hong Kong hasher. "You know exactly what you are going to get: running and beer." Each run follows a simple formula: an hour or so of hare and hounds followed by a bout of drinking and eating, followed by yet more drinking by those still standing...
Smith's weight increased during her inheritance case; she became addicted to painkillers and had a bout of depression. She hasn't gone out much and says she has not had sex in more than two years. "It's pathetic. I feel like a virgin again. I feel sorry for the next guy I attack. He's going to be dead." She promises to go hunting for phone numbers at bars very soon. "But I'll never know true love. I'll never know if it will be for me or my fame or my money. That's the saddest...