Word: rolled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wedding ring, he did get her a red Cadillac. And her father, who played bull fiddle in Jerry Lee's band, didn't seem to object either. But the London press, already fed up with the antics of Britain's own rock-'n'-roll stars, was all shook up now. The Daily Mail angrily demanded that Jerry be sent back "whence he came, somewhere in the mid-belt of America's deep delinquent South." "He could and should." stormed the Sunday People, "be arrested by the police," reminding the Home Office that cohabiting with...
Catcalls & Combs. Even rock-'n'-roll fans, whose tolerance of their idols had previously seemed inexhaustible, had had enough. At his first appearance, they booed and catcalled for 20 minutes, while Lewis nervously ran a comb through his long hair. "Go home, baby snatcher!" they screamed. "Go wheel your wife in a pram!" After one more such appearance, Jerry's managers decided to call the tour off. "I did want to stay here long enough to get a wedding ring," whimpered Myra at the airport. Fumed Jerry: "I don't feel guilty about nuttin...
...whopping 20 million records claimed for him by Dot Records). Bland, brown-haired Pat has confounded the swamp dwellers of the music world because he leads a blameless home life, and he has delighted parents of teen-agers because, although he sometimes sings rock 'n' roll, he sings it in a damply pleasant voice and does not keep time with pelvic spasms...
Among the 46 AM & FM radio stations in New York City's metropolitan area, no two are more surly toward each other than WINS, which gets top place in pulse ratings by a rock-'n'-roll diet of the top 40 popular tunes, and WMGM, which (scorning the cornier corn) stresses news and public services and pays for such square taste by lagging at fifth place in the ratings. One morning last week, in the heat of the competition, WMGM fell for an embarrassing hoax that gave WINS a chance to josh its rival all the rest...
...John Osborne) and leavened the lot with sharp-eyed critical commentaries from both sides of the water. U.S. readers will find the Beat section more interesting, if only because it helps to illuminate such postwar phenomena as the James Dean cult, the Elvis Presley and rock-'n'-roll crazes, and the gratuitous ferocity of juvenile delinquency...