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Elvis shimmied, Little Richard wailed, Jerry Lee Lewis smashed the piano stool and played the keys with his feet, and all helped liberate pop culture from the straitjacket of propriety. Rock ?n roll made them move like that. But those three had a guitar or piano to play or play...
On another level, the performer who called himself the Hardest Working Man in Show Business wasn?t kidding. In a nonstop one-hour show Brown did spray his energy around like ballplayers with champagne after the big win. Further, he extended this sense of urgency to the entire show. Elvis...
What kind of Christmas album would rock 'n roll's first superstar make? Well, the opening track, a Leiber-Stoller R&B number called "Santa Claus Is Back in Town," sounded a declaration of war against the Christmas-music tradition. As Elvis growled and screamed it: "Hang up your pretty...
Reissued this year as Christmas With Peggy Lee, this innovative album contains many less familiar songs, including three of the singer-songwriter's own compositions ("Don't Forget to Feed the Reindeer," "Christmas Carousel" and "The Tree"). Lee could bring as much sex to singing as Elvis; but whereas he...
If you buy (or can tolerate) only one Christmas album, this is it. Among the 17 tracks are Bing's "White Christmas," Elvis' "Blue Christmas," Nat's "The Christmas Song," Johnny's "Sleigh Ride," Eartha Kitt's "Santa Baby," Sarah MacLachlan's "Song for a Winter's Night" and, to...