Word: eruptin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When he is at full boil, Tosches writes the way Little Richard talks. Wanda Jackson, purveyor of 1958's excellent Fujiyama Mama ("When I start eruptin', ain't nobody gonna make me stop"), was simply "too hot a package to sell over the counter." Louis Jordan "made party music . . . in which every aspect of the expanding universe was seen in terms of fried fish, sloppy kisses, gin, and the saxophone whose message transcends knowing." Very hep and very fond, Unsung Heroes also includes an "Archaeologia Rockola," which can direct the untutored reader to such diverse selections...
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