Word: rockins
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...ROCKIN? ROWLAND...
...play with his first two terms, ?Teflon John,? as he used to be known, easily weathered a series of mini-scandals, like paying a $2,000 fine for improperly accepting box seats to a Jimmy Buffett show and other concerts. But voters haven?t been so tolerant of the ?Rockin? Rowland Tour,? as the local press dubbed it, since the economy tanked and state revenues shrank. Rowland has seen his approval ratings free fall from a high of 78% to 31% in July. He now jokes with state pollsters about not being so eager to field surveys...
...still lacking in them. And not every scripted show looked like a snooze. CBS is offering Joan of Arcadia, about a teenage girl who talks to God; in NBC's Miss Match, Alicia Silverstone is a divorce lawyer and matchmaker. UPN's The Mullets--about a pair of hard-rockin' idiot brothers with the eponymous short-in-front-long-in-back haircuts--got the biggest laughs of the upfronts for the title alone. And Fox had, hands down, the most intriguing series ideas: Skin, a Romeo-and-Juliet romance between the daughter of a porn czar...
...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...
...small band of loyal fans like me (I was born the same year as Myra) were reduced to rooting out his records only in 19-cent remainder bins. That's where I found "Lewis Boogie," a tune that, in its rollicking rockin' propulsion, fully merits a place next to his two signature hits. It begins as abrupt as wartime reveille: four four-note phrases, each an octave lower than the preceding, on a piano that sounds a little flat in the upper registers. Then JLL races into his vocal. This is a 12-bar blues with a difference: the breaks...